Where does your cat sleep through the night?

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Mine sleeps at the foot of my bed on he's blanket.
My friend said she locks hers in the kitchen at night because she doesn't want her cat roaming around at night 😬 I've never heard of this I thought they all just roamed around the house, sleeping where they like. This is my first ever cat and he's almost 1. Have I been doing it wrong 🙈

@Ollivander84 black cats are the best 👍🏼

Newtonthehorizon

That’s a great photo
3 cats & 1 dog?
Big dog gets least space?

Thanks for all the replies about not letting some cats out.. makes sense, I just hadn't thought of it.

Mine still yowl for food even when the dry food bowl is full

For those that are saying their cat wakes them up because they want feeding, why not just leave dry food down before you go bed?

Because by 5am they will be the wrong biscuits. And no, not those. Those ones. Yes, I know he hated them yesterday, but get with the program 🙄.

😂

Mine get shut downstairs all night, the only reason is that the dog is a pest and would want to sleep on me and she’s too big so we have to shut the door for her. During the day they have the run of the house, they either sleep in cat beds of top of the lizards vivarium or on DD2s high sleeper.

Wherever they want

Giantkitten (great name btw) we actually have four cats but the fourth is so large - Maine coon - that he rarely tries to get on but here's Teddy Boy enjoying ALL the space 😄

@TheExtraGuineaPig my little angel wasn't allowed out at night because she would regularly come in with some sort of injury from fighting/chasing or being chased. One neighbour saw her chasing a fox down the road & she was a tiny little cat.

We got one of those microchip curfew cat flaps & set it to open at 5am and lock around 10pm (can come in but not back out) - worked brilliantly

Ah I get it now. My cat can only eat dry food because wet food doesn't agree with him, vet told me to just keep him on dry. He has treats though ☺️

Oops should point out Teddy isn't the main coon - here he is

our four get kibbled before DP comes to bed. one stays resolutely in the kitchen where she has A Box and her feliway. she is grouchy, and old, and doesn’t socialise.

the other 3 sleep on the bed. well. one on me, purring in my face, one at the end of the bed keeping guard on the bedpost, and FattyFat steals as many covers as possible in the very middle of the bed.

as for crepuscular - ours are currently quite polite and don’t wake us at stupid o’clock. however, the second the clocks change they will remember they NEED to be outside at daybreak, and turn the irritating please-get-up-NOW pissing about up to 11.

(for the record: 4 cats is Enough. we combined households, rescued a kitten and now there are four. it is quite a lot of cats)

Our 4 sleep where they like. Basil is usually on the bed at my feet unless he's out for the night. Sybil is usually downstairs in the living room and the kittens vary - but it's not unusual to get a nocturnal visit from them.

exWifebeginsat40
I think four cats are an elegant sufficiency too .

Under the duvet!

Ours sleep in the utility room. If it’s really cold I’ll let them sleep in the kitchen/diner as they just pass out on the chairs and don’t go near the kitchen bit.

If I let them roam, they’ll wake me at 2, scratching at the carpet (which they trashed within two months of being installed), fighting or (and this is the winner) bringing live mice in to play. I don’t get enough sleep as it is so to the utility they are banished at night or if we are out. Loads of places for them to sleep on cosy beds, boiler is in there and is well insulated with food and a cat flap so I don’t feel guilty at all!

Mine tend to sleep in their own beds, I have 10 furbaĺls.

No idea. She's shut downstairs and has catflap so can go where she wants. If she was allowed upstairs I would be woken numerous times by paw on my face. Dog on the other hand sleeps next to me in bed and hardly moves a muscle until I get up.

Downstairs on the sofa. But they have the whole run of downstairs if they want it.

They used to have run of the house but we have a dog now and nobody would get any sleep if they all had free rein of everywhere!

For those that are saying their cat wakes them up because they want feeding, why not just leave dry food down before you go bed?

I put food down before I go to bed, but it is invisible food, unless I have been got out of bed at 2am and herded downstairs, at which point I do a magic spell ("look here you utter fuckwit") and we look at the full food bowl together and he accepts there is food there.

This is the cat that, when it rains, has to go out of the front door, the back door, the side door, the bathroom window and the bedroom window before he realises that the weather is the same all the way around the house. Sometimes he wants to go all round again, just to make sure. All whilst chatting away.

Outside.

If our cat is inside when we go to bed she gets shut in the kitchen/utility area. She has a bed, food and water and a litter tray (very rarely uses it though). If she’s outside then she’s out for the night! We live in a warm country though so she’s perfectly happy outside.

She’s an Arabian cat and the noise and range of meows she has is spectacular! I’ve always had cats and never met one quite as vocal as she is. There’s no way we could have her roaming in the house at night as we’d all be awake all nght......

@WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit your cat sounds like a legend 😂

We tried letting ours roam but they made so much effing noise galloping up and down the stairs that they are now confined downstairs. They don’t do too badly though, they have an open plan kitchen/diner/living room, and access to a utility room, to play and sleep in. One takes an armchair, the other a sofa. Think they are happy as Larry.

Smurf cat can often be found with her paws around my lower extremities and curled up on her cushion at the bottom of my bed.

She has a space made on a bookshelf which I've made into a bed for her, put a curtain on the front of it on a rail and I find it so cute when she hops up into it (about 10in) second shelf from bottom and then the paw comes around the curtains as she hooks them together and goes to "bed"

Other options - in no particular order

On top of the printer,

on the windowsill looking like scrunched against the glass but she isnt, with her back against the back side of the wardrobe, condensation on the outer cold window, face pressed up against it and the radiator on full below

Cardboard box behind bedroom door - it has an old pillow inside

Self heating cat mat under the bed

Next to me in bed or on the top of the sofa.