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 🙈

Ours sleep wherever they please: at present one is in a phase of sleeping sprawled out lengthways between us on the bed and the other likes to sleep on a fluffy blanket on a sofa in the living room. They are slightly spoilt.

She sleeps on the sofa until 6, then waits patiently outside the boys' room for Ds1 to get up at 6.30. Then she shouts at DS2 to carry her into his bed until 7.30...or shouts at the bathroom tap until someone turns it on. She's getting old

Mine sleeps downstairs and I have to shut the door. This is because my toddlers wake easily and she either darts round at 100mph all night or scratches at my sons door to get in.

During the day she is free to explore the whole house and quite likes a snooze in my sons room.

On the sofa after I have vacated ‘his’ spot. I’m usually summoned to do a 4am feeding, although I sometimes offer DH a fiver if he’ll do it instead. In the summer he sleeps exclusively on the landing to catch the cross-breeze from having open windows.

The cat comes and goes from my bed, roams around knocking stuff off flat surfaces, pouncing at whatever it is that she thinks is worth a pounce. I usually find her on the couch in the morning.

If the night is really cold or if I'm sick she crawls right in under the blankets with me.

Anywhere except our room (slightly wary of DH getting allergic again) or the TV room (large pot plant she thinks is a litter tray).

Mine sleeps on the little sofa or a new chair we got that has become her chair.

I go to bed and the cat starts off by my head in DHs place then DH comes and cat goes on my feet or does the 1 metre stretch across the middle of the bed.

In the middle of the night she often decides its breakfast time and that DH needs to get up to get it her. She goes over to him around 3am and tries to wake him normally unsuccessfully then she looks at me as if to say he's so selfish sleeping and then at 4am she has a more determined attempt - she puts her head on top of his head, howls in his ear and bats him. If this fails she goes to the door and howls at the top of her lungs until he moves.

Ours has a furry bed she sleeps in in the living room, next to the radiator. She tends to spend most of the evening in there, just popping up to beg for treats, and she likes to go out in the garden for a wander about 11pm. She often appears in our bed about 5am - I get up at 6.30 for work and she likes to go out for a meander before she gets her breakfast.

On weekends she knows we lie in, and will cuddle down between us in bed until one of us gets up. (She has dry food out permanently so she’s not being starved with a late breakfast.)

I was off work today, and woke up with her on DP’s side of the bed, with her head on his pillow like a small furry person.

@Newtonthehorizon, your lucky beasts look very content and comfy!

My cat sleeps next to MrCatE and as far away from me as possible!

@Lamentations do you live in a northern hemisphere country i.e one that has old winters? If so, I think you should reconsider being a cat owner. Leaving cats in an unheated garage overnight is unacceptable. You state the garage has windows; wouldn't that make it colder at night? Or is this where you claim they're state of the art hermetically sealed, double glazed, heat retaining windows.

Indoor litter trays are not a problem, as long as you ensure they are kept clean.

My cat's tray is in the main bathroom and my house never whiffs of cat shit because I keep it clean.

With me. Sometimes he tells me it's time for bed. He gets particularly loving and that's when I get licked.

@MrsCatE depends on the cat I guess with the heating. We have two meant to be feral kittens (about 10-12 months old now) and they live at the stables so no heating. They do have straw to curl up on, plenty of rugs, a loft space to hide in etc etc and it's dry and out the wind, but they're outside 24/7 (well in a barn but you know what I mean!)

My neighbours cats sleep in the garage with cat flap access but he's put down an old mattress, igloo beds, self heating mats, fleece blankets and frankly it looks comfier than my bed

Hello @ollivander84. I've read your posts about the baked potato loving Ollie and the ferals. It's very obvious you're a proper cat person who does everything in their power to make sure cats are comfy and snug.

The PP locked her cats in an unheated garage overnight because she didn't want litter trays in the house!

Our cats wake the dc up at nighttime and rampage through the house. They are 7 months and we really hope they calm down soon as dds would love them to sleep in beds. Our house is open plan so they are in our small utility with cat litter, bed they refuse to use, scratching pile etc. It’s multilayered but I’m wondering if it’s too small now they are getting bigger. Do they calm down as they get older?

Ours has some crazy time/zoomies as we go to bed then comes and joins us on the bed. He likes snoozing on DD's bed when she goes to bed but then she generally wants us to move him as "he takes up too much space".

There's something comforting about having a cat on the bed. As a child our family at was usually shut in a room on her own.

(most often) Cats 1-2 sleep on beds with people. They also rampaged at 7 months old. . They tend to wake up about 30mins before dawn which is grim in summer.

Cat3 is locked up all night; he has an old sheet on the floor he likes. He just can't settle on a bed so would roam constantly, scratching at doors noisily.

Mine have the freedom to roam. Bathroom and two other room doors kept closed though. They have litter in the kitchen which is always accessable and often come sleep in bedrooms. If i kept them in the kitchen the door would be scratched to pieces. Everyone is different though and its hard to change the patterns/habits that cats are used to.

My moggie has the run of the house during the night. I like to hear him padding about. His basket’s on the wardrobe where he can look down imperiously at us. He tends to come for a cuddle on the middle or the night then curled up at my feet.
Totally unrelated but he always wants to sit on whatever I’m reading.

She has a routine. She patrols and does security checks
Only when we are settled in does she come in the bed.
She often sleeps on my head, my neck or my back or in my armpit (or DH)

They sleep downstairs until they decide to share the bed with us. One will be on a fleece blanket at my feet, and the other one will curl up into me, or on me.

Downstairs one has whichever sofa he chooses, and the other sleeps on a couple of sheepskins that were recommended on here for cat beds.

one sleeps on my DDs bed given half the chance but ideally they would both be shut downstairs. The one that sleeps on DDs bed is fine but the other is a pain and will wake me in the night if it doesn't like whatever food it has or it wants to play! My kids took years to sleep through the night so I'm not best pleased at being woken by a PITA cat!! Also the one that is a pain occassionally brings us gifts (birds and mice) and I don't especially want those upstairs!

My cat sleeps in the kitchen. We can't let him wander round in case ds opens his bedroom door and the car goes in there. Also he scratches our leather sofa so we don't want him in the living room over night.

In the kitchen on a faux fur throw on a chair.

Ours is in the kitchen/TV room so quite comfy. He sleeps ALL day so I think spends quite a lot of the night out hunting.

My childhood cats were shut in the kitchen diner where their cat flap was, so they had access to the outside world, their food and their bed.

My current cat is shut into the house but can go where she likes. She tends to go through phases of where she sleeps. At the moment she sleeps in her tent (which she totally ignored for years!) for part of the night, then goes onto the sofa. Recently she took to sleeping on a bag in one of the bedrooms, and at other times she'll be on a bed. She just likes to keep us on out toes!