Where is your cat overnight?

[Judystilldreamsofhorses]

Our cat has recently started coming into our bed at exactly 5am, demanding breakfast. She’s six, and has always come in round about getting up time (6.30) but this earlier invasion is very annoying - there is no way I’m getting up at 5, but I tend not to properly go back to sleep after her patting me in the face, purring, and pulling my hair. DP sleeps through, so she doesn’t even entertain him. She will eventually settle down between us until the alarm, but that 90 minutes of lost sleep makes me grumpy.

She has constant access to dry food, so it’s not that she’s starving, and actually she goes out as soon as I get up, then has breakfast after I am showered/dressed.

My DP is threatening to shut her overnight in the kitchen. I think this is cruel, since it would be a huge change. (She can open our bedroom door.) We do have a big kitchen, she could have a bed in there, her food/water is there, and there’s a litter tray in the utility room. But it just feels mean when she’s used to sleeping on a fur throw on the sofa.

Where do your cats sleep? Will this phase come to an end?

Usually sitting on me or making biscuits.. otherwise curled up on the pillow on the other side of the bed. (Cheddar)
Snorg will either be in her basket under the bed, or her other bed next to the bed. Or cuddled up with me. She's really learning how to cuddle from Cheddar. It's lovely.

Both mine get locked in the kitchen over night. They are too destructive to be allowed access to the rest of the house at night.

Shut in the kitchen here too. Choice of sofas, catbeds, windowseat etc to lie on, food and water and litter tray.

My DC have only just stopped waking me at night, after 7 years of broken sleep I am not going back!

DCat1 guards the landing (important Top Cat job). DCat2 starts the night downstairs on the sofa, howls the place down after lights out then gets a lift upstairs. DCat3 sleeps on my head, and gets upset if DCat2 comes too close. At some point we all get to sleep.

Mine is shut downstairs in the kitchen diner. He's a nightmare for waking us if I don't