Putting the kids to bed. New Kitten has been for the last week following us upstairs and yelling loudly outside their bedroom doors as we're trying to tell them their stories. (and it's really not miaowing, it's yelling!)
And then when they're settled down and trying to go to sleep, it's still at it. So they end up coming out and asking is the cat OK, which just makes the cat think it's working and the cycle continues. Just roaring it's head off on the landing throughout bedtime.
So tonight we basically shut the kitten in the living room downstairs to try and avoid this happening, especially as the kids were fighting and frankly we had a lot of rows to diffuse and cheekiness to battle. Not a good time to be yelled at from the floor.
Well.
You would swear the kitten was being murdered! The yelling went through the whole house!
And so I ended up going downstairs so he'd stop whilst DH stayed up to settle the kids. But the cat actually yells at you even when you're beside it until it does what it wants. So I was trying to make a cup of tea and the kitten was just at my feet ROARING at me. Turns out it wanted to be picked up and cuddled!
So then I put him down again to finish making the tea and he yells until I literally sit down on the sofa, when it immediately starts purring as loud as a jet engine and settles into my legs.
Tbh given my choice, I'd have stayed upstairs and read my book and tried to de-stress from the kids.
I don't really mind the cat being LOUD in itself, after all I used to have dogs before and they were loud as hell, but this bedtime disruption is really pretty something I'd like to nip in the bud pronto.
Any advice? Am I being thick and missing a really obvious solution?