Does your cat wake you all night?

[sheeplikessleep]

Our two are just a year old.

One cat is pretty good overnight, patrols the house, wakes us about 6/6.30 but generally quiet.

The other one is constantly on our pillows miaowing or waking us up. All night. If we trap her in the living room overnight, she clambers at the door to get out like a mad thing.

How do yours sleep? They are still fed 3 times a day and we lock their cat flap on their last feed at 7/8 as I’d prefer them to be in overnight.

How can we all get some sleep and encourage the night owl to get about it’s business quietly through the night? Agh.

@Orangelady32

I really don't understand why you are trapping them inside at night. Maybe some cats will sleep through the night but many like cats we've had want to be able to explore. Depending on how often the quiet cat has been out and knows how to get back, I'd make them having more freedom a priority.

All of the cats who have been run over locally have been run over at night. And I live in quite a rural area, where a lot of the roads don’t have street lights. They get free run outside dawn to dusk so if I can, I’ll keep them in overnight.

If the loud cat is still disrupting you even in the living room try crating her for a while.

The zoomies? I love that description and it's spot on. In for supper and then race around like they're demented for 10mins till little girl cat gets fed up and chases her brother out of the one-way cat flap. So, she' in for the night and he's out in the cold. One smug looking cat!!