Do you call your cat to come indoors (at 3:00am)?

[Foijkl]

Sadly I am allergic to cats so have never had one but wish I could.

I have a question for cat owners - I’ve read a wiki-how (How to call a cat) and see that cats can be trained to come indoors when called.

This is fine except that I have a neighbour who routinely is out at 2-3 am calling her cat. She wanders around the neighbourhood calling loudly the particular call for her cat and consistently wakes me up. She wakes other people up as well as I’ve heard someone yell at her to quit calling her cat in the nighttime.

Why isn’t she calling her cat inside earlier in the evening and blocking the cat from getting out if she wants her cat in at night time? Any thoughts why this is happening other than she is an eccentric cat owning person?

How long has this been going on for?
If its a recent thing, the cat might be missing?

No, the cat is around and she does also call the cat day time. It’s been going on for a couple of years!

Maybe she works strange hours and only just got in, cat could be lost and its easier to call at night as less noise although she shouldn't be calling loud enough to wake you up. The only time I call mine in at that time is if the weather is really bad and they didn't come in earlier when I called them originally, I can't have a cat flap.

She is totally mental. My cats stay in the house after dark.there is no way I'd be calling them in at that hour.

I'd only call past about 8pm in winter, past dark in summer, if there are fireworks or a thunderstorm and I forgot to get them in. Mine are out at night but if I was going to keep them in it would be earlier.

We also don't have a cat flap but leave the ground floor hall window open for our cat. If he's not in by 11pm I go out and call him and he usually comes straight in. Then the window is shut until morning and he stays in. If however he unusually doesn't come the first time I go out again about 20 minutes later but I do try to be quiet especially as we live opposite an old people's home.

The only time I call mine in at that time is if the weather is really bad and they didn't come in earlier when I called them originally, I can't have a cat flap.

This is a possibility- I hadn’t thought about the cat not going in earlier and it being weather related. She does sometimes spend a lot of time in the day calling so I wonder if her cat isn’t going to someone else’s place.

She does have a cat flap.

Very odd behaviour, you either call them in at a reasonable hour (10pm) and lock the cat flap or leave them all night with the flap open (we do the latter)

Is she my mum ?
Grrrrr

Ime a short stfu works wonders..
We had a woman who chatted for 40 mins every Saturday morning (under my bedroom window) and her ddog barked non stop for the entire time.
Until I was very rude indeed... Imo not as rude as her...
Your ndn may have absolutely no idea she is batshitly selfish. So tell her.

Our boy goes out at 1am when DP comes to bed, and comes in at 7am when I get up. I'd never disturb the neighbours by calling in the early hours.. if we need him in if we're going out (and he's gone out early) then he comes to a whistle.. We've whistled him since he was a kitten..

Your ndn may have absolutely no idea she is batshitly selfish.

I have a feeling that this may be true - when I did overhear someone yell at her at 3am ish she replied “but I am just calling my cat in!” As if we all didn’t know what she was doing.

I have told her that she woke me up but not gone further than that as I don’t know her. She isn’t next door to me but her call is very loud and she wanders around a ways from her home calling both day and night. As far as I can tell she works from home so it isn’t her coming back from a late shift but I might ask the local know-it-all.

Seems like it is unreasonable for this to carry on for this long so I will give her a stern word next time she wakes me up at 3am.

We have been woken up since October 2020 daily by sea swimmers... Screaming and shouting. Noise travels and some people are oblivious to this. Or utter twats.
Hopefully your neighbour is just oblivious..
Swimmers are imo twats.
*dh has tried speaking to them and got a mouthful of abuse...

All previous cats had a 9pm curfew. Not Haribo, he's in around 5.30pm (when food is being prepared) and is happy to stay in all night. He sleeps somewhere in the house and only stirs when my alarm clock goes off 2 mornings a week. He then likes to fling open the bathroom door and watch me on the toilet.

Our cat often goes out for a wander just before I go to bed - but only in our garden, not round the neighbourhood. So it’s not unusual for me to shout her at the back door roundabout midnight. She generally comes straight away though.

Ours had a curfew at 9pm. You don’t shout loudly at 3am though it’s very unsociable.

I never call my cat in. He comes and goes as he pleases. The cat flap is programmed to his chip alone. I’ve never heard of such a thing and to do it at 2-3am every night is just bizarre

Thank you for the replies. I am glad to know that this is unusual- there are several other cats around and their owners never call them (or I can’t hear if they do) this just baffles me.

She’s doing it now. I just hope cat goes in tonight and stays.

I will talk to the neighbour who is more up on local gossip and try to find out why this has gone on for so long.

He sleeps somewhere in the house and only stirs when my alarm clock goes off 2 mornings a week. He then likes to fling open the bathroom door and watch me on the toilet.

That's really not on. I'm self conscious calling my cat during the daytime let alone in the middle of the night. My cat is trained to come to my whistle but would still think twice at that time of night.

Our cats can come and go as they please but they are lazy buggers and go out for about 30 min a day, presumably for a wee or poo
The only time I ever call them is if there are unexpected fireworks. (Not at 3am though!) On fireworks night and NYE we prevent them going out.
It's very unreasonable and unsociable to call loudly at 3am.

Maybe she works shifts?
Not very considerate, though.

I should add that our cats mainly ignore us when we call so there's usually no point anyway

This is continuing. I now wake up regularly at 3 am because I have been woken up by her so frequently.

The gossip neighbour had a word with cat owner and realised that the cat owner is a vulnerable person. Cat owner appears to have a mild (mental) disability. The neighbour found the cat owner’s carer and the carer is working on the late night / early morning cat calling. But for how long have they been trying to help cat owner with this and yet it continues?

My question is, is there actually any way for any of us neighbours to help the cat go to cat owner when she calls it or to help the cat go home earlier? Is there anything helpful we can do - cat owner shouldn’t be out at night alone wandering around and also waking people up.

Now I am both irritated and a bit concerned about her safeguarding. (Safeguarding not being a cat issue, clearly on the wrong board)

Really need some creative cat training advice.

I did tell the cat to “fucking go to your owner when she calls you” one day when I seen it out but that hasn’t worked 🤔