Just how badly do your cats interrupt your sleep?
At the moment, I can be woken up every night, by my male cat playing in our room, or my female tabby crying plaintively on the landing for me. In my last house (in the countryside) I would be woken up by my tabbies bringing in live mice or birds. Once, they dropped a live mouse into my bed while I was asleep.😱Many's the time I have padded out into the garden, in the dark, to put a mouse back under a hedge, or a stunned bird into a hedge.
I've been conscious of how disruptive this for a few years now. My last g/f was really cross when her sleep was disturbed by my cats' nocturnal activities. I always rationalised it, but seeing things from her perspective, it was like being tortured!
Are we fools for allowing our precious sleep to be disrupted to this extent? Should I be locking my cats somewhere overnight?
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Cats are sleep thieves
CloudPine · 06/05/2022 16:41
Whatsthestoryboringglory · 06/05/2022 21:11
The people with cats who open doors need to change their door handles for door knobs. We had to do this with our German Shepherd who could open every door in the house. Including the front door when the postman came, if it wasn’t locked!
DCat here was good, but has taken to 4am food grumbling. We feed him at 5 usually. I’ve just ordered an automated feeder….
Whatsthestoryboringglory · 06/05/2022 21:11
The people with cats who open doors need to change their door handles for door knobs. We had to do this with our German Shepherd who could open every door in the house. Including the front door when the postman came, if it wasn’t locked!
DCat here was good, but has taken to 4am food grumbling. We feed him at 5 usually. I’ve just ordered an automated feeder….
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