So, Dcat, has recently turned into a little nightmare cat. Moved to new house with DH last summer. Previously no issues with Madam overnight (exclusively inside cat)
First couple of months, no problems. Since Christmas or so though, every morning around 3am she’s been jumping on the window ledge in our room and rattling the blinds. We’ve tried blinds open, blinds shut. Cord up, cord down. Doesn’t matter - she’ll rattle them somehow.
She has 3 other bedrooms to go play on their window sills and rattle the blinds, but no no, only picks our room.
Weirdly though, if DH is away for the night, she just curls up on the bed next to me and sleeps nicely till I get up at 6/7 😂
It’s driving husband slightly bonkers, we’ve solved it temporarily for now by shutting her out of the bedroom at night and she curls up happily on the spare bed / her own bed / sofa / wherever.
BUT - we’re due our first baby in a few weeks and won’t be able to have the bedroom door shut in a few months time as I’ll need to be able to hear her from the nursery, so need to get this sorted. We’ve just done an 8 week stretch of bedroom door closed at night, and thought maybe she’s broken the habit - nope, like clockwork, jumped on the window ledge this morning and started playing with the blinds.
House is all open plan downstairs, so can’t shut her in the kitchen etc, plus madam’s litter tray and food is in the upstairs bathroom and not really another alternative space for those.
Any ideas?? Just need her to stop jumping on the bloody windowsill in our room!
obligatory photo of said 3am nuisance!