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Cat meowing early to go out

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Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 16/03/2024 08:24

The cat has recently started to wake up early and meow to be let out. How can I stop/change it?

She didn’t seem as bad as this last year when it got lighter.

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minipie · 19/03/2024 09:10

Seizethedog · 18/03/2024 19:18

Mine is the opposite. She has a cat flap with access from the kitchen . She chooses to go out at night but at 6 am will start screeching under our bedroom window to be fed. It drives me absolutely crazy. I can’t keep her in most of the time as she wants out just as we go to bed and I can’t get her to come back in. I often go down , lure her in and lock the cat flap . I don’t feed her until I get up. It’s an exhausting war.

We have an automatic cat feeder with timed feeds - might help?

TroysMammy · 19/03/2024 15:52

I tell mine when I go to bed "lie in tomorrow". It usually works but when I get up at 5.45am to go to work twice a week he quietly meows me awake at 5.35am. Those few minutes sleep before you wake up with the alarm are spoilt.

CrunchyCarrot · 19/03/2024 15:53

Yep mine is now doing this. Happens every year as the mornings get lighter. The clocks going forward will help for a bit. I get up and let him out.

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