Cats scratching at door

Sazzyukrafc

Can anyone offer any advice or suggestions?

We let our two boys into our bedroom if we're in there and let them in before we go to sleep. During the night, our bedroom door is closed.

They are peaceful up until I guess when they wake up. Nearly every morning between 4am and 6am, they will scratch at the carpet of our bedroom door, it's usually just one of them.

Is there anything we can do to stop him doing this? We have to get up a couple of times to tell him off before he stops.

They're half siamese and extremely loving and attentive, and everything that goes with being a siamese, and I know they just want to come and cuddle, but it's so annoying!

McKneff

Our daughter moved in with us and had to bring her adult cat.
After a few weeks of ruined carpets we finally found something that stopped her in her tracks. its called Scratch No More from Kleeneze - brillian stuff
expensive at £10 for a large bottle but worth every penny

lowis

keep your door open?
i have siamese and i gave in - they were ruining my carpet.
i placed a nice big soft dog bed next to my bed and they both settle down in that once i turn my light off. if i don;t turn my oight off they stay on the bed - typical siamese.

Sazzyukrafc

Thanks I will look into that and try it!

Keep the door open....hmmm....we allowed this on the first weekend we moved in and again more recently. They spent the entire night jumping off our wardrobes onto the bed, grooming our hair, fighting under the covers, fighting on top of the covers and running madly around the room...

They are only 16 months old and brothers, so extremely silly and playful, they will not sleep anywhere else but the bed in our bedroom.

Maybe we should only let them in when the light is off so they understand that it's bedtime?

It's mainly one of my boys who does it, who is very siamese like. His brother isn't really like a siamese and isn't much of a problem.

frivolous_fay

Are you me?! Our kittens (nearly 6 months) are a bit like this. They tend to curl up directly outside the bedroom door... or on an old pillow we keep on the landing.

They are generally pretty good, in fact they'll only start scratching when they hear the clock radio go off, at which point we usually let them in. This morning O/H went up for the loo, and shortly after he came back in Biscuit started making his 'I'm stuck' mewing noise. O/H thought maybe he'd shut him in the bathroom... so we went to find out. It was a subterfuge! Biscuit ran in the bedroom, not at all stuck, and started bouncing around, shortly followed by Hobbes.

Last night was a bit of an unusual one actually because they were hiding under the bed when we went to bed, and we couldn't be bothered to get them out, so we let them stay. At some awful hour of the morning we then had to evict them when they started fighting on the bed...

KittyCat1

Our two cats have the run of the house during the day but come night time we keep them in downstairs,shutting the lounge door.They have the lounge,dinging room and kitchen to themselves then and we have a cat flap so they can go in and out of the garden if they want to.Felt really guilty at first doing this but they used to wake our daughter for the same reasons as yours do,and soxy who's the grand age of 18 now would walk back and for on a squeaky floor board so we'd wake up!They're into a routine now and soxy knows when its bedtime as at 9pm when our daughter goes to bed he races to the lounge door to get upstairs before her.

Sazzyukrafc

Fay - that's exactly what mine are like, they just fight on the bed or do wrestling moves off the top of the wardrobes onto us!

Unfortunately, we can't restrict them in our house. Our living room has the stairs coming off it, our kitchen is too small for the two of them and the conservatory (off the kitchen) is alarmed for safety.

They do have their own bedroom, so why can't they just sleep in there without hassle like they do the rest of the time!

sandy2_2

Sazzyukrafc wrote: »

They do have their own bedroom, so why can't they just sleep in there without hassle like they do the rest of the time!

Because they´re cats and love you lots

lowis

actually, i have just adopted a new siamese after my little girl siamese died 3 months ago, and up until last night was keeping the new addition and my existing meezer in separate rooms at night time. my existing boy always sleeps with me, under the duvet in the crook of my legs since his sister passed away.

last night was the first night that Timmy (new boy) kicked off...and i had to let him out of his room as he was howling the place down. the pair of them bounded about like kittens (they are 13 and 14 years old) and played Thundering Herd Of Elephants on my wooden floors at 1.30am / 3.30am and 5.30am.

i feel very tired today. i hope they will settle down a little tonight, they are sussing each other out though so I doubt it...

oooops - off topic. OP - have you tried a Feliway diffuser or spray? works wonders...

geri1965_2

anniehanlon wrote: »

Our daughter moved in with us and had to bring her adult cat.
After a few weeks of ruined carpets we finally found something that stopped her in her tracks. its called Scratch No More from Kleeneze - brillian stuff
expensive at £10 for a large bottle but worth every penny

Might have to try this - had to replace my stair carpet last year as one of them had scratched it to pieces and now she is starting on the new one!

liz545

I'm having this exact problem at the moment - my cat has a bed that he's happy to use, and he's always been fine through the night, until recently when he's started scratching at the skirting board around 5am. I've resorted to getting up and shutting him in the bathroom (where he has access to water and his trays), but I'd rather not get woken up in the first place! I can only think that he's trying to move his breakfast hour forward, the cheeky monkey! How can I get him to stop?