My cat disrupting my sleep

fletch3163

My beloved Lily is about a year and a half old.

She started miaowing and "chatting" to me at around 6am for the past wee while. Now it's getting earlier. She makes as much noise as she can to disturb me. Husband is nightshift and gets home at about half 6. Lily had a great clock and used to sit patiently (and quietly) waiting for him but now she's just a riot.

I don't give her into trouble but this morning she had me up at about midnight, then she started in earnest from before 5am so at 5 I just got up and put her out the back and shut the door and went back to bed. I feel bad about that now:o

Is there anything I can do to stop her waking me (apart from locking her in a room - she's got free roaming rights around the house)? It's like having a child again and I doubt I'll ever have another long lie.

Anyone got any advice?

Mankysteve

Has she got free access to food, water and litter tray.

A couple of toys and a leave a radio/tv on a low level with her in your living room.

Wickedkitten

Either keep her in one room, or get a good set of earplugs.

fletch3163

Thanks for your replies.

She talks to me all the time normally and I don't want to discourage her by ignoring her. My son and husband say I'm batty. I think she's bored so is there anything I can do for her to keep her quietly occupied in the night?

I've never thought of the radio, thanks for that. I have put her dry food in a feeding ball so that gives her something to do. She does have access to food, etc.

Since posting, I've had a bit of a tidy up and she must have been sick in the night. She loves to chew on cardboard boxes and we always keep one at the back of the room for her to chew at leisure. Anyway, I've found sick and I've found runny poop (with grass in it). Looks like she was feeling unwell :-(

photome

We have a cat flap and she cant go further than the kitchen (at night) which is downstairs so we never hear ours at night time.
Why give her free roam of the whole house?

I assume you dont have a cat flap

McKneff

You can still give her free roam of the house, just shut your bedroom door.

TheHangingJudge

She's getting up earlier because the sun's rising earlier. She thinks it's wakey wakey time & can't understand why you're still in bed. Try closing all the blinds, all the curtains at bedtime & see if that quietens her down a bit overnight.

ellay864

Our cat has free run of the house and if we shut the bedroom door she just digs the carpet up trying to get in. So our choice is shut her in the kitchen where she has a cat flap if she needs to go out, or put up with it. She goes out a lot at night, comes home often at 2 or 3am shouting hello to us. Once we've grunted some kind of response back at her she's happy. Occasionally she doesn't shout at us (or if she does I'm so zonked out I sleep through it but unlikely at her volume!) as sometimes I just wake up when the alarm goes and find her lying next to me or by my feet.
I have shut her in the kitchen occasionally (mainly when she'd had spells of bringing birds or mice in) but she shouts so loudly I can still hear her! Mostly I'm soft and just let her free roam and just accept it's the joys of her letting us live with her!

getmore4less

TheHangingJudge wrote: »

She's getting up earlier because the sun's rising earlier. She thinks it's wakey wakey time & can't understand why you're still in bed. Try closing all the blinds, all the curtains at bedtime & see if that quietens her down a bit overnight.

cats are nocturnal/crepuscular

put them out at night let them in during the day

juliebunny

getmore4less wrote: »

cats are nocturnal/crepuscular

put them out at night let them in during the day

That is an awful suggestion. Cat are not noctural - they are most active at dawn and dusk. You are putting them at risk from other animals and road accidents by locking them out at night. Any cats left out at night without a cat flap should also have a safe, waterproof shelter and fresh water.

I keep my cats IN at night to protect both them and the local wildlife.

SnowyOwl_2

juliebunny wrote: »

That is an awful suggestion. Cat are not noctural - they are most active at dawn and dusk. You are putting them at risk from other animals and road accidents by locking them out at night. Any cats left out at night without a cat flap should also have a safe, waterproof shelter and fresh water.

I keep my cats IN at night to protect both them and the local wildlife.

I have to agree with this wholeheartedly.