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Sleepless Cats
Every single night at 2am. for about 2-3hrs.both of my Cats go on a running
thru the house and playing with eachother spree & they often knock down things. They get so loud that they wake me every single time, they drive me completely nuts. Does anyone have any suggestions how to make them stop. Help me please. |
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hwndelite wrote: Every single night at 2am. for about 2-3hrs.both of my Cats go on a running thru the house and playing with eachother spree & they often knock down things. They get so loud that they wake me every single time, they drive me completely nuts. Does anyone have any suggestions how to make them stop. Help me please. Where are you? Cats are crepusular (Forgive sp) which is to say the are most active at dawn and dusk (When in the wild it's a good time for hunting). Our cats often wake at about 4am (UK time) and proceed to bounce off the walls and off our heads (and anyone sound asleep who has recieved a direct hit on the bladder has my sympathy!) . They're just being cats Suggestions 1. If they are not already banned from the bedroom at night it might be a good idea. Ours aren't banned and ever since they were kittens have always slept in there but they're smart enough to know that too much wildness at unholy hours will swiftly result in the offender being dumped in the hallway and the door shut 2 Wear them out! Before going to bed 20+ minutes of feather onna stick, mousies, whatever they like...as in really vigourous exercise, will usually tire them out enough that they will put off their galloping about until a more civilised hour and its also good for their general health to get some exercise. Follow this with a good meal 3 Pull the covers round your ears and ignore them. This may take some patience on your part but eventually they learn to go off and play somewhere else and eventually you'll learn to be asleep even if they are trying all sorts of moves to get your attention! After all from their point of view they just want you to share in the fun! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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keep them up ALL day, that's the only thing we found that works.
-- ie ride fast, take chances. "Lesley" wrote in message ups.com... hwndelite wrote: Every single night at 2am. for about 2-3hrs.both of my Cats go on a running thru the house and playing with eachother spree & they often knock down things. They get so loud that they wake me every single time, they drive me completely nuts. Does anyone have any suggestions how to make them stop. Help me please. Where are you? Cats are crepusular (Forgive sp) which is to say the are most active at dawn and dusk (When in the wild it's a good time for hunting). Our cats often wake at about 4am (UK time) and proceed to bounce off the walls and off our heads (and anyone sound asleep who has recieved a direct hit on the bladder has my sympathy!) . They're just being cats Suggestions 1. If they are not already banned from the bedroom at night it might be a good idea. Ours aren't banned and ever since they were kittens have always slept in there but they're smart enough to know that too much wildness at unholy hours will swiftly result in the offender being dumped in the hallway and the door shut 2 Wear them out! Before going to bed 20+ minutes of feather onna stick, mousies, whatever they like...as in really vigourous exercise, will usually tire them out enough that they will put off their galloping about until a more civilised hour and its also good for their general health to get some exercise. Follow this with a good meal 3 Pull the covers round your ears and ignore them. This may take some patience on your part but eventually they learn to go off and play somewhere else and eventually you'll learn to be asleep even if they are trying all sorts of moves to get your attention! After all from their point of view they just want you to share in the fun! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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oldhickory wrote: keep them up ALL day, that's the only thing we found that works. Not good for them as cats need their sleep and lots of it! Seriously half an hour/20 minutes of intensive play- good time to being out the red laser dot greeble (Dunzi doesn't really do games as a hippy in her previous life competitive games are not her thing-especially as Sarsi's previous incarnation was a punk given her tendency to pogo all over the place- but show her the red laser dot greeble and she's right in there!) then they get the biggest meal of the day and their favourite- MUNCHIES! Well it works for us. They are tired out and have a large supper and go to bed until at least 7am. Guess I taught them young, at weekends they get fed when someone gets up (Not cruel they always have something to nibble on overnight if they get peckish) and they don't really wake us up apart from occasional demands for skritchies Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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