We adopted this adult cat about a year ago (she's 5) and she's been fine. Recently though, maybe the past month, she's been coming to our bedroom door at random times in the middle of the night and meowing. She does it like clockwork on the weekends at the normal time we would wake up for work. It's really annoying. If I open the door up, she runs away from me. If I bring her in, she meows to get out. We can't leave our bedroom door open because of light and noise, but I don't know what she wants!
I took her to the vet last week to rule out any weird health issues. We also always make sure that her litter is clean and she has food and water before we go to bed. What can I do to stop this? If she keeps it up, we're going to have to put her in the basement at night so we can sleep, but I would feel so guilty restricting her that way. Thoughts?
Cats are nocturnal, so they sleep throughout the day and stay up at night. Your cat is most likely bored ... try getting another cat (or dog) to keep it company. Make sure it has enough water and food and lay out toys for it to play with ... especially something with catnip in it, that'll keep your cat occupied all night long.
hi um well i don't no if its the same way with dogs but i have 1 and she always barks win the train gos by (we live right next to the train triax) and its always around 12.
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My cat does the same thing. Is there any chance you could deal with the light/noise problem so that you can leave the door open? She'll be unhappy if you lock her in the basement overnight, but she'll deal.
She wants company. If everyone in my house sleeps with their doors shut my cat (s) does the same thing. Someone has to sleep with their door open in order to avoid this. You may be able to modify her behaviour somehow though ..
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Your cat thinks it is social hour.
She probably want you to wake up and pay some attention to her .... duh
Don't feel guilty about the basement thing. I did that when I got my second cat and he was terrorizing my other cat in the night and seriously, we humans have to go to work and function. He was happy to be let up in the morning. Since it's getting colder and I don't heat the basement I've moved him into a spare bedroom with a heated cat bed (seriously LOL). About 1 am he cries for me and I get up and let him into my bedroom and he sleeps with me the rest of the night. I don't let him run around in the night because my female and he don't get along. That's her time to have the house.
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I've had cats all my life. When I used to work nights and needed to sleep during the day, I would call the house from work and let the phone ring and ring and ring several times. When I got home from work at 1 -2 am my cat was all sleepy because I had called her so much. She slept through the night. HAHA
Now, with my male cat, when I'm home on the weekends as soon as he wants to take a nap about 4:00 in the afternoon, I wake him up, play with him, and I don't let him go to sleep until I'm ready for bed. By then he conks out for the night. Usually as they get older they stop the behavior.
And like the other person said, don't pay them any attention. That's what they want. So that's another option. That and putting a kitty bed in your room. The heated ones are about $ 36 if you are interested. Got it off Amazon .
Best of luck.
If she's meowing when you would usually get up for work, it's not all that random: She's helping.
She might be running away when you open the door because she wants you to follow her. When my cats want to be followed, they run off ahead and then look back to see if I'm there. If I'm not, they come back to get me.
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Make sure she's got plenty of toys to occupy herself and that you're giving her sufficient attention when you are at home. She might also have it in her head that you're paying more attention to the puppy because she's in the room with you all night while Miss Kitty is locked out. Would putting the puppy in a large crate or making a fort she can't escape be a possible alternative to shutting the door until she's house-trained?
As another poster said, ignore her when she's trying to wake you up when you're not ready to be awake. She'll catch on to the routine eventually. That or she'll train you to cuddle her while you sleep - or maybe that's just my silly cat.
Same as me I just adopted a 5yr cat last September 2010 and she was meowing when I closed the bedroom door. The only way it stopped. 1) left the door open, 2) placed a cat bed beside my bed, 3) under no circumstance pay attention to her, no shouting, getting up or moving because if you do then you're sort of rewarding your cat. Now she sometimes sleep on the cat bed or patiently waits for me to wake up and give her food, especially on weekends when I wake up late, she now knows not to disturb me.
