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Anyone else having this problem with their cat?
I keep telling her that the clocks have gone back, but she flatly refuses to believe me.
I now get paw swipes (and bites if I'm slow to respond) an hour earlier in the morning while I'm still trying to sleep.
She always wins in the end, though. I can only take so much pain.
I now get paw swipes (and bites if I'm slow to respond) an hour earlier in the morning while I'm still trying to sleep.
She always wins in the end, though. I can only take so much pain.
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I live in a small flat so I am lucky that the cat flap isn't far. I've got very good at opening the cat flap half asleep, then going back to bed for an hour until I need to get up.
Weekends, I get up, open the cat flap, feed them as well, and then I get a bit more of a lie in.
Slaves aren't we?
I am her hot water bottle.
So ... actually their demands have done you a favour!?
I'm just as mad with my cat.
Indeed it's like they knew what I needed better than I did
Ok totally confused now. Isn't the point of having a cat flap to let themselves in/out? What do you need to open it?
You keep the cat flap locked at night so they don't go out
Oh well I guess some (owners) must? I certainly don't.
I fitted a catflap when I first moved in to save worry about them getting shut out all night, as they invariably want to go out last thing.
Mine tend to go out just after "lights out" and then they come in about half an hour later.
They then go out again at "first light" (without disturbing me).
I lock them in at night and then let them out in the morning.
I don't want them out at night on their own, i've done that since day one, and they happily stay in all night sleeping, they go out all day and can come and go as they please during the day.
Also I live in a tiny flat, and my bedroom is right next to the door that has the cat flap in, so if they were coming and going all night when I was trying to sleep, it'd keep waking me up.
http://www.someecards.com/pets-cards/feed-cat-wake-up-cats-pet-owner-pets-funny-ecard
This time of year, from now until Spring, my cats spend about 99% of their time indoors and one of them has even reverted to using an indoor litter tray again. The other 2 go out to toilet, even when there's snow, so I always like them to be able to get outside when they want to.
The clock change has little impact on me or my cats - I don't have a regular getting up time anyway because I've always worked shifts, up at 6am for my long working days and up between 8am- 10am on my days off.