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Another cat advice thread: Cat staying out all night and keeping me awake
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I love my cat to bits but lately he's been testing my patience limits. Essentially he sleeps all day. By the time I'm ready for bed, he's ready to go out and about. I've got no problem letting him roam around at night as I'm in a quiet and safe area with a good sized garden. The problem is that he's not very sociable with others cats. So, at 4am for the last few mornings, I've heard nothing but that low moaning/groaning/warning noise they make when meeting another cat. Try sleeping with that under your window sill. Not fair on my neighbour either although she hasn't complained......yet! Another trick of his is to sit on my conservatory roof ( semi detached two storey home)and meow non stop until I open the window for him to jump in, even though the window he uses downstairs to exit is open! I'm constantly being woken up at various times during the night ![]() To counter this, I closed all exits before I went to bed and left it at that. Bad idea. The bugger spent hours wondering around the house, meowing, jumping up on to windows to have a look outside and generally making a noise. Aargh. Any cat owners had this problem before? Suggestions and advice welcome! TL ps: in January my other half wants to get a golden lab puppy. I'm all for it but will I never sleep again after that? |
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Chop his balls off.
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Is there a new Tom in the area? maybe there's a bit of a turf war going on in which case they'll hopefully soon sort it
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Is there a new Tom in the area? maybe there's a bit of a turf war going on in which case they'll hopefully soon sort it
![]() Oh I hope he sorts it. Actually, there are two male tabby cats who are not agressive at all. Usually my cat fights with all males but he's been quite good with these ones. No fighting or anything, just that awful low groaning sound at 4am.......just what i need. |
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Had this problem with out tom too so now as soon as I come home from work I turf him out for a few hours so by the time Im ready to go to bed he is ready to come in and tends to settle down for the night, have you tried some thing like this technology_love ?
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It's not the most pleasant sound
.My Thomas would sometimes do this and I'd end up having to go outside and bring him in , don't really know what to suggest it stopped after a while.Nanny Ogg's idea sounds worth a try even if you have to wake the lovely boy up and physically put him outside like on the flinstones
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It's not the most pleasant sound
.My Thomas would sometimes do this and I'd end up having to go outside and bring him in ![]() What a pain. |
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Had this problem with out tom too so now as soon as I come home from work I turf him out for a few hours so by the time Im ready to go to bed he is ready to come in and tends to settle down for the night, have you tried some thing like this technology_love ?
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Yup, thats what I do.......at 4am
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I know, not mention embarrassing in my dressing gown and slippers
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That's it then, he's doing it to give all the other cats a good laugh when you come to get him .
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lol, I could believe that
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The title says it all.
I love my cat to bits but lately he's been testing my patience limits. Essentially he sleeps all day. By the time I'm ready for bed, he's ready to go out and about. I've got no problem letting him roam around at night as I'm in a quiet and safe area with a good sized garden. The problem is that he's not very sociable with others cats. So, at 4am for the last few mornings, I've heard nothing but that low moaning/groaning/warning noise they make when meeting another cat. Try sleeping with that under your window sill. Not fair on my neighbour either although she hasn't complained......yet! Another trick of his is to sit on my conservatory roof ( semi detached two storey home)and meow non stop until I open the window for him to jump in, even though the window he uses downstairs to exit is open! I'm constantly being woken up at various times during the night ![]() To counter this, I closed all exits before I went to bed and left it at that. Bad idea. The bugger spent hours wondering around the house, meowing, jumping up on to windows to have a look outside and generally making a noise. Aargh. Any cat owners had this problem before? Suggestions and advice welcome! |
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He has settled in for the night a few times although he seems to prefer the idea of going out at night. Good idea though. When i get home from work he'll probbaly be asleep. I'll pick him up and put him out......payback for disturbing my sleep time
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Sounds like a bit of a catastrophy to me
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The title says it all.
I love my cat to bits but lately he's been testing my patience limits. Essentially he sleeps all day. By the time I'm ready for bed, he's ready to go out and about. I've got no problem letting him roam around at night as I'm in a quiet and safe area with a good sized garden. The problem is that he's not very sociable with others cats. So, at 4am for the last few mornings, I've heard nothing but that low moaning/groaning/warning noise they make when meeting another cat. Try sleeping with that under your window sill. Not fair on my neighbour either although she hasn't complained......yet! Another trick of his is to sit on my conservatory roof ( semi detached two storey home)and meow non stop until I open the window for him to jump in, even though the window he uses downstairs to exit is open! I'm constantly being woken up at various times during the night ![]() To counter this, I closed all exits before I went to bed and left it at that. Bad idea. The bugger spent hours wondering around the house, meowing, jumping up on to windows to have a look outside and generally making a noise. Aargh. Any cat owners had this problem before? Suggestions and advice welcome! TL ps: in January my other half wants to get a golden lab puppy. I'm all for it but will I never sleep again after that? |
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Try getting him in a different routine,our 2 cats go out all day and stop indoors all night.
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Try getting him in a different routine,our 2 cats go out all day and stop indoors all night.
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Sounds like a bit of a catastrophy to me
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Is there anyway you can try and get him to go out in the day and then keep him in, both mine are out and about in the garden all day unless the weathers bad but I get them in normally before it get's dark unless they decide to be little buggers and keep running off and chasing moths and stuff
and then they settle down for the night and then sleep in my room when I go to sleep.
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Right!
Worked on changing his routine...a little bit. Got home from work just after 6pm and found the cur asleep on the bed. Put outside and he disappeared until 11pm. He the slept through the night and only got up to go walkabout outside after 6am. Didnt even hear him after that. Thanks for the suggestions about changing his routine, seems to work well ![]() Only woke up twice last night on my own accord. |
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Glad it worked out for you !!
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Try getting him in a different routine,our 2 cats go out all day and stop indoors all night.
![]() You wait till you have babies
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, don't really know what to suggest it stopped after a while.
