Hi all,
I've had my sweet little Sky for about 4 weeks now, she is coming up on 5 months old.
Very early on I realised having her in the bedroom with me at night isn't great for either of us, and since Day 1 she has been shut out of the bedroom.
Usually sometime between 5am and 6am she uses the litter box and scratches A LOT which wakes me up and she promptly starts meowing outside my bedroom door. She'll usually meow for 5 mins then go off and do something else then come back and meow e.t.c for at least an hour (I have a little security camera so I can see when she is outside my door.)
This has been happening on and off since I got her, sometimes we'll go a couple of days with no morning crying and I'll think we've nipped it in the bud and then we'll be back to it the next day. Even if she wakes me up at 5am I am very good at waiting until at least 6am for me to leave the room and had really hoped that she would have learnt by now - but perhaps that is just wishful thinking on my end.
For context she gets a wet food breakfast every day at 7:30am and so I don't know if she's simply associating me being up with getting that but I thought by changing that until over an hour after I wake up that she would loose that connection.
So my main question is, how long do I wait after she stop meowing to leave the room, I try to go as long as I can but the nature of her going away and coming back makes it hard to time!
Thanks
J
I've had my sweet little Sky for about 4 weeks now, she is coming up on 5 months old.
Very early on I realised having her in the bedroom with me at night isn't great for either of us, and since Day 1 she has been shut out of the bedroom.
Usually sometime between 5am and 6am she uses the litter box and scratches A LOT which wakes me up and she promptly starts meowing outside my bedroom door. She'll usually meow for 5 mins then go off and do something else then come back and meow e.t.c for at least an hour (I have a little security camera so I can see when she is outside my door.)
This has been happening on and off since I got her, sometimes we'll go a couple of days with no morning crying and I'll think we've nipped it in the bud and then we'll be back to it the next day. Even if she wakes me up at 5am I am very good at waiting until at least 6am for me to leave the room and had really hoped that she would have learnt by now - but perhaps that is just wishful thinking on my end.
For context she gets a wet food breakfast every day at 7:30am and so I don't know if she's simply associating me being up with getting that but I thought by changing that until over an hour after I wake up that she would loose that connection.
So my main question is, how long do I wait after she stop meowing to leave the room, I try to go as long as I can but the nature of her going away and coming back makes it hard to time!
Thanks
J