Our much loved Kitty (2 year old female calico) sleeps with us, at least she is supposed to SLEEP with us! She spends most of the day on our large fenced patio chasing birds, catching a few unfortunately, catching lizards and climbing up the fence to spy on neighborhood dogs. She has very busy days and hardly naps at all. In the evening we play with her (both my wife and I are home by 4:00PM), we give her quite a bit of attention and "quality time" for instance grooming her every evening. We love our cat!
We go to bed fairly early, 8:00 - 9:00PM as we go to work very early. Our cat won't sleep past midnight or so and when she awakes whe meows until we pay attention. She wants to go downtairs to eat but won't go alone (are cats afraid of the dark?!) and she demands to be petted. It really messes up a nights sleep.
What do we do? Anyone here ever solve a problem like this? If we lock her out of the bedroom we'll all be unhappy and I bet she'd howl about it for weeks.
We go to bed fairly early, 8:00 - 9:00PM as we go to work very early. Our cat won't sleep past midnight or so and when she awakes whe meows until we pay attention. She wants to go downtairs to eat but won't go alone (are cats afraid of the dark?!) and she demands to be petted. It really messes up a nights sleep.
What do we do? Anyone here ever solve a problem like this? If we lock her out of the bedroom we'll all be unhappy and I bet she'd howl about it for weeks.