I can sympathize with that Bridget.  Cats being the nocturnal critters
that they are, they don't seem to realize that we are diurnal (well,
most of us)  Possum does most of his yowling and chatting between ten pm
and 2 am..  Tygra luckily isn't very chatty or loud about it when she
is, but she gets the zoomies in the middle of the night.

Kristy
has a friend who has a cat named Zoomer, he's a cute little fella too.
Black and sleek with greenish eyes

I had to smile at the mental picture.  Not funny though really, I do realise
;-)
It's the possibility of being disturbed like this that caused me to make up
my mind not to allow the cats in my bedroom,  or upstairs at all during the
night.  I am a poor sleeper at the best of times.  It can take me literally
hours to fall asleep, and then I tend to wake frequently, so the last thing
I want is one of the cats announcing a successful rat patrol or something
like that.

Now my whippets were a different matter entirely.  Whippets seem to have an
affinity to sleeping with their hoomins, in fact the old time miners used to
pop a whippet or two into the bed with their children as all-night-long hot
water bottles.  Once under the covers, the dogs hardly stir.
Mine were only allowed in there when they got frail elderly and needed
keeping warm overnight as their fur and skin is thin and they feel the cold
when they are old.  They feel it anyway, hence the coats they often wear.
My most beloved whippet, Minnie, who lived to be 19, was always rather
disgusted if I plonked her into the bed in the winter and the electric
blanket wasn't on!   She would settle down with her head on the pillow and
sleep until morning.  Just occasionally she would stretch out her front legs
and touch me with her claws, presumably to make sure I was still there.  I
have never slept properly since she went to RB in 1999.
Most whippet owners - and it's rare to have someone who has only one,
because they're addictive - have a special "bed dog" but will rarely admit
it to "ordinary people.."

Tweed

Heh. Is he bruised-looking?

I think some of them figure we are fair game if we are asleep.  Molly has
very little to do with me unless she wants something.  But let the food bowl
empty or the water get low or the litter need work and she all but grabs me
by the ankle.

Otherwise she ignores me.  Will stand still for scritches on rare occasions
but that is about all.

Except in the early morning.  They get out during the day.  She will get up
on the bed and pat, kneed push pull headbutt and anything else she can think
of to get me up so they can go out.  Not a bit shy about crawling all over
me then.

Jo