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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / June 2004New kitten - help
My SO and I recently recived a cat. It's a 7 month old neuterd male. The problem I'm running into is that I work evenings and late nights, and need to sleep in the morning. Of course a kitten would never let this happen. He likes to let you sleep till about 6am, then he will whine and run around like an insane race car (getting into things that he normaly won't get into), and generaly be a bad cat. Even when I get up and play with him, and feed him, he still acts bad, and whines. This goes on till about noon. Other then that he is a very good cat, he doesn't get on stuff, he doesn't whine. Any ideas why he would act this way at this time, and how I can stop it (or move it to a better time)? My guess is that the birds outside our windows get his attention and he is acting up because of them... << My guess is that the birds outside our windows get his attention and he is acting up because of them... >> Can you just shut him out of your bedroom and maybe wear earplugs? He should outgrow it but it's hard to break a kitten of their natural behavior. Candace (take the litter out before replying by e-mail) See my cats: http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace "One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human." (Loren Eisely) >My SO and I recently recived a cat. It's a 7 month old neuterd male. >The problem I'm running into is that I work evenings and late nights, [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >My guess is that the birds outside our windows get his attention and >he is acting up because of them... I read that cats are diurnal, which apparently means that they are most active at dawn and dusk. I've certainly noticed that they are active at dawn. Nothing much has worked for me but they do seem to outgrow it after a few months. One still wakes me every morning to feed but once I feed them he just sniffs it and walks away. Then I go back to bed. I'd suggest getting a second cat to keep him occupied but while I think that in general two cats are better than one, he's still going to wake you. dgk screamed across the void of the internet [on 6/23/2004 7:42 AM]: >>My SO and I recently recived a cat. It's a 7 month old neuterd male. >>The problem I'm running into is that I work evenings and late nights, [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > think that in general two cats are better than one, he's still going > to wake you. Somehow I thought that would be the case. I would love to get two cats, but we were lucky to get this one. I can't wait till he out grows it, I'm tired of getting four or fewer hours of sleep. Thanks for the reply. >Somehow I thought that would be the case. I would love to get two cats, >but we were lucky to get this one. I can't wait till he out grows it, >I'm tired of getting four or fewer hours of sleep. Oops, you shouldn't have said that. Now you're going to get lots of cat offers. Or offered cats. Whichever. dgk screamed across the void of the internet [on 6/23/2004 11:44 AM]: >>Somehow I thought that would be the case. I would love to get two cats, >>but we were lucky to get this one. I can't wait till he out grows it, >>I'm tired of getting four or fewer hours of sleep. > > Oops, you shouldn't have said that. Now you're going to get lots of > cat offers. Or offered cats. Whichever. Offers are great, doesn't change the fact that we can't have two cats. :) > Somehow I thought that would be the case. I would love to get two cats, > but we were lucky to get this one. I can't wait till he out grows it, > I'm tired of getting four or fewer hours of sleep. > > Thanks for the reply. What I do is crawl out of bed, provide some food (and open the window)and then go back to sleep for a few hours. Doesn't really wake me up much. My husband can't tolerate being woken up by kitties in the morning either, so he squirted her a few times, yelled and then finally took to shutting her out of the bedroom. Now she is very careful only to wake me up and not him : > What I do is crawl out of bed, provide some food (and open the > window)and then go back to sleep for a few hours. Doesn't really wake > me up much. My husband can't tolerate being woken up by kitties in the > morning either, so he squirted her a few times, yelled and then > finally took to shutting her out of the bedroom. Now she is very > careful only to wake me up and not him :> Heh heh! That cat's no idiot. ;-) Priscilla > I read that cats are diurnal, which apparently means that they are most active at dawn and dusk. I don't doubt this, but mine sure aren't. They are most active in the wee hours, long before dawn. circa Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:12:31 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Mary (rosefan@email.com) said, > > I read that cats are diurnal, which apparently means that they are most > active at dawn and dusk. > > I don't doubt this, but mine sure aren't. They are most active in the wee > hours, long before dawn. Mine are spunkiest around 2:00 AM. Joyous. One of Camille's favorite activities around that time of night is to go to the closet that faces my bed and yank the door open. Why, you might ask? Because it has one of those lights that comes on automatically when the door is opened, and Camille just loooooves to see the light come on. Mommy, OTOH, doesn't. Laura  SignatureExperience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. -Oscar Wilde >circa Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:12:31 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, >Mary (rosefan@email.com) said, [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >Laura Shaina runs amuck starting from about 11pm to 5pm of the next day. there's no more little kitty falling asleep on my shoulder when i go to bed. circa Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:00:16 -0400, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, MadHatter (devil_m@y_care.lost) said, > Shaina runs amuck starting from about 11pm to 5pm of the next day. > there's no more little kitty falling asleep on my shoulder when i go > to bed. It's so good to hear that she's feeling better, even if it does mean that she has become a little fireplug. ;-) Laura SignatureExperience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. -Oscar Wilde |
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