We are out the same hours as you. Sophie is in the house all day (plenty
of beds and windows) goes out for an hour or two in the evening, is back
in by 9pm and sleeps beside my pillow. It seems to be a matter of routine
with her.

Hope this helps.

Judith

Is the cat keeping you up at night? If not, I wouldn't worry about it. Just
shut your bedroom door so they can't bother you, and watch out for loose
objects they may knock over. In our case, when we 1st brought home a cat (we
no longer have it), it was meowing at our bedroom door at night-time, but we
broke him from it very quickly--by placing a switched-on but unplugged
vacuum cleaner at our door's edge. Whenever he would meow, we'd plug the
vacuum cleaner in. You know how much cats hate vacuum cleaners.

Did it every single time he made the slightest noise of anykind which we
could hear. Within 2-3 nights or so, we never had to do it ever again.

LRH

Have you thought about getting another cat for him to
play with while you are gone? Then maybe he would sleep
at night. He must be so bored during the day he sleeps then.
He might get lonely, too, then want your attention at night.

He is so cute and I love the hideyhole box you've made him!

Yes, eventually he will adapt to your schedule, but it's a lot harder when
they are young and have a lot of energy. What a cutie. Be sure to give him a
good play session around an hour before you go to bed. I also fed them at
that time of night for a full sleepy tummy.

I have 4 cats and have found that they usually play for a bit when we
fist go to bed around 9 - 10 week nights. They join us a little later
case every time I get up I see cats on the bed. I am usually up every
1 on thru the night. When I get up at 5 am during the week they are
all ready for a treat and the morning.

Weekends when we have a veried routine - they usually go to bed when
we do - I guess cause were up later - but seems they still want to get
a treat and petting at 5 am .....

Karryl

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"If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous."
----Desmond Bagley.

Technically, cats are crepuscular (I know that sounds like a nasty skin
condition).  This means that they're active at dawn and dusk (prime
hunting times).  This is why they often get the "zoomies" in the
evening and early morning hours.  If you give them a good, rousing play
session for a while, then let them settle down before a bedtime snack
they should sleep most of the night.

Katrina

For us, the main thing has been, where do the cats like to hang out
during the night?

While we had a sequestered house, two cats had the upper two floors at
night. Their litterbox and food were in our room, so we heard no end
of scratching and munching overnight. Also the occasional chasing and
sparring matches.

Now that they have the whole house back, with their food and
litterboxes downstairs, they seem content to ramble out of earshot.

Though cats are nocturnal, they still sleep something like 16 hours a
day. So you'll get some sleep.

We've found that the biggest problem has been if there's an empty
food-dish or a dirty litterbox. Then they are perfectly happy to wake
us up and cause all sorts of havoc till we fix their situation. Tiger
in particular has learned what sorts of materials make the most noise,
and exploits them (what an exquisite annoyance to listen to a cat
knock, one by one, every empty pop can or beer bottle off of a table
somewhere in the house. He waits a respectable length of time between
each, listening for whether we've heard him).

If there are no irritants, they mostly roam around elsewhere. And we
wake up in the morning with them sleeping at our feet.

BLink