You and I think alike Illusion, leaving the door open was the first thing I tried, but she just kept scratching...since then have applied the doublesided sticky tape to some cardboard and fastened it to the door, and have been getting a good night's sleep. I'll prob. leave it up for about a...
Thanks to everyone who replied, I think I'm going to try the double sided tape...so far it's the only thing I haven't tried.
Steph...I do have a second cat, she too is always trying to sleep when the first starts scratching on the door.
Thanks for the help so far...it doesn't seem like she's scratching to satisfy her scratching needs, there are several posts around which she uses constantly...As far as I can figure she's doing this just to get attention...she ONLY does it while I'm trying to sleep.
I have a cat named Spock who is three years old. When she was a kitten she used to scratch at a metal closet door when I first got in bed, in the middle of the night, and towards the begining of the morning. I solved this by covering the bottom half of the door with saran wrap...no more...