Hi all!
This is my first post. I got my two kittens Harvey & Pebbles (brother and sister) in December and they are now 9 months old. When they were little, they used to spend a lot of time on my housemates bed chilling and sleeping with the door closed behind them while she practiced piano. A problem emerged when she went to bed as they would then meow to visit her first thing in the morning and consequently woke her up, causing lack of sleep.
Around 2 months ago we chatted and banned them from her room to make it a no-go area. This problem even now has not got better as the kittens are still meowing outside her room and scraping at her door to get in when they wake up. Just to let you know that my room door is always ajar and they can come and go from my room as they wish: Sometimes they choose to sleep with me and sometimes they don't, but Harvey always comes up for his cuddles in the morning!
I have tried shutting them in my room at night but this is not practical as the smell from their food and litter tray is awful and to be honest, I just want them to stop meowing outside Sara's room and not be locked away. I have also shut them in the lounge at night, but again, I don't think this is fair on them. At the moment I have put lots of pot-pouri outside Sara's room with a time-release air freshener to make it unpleasant for them, but they don't seem to mind!!
PLEASE can you help me with getting them to realise that they are no longer allowed into Sara's room and to make them stop meowing and scraping at her door to get in. This needs to be resolved as Sara is a tennant and is paying rent, at the moment this lack of sleep is making her run down.... many thanks in advance.
This is my first post. I got my two kittens Harvey & Pebbles (brother and sister) in December and they are now 9 months old. When they were little, they used to spend a lot of time on my housemates bed chilling and sleeping with the door closed behind them while she practiced piano. A problem emerged when she went to bed as they would then meow to visit her first thing in the morning and consequently woke her up, causing lack of sleep.
Around 2 months ago we chatted and banned them from her room to make it a no-go area. This problem even now has not got better as the kittens are still meowing outside her room and scraping at her door to get in when they wake up. Just to let you know that my room door is always ajar and they can come and go from my room as they wish: Sometimes they choose to sleep with me and sometimes they don't, but Harvey always comes up for his cuddles in the morning!
I have tried shutting them in my room at night but this is not practical as the smell from their food and litter tray is awful and to be honest, I just want them to stop meowing outside Sara's room and not be locked away. I have also shut them in the lounge at night, but again, I don't think this is fair on them. At the moment I have put lots of pot-pouri outside Sara's room with a time-release air freshener to make it unpleasant for them, but they don't seem to mind!!
PLEASE can you help me with getting them to realise that they are no longer allowed into Sara's room and to make them stop meowing and scraping at her door to get in. This needs to be resolved as Sara is a tennant and is paying rent, at the moment this lack of sleep is making her run down.... many thanks in advance.