I have 2 cats, Ashes (an older girl) and Cujo (a 10 month old boy).
I live in a 2 bedroom condo w/my boyfriend. We have to keep them separate because Cujo attacks Ashes (we've had him fixed; he may need kitty Prozac for his aggression but that's another thread...).
At night, we let Ashes sleep with us in the bedroom w/the door closed. Cujo has to be locked in the spare bedroom because he tries to open our door and it wakes us up. He's 12 lbs of pure muscle and the noise sounds like the house is coming down.
Ashes is cool most of the night. She has her pillow and sleeps...until about 3-4 am. She gets up to eat (crunch, crunch!), use her box (scratch, scratch!), and MEOW. She meows until we "invite" her back on the bed!! It drives us crazy. If we lock her out of the bedroom, she meows outside the door and uses my shag rug as a litterbox as retaliation for being locked out.
We tried putting Ashes in the spare bedroom overnight, but she gets very upset not being able to sleep with us. Then she pees in our room during the day...more retaliation.
It's driving both of us crazy. I need my sleep and get violently angry when I'm wakened by meows and the sound of a miniature panther breaking down the door. We can't sleep through the night AT ALL. Not even with all the sleeping pills we've taken.
I don't know how to deal with this. Is there a way to sedate them? Why are BOTH of my cats problem children?
I live in a 2 bedroom condo w/my boyfriend. We have to keep them separate because Cujo attacks Ashes (we've had him fixed; he may need kitty Prozac for his aggression but that's another thread...).
At night, we let Ashes sleep with us in the bedroom w/the door closed. Cujo has to be locked in the spare bedroom because he tries to open our door and it wakes us up. He's 12 lbs of pure muscle and the noise sounds like the house is coming down.
Ashes is cool most of the night. She has her pillow and sleeps...until about 3-4 am. She gets up to eat (crunch, crunch!), use her box (scratch, scratch!), and MEOW. She meows until we "invite" her back on the bed!! It drives us crazy. If we lock her out of the bedroom, she meows outside the door and uses my shag rug as a litterbox as retaliation for being locked out.
We tried putting Ashes in the spare bedroom overnight, but she gets very upset not being able to sleep with us. Then she pees in our room during the day...more retaliation.
It's driving both of us crazy. I need my sleep and get violently angry when I'm wakened by meows and the sound of a miniature panther breaking down the door. We can't sleep through the night AT ALL. Not even with all the sleeping pills we've taken.
I don't know how to deal with this. Is there a way to sedate them? Why are BOTH of my cats problem children?