My cat hates leaving my room, but still wants out every morning.

My cat and I live with mmy two roommates and their four animals. The living room is usually chaotic because they refuse to train theor pets. My cat usually prefers staying in my bedroom, and I sometimes have trouble getting her out into the living room to socialize. She also stays in my room when Im at work because thats where her litter box and food are. We cant have a community litterbox in the living room because my roommates would have to train their dogs to leave it alone and they are the laziest pet owners Ive ever known. So Fae spends a lot of time in my room, which is fine because she doesnt like playing with other aninals anyway and has more fun just tossing her bells around by herself. The issue is that every morning, about two hours before I need to wake up, she wakes me up to go into the living room. So I let her out of my room and try to go back to sleep but she keeps wanting in and out and in and out and it really needs to stop, especially on nights where Ive had eleven hour shifts. Why is she doing this, and what can I do to make her stop?

I'm sorry to hear you're having morning problems with Fae.  Cats do tend to wake up with the birds and demand their breakfast, which is a total pain but is just one of those things.   However, from the sound of it, Fae is fed in your room so doesn't need to hassle you out of bed to let her into the living room.  

Even though cats are naturally nocturnal they still like frisking about at dawn  

You could try to tire her out by playing a wand type of game with her in the evening, then feeding her a large meal just before bedtime.  You could also see if catnip has a sedative effect on her  

She's probably under-stimulated if she's mostly in one room.  Also, she might be feeling anxious due to the dogs and only braves the living room when she's certain they're fast asleep.  Think about buying or building her a cat tree, so that she has somewhere she knows the dogs can't get her and feels safe.

Get a Feliway diffuser plug, which emits friendly cat-de-stressing pheromones.  And grow her some yummy avena sativa, or common wild oat, grass - it's ever so quick and easy to grow.  It is very calming and she'll thank you for it  

You must ignore her.  This is key.  The more you get up to let her out, the more she thinks, "hey, this scratching is really working!"  Consider giving her a squirt with a water sprayer like you use for plants that you could keep next to your bed.  And put citronella or citrus/lemon on your door, cats don't like the smell of it and so she might be more reluctant to bang on it, you can buy ready made "cat-repellent" type sprays. 

I'll maybe come up with some other ideas later.  Of course, moving flat would be the most successful option   

If you want her to be truly happy and relaxed, which I'm sure you do, then dealing with the dogs/roommates must be done     Try to put yourself in her paws and think about how her life feels to her.

The easiest option is to have a cat door for her.  They make an automatic one that can read your cat's microchip and only let your cat in. They also make "electromagnetic" ones that are much cheaper and read a magnet on the cat's collar to let the cat back into your room.  Either design would work well for letting your cat in and our of your room without you having to do it!

The automatic is like $120. The Electromagnetic is like $35.

If you rent, you may need to get a cheapo door of the same size as the one your bedroom has, since installing said cat door will involve cutting a hole, and landlords dislike having holes cut in their apartments.

An better alternative is to try and find better room mates. I mention it, because untrained animals are probably going to stress your cat out, and, having had a bad housemate, myself,  it was worth the effort to replace him with a better one.

Sargon said:

 
The easiest option is to have a cat door for her. 

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GENIUS!!!    I knew someone would come up with more ideas.  Well done @Sargon  

You can get cat doors that have a multiway locking system, so you can set it to:  incoming only, outgoing only, incoming & outgoing, or locked from either direction.  

However, that doesn't solve the problem of Fae living in an environment that she doesn't feel entirely at home in, and of probably being bored due to not feeling confident enough to make use of your whole apartment until the wee, quiet hours.

I actually use a cat door for my own cat. She usually spends a lot of time in my bedroom ( where I have food and water for her), but likes being able to go in and out, so the cat door helps.

You don't even have to use the flap if you don't want to. A simple round hole works just as well if she's the smallest pet in the house

My mum also had internal cat doors to all rooms in her house in Highland Scotland, where she had gazillions of cats (up to 16, with a three-legged Scottish wild cat, living under a walkway outside).  It made life so much more bearable for the more timid and elderly, who could escape the ambushes of one delightfully mischievous cat in particular.  Alongside, dodging our dangerously grumpy Old English Sheep dog - she was a nightmare her whole life, and would pen you into the bathroom, growling, and guard your dangling feet if you crossed your legs, biting them when they moved.  The cats weren't terribly impressed with her antics either but we all put up with her as what else was there to do.  

I always leave any door slightly open, whether there's a cat in the house or not, I've been well trained