Help! My boyfriend and I have lived together for four years, and we each have a cat that usually sleeps with us on the bed at night. The problem is that his cat, Nia, wakes me up repeatedly during the night by jumping up onto the bed directly onto my hip (I sleep on my side), and then hopping over to James to curl up with him. If I'm facing the outside of the bed, she'll jump up onto my knee, and walk or hop up that leg to my him, and similarly hop over to James. It's like I'm a diving board or something! There's plenty of room on both sides of the bed, and at the foot as well. She's started doing this nightly, sometimes even twice in a night, it wakes me up not to mention it can be painful, and it's REALLY getting old fast! What should I do???
Another thing with her is that she kneads before she goes to sleep. usually on James but sometimes on me. This really wouldn't be a problem but she's a bit overzealous about it, and sometimes she does it two or three times throughout the night and it wakes me up. 5am is one of her favorite times to jump up on my hip, hop over to James and start kneading on him. :/ ANYway...the jumping up directly onto me is what I really need advice about. What can I do to get her to jump up on the bed via some other route?
Thanks for any help!
Another thing with her is that she kneads before she goes to sleep. usually on James but sometimes on me. This really wouldn't be a problem but she's a bit overzealous about it, and sometimes she does it two or three times throughout the night and it wakes me up. 5am is one of her favorite times to jump up on my hip, hop over to James and start kneading on him. :/ ANYway...the jumping up directly onto me is what I really need advice about. What can I do to get her to jump up on the bed via some other route?
Thanks for any help!