Bedtime is bedtime!!

mrslarry · May 26, 2005

Do your cats do this? Around 10:30 or so, when my boyfriend and I are getting ready for bed, the kitties decide it's time to play! There start going nuts! Chasing eachother, on the bed, under the bed, through the house. How do I teach them that when the lights go out it's quiet time? Or am I just S.O.L. here??

gilly · May 26, 2005

haha

You are not the only one! Guin has not got a playmate so he thinks that I am it! (he has mates outside though) Normally at bed time he will insist on jumping all over the bed or chasing me from room to room. His fave thing to do is walk down the stairs and wait until I pass the bannisters and then grap at my ankles! He does make me laugh!

The worst thing is when I get out of bed during the night to go and do a wee or something. He will insist on following me and investigate what is going on down the toilet!

rosiemac · May 26, 2005

Pffttt, yes it happens in my house as well!, and it's what i call their mad half hour!!

Running around like that though certainly makes them ready for a nap for when i go to bed

kittylover4ever · May 26, 2005

I think most of us have that problem.

They get revved up everynight about that time. I just pull the blanket up over my head and wait it out!

bullit · May 26, 2005

I see you have a bengal. I have a 8 month old one and he also starts around 10 pm racing thru the house. He gets my other cat going and they sound like a herd of elephants.

pandybear · May 26, 2005

i have this problem too

usually about twenty minutes before bedtime and the kits go wild!

after about 20 minutes pandy comes in to snuggle me though and follows me everytime i need to use the ladies room and then follows me back to bed

felicia

eilcon · May 26, 2005

This happens at my house too, not so much with the girls, since they're older, but Pete goes crazy about this time every night, tearing through the house, up and down the stairs, etc... The nice thing is after he winds down, around half and hour or 45 minutes later, he's quiet the rest of night, until it's time to wake up and EAT!!!

joanne511 · May 26, 2005

Mine do this too. I try to play with them before bed to wear them out and then I give them their wet food before I go to bed. It seems to quiet them down, but still doesn't prevent the 2 AM playtime.

fwan · May 26, 2005

teufel starts at night time and it sounds like he is playing with the bin bags but he is just playing with my sand snake

hissy · May 26, 2005

Cats are nocturnal. It is their instinct to be awake in the early hours.That is when their prey drive is the strongest, because that is when their prey (rodents) are about. In the wild, this is when the momcat would be hunting for food, and this is when she would be teaching her young ones to hunt, under the cover of darkness. Don't get frustrated with your cats being cats. They are simply following instinct.

mrslarry · May 26, 2005

Originally Posted by Bullit

I see you have a bengal. I have a 8 month old one and he also starts around 10 pm racing thru the house. He gets my other cat going and they sound like a herd of elephants.

Great looking bengal - he looks almost like Bowser. Bowser's just about 5 months, and spunky as ever! Kismet is only 10 weeks, but she's learning fast from her big bro!

pandybear · May 26, 2005

Originally Posted by hissy

Cats are nocturnal. It is their instinct to be awake in the early hours.That is when their prey drive is the strongest, because that is when their prey (rodents) are about. In the wild, this is when the momcat would be hunting for food, and this is when she would be teaching her young ones to hunt, under the cover of darkness. Don't get frustrated with your cats being cats. They are simply following instinct.

i don't mind, i'm a night owl anyway, besides, as long as they are enjoying themselves i don't care.

i would never use a squirt bottle on my kits for any reason, i love them too much

and bonnie would give me her evil eyes

felicia

alainabug · May 26, 2005

I've tried the squirt bottle method (I hope you don't think I'm too mean!), but Finnegan's just learned that when I hold it up, he should. He still does whatever the bad thing is until I see him.

pandybear · May 26, 2005

Originally Posted by alainabug

I've tried the squirt bottle method (I hope you don't think I'm too mean!), but Finnegan's just learned that when I hold it up, he should. He still does whatever the bad thing is until I see him.

not my favorite thing but no, i don't think your mean. it's just not something i do that's all

besides, bonnie would seek revenge

probably while i'm half asleep and walking to the toilet

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love,

felicia

alainabug · May 26, 2005

I don't do it anymore. It does no good. Sigh.
I never squirt him in the face if it makes it any better. LOL

pandybear · May 26, 2005

Originally Posted by alainabug

I don't do it anymore. It does no good. Sigh.
I never squirt him in the face if it makes it any better. LOL

hey that's okay

i bet he's glad you don't do it anymore lol cats are so hard to discipline sometimes because it's hard to know what to do with them when they misbehave, dogs you can tie up for a while and they know they have done something wrong...cats, well they are a different story

felicia

alainabug · May 26, 2005

It's hard with Finnegan, too, because I'm not used to a young cat who does not fear nor respect me.

I kid about the fearing, but with my older cat, all I have to do is say his name negatively and his feelings are hurt. He never does anything bad because he's too lazy. With Finnegan, I end up doing a lot of clapping or I try to distract him with moving objects. He's a tough case!

marlearn · May 26, 2005

Your kittens are beautiful, I looked at their pages, great photos!
I too have 2 cats, Perri and Foxi, that so the same thing. They have also been having a good playtime in the am the past 2 weeks as it has been gray, rainy and sunless, so I think they are mixed up about the day and night. I run a daycare down stairs in my home, and we have been listening to the kitties run wild and play, it sounds as though the children are running around up there that's how loud they are!! It 's too funny because the kids will look at me and say "the kitties are getting noisey!!!" it's usually me telling the children they are getting noisey so I have to chuckle!

sandtigress · May 26, 2005

My kitten's breeder told me Birmans tend to get the "9 o'clock crazies" as she dubbed them. Sounds just like that - they get all hyper and crazy around 9 every night. I figured it would be as a good a time for a study break as anything.

mrslarry · May 26, 2005

Originally Posted by marlearn

Your kittens are beautiful, I looked at their pages, great photos!
I too have 2 cats, Perri and Foxi, that so the same thing. They have also been having a good playtime in the am the past 2 weeks as it has been gray, rainy and sunless, so I think they are mixed up about the day and night. I run a daycare down stairs in my home, and we have been listening to the kitties run wild and play, it sounds as though the children are running around up there that's how loud they are!! It 's too funny because the kids will look at me and say "the kitties are getting noisey!!!" it's usually me telling the children they are getting noisey so I have to chuckle!

Thank you very much - they're too cute for their own good I think!

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