Bedtime is bedtime!!

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mrslarry

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Originally Posted by Sandtigress

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.
"9 o'clock crazies" lol.
 

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My situation is different. My 2 girls Maggie May & Jazz a Boo are 10 years old. They play occassionally, but most nights by 10:00 Maggie May will stand in front of the bedroom and meow until I go to bed, then she hops up right next to me. Jazz comes in a few minutes later, but if she wants to play I get out of bed and toss around a toy for her to chase. You gotta love 'em!
 

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From the beginning, Bijou slept with us and came to bed with us. Then our daughter moved back home with Mika. She insisted that Mika must sleep with her in her room with the door closed so the cats are not together during the night and both are used to going to bed around 11 pm. Now, even on the weekends, around 11 pm Bijou starts following me around, standing up on my legs and basically letting me know it's bedtime. Then he settles in, suckles, and goes to sleep with me. Mika also settles right down to sleep with Jennifer.

From what I've read here, I'd say were were VERY lucky!
 

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Originally Posted by MrsLarry

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??
Cats are nocturnal animals, so that's why they play at night. Mine do the same thing. I don't think there is any way to teach them anything. It's just their nature. When the night comes, I hear them running chaising each other. Of course mine don't have much energy, as they are Persians, so in my case it doesn' t last long.
 

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hehe, mine do that too. Though not every night. It depends, If I go to bed late they wont do it, but If I go earlier they will be all playing and freaking out. Aerowyn usually comes in bed with me right away, trying to play with my finggers, and then settles down and sleeps on me. If elliot was not on his shelf before, he jumps onto my bed's sideboard and jumps up onto the shelf, or flops on the sideboard ( ihave a waterbed with a funny long shelfish like thing *the sideboard*) :p They chase each other enough in the daytime that they get over it. Hehe in the morning they always chase each other, you can see them locked in each others arms playfully biting and running. Cats are so cute.
 

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Originally Posted by pandybear

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




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I wasn't going to reply to this post initially because this is a cat site, but I have to say it....Dogs don't learn anymore than cats would
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"tying them up for awhile".
Dogs learn a correction from a particular behaviour within 30 seconds, that is the connection to bad behavior...bam..correction must be within a 30 second span of time..IE< if you are not there to immediately correct a behaviour, then its of no use...
I just hate when I hear stories of people stating that they came home, and the dog chewed up the garbage, but the dog was "looking guilty" so he must have known..and so I a) tied him up outside, or b) yelled at him or c) rubbed his nose in it (for housebreaking mistakes usually) or d) punished him in any other way..

Dogs do not "feel guilty" like humans do and you can't attribuite human emotion.
They do sense anger very well...They know that you are angry when you see the garbage, for example, and this is why they act this way.

I am not saying this is you, but I don't like this misinformation out there for anyone who could be reading.....

Tying up a dog for awhile even at the outset of bad behaviour is not the way to correct a behaviour either..I would suggest immediate correction only.
A firm no, and supervision is usually sufficient if your dog is involved in obedience classes and a daily training schedule...
(which of course I fully advocate and wish were mandatory)

Tying up a dog simply gets them out of your hair for awhile.
It doesn't solve the behaviour..
The dog WILL feel something is wrong, but they won't know what IT is.

I don't mean to come off as heavy handed or bossy
but like cats, this is an area that is close to my heart...

Cheers
 

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Originally Posted by MrsLarry

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??
YES! Bedtime = playtime in my home! They're noctirnal! God, why do they have to be noctirnal??? LOL Wear their butts out during the day, wake 'em up if you have to. Those pleasant little cat naps during the day rests them up for the nightly party, lol. Grrr....Nunny likes to MEOW loudly and Simmy leaves toys next to me. I wake up every morning with at least two toy deposits.

I FEEL for you! LOL. Wear them out shortly before bed, and good luck!
 

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I haven't seen this behavior on the boards yet, so here goes.

Our cat had run away for almost a month and last weekend we caught her and brought her back inside. She's a great lovey cat and she's pretty low maintenance and fun to have around.

Except for when I go to bed. Around three in the morning she starts meowing for me. Alot. Over and over. Enough meows to fill the room.
And what does she want? She wants me to pet her while she eats! She usually does it at three, four, and five in the morning.

Last night I thought I'd be tricky and put some dry food by my bed so when she came around for food related pettings, I could just roll over and pet her from bed. She went over and nibbled a little bit, but found it unsatisfactory!
Sometimes I imagine her saying, "C'mon Mama! Sleep is for the dead! Just take naps all day like me!"

Luckily for me she only wanted late night meal pettings at three and five last night. I love my kitty, but I want to sleep too! She's a grown up cat, maybe two years old, but she's kind of acting like a human baby!
 

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My Bengal likes to start getting active right about the time I go to bed. Due to the fact that I sleep days instead of nights, because of my work schedule, Simba seems to have adapted himself to going bonkers during the day. The moment I go to bed, he starts climbing all over everything and knocking things down, running and chasing after the other cats, and pouncing on them. I've learned one thing, Simba doesn't want me to go to sleep. I guess it takes my attention away from him. However, he finally calms down, and goes to sleep with me, after about a half an hour. Sometimes, though he'll wait until I'm sound asleep and he'll start knocking things down on my head, and while he's doing it, he's trilling quite loudly in that Bengal yodel of his.
 

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While you are at work...your cats are probably sleeping in anticipation of you coming home.


Katie
 

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Originally Posted by MrsLarry

I'm very familiar with "the yodel" - Meoooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuwaaa!
Ah yes, me too! hahahah

Thankfully my boys tend to amuse themselves in the evening.

When we firts bought them home we were in the midst of renovating, and the house wasn't very "kitten friendly" so we set up a kitten room for them - food, water, litter, a cat tree, basket etc etc - so each night they stay in there.

Now though they have the run of our house at bed time EXCEPT for the bedroom - we found out quickly if they can SEE us they want to PLAY with us, on us and around us! hahahah

On occassion they will meow at the door, but it's pretty rare these days thankfully.
 
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