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I have two kitties - Zeke and Aurora. Aurora is a new edition having had her for around a month. They are intro'd and pretty good together now. Aurora however is a CRAZY, playful, non stop, thinks she owns everything kinda cat and Zeke is much more sweet and timid. Aurora has established herself as dominant and kicked Zeke off his favourite spot on the cat tree!
At the moment Aurora still goes into her room at night time so that Zeke can get a break from her really. Also I imagine she would let me get very little sleep either!
When she was first here she was fine going back into her room overnight but now its becoming tricky. Every night between 3:15 and 3:30 exactly Aurora will start banging and scratching at the door waking me up. This can go on for 30 mins to an hour. Every night its becoming too much. I have a really stressful job and really struggle with the lack of sleep. Im also worried about the neighbours complaining as I live in a flat with very thin walls and floors. Aurora will then again start banging at about 7am to be let out. I am usually up then but I always wait till she is quiet to let her out as I dont want her to associate the banging with actually being let out. When she does the 3am banging I even just try to stay completely still so she cant hear me moving and get any respsonse at all.
I was hoping that by just completely ignoring it she would stop and just accept the routine of being in her room overnight but oh no shes determined! I had it with Zeke at the beginning where he would headbutt me at 3am until after a couple of days of me playing dead he stopped and we had a great nightime routine of him peacefully sleeping on my bed.
Any ideas on how I get Aurora to stop this banging on the door at 3am every night? Her room is a massive room, she has everything she needs in it and lots of comfy places to sleep. I have feliway plugged in in there and she has all her toys. I plag with her before bed.
I have thought about just letting her be free at night but I just think that might be even worse in the lack of sleep for me and make Zeke unhappy. Also add for context that Zeke is feed on a timer at 4am as I found this stopped him waking me up at stupid hours in the morning. So I followed this routine with Aurora. They kinda both need to be seperated for this as Zeke is a chonker who will sit right next to the timed feeders and eat them both before Aurora has even realised they are open.
Any ideas?
At the moment Aurora still goes into her room at night time so that Zeke can get a break from her really. Also I imagine she would let me get very little sleep either!
When she was first here she was fine going back into her room overnight but now its becoming tricky. Every night between 3:15 and 3:30 exactly Aurora will start banging and scratching at the door waking me up. This can go on for 30 mins to an hour. Every night its becoming too much. I have a really stressful job and really struggle with the lack of sleep. Im also worried about the neighbours complaining as I live in a flat with very thin walls and floors. Aurora will then again start banging at about 7am to be let out. I am usually up then but I always wait till she is quiet to let her out as I dont want her to associate the banging with actually being let out. When she does the 3am banging I even just try to stay completely still so she cant hear me moving and get any respsonse at all.
I was hoping that by just completely ignoring it she would stop and just accept the routine of being in her room overnight but oh no shes determined! I had it with Zeke at the beginning where he would headbutt me at 3am until after a couple of days of me playing dead he stopped and we had a great nightime routine of him peacefully sleeping on my bed.
Any ideas on how I get Aurora to stop this banging on the door at 3am every night? Her room is a massive room, she has everything she needs in it and lots of comfy places to sleep. I have feliway plugged in in there and she has all her toys. I plag with her before bed.
I have thought about just letting her be free at night but I just think that might be even worse in the lack of sleep for me and make Zeke unhappy. Also add for context that Zeke is feed on a timer at 4am as I found this stopped him waking me up at stupid hours in the morning. So I followed this routine with Aurora. They kinda both need to be seperated for this as Zeke is a chonker who will sit right next to the timed feeders and eat them both before Aurora has even realised they are open.
Any ideas?