My husband and I adopted 2 6-month old kittens in January. While they are a pleasure in almost every way, there is one major issue that is causing us to both lose our minds slightly.
We rent our house, and the bedroom is the entire upstairs (like a loft), with no door to close it off. The only other door that shuts in the house is to the laundry room/bathroom, a pretty tiny space.
We make a point of playing with the girls before bed, but pretty much every morning they start to get rambunctious, sometimes as early as 4 am, at the latest 6 am. We try spraying them with water when they jump on the bed (hubby is allergic so we have to keep them off), but they make a game of it and basically have woken us up completely because we're so annoyed. It doesn't seem like they are doing this because they're hungry-- when they get breakfast, they don't wolf it down.
The only way we can manage to sleep in the morning is by taking them downstairs as soon as they start bothering us and shutting them in the bathroom with the fan on...one of them will cry the entire time (for hours!) and so we wear earplugs.
I feel awful for doing this and I'm wondering if there is another solution besides moving to another house.
We haven't slept a full night since we got them, and the only time we come close is by shutting them in the bathroom.
Is there anything else we can try? I love them so much, but in the mornings I feel like throwing them out of the house just so I can sleep.
We rent our house, and the bedroom is the entire upstairs (like a loft), with no door to close it off. The only other door that shuts in the house is to the laundry room/bathroom, a pretty tiny space.
We make a point of playing with the girls before bed, but pretty much every morning they start to get rambunctious, sometimes as early as 4 am, at the latest 6 am. We try spraying them with water when they jump on the bed (hubby is allergic so we have to keep them off), but they make a game of it and basically have woken us up completely because we're so annoyed. It doesn't seem like they are doing this because they're hungry-- when they get breakfast, they don't wolf it down.
The only way we can manage to sleep in the morning is by taking them downstairs as soon as they start bothering us and shutting them in the bathroom with the fan on...one of them will cry the entire time (for hours!) and so we wear earplugs.
I feel awful for doing this and I'm wondering if there is another solution besides moving to another house.
We haven't slept a full night since we got them, and the only time we come close is by shutting them in the bathroom.
Is there anything else we can try? I love them so much, but in the mornings I feel like throwing them out of the house just so I can sleep.