Hi Everyone,
I am new here and just wanted to introduce my cat and get a little help with something he has been doing lately.
My hubby and I adopted Toby on July 24, 2004 and he was about 4 months old then. Now, he is about a year and a half. He is part Russian Blue and (we think) Tabby. He has pretty gray hair with the silver tips, muave foot pad and big green eyes but he has some slight stripes, which might be tabby. He is very loyal to us and is very verbal. Whenever we say his name and look at him, he will meow back at us and sometimes does, what I like to call, the machine gun meow. Also, he will make a sort of purring meow (more in the throat) as he enters the room, almost to let us know that he is here. He likes to play hide and seek with us and also can play fetch with a ball, which is fun. Sometimes we think he is a dog stuck in a cat's body.
He has been such a great kitten, oh sure, he had his crazy moments when he was about 6 months and sometimes still gets quite crazy, running around and meowing but he is fun and has always been well behaved.
Though, now we are having a small problem with him and was wondering if anyone could give any advice. He used to be really good about sleeping on the bed with us but for the past month he has not been. But instead in the middle of the night, not certain the times but can be anywhere from 11PM-3AM, he will come in and start meowing at us, jumps up on the bed, continues to meow at us and then jumps on the headboard to try to get our attention and to wake us up. We try to say "Toby, go to bed" and try to pet him and get him to lay down by us but he is not interested in that, seems like he wants to play. So we have to end up locking the bedroom door. And then sometimes he will paw at the bedroom door a bit and meow. If we don't lock him out and just ignore him then he might go away for a little bit but then comes right back later and just wakes us up all over again. And it is not because he is hungry, he usually has a whole bowl of dry food leftover from dinner.
Does anyone have experience with this and how to get him to stop trying to wake us up in the middle of the night? It gets really hard to get a good night's sleep. Any advice would be much appreciated. We would prefer to not have to lock the bedroom door as soon as we go to bed, we would like him to come sleep with us on the bed but he just has not been doing that lately. My hubby sometimes finds him on the couch in our living room.
I am new here and just wanted to introduce my cat and get a little help with something he has been doing lately.
My hubby and I adopted Toby on July 24, 2004 and he was about 4 months old then. Now, he is about a year and a half. He is part Russian Blue and (we think) Tabby. He has pretty gray hair with the silver tips, muave foot pad and big green eyes but he has some slight stripes, which might be tabby. He is very loyal to us and is very verbal. Whenever we say his name and look at him, he will meow back at us and sometimes does, what I like to call, the machine gun meow. Also, he will make a sort of purring meow (more in the throat) as he enters the room, almost to let us know that he is here. He likes to play hide and seek with us and also can play fetch with a ball, which is fun. Sometimes we think he is a dog stuck in a cat's body.
He has been such a great kitten, oh sure, he had his crazy moments when he was about 6 months and sometimes still gets quite crazy, running around and meowing but he is fun and has always been well behaved.
Though, now we are having a small problem with him and was wondering if anyone could give any advice. He used to be really good about sleeping on the bed with us but for the past month he has not been. But instead in the middle of the night, not certain the times but can be anywhere from 11PM-3AM, he will come in and start meowing at us, jumps up on the bed, continues to meow at us and then jumps on the headboard to try to get our attention and to wake us up. We try to say "Toby, go to bed" and try to pet him and get him to lay down by us but he is not interested in that, seems like he wants to play. So we have to end up locking the bedroom door. And then sometimes he will paw at the bedroom door a bit and meow. If we don't lock him out and just ignore him then he might go away for a little bit but then comes right back later and just wakes us up all over again. And it is not because he is hungry, he usually has a whole bowl of dry food leftover from dinner.
Does anyone have experience with this and how to get him to stop trying to wake us up in the middle of the night? It gets really hard to get a good night's sleep. Any advice would be much appreciated. We would prefer to not have to lock the bedroom door as soon as we go to bed, we would like him to come sleep with us on the bed but he just has not been doing that lately. My hubby sometimes finds him on the couch in our living room.