Hi Pam and welcome along to TCS, and thanks for helping us all out....
Little background
Ive recently brought my cats back to live with me (July 9th) they went from one biggish room to being in a 1bed flat. The move has gone fine and they are all settled in, eating fine litter box fine etc...
but the one biggy is they have started running about, boxing, pay fighting at stupid o'clock in the morning it started off at half 2 am and after a couple f weeks of different things Ive got it to between 5 am and half 5.
But at time when Sooty wakes up and he cant immediately see either me or Flash (she's living up to her name at the moment) he yowls and cries.
I've tried feeding them later, wearing them out through play before bed, treats to bribe them in a fashion....
But I don't want to reinforce the fact that they will get fed if they are causing mischief and mayhem
Am I doing anything wrong and what can I do to help/curb the behaviour?
Many Thanks
AJ
Little background
Ive recently brought my cats back to live with me (July 9th) they went from one biggish room to being in a 1bed flat. The move has gone fine and they are all settled in, eating fine litter box fine etc...
but the one biggy is they have started running about, boxing, pay fighting at stupid o'clock in the morning it started off at half 2 am and after a couple f weeks of different things Ive got it to between 5 am and half 5.
But at time when Sooty wakes up and he cant immediately see either me or Flash (she's living up to her name at the moment) he yowls and cries.
I've tried feeding them later, wearing them out through play before bed, treats to bribe them in a fashion....
But I don't want to reinforce the fact that they will get fed if they are causing mischief and mayhem
Am I doing anything wrong and what can I do to help/curb the behaviour?
Many Thanks
AJ