Calling All Cat Owners...need Your Help

[Kitchen Diva]

Update on Camilla BeanSo far she is fine with being kept awake. I played with her and that laser toy for about 20 minutes, and she was so upset when I stopped. (little brat )

Then I went to watch TV, and she went downstairs to clean one of the dog's faces... she likes to preen and dote (sp?) on them.

I came back into my office to check the boards and found her trying to sleep in her bed, so I picked her up and put her in my lap. Much to my amazement she is sitting here...which is rare!

I'm going to do my best to tire her out, and I'm going to look up some calming pheramones online to see what I can find. My guess is her clock is off...just like mine is!

She's starting to fall asleep on my lap, so I'd better get off the computer and go play with her. Ouch- she just bit me. (that's her way of saying LET ME SLEEP human!)

 

[Kitchen Diva]

UpdateSo far, she's done a good job staying awake for the day, so I'm letting her get a little nap in before bed time tonight. I'll let you know how it goes. She's been played with, cat-nipped, brushed, snuggled, chased by the dogs, played with again, sat in the window and chirpled at the birds outside, and hid under a blanket on the couch when I went after her to wake her up for trying to sleep.

Keep your fingers crossed... I need a full nights sleep or I'm going to turn into a pumpkin!

 

[Tara1021]

My older cat was the same way as a kitten. She did grow out of it. As Scott mentioned, the spray bottle is an excellent deterrent. My husband still sleeps with it on the nightstand b/c she likes to nip him on the nose in the middle of the night if there isn't any food in the bowl. Occasionally she just wants to play, hence the water bottle by the bed! Good luck!

 

[Kitchen Diva]

Update on my little BeastOkay, the little beast let me sleep from 11-4:30! Then she was back to her annoying little self for the next 4 hours!

I'm going to limit her late afternoon/early evening sleeping even more today than I did yesterday. I sprayed her so many times with the spray bottle this morning, that my comforter is damp, and the kitten is a little miffed at me...

At least I got a wee bit over 5 hours of sleep... I guess it's a start, right?

All I can say is that she is SOOooooo lucky that she's cute!

 

[wadesgirl]

On the outdoors issue, I grew up with a cat that was an outdoor/indoor cat. Best cat in the world! One day (she was pretty old), she left and never came back, we think to went off to go to kitty heaven.

Our cat now used to love going on DH's porch when he lived in his apartment. The cat would sit out there for hours and only scared us once when he climed on the railing - three stories up. When we moved we thought he would have fun playing in the yard and on the deck again. Until he got flees the first summer. Not fun. Now we only let him out once and while trying to keep him on the deck is not fun though. We will let him out in the snow but he doesn't like it very much. Poor thing will sit at the door and beg to go out or if we are outside, he'll stand up on his hind legs and peer out the door at us.

Glad to hear things are going well so far. She'll be mad but she'll get over it and learn her lesson.