I get less sleep when I lock them out (I only did it once) because they scream at the door!!

 

My cats don't sleep in my bedroom at night. When I just had one cat, she meowed at my door all night, but once I got her some playmates that stopped.

 

My cat Cheyenne sleeps right between the pillows at night. With some visits from Teddy sleeping behind my legs, and Oreo coming to check on me to see if I'll pet of(if not, he's gone lol)

 

My kittens has had to adapt to the fact that we sleep in a closed bedroom at night. The bedroom is off limit for them during all hours of the day. No screaming or anything like that when we go to bed.

 

Addison usually stays out of my way while I sleep, but sometimes I roll over and kind of lay on him until he wakes me up yelling at me. Then he moves somewhere else that I'll end up on top of him :roll:

I leave my door open most of the time, but my brother (who hates the cat) tries to close it before he goes to bed. One night he did this not realizing the cat was not in my room. I didn't hear anything (maybe because I was dead asleep) until about 4am when he was howling. I ignored it assuming he was in my room until my mom came down the hall and opened the door asking why I locked him out! I felt really bad that day

 

My cats have always slept in my room, on my bed. I have a harder time sleeping if they are NOT there, becaause it seems like something is missing.......AND they scream at the door, and Gaylord tries to open it with his paws :roll:

 

When Barnaby was a kitten he used to curl up against me and I couldn't sleep well because I was always afraid I would roll onto him so I used to lock him out. Now when he sleeps on the bed he lays down at the bottom in his own space. Every once in a while when I'm rolling over I end up kicking him and I always feel bad about that.

 

I do..

Well every now and then if I'm feeling adventerous I leave the door open and Kiera will come in and bug me, but overall, I need to kick her out or else I won't sleep. I'm a really light sleeper so noses in my face, the "thud" when she jumps on or off the bed.. it really disrupts my sleep and I need to get up early too.

I just got a bigger bed, and there is space to climb underneath, so I there is more places for Kiera to poke around, and enough space that she could sleep on the bed with me if she wanted, but usually I have to kick her out at some point or I won't get a good night's rest.

Usually she is ok... only starts meowing at the door the next morning and wants to play the whole time I am getting ready for work!

-Heather

 

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my furballs always seem to want to play in the bed at night, or want to sleep on my face. so much for that.

 

Tierney has always slept with us, and now Teagan does too.. We have locked Tierney out sometimes when he just to wild.

Tierney usually sleeps right between us, and Teagan sleeps on top of our nightstand.

Works well for us!

 

Assumpta has free run of the house, sleeps with us at night (and takes up the better part of a king-size bed). Occasionally, she gets locked out of the bedroom at 4AM (she's convinced that breakfast should be as early as possible), but that's almost as bad as having her bopping my nose.

I have this terrible bedside lamp that my mother-in-law gave me, and I can't stand it. Every morning, Assumpta starts knocking one book at a time off my nightstand until she can get to the lamp and knock that off. Despite my best efforts, that lamp *still* hasn't broken yet :twisted:

 

Hehehe you want to break that lamp and you are a "Gudewife"!? *grin* Just teasing!

I like to let my cats in the room even if I don't sleep because of it. In the winter, Samhain pats at my face to let her inside the blankets, so she is constantly keeping me up. And Psi just likes to walk on you, so that keeps me up too. Sigma, though, I usually have to kick him out at about 6am when he starts to get genki and jump on everything in the room and knock stuff down. I don't turn up an opportunity to have a kitty sleeping with me tho, ever! So, I don't lock them out unless they are going bonkers.

 

It's sounding like I'm one of the lucky ones. Barnaby has never climbed on me or tried to lay on me or got in my face, and just the short time I've had Baxter so far he has come in meowing but stops when I shout at him to be quiet. Occasionally I've found a toy mouse on the bed in the morning but very seldom. I'd say the Barnaby has woken me up meowing or playing maybe a dozen times in 4 years. I also sleep with a fan running all the time and I'm sure that helps cover up any cat noise.

 

My cat doesn't sleep during the nights until very late..maytbe around 3 or 4...he just plays or walks around till then...when he does slep eveyr night it is somewhere different...sometimes on the couch or he goes under the rug...but if i did lock him out i'd prolly hear him jumping up and hitting the door like he does..

 

Kitty used to be a perfect bedmate. She would curl up in between my arm and my body and I'd pet her untill I fell asleep. Then she'd move down and sleep next to my feet.

Now, Kitty tries to come to bed, but Thomas attacks her until she leaves. The he proceeds to try to convince me to play, bringing toy mice for me to throw for him. Once he's decided Kitty is not coming back and I'm not going to play anymore he leaves...and I sleep alone. He usually comes back in the middle of the night and I wake up in the morning with him curled up next to me.

Sometimes though I wake up in the morning laying on one or more little plastic mice...very uncomfortable. Guess Thomas wants to see if I'll play when I'm sleeping.

 

My husband wakes at the sound of their bells. We keep bells on them because we like to know where they are at any given time.

We have a large laundry room with a window. Access to their litter box is in there and their food and water and comfy blankets are in there too. Every night when we go to be we tell them to get in their room and they run right in. Never a problem. We've been doing this since they were kittens. I think they actually like it in there. They lay on the washer and dryer a lot and look out the window. Often I find them in there on their own free will.

 

Our cats always slept with us in our bed. I can't imagine sleeping without them!

Dunga & Maugli are usually on my pillow, next to me and Yoda sleeps sometimes on the pillow and sometimes on our legs.

They (Dunga) wake me up every morning around 6 to get fed. I usually kick them out of the bedroom untill 7:30 when I wake up and feed them.

 

Otis always slept right beside me on the bed, cuddled up tight. Then Jazz came along and night time has become playtime. They seem to have really irregular schedules - some nights they want to cuddle, some they want to play - so my door is always open for cuddling, but if they forget the "no playing on Mom's bed" rule, then they get locked out. Usually it only takes half an hour, then i can open it and have two babies ready for cuddles - Otis on one side of me, and Jazz on the other. I'm a kitty sandwich filling :lol:

 

I couldn't imagine letting my kitties on the other side of the door. They are very well behaved.
Playing with kitties several times a day and before going to bed will ensure a good night's sleep

 

Tigger insists on sleeping with me ocassionally. I find him sleeping on the top of my head when I wake up sometimes... hehe. He'll either sleep there or next to my feet, on me, or next to me.

When he is at my feet... I hate it... I always kick him in the face by accident while I'm turning over. When he is sleeping on me - I turn over a lot - so he gets dumped off - sometimes I hug him before I roll over so I don't toss him (something I've learned from years of practice). When he sleeps next to me he is the safest. The worst I'll do is hug him.

Sometimes he grows a wild hair and bugs me all night long... and I could kill him those times. He bashed his head into my nose while I was asleep... good God that hurt so much!

I'll pretty much let him sleep with me as long as he is good - but if not I toss him from the bed - or move him so he won't get hurt later on.

 

We had Dylan in with us the first two nights we had him and we got absolutely no sleep so now he stays out of the bedroom at night.

He comes in occassionally during the day and sleeps on the bed or plays whilst I sit on the bed doing some work but as long as h doesn't see us go in - he doesn't make a sound! If he does he meows a few times then goes away...

 

Addison has been waking me up more and more lately. I think its because he's hungry. He's starting to lay on my chest again (something I missed)... but its while I'm sleeping and he lays on me, then starts to paw at my face... I wake up to him staring me right in the eye. Its kinda creepy hehe.

 

When Dusty was a little kitten, he would insist on sleeping on my pillow, tangled in my hair.

As he got older, he would sleep on my pillow, with his head on my shoulder. On really cold nights, he would wiggle down the neck of my t-shirt onto my bare chest. Talk about intimate!

Then Hubby moved in. For a long time, he wouldn't sleep anywhere on the bed. Hubby didn't kick him out, he kicked himself out!

As he got used to Hubby, he would sleep on my legs or feet. Anywhere, as long as it was on my body and away from Hubby.

Very recently, we bought him a new tree, and he has been sleeping in that exclusively. I'm sure as the cold weather comes back this fall, my Dusty will come back to bed.

I love sleeping with him; he's so soft, warm, and provides a nice little rythum with his purring. I couldn't imagine locking him out - he'd cry all night!

And I forgot - he is quite the little alarm clock. Every day at 6:30 to get fed and get me up for work!

 

We're still in an adjustment period where Spaz is still getting used to my bf and Keeter. Before he moved in, she slept on my pillow and would scoot me off of it, but now she only does that when I'm taking a nap by myself. On rare occasions (when she's being extra clingy) she'll come in there even if he's there.

Keeter, on the other hand, sleeps right next to the bed and almost every night we wake up to find her sprawled out right next to my bf's side and has pushed us together on one side of the bed!

Only a handful of times have we woken up with Spaz taking over my pillow AND Keeter taking up the other side of the bed...it can be quite uncomfortable, but we both love our babies, so we wake up very happy with them in the bed with us!

I prefer to have them in the bed with us...they're so soft and cuddly!!

 

My cats both get locked out of our room every night. Before we got Magic, Maleke used to sleep in our room in his bed (YES! He actually slept in HIS bed!!!). His bed was up high, on top of three piled up plastic storage tubs, on the top there was a wool blanket and his bed. He loved it. But, then we got Magic.....and at 4am every morning they started their rampage around the house. For a while we only locked Magic up in the spare bedroom because the heat vent in our room is super powerful and if you shut the door it gets STEAMY in there! So Maleke was still allowed to sleep with us. However, now that it's summer and we don't need heat, they both get locked out. Neither complain, so it's all good.