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I have been seeing a marvellous girl for about two months now, and things are going great. Just one problem. Her cat! Now, don't get me wrong, I love animals. In fact, me and my mum have a dog & love her to bits. The difference is, that our dog knows her place in the hierarchy. However, my girlfriends cat does not. My girlfriends 7 year old cat is the boss. Now I am staying over some nights and “stealing” his place in the bed he doesn’t like it, which is fair enough I guess, because he has been trained to think that the bed is his sleeping place.
The problem occurs when the cat is in the room in the early hours of the morning. He starts walking around the room, doing his dripping tap impersonation and scratching himself. Then when sleep finally comes he leaps on to the pillow, next to my head & scares the **** out of me. I put him on the floor, but 10 mins later he is up again. Obviously I cannot sleep through this carry on! On a couple of occasions, when I have been awaken and felt particularly out of sorts, I have slept downstairs with the door shut to get some peace
If you close him out of the room, then he cries to get back in. He even cries outside the door at 5am because he’s “too scared” to go downstairs on his own & she has to accompany him. (No I’m not kidding) I have told my girlfriend that he should get into a routine of going out at night like 99% of other cats do, but she says it’s too cold for him. & There’s me thinking that cats are built for survival.
So, Questions
1). What can be done so that he is happy to quietly occupy 80% of the house during the night & we’ll make do with the other 20?
2) Is it really cruel to put cats out at night? I mean if it's raining, don't they aways find somewhere cosy to shelter?
3) How does she re-establish the correct hierarchy with her cat?
The only other option I can see, is for me not to stay over on an evening, but when I suggested that I got my head bitten off!!! meow
HELP!!!
P.
The problem occurs when the cat is in the room in the early hours of the morning. He starts walking around the room, doing his dripping tap impersonation and scratching himself. Then when sleep finally comes he leaps on to the pillow, next to my head & scares the **** out of me. I put him on the floor, but 10 mins later he is up again. Obviously I cannot sleep through this carry on! On a couple of occasions, when I have been awaken and felt particularly out of sorts, I have slept downstairs with the door shut to get some peace
If you close him out of the room, then he cries to get back in. He even cries outside the door at 5am because he’s “too scared” to go downstairs on his own & she has to accompany him. (No I’m not kidding) I have told my girlfriend that he should get into a routine of going out at night like 99% of other cats do, but she says it’s too cold for him. & There’s me thinking that cats are built for survival.
So, Questions
1). What can be done so that he is happy to quietly occupy 80% of the house during the night & we’ll make do with the other 20?
2) Is it really cruel to put cats out at night? I mean if it's raining, don't they aways find somewhere cosy to shelter?
3) How does she re-establish the correct hierarchy with her cat?
The only other option I can see, is for me not to stay over on an evening, but when I suggested that I got my head bitten off!!! meow
HELP!!!
P.