Post by tacosforlife on Dec 17, 2014 9:01:33 GMT -5
OMG FUCKING FATTY!!!
I've started sleeping with a spray bottle in hand, and I spray him when he starts meowing in the middle of the night. But now he's figured out that if he sits in the doorway of our bedroom, he can meow without getting sprayed because the bottle won't spray that far (there's a small hallway between the main part of our room and the doorway). So at like 4am, he just sits in the doorway and meows his head off.
I told him I hate him this morning. But tonight, he'll flop over on the couch, demand belly rubs, and look so adorable that I'll forgive him.
4 AM meowing deserves a Super Soaker. I find it enormously amusing (because it's not my cat) that the cat has figured out the range of the dreaded spray bottle.
I squirt our dog when she barks outside with a small, hand sized super soaker. She's fine. The funny thing is that I squirt her then she runs over and flings herself in front of me to protect me from whoever is squirting water on her.
Post by polarbearfans on Dec 17, 2014 9:27:59 GMT -5
Just ignore him. Play dead. It takes awhile but eventually it works. Even though you are spraying him, he sees that you are awake! My cat used to howl but after I started ignoring him he would just go away or snuggle up for a nap.
My cat used to walk over me in the middle of the night. Then he got shut out of the bedroom - and scratched at the door for hours to the point where he's scratched the paint off the door. I got a feeder that feeds him at 5 am and now he leaves me alone. It seriously saved my life - and his.
Post by iammalcolmx on Dec 17, 2014 12:20:38 GMT -5
My old boss had cats that would wake him up at 4am by pawing at that door stopper that makes that banjo-like noise. The cats stopped after he bought them heated beds for the winter.
You can spray him with a super soaker. I'll give you two guesses as to which list it will get you on, though.
I TOTALLY spray my dogs with the hose when they're being assholes outside. Barking or fence fighting = getting sprayed. I want to get one of those super soakers with a tank that you can wear on your back because it's a PITA to have to go get the hose and drag it over to spray them.
You can spray him with a super soaker. I'll give you two guesses as to which list it will get you on, though.
I TOTALLY spray my dogs with the hose when they're being assholes outside. Barking or fence fighting = getting sprayed. I want to get one of those super soakers with a tank that you can wear on your back because it's a PITA to have to go get the hose and drag it over to spray them.
I'm on Team Spray the Cat.
Hmmmm....
I was gonna put you on the "possible save" list for spraying dogs, but then I got to the bolded. *adds to don't save list*
I have tried ignoring him. Dude cab yowl for at least a half-hour straight. Spraying him buys me 30 minutes of sleep.
Ugh. Why the fuck do I have to sleep train an almost 7-year-old cat?
Can I just drug him at night?
It can take a month or more of ignoring them.
We ended up crating all 3 of ours in a large crate. All of them together quiets the loudmouth fucker.
Ugh. I am going to die of sleep deprivation with a MONTH of this.
I just don't think crating is an option. Velociraptor has slept with me since kitten hood, and I think changing that now would be traumatic. The only option I could see would be crating Fatty alone downstairs, but dude has pipes and I think the sound would carry.
I will talk to H about gearing up for a sleep deprived month of sleep training. Grumble grumble.
I TOTALLY spray my dogs with the hose when they're being assholes outside. Barking or fence fighting = getting sprayed. I want to get one of those super soakers with a tank that you can wear on your back because it's a PITA to have to go get the hose and drag it over to spray them.
I'm on Team Spray the Cat.
Hmmmm....
I was gonna put you on the "possible save" list for spraying dogs, but then I got to the bolded. *adds to don't save list*
I take my sleep seriously. The baby gets a pass because he's a baby.
Sick animals get a pass cause theyr'e sick.
Obnoxious whining in the middle of the night gets you shut in the bathroom (I have water dogs. they laugh in the face of something so infinitesimal as a spray bottle).
I was gonna put you on the "possible save" list for spraying dogs, but then I got to the bolded. *adds to don't save list*
I take my sleep seriously. The baby gets a pass because he's a baby.
Sick animals get a pass cause theyr'e sick.
Obnoxious whining in the middle of the night gets you shut in the bathroom (I have water dogs. they laugh in the face of something so infinitesimal as a spray bottle).
We are cats. We already dominate your internets. You will bow to our will one way or another.
I was gonna put you on the "possible save" list for spraying dogs, but then I got to the bolded. *adds to don't save list*
I take my sleep seriously. The baby gets a pass because he's a baby.
Sick animals get a pass cause theyr'e sick.
Obnoxious whining in the middle of the night gets you shut in the bathroom (I have water dogs. they laugh in the face of something so infinitesimal as a spray bottle).
Maybe we could shut him in the downstairs half bath?
The master bath has the litter box so locking Velociraptor is a no-go. And the other upstairs bath has the bathtub that Fatty loves to play in and get fur everywhere. I mean, we COULD lock him in there, but the cleaning would be horrendous (and I think we'd still hear him). I will float the idea of downstairs half bath. H is a softie, though, so I doubt he'll go for it. Dick.
My male cat does this, too. He starts the yowling as soon as one of us starts stirring in the morning because he's a big fat fatso who loves to eat. Even if we ignore him, it takes a very long time for him to stop.
MH typically wakes up at 6 and feeds them. Today he woke up at about 5:30 to pee (bathroom is right off our bedroom), so both cats got all excited and ran to the top of the stairs, but then MH climbed back into bed. Then the male cat gave the most pathetic meow I've ever heard in my life ... it cracked in the middle. You could hear it in his voice: "What the FUCK, man??"
Post by tacosforlife on Dec 17, 2014 17:16:32 GMT -5
Ok, H wants to try putting a litter box downstairs with a gate at the bottom of the stairs and close our door most of the way to block out the sound. He worries Fatty will scratch up the bathroom door if we lock him in there.
I think we can find a gate height that Velociraptor cab jump but Fatty can't. Or this could be a disaster.
I'm also going to ask the vet about anxiety meds at his next checkup. Poor boy has always been easily scared so I think maybe this is related.