We have 2 cats, and we have to lock them up because the one will chew on my wife's hair at night. I get that it may be a grooming thing, but it's not cute at 3 am every night. I don't want to lock them up, so how can I get him to stop? He also paws the side of the bed repeatedly (so much it wakes us up), even though he has a full bowl of food downstairs.
2007-04-10 00:18:02 · 9 answers · asked by Alan R 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
He must be a baby or was separated a little too young from his mother. He is lonesome. Get him his own little cuddly kitty bed and fill it with some great cuddly stuff. He will grow out of the grooming thing eventually. He's not pawing on your bed because he's hungry....he just wants your attention.
2007-04-10 00:48:47 · answer #1 · answered by dawnb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both of my cats (one is a 15 month old, the other 9 weeks) lost their mothers at an early age and both ate my hair at night and pawed at the bed. They eventually seem to grow out of the hair eating thing but my oldest still jumps on the bed at night (my side of course) and kneads it with his paws. I have heard that cats knead with their paws when they are very content, and lot of cats who were taken from their mothers early do this into adult hood. Once he wakes us up he gets kicked out (and yet he still does this every morning between 4-5)!
2007-04-10 03:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by Vic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's trying to get her attention and get her up to play. Yours, too. Cats are nocturnal. When we first adopted ours, she would bite my husband's hair or nip at his arms to wake him up to play. She wouldn't mess with me, because I guess my "NO!" was firm enough, but he's a softie, and his voice isn't very loud. He tries to reason, and to her, it sounds like he's agreeing with her. Too confusing. I would just say "NO! I'm sleeping, here!" So, she would try him. I told him to just lock her out of the bedroom so she would learn when we had our sleeping time, and it was time to occupy herself with cat hockey (she has all sorts of safe toys and two super balls to bat all over the rest of the house, which she loves), and wait until we wake up to fix her breakfast. She's extremely smart, and it's okay to get your quiet time away from your cat. She gets played with all the time, but NOT when we have to sleep and go to work. It took her two days to figure out that she has to sleep in her little cat bed, which is at the foot of our bed in the middle (it's King-sized, so she never gets kicked off), and if she's awake and we are sleeping, she just has to go off and play with her toys somewhere else, or she can't come back in until we wake up. We've only had her five months, and it worked like a charm when he finally did what I said. She almost always sleeps when we do, now, and if she gets up before breakfast, she goes off to play on her own until we get up. You have to be consistent in this, and your cat will know when not to mess with the household rules. Believe me, they get plenty of love for the rest of the day to last them a lifetime, and they know it.Ooops! I forgot to tell you NEVER to hit your cat. There is never any need for that. You don't have to do that, and it will cause more damage than you want to know about. The biggest, is distrust. Respect is the best thing you can teach an animal of any kind, and they will respect you in kind if you respect them.
2007-04-10 04:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are a couple I recall you can add to your list: (1) Confucius say... "Man who 'fraid and run away, live to run another day." (2) "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you... but do it first." (3) "I really didn't say all those things I said." (Wait a minute. I think that last one was an Yogi-ism.) Anyway - have a star. And-a, rest those fingers.
2016-05-21 05:12:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG mine does that to me, at 3:48am EVERY morning that I don't lock him out of the bedroom. (And I do mean lock, he can open the door) I wish I knew how to stop it! Mine wasn't taken from his mom too early or anything either....
2007-04-10 02:22:27 · answer #5 · answered by carebearny1999 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would keep them out of the bedroom at night.
2007-04-10 00:26:21 · answer #6 · answered by candace b 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine does the same thing to me. I have to lock her out of the bedroom as well. If you find a solution please let me know!
2007-04-10 03:03:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theres this really cool thing you can use, its called a closed door...close your bedroom door!!
2007-04-10 00:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by CJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you have a cat flap? if not get one! then the cat can come and go as they please. cats do get very board.
2007-04-10 00:54:35 · answer #9 · answered by riverbanks27 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋