how can i make my cat sleep in her basket?

Question

how can i make my cat sleep in her basket ,,????
my cat (zena) is a cry baby @ night time i can't let her in my room cuze if i let her she will bite me so i can jump of the bed & she will sleep on my bed &i will stand ther looking @her so what can i do to make her sleep in her basket? some time i just locke her out i just leve her in the livingroom she cry's until she stops it's rlly hard for my can anybody help me?? :-(

Answer 1

Spray the basket with catnip and put it in her favourite sleeping place. Put some treats in her basket so she will associate the basket with something yummy. Don't push her physically put her in her basket as cats hate being handled and will start to see the basket as a punishment. As a previous person said cats chose there own sleeping place so you might have difficulty in forcing her to sleep in her basket. For your night time dilema just ignore your cat by reacting and getting out of bed or getting up or even moving you are unintentionally rewarding your cat. Ignoring works best. Might take a while tho. If it really bugs you alot then close ur door and don't let her in. She WILL cry ALOT but just ignore it don't give in!!!! She will cry for a few days ... maybe even more than a week but if you continue ignoring her when she cries she will eventually get the message that she doesn't get a response by crying.

Answer 2

The process takes awhile. I would stop trying to lock the cat out at night because it is a losing battle and will be far more annoying.

Now, anytime she starts to bite you, make a sharp loud cry out, then pick up the cat and put her on the ground. She will jump back up, so put her back on the ground. Eventually she will learn that she may not be in the bed if she is going to bite you. It takes a few nights, it will be annoying and you will be tired, but it works. I had the same problem with my male cat and now he is content to sleep in a little corner of the bed if there is room for him without forcing it or on the floor near me.

Also, try some interactive play at night. With one of those pole/string toys, play with your cat for about 10-15 minutes, towards the end start moving the toy like a wounded bird, then let your cat have the final kill. Offer a few treats. This should help your cat get rid of some of that excess energy and sleep through the night without bother you better. Do this about an hour before bed.

Answer 3

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/dupnI

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 4

Once your kitten finds a place that it likes to sleep it will sleep there for the rest of its life. The only things you can try is whenever she bites you, put your index finger on her nose and your thumb on the roof of her mouth and push your fingers together. DON'T HURT her though. When you push them together, it should be tight enough that it can not get out of your reach or close its mouth but it should not hurt her. Your other hand should gently hold her hands so they don't scratch you. About the crying, download or record a dog bark on your phone or mp3 and when she cries in the living room, play the dog sound so she can hear it. Do this in the morning or afternoon becuase I don't think your parents want to hear dogs and cats when they sleep! Good luck I hope this helps.

Answer 5

Cats find their own sleeping place. My cat never used the bed I got for him, there is nothing you can do. Let her in your room, and ignore her biting. Stay in your bed and push her to the bottom of the bed if she tries to take your place. My cat sleeps next to my feet.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

This is what i did.
I went out and bought a king sized bed.
I gave it to my cats, and they let me borrow it at night.
I have my own space to sleep on at night, and the rest of it is theirs...;)

Answer 8

cats have a mind of their own.i doubt you will ever get her to sleep there,unless she wants to.how about using a crate to keep her in at night.cats pick there spot,she might like your bed for awhile and then like something better.

Answer 9

Well you could try putting her in it and petting her as if to tell her it is all right to sleep in it or you can put food in/by it and she may go in it more often.

Answer 10

it sounds like you have a lot to learn about cats !!! kindness will work a lot better than being mean to her