how to tame my furry alarm clock's?

Question

Every night about 4am my 2 cats miow outside the bedroom continually, they are not hungry as we feed them just before bed. We/I then have to go onto the landing, give them each a hug then they go back downstairs to their own bed. We have tried to leave them but the longest we left it was an hour of miowing...we had to go and pick them up, and fuss them - for about 20 seconds and then they tootle off downstairs...how can I stop this??? Ive tries locking them out but they miow even louder from outside...

they are about 1 year old, they are free to come in and out from the garden - we have cat flaps and our garden backs onto a park - they have all the space in the world

Answer 1

If you get a little spray bottle and spray them they will stop. it might take a couple of days though but it works.

Answer 2

out of the "we" who gets up around 4 am?
my husband is up every morning Monday-Friday at 5:30 am to get ready for work...the other morning the power had been out thus the alarm didn't go off at the set 5:30 time. Our cat woke him up at 5:40 am...because he knew that something wasn't right, and he became the alarm clock
animals will pick up on things that happen everyday at certain times...they will get use to your schedule
if no one is up around this time, then you just have 2 lonely cats who want attention

Answer 3

I have a 14 year old male cat who loves the 4-4:30 wake up hour. I never had a problem with this until I married my husband, who gets up at 5:15 every morning for work. I have tried the spray bottle, feeding him, getting him to jump up on the bed, taking him to bed with me at night, chasing him out of the room, everything I can think of. He wants our company..and not just one of us..it has to be either me or both of us. The husband alone doesn't suffice him. It's going on a 8 months now and no change.

The only thing I have found that even helps is not to let him sleep in the evening. Max usually eats his dinner around 7-7:30, gets some attention and trots down the hallway to "his" room and goes to sleep on his futon and sleeps soundly for hours, usually until we go to bed. I started giving him cat nip, playing with him, going and getting him up, doing everything I can to keep him from sleeping until we go to bed. This usually makes him tired enough to where he'll wait until the alarm goes off to come and bother us.

It's time consuming, and I don't always manage it, but it does work somewhat. Like mine, your cats are just being cats. There's not much you can do to deter them from what they want to do.

Answer 4

my tom cat tells me when to go to by meowing so loudly i am constantly worried he is going to be heard by my neighbours. we give up at 11pm and go to bed. they all get closed into the front room from 11pm and are released at 9am. this has been their routine for the last few months and we no longer get woken in the early hours providing that we go through this routine
1) litter tray moved to front room
2) canned food put down. dry food topped up and fresh water put down
3) collect each cat from hiding place and cuddle them and say goodnight.
4)turn light off and say goodnight and be good.
5)shut door and retire to bed
this has worked for us as my tomcat has seperation anxiety and gets in a fluster if things get changed. say my father in law stays they don't sleep as their routine is changed. hope this helps

Answer 5

They will outgrow this.

You must remember - cats are nocteral animals
that sleep all day and are up at night.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

get a dog to stand watch..!!