Are Your Pets Bad When It Comes To Waking You Up At Night?

Remy

Remy

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These two I have now sure can be. My last two girls were much quieter.

My tabby (profile picture) likes to start pawing at things during the night. Anything left on the nightstand. Books, papers. She paws at the closet door. I don't get it.

My calico (they are littermate sisters) likes to meow for absolutely no reason especially when I'm falling asleep. Or they will have an early morning litter box-a-thon. Scratching and scratching and scratching. This isn't every night but I swear it happens more when I have to work the next day and get up at 430am.
 

I have a big bathroom in my house. It's where I keep Misty's litter, a bowl of water, a few toys, and two cat beds (1 in the closet that has a pet door in the closet door, and one on a chair). That's where she goes when I go to bed. And, she does it willingly. Follows me in when I go to brush my teeth. I leave her a few treats and she seems to be content with this.

I do this because she can't seem to stay off of me if I'm laying down. She fusses with my hair and wants to lay down on my legs. If I want to get any sleep, I don't have much choice. I've had 6 other cats before her, and she's the only one I've ever done this for. She is also the only cat that didn't have another cat or dog to keep her company. I'm it. I figure that might be why she's like that.
 

Tish said:
My son's youngest kitty, Sugar, gets the Dart's/Zoomies at around 3.00 am, the other two kitties are sleepy heads, and my dog Chicka wakes me at 5.00 am unless she hears a possum fart😁
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Yes, I've heard of this. Actually my two haven't been too bad in this area. But at almost 11, my tabby is very active.

When they were young and I was working the PM shift, (I was often not out of work until midnight or later) they would wake me up about 8-9am. I'd put ear plugs in and go back to sleep since I usually slept until about 11am because I was up until 3am. Hated it. I missed mornings.
 
No, I don't have this problem at all. I have 3-11 year old females and 2-(1 male and 1 female) 8 month old kittens. When I announce it's time for bed, they all find their spot and are quiet until my feet hit the floor in the morning.

I usually play laser light with them an hour before bedtime. Perhaps that's what makes them calm for the night.
 
My dachshund has slept with me, under the covers, behind my knees since she was born 12 years ago. Every night about 2 A. M. she comes up to my face, tickles it with her whiskers, and I get up and let her out and back in.

Some little dogs just have trouble holding it all night.
 
Gemma said:
No, I don't have this problem at all. I have 3-11 year old females and 2-(1 male and 1 female) 8 month old kittens. When I announce it's time for bed, they all find their spot and are quiet until my feet hit the floor in the morning.

I usually play laser light with them an hour before bedtime. Perhaps that's what makes them calm for the night.
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That's a lot of kitties. Seems they get along. I too play with my cats at night, especially when I have to work the next morning. I have a cloth mouse on a stick I made. My tabby loves that thing. Also these squishy plastic balls.

It doesn't always work.
 
Remy said:
That's a lot of kitties. Seems they get along. I too play with my cats at night, especially when I have to work the next morning. I have a cloth mouse on a stick I made. My tabby loves that thing. Also these squishy plastic balls.

It doesn't always work.
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Yes, they do get along quite well. It only took about 8 weeks to get the older cats accustomed to the kittens. They were all feral kittens when I brought them in. I have a clowder of 13 feral cats & kittens outside which I also look after.

The laser light seems to tire them out quicker for me. I also take baby socks and overfill them with catnip, then tie them shut with cord. They love those! Even the cats outside do. My cats aren't fond of traditional cat toys. They like straws, pen and milk bottle caps, small tennis balls and just knotted long shoe strings. And the occasional wild turkey feathers we find. We watch them closely when they play with those.
 
One of my cats used to insist on going outside late in the evening. At about 3am, he'd come howling outside my window to be let in. He'd march confidently up the stairs, settle himself on my bed, and sleep for the rest of the night. One night, he didn't come home and I never saw him again 😢

When you have babies, you get used to be disturbed during the night, but it also happens when you have pets. There have been many times when one of the animals was ill, and I couldn't sleep for worrying. I'd be up and down the stairs all night, checking on them. I once spent the night with a parrot in my bed, when it had a chest infection and needed to be kept warm.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I've had many cats and dogs but one German Shepard we had seemed to be on guard duty all night long. She barked at most anything. I felt very safe but missed quite a bit of sleep while she was with us.
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Our (100#) dog roams the house at night but only wakes us if something unusual is happening. That's rare, so I pay attention when he barks in the night.

Daytime is a different matter ... he barks at almost anything. We've learned to distinguish between his various barks, like his "There's an animal in the yard" bark, his "We're getting a delivery" bark, his "Hey, I want attention" bark, &c. :)
 
No, Frenchie rarely wakes me at night. I am up several times each night for restroom breaks. On rare occasions she will jump off the bed and strike me with her paw if a outside visit is needed. She never barks at night. I do envy her ability to sleep so soundly all night long.
 
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Oh, yeah, absolutely. They have NEEDS. They have NEEDS and....NOW!!!

They are always waking us up in the middle of the night to cater to their feline whims.

For several years we fought them. Then, we just surrendered to our feline overlords.

 

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My Scottish Terrier/Poodle Mix sleeps most of the night and if she does awaken and starts to bark it certainly wouldn't be me that wakes since I am deaf. 😄 It would be my teenage daughter who would hear it and wake up.
 
RobinWren said:
My cat will wake me up during the night, I will then put her out of the room and close the door. My dog is very calm and sleeps through, my cat is manic and makes me laugh.
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you put your cat out of the room and she doesn't attack the door all night long? Please tell me the secret...
 
One of our dogs wakes me up every morning at 5:00 to eat. Ive tried to ignore him but he mumbles and whines and basically drives me crazy until I get up. So…I get up and feed both of them, then go back to sleep until 8:00 when the other dog promptly wakes me up. Don’t need an alarm clock with those two around 🙂.
 
Oldntired said:
One of our dogs wakes me up every morning at 5:00 to eat. Ive tried to ignore him but he mumbles and whines and basically drives me crazy until I get up. So…I get up and feed both of them, then go back to sleep until 8:00 when the other dog promptly wakes me up. Don’t need an alarm clock with those two around 🙂.
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Our last dog, Peanut, used to wake us up at 5 a.m. I think that was the routine at the Humane Society where we got him from. He walked nice, was good in the car, never had an accident in the house .. but, couldn't be broken of waking so early.

The labs we had before him, woke when we did .. if we slept in, so did they.

Peanut. Part staffordshire terrier, so we were told.
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