Keeping Cat In One Room At Night

How to stop your cat from keeping you up all night.

Keeping cat in one room at night. This is the most effective way of keeping a cat out of a space you don t want it in. This means making your bedroom off limits at all times. Finnegan waits until i drift off and thus the petting stops and then serenades us with the song of his people. Of course if the safe room is in a bedroom your new cat may soon ignore the nice little bed you bought in favor of the human s bed.

Territory home range the first reason is that if we are to respect cats we have to allow them to express their natural desires and it is unlikely that they can do that in a single room in a flat unless the room is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide with a catio attached to it. Keep in mind that a cat room doesn t necessarily have to be a cat room and could simply be a well secured play pen in the main room where they already hang out. Seven hours a day in a large room that has a bed a bathroom a window and lots of cat toys sounds pretty good to me and i d bet your cat agrees. If the safe room is a screened off area the cat bed could be in a corner opposite the litter box.

We have to shut our cats out of the living room and the bedroom at night living room because the guinea pig cage is in there and we don t want the kitties in there unsupervised and the bedroom because they will not let us sleep. Cat s often prefer to sleep on high perches such as windowsills shelves and on top of furniture. Young cats under one year of age in particular can drive their owners crazy from sleep deprivation. Domestication has shifted our pet cats activity patterns to be more diurnal awake during the day but most cats still tend to wake at least twice during the night.

This could be a lot less traumatizing for your cat as it s already their usual haunt just make absolutely sure that the pen is secure. If you do this make sure wherever the cat is kept at night that it has access to water and litterpan. The most obvious but not always functional route is to simply shut your cat out of your bedroom. Give your cat a comfortable cat bed in a spare room a corner of the living room with a screen for privacy or even a bathroom.

If the room doesn t have a door put one on as soon as you can. My cat is free to roam all over my average size one bedroom apartment and seems to spend about 15 hours a day in one specific spot in the living room right by the front door. It is highly likely that you have tried this approach before. Be aware that this provides a physical barrier to the cat s entry yet the cat may still try to get in.

Domestic cats need ideally around an acre of territory home range.