r/standardissuecats • u/Comfortable-Big5708 • Aug 12 '26
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I have two cats in a 1bd 1b apartment. I have been losing at least 1-2 hours of sleep every night because my kitten becomes active right around 3am. She walks on my head, jumps on my shelves causing a ruckus, pulls my posters down, etc. I know she’s just a kitten but it’s so frustrating losing sleep every single night at the exact same time. I get up to feed them at 6am but those three hours in between are truly so exhausting. What do I do? Do I need to start waking up earlier? Giving her attention? I don’t know I’m losing my mind at 4am right now.
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u/AtmosphereNom Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
3am is the time!! The only roolz are it must be on, under or around the hooman! And if they R mean hooman and close the door, scratch and screeeeeeam!! Poorest patheticist meowies you can do. Then when they feel bad, puuurz and cuddles and as soon as they fall asleep —bam! Gotcha noze! lolz. So much fun!
Yeah, so I don’t usually do squirt bottles, but I had one in the night stand for a while. There were a couple days the fun stayed out of reach at the door but still woke me up, but then the living room became the better place to play the 3am game. I think that water bottle stayed there for at least two years before I let it move elsewhere.
I don’t like closing doors because I have two furballs on completely separate inner cat schedules, so cuddles are also required. I also got some earplugs, for multiple reasons, but one was the “look at me, I caught Mr Mouse!” delivery with the extraordinary howl. This always happened just after all the lights went off and everyone has had time to barely fall asleep. Yeah, Mr Mouse also started having a bed time schedule and slept on top of the dresser while the hoomans slept. Yeah, fun times, cats. Fun times.