Geez, the innuendos here! I'm biting my tongue now.
Bzzzt... Wrong. Cats are nocturnal. Nice try though.
A firm no, then kick the cat out of your bed.
Contrary to myth competent humans can control cats.
You might consider a heated cat bed, especially for older cats.
In other words, her DVM decided that "we can milk this ditz for all her money" before she did the one thing that would actually solve the problem.
Sometimes my cat will heard crashing through the house. Which is always fun because nothing will be disturbed, so we don't know what all the noise is caused by. It's my dog who wakes me up in the morning. When my husband leaves the bed, my dog will put his front paws on the bed and cry at me. If my cat comes into my room she'll just cuddle up on the bed. Otherwise, she won't talk to me unless I get up. Then, she'll rub up against me, tackle me, or stand in front of her cat dish and meow.
Now if dirtboy could teach the dog not to stick her cold wet nose in the small of his back at 3AM, he'd be a lot happier.
What's the big damn deal? Close the bedroom door and don't let the cat in during the night.
It's not a cat that wakes me up, but sometimes I sure feel like one slept in my mouth, and I don't own a cat. Neither does my GF!
Chasing my "laser" pointer makes my cats NUTS! They love it.
No pics?
Wanna see the pics!
LOL.
Great story . . . though, to me, more than a bit long and indulgent in the preliminaries.
What I'd be reading if Bongo was my cat.It did not take long for my cat Peaches, that lived on my sailboat with me, to stop doing what ever she was doing when I started opening the hatch over the bunk. This was especially true if she knew the water was going to be cold when she went flying out.
Ping!
We had a cat that loved pouncing toes in the middle of the night, one day I decided to teach the cat the glories of sleep deprevation, every time I saw her napping I'd pester her and make her wake up. By the end of the day she looked horrid, hair disarrayed, eyes blurry. Never hassled my toes again.
Scatmats (shock pads is what they are, sting pretty good when they zap you), are pretty cool too. Put the scatmat in front of the door, close the door, no door picking annoyance, just remember to step over the thing going to the bathroom.
Thanks for creating such an entertaining thread with your post!