I've taken to throwing our cats in the basement--if I can find them!--bofore I go to sleep because they love to wake us up too, and it's usually with sharp claws to our toes or something else equally as unpleasant.
We're having a nice day too--sunny and already 40 degrees. But high in the teens and strong wind by Saturday.
I have come to greatly esteem the value of basements and garages now that I have neither! I do threaten to put them in the garage because, in an idle way, it makes me feel better hehe.