My cat TOTALLY destroyed my sleep!

Sorry! I have to giggle! I know their antics can be infuriating. But, he probably jumped on the rise and fall of your stomach as you were breathing because it looked like something to attack! He might have either thought he was protecting you or he thought you might want to play. Try not to get too mad at him. Yelling is about the only thing that you can do. Cats are notoriously hard to discipline because they hold grudges like their fellow human occupants. The hubby and I shut our bedroom door to keep our 3 cats and our dog out because they would keep me up all night playing with stuff in the room, sleeping against me thereby trapping me and keeping me from being able to shift positions, or, as is the case with the hubby and the dog...snoring. The hubby's snoring is bad enough. The dogs snoring rumbles the house...literally. One time, he was upstairs on the floor in one of the spare bedrooms and he was snoring while I was downstairs. Before I knew what it was, all I kept hearing was this low vibrating rumble that was shaking my house. I looked outside, I walked around the house. I couldn't find anything until I got within ear shot of where it was coming from and what it actually sounded like. Then, I knew it was Frizbee. Bad huh? That is why he will never sleep in our room. My youngest cat really wanted to get into my room last night when I went to bed. It was so unusual. The hubby had gone to bed already. I headed up stairs less than an hour later and Martini, who rarely says anything, did this little purr like chatter as I hit the middle landing of the stairs. She met me half way, asked for a pet and kept talking...and I am serious when I say that it is rare for her to talk and really rare for her to want attention from me. So as I ascended the stairs, she went ahead of me, all the while chittering. I walked down the hall towards the door, she raced in front of me and stood in front of the door on her hind legs still chittering. She has never done that before. She does sometimes try to sneak into the room either as we are leaving it or as we are entering it. But, she has never begged. She apparently begged the hubby last night too and meowed outside of the door after he went to bed. So weird. I don't know what got into her. If I could have trusted her not to play with stuff in the room keeping me up, and just to cuddle with us in bed, I would have let her in with us because it was so cute! I felt bad.

I dont think there is a way to dicipline the cat.. but you could lock the cat our of your room at night when you are sleeping if you dont want it to wake you up. That would be what i would do ;) Welcome to mylot, and enjoy your stay here ;)

Hi wrld_n_harmony, this is some suggestion for you. This is work mostly work at my house. Before you going to sleep, what you can do is, give your cat enough food until your cat doesn't want anymore to eat. The cat will start to sleep, and you can take a sleep too.

I was always taught that you dont own a cat, they own you and this has always been pretty true of the cats I had. I am not sure that you can really discipline a cat if a cat wants to do something it will do it whether you like it or not I think you may be stuck with it! Maybe he has watched too many Garfield films because thats what Garfield does.

What I usually do to my cat when he's being a little bugger, is simply these two things... 1) I'll pick him up and tell him to stop and hold him underneith his arms and I'll bug him back and that seems to calm him down if that doesn't work, 2) I have a cat carrier for him and I use that for his time out lock up times and after he's been in there for 10 mins or so, he comes out rubbing up against my leg and I'm guessing that's his way of saying sorry? He will then go lay down and sleep the rest of his energy off. My hubby use to put him outside when he went up on the table. My cat is an indoor cat so kitty didn't like that too much and he learned not to go on the table pretty quick!

hehe my cat also destroy my sleep when is in the "love season" LoL, is this the cause..

Our kitty Mysticat (Mysti) does that every night. She loves to jump on my husband and I. We do the same thing you do, and then she wriggles her way out. It's pretty funny. I don't think there's any way to stop her from doing that. LOL

beats me, my cats sometimes do the same thing to me, they do not understand how it can be okay to jump sometimes (when I am up,but not other times, when I am down.)

Hello wrld_n_harmony, hahahahahaaaaahahahahahahaaaaaaa,there are three choices left,Firstly train your cat to sleep with you sing lulaby to make your cat sleep along with you, secondly give your cat a dose or two of tranqulisers (after a consulting and prescription from a pet doctor hahaha)andyou will be confident your cat will not jump and leap on your diaphram when you are sleeping soundly hahahahaha OR Close your door keeping out the cat out of your room and put finenets on your windows so that your cat dont get success to get inside your room when you are sleeping hahahahahaaa please follow any of the above or reject all. By the way I used to have two pet cats along with dogs and birds in my childhood growing years atmy home,and I loved them a lot and they too used to reciprocate all the time except they knew verywell I dont want to be disturbed when I am sleeping or doing some serious work/ studies etc and they never dared to enter my room especially when they used to see me sleeping ahahahahahahahahaha

My cats sleep on the bed with me at night, but are up the minute it gets light outside. Then they start right in, walking around on the bed. That's their way of making me get up and serve them breakfast, lol. I bought all this on myself. But in a way, it's a good thing, since the cats get me up, much better than an alarm clock! I don't know if you can discipline a cat for doing such things. Shooing it away all of the time will only make the cat fear you, and you don't want that. But you can probably encourage good habits by petting the cat often, telling it how much you love it, and giving it a treat as a reward for the desired behavior. The cat's behavior will change eventually, but it will take time. Good luck!

Ouch. Sorry to hear that. But it is a type of play/love showing, I believe. Is he a kitten or adult? Sylvie, when she was a kitten (we adopted her I think it was 8 months old), she wasn't tiny, but still hyper. When we brought her home, she started every night and morning scaring us in shocks of pouncing onto our faces and stomachs. We'd tell her to stop, stop, stop, and she woudln't. It got pretty bad. But then we were just lucky. It was her youth, like how hyper we can be as children. Now, she never does (and we didin't ever punish her or anything). But we did show how frightened and shocked we were when she did that. They can read many facial expressions. If he's young, it may go away. Otherwise, I'm not a pro, but I'm sure many people may have ideas or suggestions. Good luck.

LOL! My cat used to do things like that to me a lot! - When I let her sleep in my room. Sometimes she would just move constantly around my head and rub herself against my face until I woke up (at 5am or earlier!). Other times she would jump on me, try to catch my feet or just jump for the fun of it, but most often on or near my face! Or she would just scratch at the door and mioaw to be let out. Now I very rarely let her sleep in my room because I NEED my sleep! Unless I need to wake up early, she has to find another bed somewhere else! :)

My cat has at times attacked my toes while I'm sleeping. One thing she does which I don't know of any way to discipline her for is that she walks across my chest and it never fails . . . she manages to step right into the center of my "CHESTeses". OW! What a rude awakening. I swear she can hear my eyelids open when I wake up. As soon as I open my eyes she hops up and gets in my face. She licks my nose and pats my face. She is so loving.