Cat is a nutter

[beerdrinker]

We have 2 cats, a girl and a boy, they've both been de-sexed. They're both 2 years old. The problem we have is the boy cat (gorgeous and loving that he is) is doing our heads in. He wakes us in the morning at around 5am by scratching at the bedroom door. We can't let them in over night cause they make waaaay too much noise. He also eats EVERYTHING. If you're eating crisps he'll sneak up behind you and swipe it out of your hand. He eats plastic, paper, frozen peas. At my wits end......We've tried skooshing him with water, but he so doesn't give a sh*t. Thanks for any advice.

[Immi666]

your cat sounds a lot like mine, although Gadget is a girl. i can tell u how i cope........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

I dont. There isnt a single way to deal with it. The only thing that works, and it only works 5% of the time, is distracting her with jingly balls. Teasing her with it first, then chucking it. There is a bowl of jingly balls in every room in my flat. There's about six hundred of the things.

As for the problem in the morning, can't help ya there cos Gadget sleeps in the bedroom with me :)

Good luck!!!! You're gonna need it.

[beerdrinker]

Thanks Immi - yeah I just about break my ankles every time I walk down the hall,thanks to the jingly balls. Oh well, I'll just have to threaten them with boarding school, that used to work when I was a kid. ;-)

[WendyS]

Lets face it. You've just got yourself a lovable little hooligan and short of having a feline ASBO served on him, he won't change in the short term. At two years old he's still in deliquent teenager mode. If you're lucky, by the time he's nine or ten he will have setled down to a malevolent middle age when he just plonks himself on your favourite armchair, snoozes and growls at you if you try to move him. Enjoy him despite his personality. We no longer have cats and I really miss their antics.

[josaphine32]

scooby and scrappy our cats kept us awake at night, They woke up about 3am and would start playing in the dark jumping about then attacking your head or sticking the hole of there nose in your mouth as we slept, I got to the stage where i bought them a nice new bed in the kitchen and they sleep in there, I still find though that if there out all night the little blighters would sing under my bedroom window until i let them in....... Not good but you have to love them!!!!

[kazza12345]

i feel really sad reading your question ... My little blighter (we used to call him another word begining with b .. but thats by the by) used to do all that, plus he used to come and sit on your chest and bat your face till you woke up and fed him ( i once woke up and thought i was having a heart attack because my chest felt "heavy" and i couldn't breathe properly - turns out he was just trying, in jest, to squash and suffocate me simultaneously)
Anyway, he was run over and killed on saturday and id do anthing to come and take yours home!
( i used to threaten mine with the rspca, but that didnt really work either, he seemed to think that anything between the plate and mouth was "fair game" to whoever could get there first, often resulting in an open mouthed tussle)

[peanut]

kazza12345 , that is so sad and im very sorry to hear that. It makes me think of how i will deal with the demise of my kitty "peanut". Beerdrinker. try hanging a towel on the outside of your bedroom doorknob. generally when kitties scratch on the door its right where the door meets the doorjam and the towel will prevent this.