I have a touch lamp on my bedside and my cat Gracie has figured out she can turn it on with her nose so she turns it on in the middle of the night when she wants something 🤦🏼♀️
When I got my current cat, Newt, I trained him to wait for the alarm. To do this the first couple weeks I had him, when he woke me up early, I would ignore him, grab my phone and set a timer. I would then continue to ignore him until the timer went off. When it went off, I would get up, play with him, feed him, and go back to sleep. The first morning the timer was 10 minutes, and every morning I would go five minutes longer. It only took him about a week to know he has to wait for the alarm. For the first few months, I set the alarm early and just went back to bed after feeding. Also for the first few months he would be awake and playing (not on the bed) and as soon as he heard the alarm he would jump on my bed and remind me it’s time to eat. After about three months, he started sleeping until the alarm whenever it might go off... Now I have a regular alarm at the same time everyday... Even on weekends... Neither of us ever sleep through it, and if one of us wakes up before the alarm, we wait for the alarm before getting up.
This is awesome, and the exact same thing I do as well. I use one of those daylight alarm clocks (that wake you up by slowly glowing brighter and brighter, mimicking a sunrise), and it still works for both of my cats :)
I'd be the happiest guy in town if my cat let me sleep till six. Our kitty's alarm goes off at THREE A M EVERY DAY. It's like she works in a bakery and wants me to know it's time to make the donuts.
I agree. 4 o clock is my cats feeding time. But he wants me to be there to watch him or he wont eat. I leave food out but he wants me there. He also often wants 2am and 6am feeds but they can vary in their timing. The cat is a rescued feral cat and its fully mature. It really is just like having a baby!
That’s exactly the time our 4 1/2 month old kitten wakes up without fail and then he won’t go back to sleep until 9am. Has your cat started to sleep through the night?
Mine is almost 9 and he’s been waking me up between 3 and 3:30A every night for as long as I can remember. At one point we took him to the vet to see if maybe there was something wrong with him. The vet suggested we add a feeding before bed (we don’t leave food out) and that worked to push the time to about 4:30/5A. About 2 years in, I started getting up at 5:30 for work and would feed him then. In 2020 when I was forced to WFH, he would wake me up a little earlier after he figured out I wasn’t getting up at 5:30 anymore. But it was at the earliest 4:30. Over the last 5 weeks he’s back to 3:30 and frequently will wake me up even earlier for no good reason. I refuse to feed him prior to 3:30A but there’s nights he’ll cry, knock things over and hit the blinds for hours. We do playtime before bed and feedings to no avail.
@@staceycook6404 He’s waking up at 4am now and wants company to play or just hang out. Unfortunately we can’t get him a cat friend, otherwise things would be better. Also we free feed him his dry food and leave wet food, ( regularly changed), out for him, as that’s helped others with their cats problems, as they will go and graze and then go back to sleep. That kind of does help him.
I am so blessed, because my cat just stays at my bed all night long and doesn't wake me up. She is noticing it directly when I am awake and then she immediately wants her attention by meowing above my head. But it doesn't matter if it is 7am or 10am, she just waits till I am awake. Precious little girl.
@ItS nOt A pRoBlEm AnYmOrE She doing good thanks for asking! She doing better some nights I’m been able to sleep through the night which is awesome so we’re making progress!!!!
We just adopted a cat and we struggle so much by her endless/ meaningless meowing in middle of night… and I was watching this video 4am in the morning. And guess what? Jackson, it worked! It took us a week but instead of meowing for heckling nothing, now she come in the bed and gives us cuddles … I’ve never had a cat before so I wasn’t sure what to do but hey, I just believed YOU! And it WORKED! Thank you so much!!!
So funny! My cat wants me to go to sleep! Since the first day of her coming home, she sat on the bed next to my head. If I open my eyes, she takes her paw, no claws, and closes my eyes...one at a time! When my eyes are closed, she will lay down by my head and curl up , start purring and sleep. Always in my right! The second I have to wake up to pee, unless I say pee, she will try to close my eyes again. Not until daylight will she let me wake up! Lol if I want to sleep in, she will run around do her thing and wait for me! Cutie pie!
@@davidpaul7269 that’s your problem! Lol I am not concerned.Truth has its own reward. And I certainly don’t look for that reward from anyone, especially types like you.🤣🤣
@@davidpaul7269 I believe them. Getting tired of people online labeling every personal comment or story a lie just because they themselves can't handle someone having a different experience than them.
🙀 don’t know if that scares me or makes me happy... I want him to stop knocking things off shelves and settle a bit more... I also like the idea of him being playful years from now 😂
@@talesofmichele knocking things off shelves is a “kitty thing “. All the cats I’ve had do that, though these 2 are the only ones I’ve had that disrupt my sleep.
I'm so proud of my cats! This morning at 5.45 I was woken by two little people sitting on top of me politely growling - and Yep! - there was a stranger on my property - early delivery man - they really do only wake me if their worried
I will say, as I have to get up at like 6, 6:30 in the morning, and my boy Freddie bugging me in the morning has actually saved my ass getting to work on time 🤣 I think we can all agree, there is no alarm clock more persistent than a house cat!
My Precious 21, and My Sissy 14 both in their youth tried to get my attention when I wanted to sleep. But I ignored them. Even though they knew I was awake, I said and did nothing. Eventually they would just snuggle up to me and wait it out. I miss my Precious. I still have my Sissy with me and thank Every day I have her with me. Love your channel 😻
I'm glad I was right in thinking, "I should ignore her when she starts meowing at 4AM so that she knows it's not good behavior," so I'll start on that! I have my alarm set for 7:21AM with the snooze for nine minutes, and that's when I get up to feed her. Good to know it shouldn't take too long for a kitty to learn the pattern, so thank you!
So I thought I was already ‘ignoring’ my cat but watching this video made me realise I was probably still giving him negative attention when I was pushing him off me as he would paw at me and sit on my head 🤪 Anyway I literally played dead last night and even though for about 5-10 mins he was trying to wake me up eventually he gave up(usually it’s on and and off for hours!) - best night sleep I’ve had in a while. Also did a big play session right before bed too which seemed to help - thank you!!
When Jackson says "We have to coax them into our rhythm", I answer: "Whenever possible, let's have a nap after lunch with our cat in the bed" so that adaptation goes both ways ;-)
I usually take a nap (or at least relax on the bed while he naps) with mine after work. That possibly helps to make him less demanding at night and in the morning.
I really like how ADHD friendly this advice is. Rituals and routines are so important for me. Here's hoping I can get my six year old newly adopted angel to let me sleep through the night lol.
Glad I rewatched this now that it applies to me and my cat. Last night I chased her out of my bedroom and closed the door, and finally got a few hours of sleep. I was thinking that’s what I have to do now, but felt bad about it. So I won’t do it again. What you said about the 3 R’s makes a lot of sense. Being ADHD, I have a lot of difficulty with, and need for the R’s myself, and this gives me more motivation to implement it!
My cat started doing this right when I adopted him, but as he settled into his new surroundings he's calmed down quite a bit. Usually only takes a few minutes of ignoring him before he settles back down. I still find it really hard not to laugh when I'm trying to ignore him and he ever-so-gently touches my cheek though.
With three cats, if I ignore one, the next one starts. LOL I've solved the problem by the absolute craziest solution ever. I mean, folks thing I'm absolutely insane for doing this, but I've found that it works. I get up, I use the bathroom, and then..........I feed them. All three cats. Whenever the 20 year old cat wakes me up, that's when everybody gets fed. 4, 5, 6am - whatever it is. She wakes me up, I have to use the bathroom anyway, so I might as well feed them. Then I go back to sleep and everybody's happy. It interrupts my sleep for about 10 minutes, then I'm back in bed. Works every time.
My new cat started meowing at 4:40, now is 6:16 and she still hasn’t stop(only giving like 5 minutes breaks between each section of meowing). I am a very light sleeper. I am desperate. I hope this works in a few nights
Jackson, you are a treasure!! Thank you for your, patience, passion, humor, common CAT sense, and being a bridge to sanity with our fur children. You are the best.
One of my cats headbutts me, trying to get me up. If that fails, he goes around my bedroom, knocking things off until I get up. If I go back to bed, he lands on my chest and starts kneading and suckling on the blankets making loud sucking and purring noises.
Due to Covid 19, in an effort to socially distance my husband's work team, the group has been split into two teams, one that works from 6 am to 2 pm and one that works from 12 pm to 8 pm. My husband now gets up at 4:30 am. The cats are thrilled! They seem to think that they have finally convinced one of us to get up at a reasonable hour to feed hungry kitties! He doesn't feed them until the 5 am hour but it does let the rest of us sleep!
I was getting up for work at 4:30am 1 of my work days per week, my cats were so excited to get fed that early. But then they wanted that everyday. So I stopped feeding them on my early day, they get fed at their regular time by my son each day. They usually let me sleep until 8:30am... but some days..... ugh....
My cat Huehue wakes me up at 3:30 or 4:00. I love it. Stuck pandemicly alone, he’s a welcome addition to my morning. He climbs onto me and pats me down with an enthusiasm it’s hard to discourage. Different strokes for different cat folks.
I have recently watched some videos of you, and I just can’t stop watching them! Besides giving useful tips, you make me laugh a lot. Lots of love from Puerto Rico!
Im 76 , I have had cats All my life ! along side Mice < horses , many dogs ,wild birds ,I I specialised in feral cats .. mostly toms ... sadly at the end of their lives , but also kittens .. totally feral , with great success! During covid lock down , I got so lonely I realise I needed an animal for company. after a great deal of thought , I thought , as I am a wee bit antique, the best animal was a cat ? I looked at the on line data of our local Sanctuary and kept noticing a pair of cats ... longest residents ... litter mates ,They had been in care for5 + yrs !! The sanctuary decided that despite lockdown , I could apply!! They checked me out and allowed me to take these weird pair!! They ... are a true delight !! and will be with me till I , or they die !! BUT I would be so grateful for your imput to make their lives even better ! as they display so many problems that are at worst, conflicting ... and at best ..... v difficult !!
I’m also 76, and a first time cat owner. He’s about one year, full of energy, full of fun, wakes me up at all hours, but especial 3:30 or 4:00. I’m fine with it. COVID is a beach. He reminds me that when things get tough, the tough play.
Hi - you are such a terrific person. i sooo wish i lived in the country, i'd be doing what you are doing.(as a kid i was always acquiring lost dogs and cats andmy mom had to find out who they beonged to :} it is sooo frustrating not to be able to live the way i want to. anyway, i'm an antique, also. i love saying that. i now have 3 older (rescue) cats and wonder if i should get another pet after they leave me. it's quite a quandary as i do NOT want to live without an animals or two in my life. could you let us know the other problems you're having with your little guys? Keep safe 🐈🐢🐞🐕🐿🐸🐦🌱🌷
OMG, this is just the kind of content I'm looking for!!, My cat just doesn't stop meowing every day at 5 am, and my husband and I are getting crazy! Thank you Jackson 😫😫😫
The crepuscular awakening is really rooted in a cat's mind. The only time I have seen my own Choupette go into a morning panic is the day I stayed in a hotel room at night with her, and the blinders prevented any light to enter the room. In the morning, around her usual waking up time, she clearly got anxious. She asked to go outside and I took her for a walk on a leash in the corridor (again no windows): she was still anxious after two explorations of the floor. Then I took her downstairs (only windows close to the door): she settled down a little. It is only when I opened the blinders that she cooled down in less than a minute! Then I understood what was happening: for the first time in her life, the sun was not in sync with her internal clock...
Thank you Jackson. I’m sitting here watching this with red blurry eyes. My sons 10 month old kitty wakes me at 4 am every single day by attacking my fingers. We do not allow hand play. He has many toys. Hand are for love, not chomping. This happens after I ignore him, he resorts to this. I’ll try this, thanks again.
I get up when they wake us up, put them out of the bedroom until it’s 8:15. The cats are used to the routine and sometimes they don’t even wake us up until after 8 am. I have the purrfect cats ❤️🐾
My 13 year old cat still hasn't stopped even with me ignoring him! He's persistent in everything he does so I attribute it to his personality in general.
I have a 12yr old Main Coon mix, he is very headstrong too. I get the 6am wake up too. I ignore him, he does not care. I also attribute it to his personality. Leo is the smartest cat that I have ever come across
@@luckyduck_. oh yes, he just wants attention all the time. When visitors come over, the other cats hide, but he greets them at the door and crawls all over them!
Great question and great answers. My cat does the same, lol. Each and every day, 6-7 am... Useful during the week, but the weekends, not so much! Thanks again for that great question and the much appreciated answers!
I'm glad he said not to shut the door, my cat doesn't care if we leave him home alone, but if we shut the bedroom door on him in the morning he will literally stress vomit outside because he knows we're in there and he can't get to us.
I'm glad to hear that the "revenge vomit" thing isn't exclusive to my cat 😿 We've tried for 2 years to get the cats on a schedule. The other 2 have adjusted, the one refuses... 😩
Oh I would take a 6am wake up call anytime. My cat used to wake me up at 3:30am in the morning. When you're in deep sleep and you cat has a wailing meow....coming out of unconscious is a kin to a scene from some Korean horror movie enough to scare the s**t out of you!
Omg same. My cat has been waking me up at 3 AM every night for like a month now and, sleep deprivation aside, it's seriously giving me anxiety listening to his awful wailing, so disturbing. I really hope he grows out of it asap
6:47. Omg I would kill for 6:47. Mine is 3:30 in the morning. 4:30 on a good day. I haven't been this sleep deprived since my youngest was a baby. That was 35 years ago. I'm too old for this. And forget ignoring him because my ears get shredded with teeth and claws, until I get up. My arms are covered in cuts. Even my vet is out of ideas.
The thing that helped me when my cat was waking me up every morning at 5:30am was getting an automatic feeder, and setting the first feeding for 5:30. now the food doesn't come from me, so he's not trying to wake me up. he gets up, eats, and comes back to bed until i get up and feed him his wet food. I highly recommend it.
I adopted a 4-year-old cat about 2 months ago after I got my own apartment. I don’t allow him in the bedroom/bathroom area (I’m a light sleeper) but I make sure to give him plenty of attention after I get home from work. We have a routine and after we play and I feed him at night, he voluntarily goes to his “bed-“ the couch! Every now and then he will meow at the door, but the routine really works for the both of us, and I just prefer not having him in my room
I’m the same way! It just takes persistence! I promise, it will get better if you have a routine! Also, I just rescued a kitten a few weeks ago and my cat loves him so now I don’t feel bad for shutting him out 😊
Thank you. I hope I can get some sleep tonight. My cat wanted to play at 4 this morning, and I just did all that you said that I shouldn't do! I will now seriously ignore her totally. 🙂
I am such a fan of yours! Have been for a long time. You’ve taught me so much about how to be a good cat mom 😻 thank you! My baby girl Binx thanks you too!! 🙏🐈
6 or 7. thats the time i have to wake up for work. I wouldn't even need to remember to charge my phone for my alarm. Mine wakes me up all hours of the night.
Jackson I don’t even have a cat-I just find you to be an inspirational person and I’m really appreciating you these days. I truly believe humor is the highest form of human expression. So, yeah. All light and all LOVE!
I've mostly accepted I'm not going to get out of feeding my cats at 5-6 am and switched my focus more towards teaching myself to go back to sleep after and rewarding them for waking me up nicely with snuggles instead of being noisy
NOPE! I adopted an older colony cat, 14(!) 4 years ago, recently he has begun torturing me at 5:30/ 6am. OMG! He isn't lovey, no lap napping, but for the last month it's been 'Mom! Get Up!' He isn't even wanting food, just walking around with me. I guess he finally trusts me.
Just adopted a 7 month old Siamese kitty and this channel has helped me understand cats! Now it’s time for training because as I currently write this at 12am she’s going crazy n I lose so much sleep just by keeping her from climbing on the blinds and crashing into everything. Ugh
@@doralilikovacs2898 as they get older they slowly get less crazy! My kittys almost a year old and she’s less crazy at night now. I just try to play with her throughout the day so she’s tired at night
I had to close my door and turn on the fans on . He's relentless playing even after we played for 30 min before bed. He jumps all over the place runs from one room back to the bedroom over and over. Im a lite sleeper. hes only 10 weeks and i know it will get better. Ill have the door back open soon. my adult female cat thinks hes crazy she stays out of my room cause he keeps her up..
@@giulias.5104 cats don’t like closed doors. They wanna know they can have access to view the territory what’s going on and to be with their human. But I let my cat in the cat enclosure, Catio at 5 AM and then I have a little bit of auto feed food at 5:30 and then I give him the wet food around 6 AM so it’s starting to work.
Ohh I’m so glad I came across this! Glad to hear they grow out of it 😂 I’ll give her a treat if she’s quiet…when we get up an hour later she sleeps 😂 ugghh
Put a tall cat tree in your bedroom. I did this a few weeks ago and now my cat prefers to sleep on the top platform instead of on my bed... for the most part. He still wakes me up around 5:30am everyday for breakfast. I feed him and go right back to bed.
I just brought home two rescue kittens - brother and sister - and your information is invaluable! Thanks so much. I'll start them off on the right food. 😊
One of my cats does this. Ignoring her does the trick. She deliberately walks on me, pulls my long hair and rips up tissues. When nothing works she goes to lie down between my legs and waits until I get up.
I'm surprised he didn't mention getting an automatic feeder. Lock your cat out of your room, set the feeder for around when you get up, and leave your room after the feeder goes off. That way you are minimizing the cat's association between you and food in the morning. That was the only thing that got my cat to quit waking me up.
I am hand raising three orphaned kittens. They are around 7 - 8 weeks old now and for the last few days they let me sleep through the night. REALLY hope this behavior continues, I already lost a lot of sleep because of them😄but it was (and is!) a great experience. They are little terrors throughout the day, but that's okay ❤️ they are just so full of energy.
Thank you so much. Clifford woke me up at 4:30 am which resulted in a migraine. Today I played with him so much and gave him lot of affection this evening and now he’s sleeping. Hoping this will work
Myself and my guests can't sleep EVER!!! It's not for food... she hates the doors being closed... all doors. But people want privacy! Help! X.x She will take her nails and grab the underside of the door and pull so it makes a loud thumping that sounds like someone breaking in. If that doesn't work or we try to ignore it, she starts screaming really loud. My door is always open to her so I don't lock her out of my room. But at night she isn't allowed into guests rooms and she hates it.
Perfect time for this video, we just got a new kitten 2 days ago and she attacks the blankets and our toes to wake us up. Our other cat has interactive toys that he learned how to “turn on” so he lets us sleep at least xD We will probably get a couple more and try to teach her how to use them because that helped our other cat a lot in being quiet at night time
So... My family is screwed til I move then. My dad definitely won't buy into not shouting at her, and my bedroom is too small for her the whole night (no spots to even set up vertical movement, I'm using basically all the available room already) Fun. Least that shouldn't be more than 2 to 4 months from now...
I found my cat on my uncles front porch. Someone abandoned him. I took him in, got his shots, neutered and checked out. He’s a very loving kitty, but hates to be picked up. My husband wakes up half the year at 4:45, and the other half at 5:30. My cat has gotten in the habit of waking up anywhere from 3-5 EVERY day! My husband gets very angry and even told me to get rid of the cat. That’s not happening! So if the cat wakes me up, I take him out of our room so he doesn’t wake my husband up. I don’t feed him, I just try to go to the other bedroom and go back to sleep with the cat in that room with me. But the cat wants out, scratches at the carpet and door. I’m not sleeping, my husband is resenting this kitty, I don’t know what to do.
You can’t have ur cat living with a clueless owner first of all U should teach ur husband to ignore the cat too And how to train it And ur supposed to ignore it completely Pretend ur still asleep perhaps even when he wakes u up Don’t take him out of the room Also cats are very territorial they hate to be stuck in a room
Thanks for the tips Jackson. My cat Uh Oh is driving me crazy. I live in an apartment so it’s extra tough because my neighbors can hear her. She’ll meow for over an hour omg. I’ll try this for sure too. You’re looking great!
My sister's cat, got up at 5am or so every morning, and then went out. Eventually my sister realised the cat was being bullied by a gingercat, but if he went out early he could do the rounds of his territory and avoid meeting them...
oh my goodness that is so precious he did that ! 😌 bless his wee heart! 🐈❤️ I hope he's able to go out normally now and not being scared by the other kitty! ❤️
@@Sssssssslf Unfortunately he was found dead, there were no signs of violence, maybe it was a stroke or a heart attack or something. It was very sad. 😢 She's got another kitty now.
@@BooBaddyBig oh my god noooo tears in my eyes reading your comment! 😰 that is absolutely heart breaking! what could have happened to him?! was he a senior kitty? did your sister not get a post mortem done on him to find out what may have caused his death? how tragic that he died alone outside on his own the poor wee angel! I hope nothing bad happened to him and that it was quick and painless and he had no idea about it oh my gosh so sad 😔💔
My cat doesn’t just meow or stick her butt in my face when I’m asleep. She brushes whiskers against my face and up my nostrils. She touches my face with a cold wet nose. She licks my eyelids. She sticks her tongue in my ear. She digs at my neck with her claws if I try to bury my face in the bedclothes. She lies on my head on my pillow and licks me. 🙄 I have considered getting some kind of mosquito net around my head to keep her away.
Hi jackson! I don't think you will read this comment, but I have to say. Wow, I absolutly love that you do this videos and put it online, free for everybody. A lot of other "trainers" just tell a little in their videos, so you can't do anything at home by yourself for free. I'm absolutly thankful about that. Greeez from switzerland :)
Like...what if they NEVER stop meowing in order for you to reward them when they stop? 😂 I'm laughing but I'm actually crying on the inside. My 10 year old boy is relentless.
My cat lets me sleep until she's ready to eat and play at usually around 7 AM. Sometimes 6. My girl is almost 4 and shows no signs of growing out of it yet. She's also a people cat as in she's not a lap cat, but she needs to be near at least one of her humans. She sleeps either on my bed or my parents bed at night and isn't really happy if she can't do so. Her previous home was abusive, and she and I have bonded pretty closely.
Every time when you’re make a video, it’s the solution that i searched for a friend , perfect timing, thanks Jackson 😁. P.s. sorry my english is not the best.
your English is fine. i worked in a bilingual Italian/american school for 6 years and could still only talk like a 2 y.o. i am not a linguist LOL except cat, i understand that very well :} 🐈😼🌷🌱
Jackson you arw an awesome cat daddy and i have adopted a beautiful yet deztructive kitten. Easter is sweet but she has to wake me up to play. Shes only 3 months old but this info is priceless. Thanks mucho!!!! Keep on rocking!!!!!
Omg my cat never lets me sleep and I hear him playing with toys jumping on the window perch, chattering, meowing at 5:30am, nipping my feet with his teeth for me to get up and let him out to eat. I’m going to try this for sure!
For a little over a week we changed our cats (Evie and Lupe) feeding strategy from free feeding to scheduled. The last meal of the day is at 8 pm, then after we wake up and drink a coffee we will feed them again (around 5am). Lupe (less than a year old) wakes up at 3 am every day. First, she was throwing pencils to the floor and walking on top of us so that we will wake up and feed her. We ignored her for a couple of days and she stopped doing that. However, her new strategy is to attack Evie (over 3 years old) from 3 am until we wake up. She will attack Evie for over an hour our two if it is necessary, and will only stop as soon as we wake up. We live in an apartment so it is hard not to do anything to stop them fighting because the neighbors can hear them. We still drink our coffee and wait a while to feed them. But we are really exhausted of waking up at 3 am every day. What can we do 😭?? Please we need help!!!
Thank you so much, Jackson, for this one! And thank you, Anael, for bringing up the subject! We’ve just adopted a cat about Chyna’s age (they’ve calculated 2 to 3 years to Lucio. He was found wandering around, but he seems to be a “home cat” - I’m not sure if that’s the right term for it) and we’re having to deal with that same problem. I’ll talk to my husband and son and will ask them to see this particular video, to make our own RRR. I really hope this will help us! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
It's just like having kids: Pretend to be asleep and hope they get bored and go away 🤣 I also have basically a blackout curtain. It has improved my own sleep too 😻
I have a touch lamp on my bedside and my cat Gracie has figured out she can turn it on with her nose so she turns it on in the middle of the night when she wants something 🤦🏼♀️
Thanks for the giggles 😘
that is so cute!!!!
Lmfao “wake up.”
Thats brutal!
That’s really smart tho
When I got my current cat, Newt, I trained him to wait for the alarm. To do this the first couple weeks I had him, when he woke me up early, I would ignore him, grab my phone and set a timer. I would then continue to ignore him until the timer went off. When it went off, I would get up, play with him, feed him, and go back to sleep. The first morning the timer was 10 minutes, and every morning I would go five minutes longer. It only took him about a week to know he has to wait for the alarm. For the first few months, I set the alarm early and just went back to bed after feeding. Also for the first few months he would be awake and playing (not on the bed) and as soon as he heard the alarm he would jump on my bed and remind me it’s time to eat. After about three months, he started sleeping until the alarm whenever it might go off... Now I have a regular alarm at the same time everyday... Even on weekends... Neither of us ever sleep through it, and if one of us wakes up before the alarm, we wait for the alarm before getting up.
genius.
Julia Peak mine knows once my alarm goes off he gets attention or he suggests it highly that I feed him
This is awesome, and the exact same thing I do as well. I use one of those daylight alarm clocks (that wake you up by slowly glowing brighter and brighter, mimicking a sunrise), and it still works for both of my cats :)
Absolutely brilliant!
Exactly how we do it! And it works although we have two 5 months old kitten to ignore :D I recommend everyone struggeling to give this a try.
I would have no problem with ignoring meowing. What I can not ignore is our cat pouncing at my face with claws fully extended.
EXACTLY!!
Yeah, only one of our cats comes every morning at 6 am and touch the face with his paw. If u do not react he will ponce on our stomachs
@Tartaglia The 11th My grandsons cat does this.
my cat dances on my full bladder.
😂 Mine too, they love escalating when they don’t get a reaction lolol
This!!! Hahaha
I'd be the happiest guy in town if my cat let me sleep till six. Our kitty's alarm goes off at THREE A M EVERY DAY. It's like she works in a bakery and wants me to know it's time to make the donuts.
I agree. 4 o clock is my cats feeding time. But he wants me to be there to watch him or he wont eat. I leave food out but he wants me there. He also often wants 2am and 6am feeds but they can vary in their timing. The cat is a rescued feral cat and its fully mature. It really is just like having a baby!
That’s exactly the time our 4 1/2 month old kitten wakes up without fail and then he won’t go back to sleep until 9am. Has your cat started to sleep through the night?
Mine is almost 9 and he’s been waking me up between 3 and 3:30A every night for as long as I can remember. At one point we took him to the vet to see if maybe there was something wrong with him.
The vet suggested we add a feeding before bed (we don’t leave food out) and that worked to push the time to about 4:30/5A. About 2 years in, I started getting up at 5:30 for work and would feed him then. In 2020 when I was forced to WFH, he would wake me up a little earlier after he figured out I wasn’t getting up at 5:30 anymore. But it was at the earliest 4:30.
Over the last 5 weeks he’s back to 3:30 and frequently will wake me up even earlier for no good reason. I refuse to feed him prior to 3:30A but there’s nights he’ll cry, knock things over and hit the blinds for hours.
We do playtime before bed and feedings to no avail.
@@Sarang875mine is 3 am too I’m going bonkers ! Tried silence tried feeding her nothing !! Do you still have the problem ?
@@staceycook6404 He’s waking up at 4am now and wants company to play or just hang out. Unfortunately we can’t get him a cat friend, otherwise things would be better. Also we free feed him his dry food and leave wet food, ( regularly changed), out for him, as that’s helped others with their cats problems, as they will go and graze and then go back to sleep. That kind of does help him.
I am so blessed, because my cat just stays at my bed all night long and doesn't wake me up. She is noticing it directly when I am awake and then she immediately wants her attention by meowing above my head. But it doesn't matter if it is 7am or 10am, she just waits till I am awake. Precious little girl.
I have 2 cats that are exactly the same! So so precious
And we’re all so jealous.😂Well, mine is not as good as y’all’s, but she’s better than a lot of other cat owners.😂
What kind of cat do you have???
OMGG!!!! Thank you so much for answering my question Jackson I will definitely put your advice to good use!!!😄
Cool you were chosen! Good luck. My cat does the same thing although she wants to be let out to go hunting.
Thank you! Hopefully if you choose to follow this advice as well it works out well for you!
my kitten is 1 month old and facing se problems
@T M-10 I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one facing this problem😅
@ItS nOt A pRoBlEm AnYmOrE She doing good thanks for asking! She doing better some nights I’m been able to sleep through the night which is awesome so we’re making progress!!!!
The fact she recorded the first part of her video while trying to sleep was so funny 🤣 that early morning *meow* is so familiar! Great topic!
I know, I think we've all been there at the receiving end of the meowy hairy butt in your face
@@rhoeasie "Meowy hairy butt" is adorable!
We just adopted a cat and we struggle so much by her endless/ meaningless meowing in middle of night… and I was watching this video 4am in the morning. And guess what? Jackson, it worked! It took us a week but instead of meowing for heckling nothing, now she come in the bed and gives us cuddles …
I’ve never had a cat before so I wasn’t sure what to do but hey, I just believed YOU! And it WORKED! Thank you so much!!!
Sometimes I wake my cat up so she knows how it feels.
Ain't no way you giving karma to your cat 😂
😹😹😹😹😹😹😼
Hahahahaha I do tooo!
That will make her nervous and might lead to other undesired misbehaviors - like not using the litter box.
@@egirl622 Thank you for your concern but she is actually ok. I don’t it very often.
So funny! My cat wants me to go to sleep! Since the first day of her coming home, she sat on the bed next to my head. If I open my eyes, she takes her paw, no claws, and closes my eyes...one at a time! When my eyes are closed, she will lay down by my head and curl up , start purring and sleep. Always in my right! The second I have to wake up to pee, unless I say pee, she will try to close my eyes again. Not until daylight will she let me wake up! Lol if I want to sleep in, she will run around do her thing and wait for me! Cutie pie!
Ok show off lol just kidding You are TRULY blessed!!
No one believes you lol. Too many little details in this fib.
@@davidpaul7269 that’s your problem! Lol I am not concerned.Truth has its own reward. And I certainly don’t look for that reward from anyone, especially types like you.🤣🤣
Sounds like your feline friend has a secret life she doesn’t want you to see
@@davidpaul7269 I believe them. Getting tired of people online labeling every personal comment or story a lie just because they themselves can't handle someone having a different experience than them.
My four-legged boy never grew out of it. Ten years old, he still does it.
I have a 10 and 7 year old and they still do it too.
My 13 and 2 year old 🐈🐈 -- OMG 🥺.
🙀 don’t know if that scares me or makes me happy...
I want him to stop knocking things off shelves and settle a bit more... I also like the idea of him being playful years from now 😂
@@talesofmichele Knocking things off will slow down as he ages, give him building block toys to play with.
@@talesofmichele knocking things off shelves is a “kitty thing “. All the cats I’ve had do that, though these 2 are the only ones I’ve had that disrupt my sleep.
I can ignore his meowing, but he starts to destroy my room 😔😔
Mine do too. Climb through everything. One cats sits on me and chews my hair. I just hate that.
@@meredithgreenslade1965 my cat does the same did yours stop?
Mine just started thinking my rice bag is his food bag 😪
Squirt bottle
Yep mine pees on my things
I WISH I could get my cats to let me sleep until 6am.
Amen
Same mine is 4am....
I know right. I needed to get up at 6 today, my two woke me up at 3.30!
Dido
I go to sleep at 6 am.
I'm so proud of my cats! This morning at 5.45 I was woken by two little people sitting on top of me politely growling - and Yep! - there was a stranger on my property - early delivery man - they really do only wake me if their worried
I will say, as I have to get up at like 6, 6:30 in the morning, and my boy Freddie bugging me in the morning has actually saved my ass getting to work on time 🤣 I think we can all agree, there is no alarm clock more persistent than a house cat!
Agree completely. 😂
My newly adopted 3 yr old has me finally getting 8 hrs in at work. 😂 I like going in early and getting off early. Kinda annoying on the weekends tho.
My adorable tortoise shell kitty "Cleo" won't stay away from me. I poop? She's there. I'm on the PC? She's there. I go to sleep? She sleeps *on* me...
Torties are the best, aren't they 😜🤔😍
yep, sounds about right!
heh, my cat's name is Leo. I always said if I got a girl cat I'd name her Cleo. lol
My Sheba is the same - she must be your cat's twin
My cat does that. If I’m in the shower she will sit right there and if I take long she tries to slide open the door to make sure I’m ok lol
My Precious 21, and My Sissy 14 both in their youth tried to get my attention when I wanted to sleep. But I ignored them. Even though they knew I was awake, I said and did nothing. Eventually they would just snuggle up to me and wait it out. I miss my Precious. I still have my Sissy with me and thank Every day I have her with me. Love your channel 😻
Bless you
I'm glad I was right in thinking, "I should ignore her when she starts meowing at 4AM so that she knows it's not good behavior," so I'll start on that! I have my alarm set for 7:21AM with the snooze for nine minutes, and that's when I get up to feed her. Good to know it shouldn't take too long for a kitty to learn the pattern, so thank you!
My girl just sent me this because she's tired of my complaining about my cat. I'm so damn glad that I watched this!
So I thought I was already ‘ignoring’ my cat but watching this video made me realise I was probably still giving him negative attention when I was pushing him off me as he would paw at me and sit on my head 🤪 Anyway I literally played dead last night and even though for about 5-10 mins he was trying to wake me up eventually he gave up(usually it’s on and and off for hours!) - best night sleep I’ve had in a while. Also did a big play session right before bed too which seemed to help - thank you!!
When Jackson says "We have to coax them into our rhythm", I answer: "Whenever possible, let's have a nap after lunch with our cat in the bed" so that adaptation goes both ways ;-)
Yup! My pesty girl loves when I nap with her in the afternoon.
I usually take a nap (or at least relax on the bed while he naps) with mine after work. That possibly helps to make him less demanding at night and in the morning.
same here! gotta be ready for the night ahead
I'm also so glad to have such a wonderful companion sharing my flat with me.
I really like how ADHD friendly this advice is. Rituals and routines are so important for me. Here's hoping I can get my six year old newly adopted angel to let me sleep through the night lol.
Glad I rewatched this now that it applies to me and my cat. Last night I chased her out of my bedroom and closed the door, and finally got a few hours of sleep. I was thinking that’s what I have to do now, but felt bad about it. So I won’t do it again. What you said about the 3 R’s makes a lot of sense. Being ADHD, I have a lot of difficulty with, and need for the R’s myself, and this gives me more motivation to implement it!
My cat started doing this right when I adopted him, but as he settled into his new surroundings he's calmed down quite a bit. Usually only takes a few minutes of ignoring him before he settles back down. I still find it really hard not to laugh when I'm trying to ignore him and he ever-so-gently touches my cheek though.
One of my cats was wild today trying to wake me up at 4 am. He even bit my ear.
I was thinking she was lucky her cat try to wake her up at 6 am xd my cat do it earlier 💔
Mine attacks me every day. And wakes me up almost every night from 3 am til 6 am no matter what I do. She's almost 4 yrs old too.
My cat bit my nose once trying to wake me up!
Mittens gets mad and bites my feet.
My 2 🐈🐈 wake me up twice nightly -- 2:15 am for treats, and the 4 am for breakfast. Then, they allow me to sleep for 4 hours.
With three cats, if I ignore one, the next one starts. LOL I've solved the problem by the absolute craziest solution ever. I mean, folks thing I'm absolutely insane for doing this, but I've found that it works. I get up, I use the bathroom, and then..........I feed them. All three cats. Whenever the 20 year old cat wakes me up, that's when everybody gets fed. 4, 5, 6am - whatever it is. She wakes me up, I have to use the bathroom anyway, so I might as well feed them. Then I go back to sleep and everybody's happy. It interrupts my sleep for about 10 minutes, then I'm back in bed. Works every time.
Oh thank goodness for this video!!! My cat does the EXACT same thing and I just am so tired.
I have a cat that wakes me up throughout the night. I hope this works for him!
My new cat started meowing at 4:40, now is 6:16 and she still hasn’t stop(only giving like 5 minutes breaks between each section of meowing). I am a very light sleeper. I am desperate. I hope this works in a few nights
Jackson, you are a treasure!! Thank you for your, patience, passion, humor, common CAT sense, and being a bridge to sanity with our fur children. You are the best.
One of my cats headbutts me, trying to get me up. If that fails, he goes around my bedroom, knocking things off until I get up. If I go back to bed, he lands on my chest and starts kneading and suckling on the blankets making loud sucking and purring noises.
Same! How do you ignore a cat that's destroying your room? Im talking pushing lamps off bedside tables and such😼
Hahaha! Know exactly what your saying. I have a very tiny headbutting cat, who knocks cups of coffee over me, just to get attention, she's lethal.🤣
I genuinely just bought little sticky things to stick everything down lol
@@reneelewis1771 Mine does the same thing. Destructive. I now keep him out of my bedroom so I can sleep. Tough on him, but I need sleep.
Due to Covid 19, in an effort to socially distance my husband's work team, the group has been split into two teams, one that works from 6 am to 2 pm and one that works from 12 pm to 8 pm. My husband now gets up at 4:30 am. The cats are thrilled! They seem to think that they have finally convinced one of us to get up at a reasonable hour to feed hungry kitties! He doesn't feed them until the 5 am hour but it does let the rest of us sleep!
aww bless them! 🐈💕 you may have a problem though when your hours go back to normal!
Sounds familiar
You may have a problem when he returns to normal hours!
pop
I was getting up for work at 4:30am 1 of my work days per week, my cats were so excited to get fed that early. But then they wanted that everyday. So I stopped feeding them on my early day, they get fed at their regular time by my son each day. They usually let me sleep until 8:30am... but some days..... ugh....
My cat Huehue wakes me up at 3:30 or 4:00. I love it. Stuck pandemicly alone, he’s a welcome addition to my morning. He climbs onto me and pats me down with an enthusiasm it’s hard to discourage. Different strokes for different cat folks.
I have recently watched some videos of you, and I just can’t stop watching them! Besides giving useful tips, you make me laugh a lot. Lots of love from Puerto Rico!
Im 76 , I have had cats All my life ! along side Mice < horses , many dogs ,wild birds ,I I specialised in feral cats .. mostly toms ... sadly at the end of their lives , but also kittens .. totally feral , with great success! During covid lock down , I got so lonely I realise I needed an animal for company. after a great deal of thought , I thought , as I am a wee bit antique, the best animal was a cat ? I looked at the on line data of our local Sanctuary and kept noticing a pair of cats ... longest residents ... litter mates ,They had been in care for5 + yrs !!
The sanctuary decided that despite lockdown , I could apply!! They checked me out and allowed me to take these weird pair!!
They ... are a true delight !! and will be with me till I , or they die !! BUT I would be so grateful for your imput to make their lives even better ! as they display so many problems that are at worst, conflicting ... and at best ..... v difficult !!
How have they and how have you been the last couple of months?
I’m also 76, and a first time cat owner. He’s about one year, full of energy, full of fun, wakes me up at all hours, but especial 3:30 or 4:00. I’m fine with it. COVID is a beach. He reminds me that when things get tough, the tough play.
Hi - you are such a terrific person. i sooo wish i lived in the country, i'd be doing what you are doing.(as a kid i was always acquiring lost dogs and cats andmy mom had to find out who they beonged to :} it is sooo frustrating not to be able to live the way i want to.
anyway, i'm an antique, also. i love saying that. i now have 3 older (rescue) cats and wonder if i should get another pet after they leave me. it's quite a quandary as i do NOT want to live without an animals or two in my life. could you let us know the other problems you're having with your little guys? Keep safe 🐈🐢🐞🐕🐿🐸🐦🌱🌷
OMG, this is just the kind of content I'm looking for!!, My cat just doesn't stop meowing every day at 5 am, and my husband and I are getting crazy! Thank you Jackson 😫😫😫
Have you found a solution?
The crepuscular awakening is really rooted in a cat's mind. The only time I have seen my own Choupette go into a morning panic is the day I stayed in a hotel room at night with her, and the blinders prevented any light to enter the room. In the morning, around her usual waking up time, she clearly got anxious. She asked to go outside and I took her for a walk on a leash in the corridor (again no windows): she was still anxious after two explorations of the floor. Then I took her downstairs (only windows close to the door): she settled down a little. It is only when I opened the blinders that she cooled down in less than a minute! Then I understood what was happening: for the first time in her life, the sun was not in sync with her internal clock...
Thank you Jackson. I’m sitting here watching this with red blurry eyes. My sons 10 month old kitty wakes me at 4 am every single day by attacking my fingers. We do not allow hand play. He has many toys. Hand are for love, not chomping. This happens after I ignore him, he resorts to this. I’ll try this, thanks again.
I get up when they wake us up, put them out of the bedroom until it’s 8:15. The cats are used to the routine and sometimes they don’t even wake us up until after 8 am. I have the purrfect cats ❤️🐾
"Well, cockadoodledoo, let's go!" I can't stop laughing. Thank you, Jackson. 🤣
My 13 year old cat still hasn't stopped even with me ignoring him! He's persistent in everything he does so I attribute it to his personality in general.
Is he fixed?
I have a 12yr old Main Coon mix, he is very headstrong too. I get the 6am wake up too. I ignore him, he does not care. I also attribute it to his personality. Leo is the smartest cat that I have ever come across
@@luckyduck_. oh yes, he just wants attention all the time. When visitors come over, the other cats hide, but he greets them at the door and crawls all over them!
@@yvonnecardoso304 I love Maine Coons! I had one once that loved car rides and knew how to open door knobs. 😸
I'm almost 40 and just learning so much about cats thanks to jackson I've had a cat growing up all my life now I have 2 lol
I have had my cat for 2 months, and this video saved my life.
Great question and great answers. My cat does the same, lol. Each and every day, 6-7 am... Useful during the week, but the weekends, not so much! Thanks again for that great question and the much appreciated answers!
Mine too!
I'm glad he said not to shut the door, my cat doesn't care if we leave him home alone, but if we shut the bedroom door on him in the morning he will literally stress vomit outside because he knows we're in there and he can't get to us.
Great response ... I closed the door twice, and the 🐈🐈 cried, and I cried ... Never again.
oh bless his wee heart!!!! 😔❤️ yeah you never ever close doors on kitties, it stresses them out and they hate not being able to free roam
Same.
My cat scratches the shit outta the door
I'm glad to hear that the "revenge vomit" thing isn't exclusive to my cat 😿 We've tried for 2 years to get the cats on a schedule. The other 2 have adjusted, the one refuses... 😩
Oh I would take a 6am wake up call anytime. My cat used to wake me up at 3:30am in the morning.
When you're in deep sleep and you cat has a wailing meow....coming out of unconscious is a kin to a scene from some Korean horror movie enough to scare the s**t out of you!
Omg same. My cat has been waking me up at 3 AM every night for like a month now and, sleep deprivation aside, it's seriously giving me anxiety listening to his awful wailing, so disturbing. I really hope he grows out of it asap
@@LeonAvalos same ughh
Me too
Lol! Ear plugs and turn a fan on to drown out the sound.
Me too! I worry that he is anxious and sad which makes it hard to ignore. Has everyone’s cats grown out of this?
6:47. Omg I would kill for 6:47. Mine is 3:30 in the morning. 4:30 on a good day. I haven't been this sleep deprived since my youngest was a baby. That was 35 years ago. I'm too old for this. And forget ignoring him because my ears get shredded with teeth and claws, until I get up. My arms are covered in cuts. Even my vet is out of ideas.
The thing that helped me when my cat was waking me up every morning at 5:30am was getting an automatic feeder, and setting the first feeding for 5:30. now the food doesn't come from me, so he's not trying to wake me up. he gets up, eats, and comes back to bed until i get up and feed him his wet food. I highly recommend it.
Everytime I watch one of your videos I think "my cat is a blessing" cause I never have any problem with him xD
Right? 😅 My two boys are saints because I trained them since they were kittens.
lucky blessed momma!!! 🙏🤗🐈❤️
I adopted a 4-year-old cat about 2 months ago after I got my own apartment. I don’t allow him in the bedroom/bathroom area (I’m a light sleeper) but I make sure to give him plenty of attention after I get home from work. We have a routine and after we play and I feed him at night, he voluntarily goes to his “bed-“ the couch! Every now and then he will meow at the door, but the routine really works for the both of us, and I just prefer not having him in my room
I’m the same way! It just takes persistence! I promise, it will get better if you have a routine! Also, I just rescued a kitten a few weeks ago and my cat loves him so now I don’t feel bad for shutting him out 😊
Also, earplugs will probably be your best friend right now 😊
What can I say, my alarm cat Ruby made me a morning person ❤️🌞😅
6am is a dream! lol. Mine zooms at 3 because he’s still a kitten.
Thank you. I hope I can get some sleep tonight. My cat wanted to play at 4 this morning, and I just did all that you said that I shouldn't do! I will now seriously ignore her totally. 🙂
I am such a fan of yours! Have been for a long time. You’ve taught me so much about how to be a good cat mom 😻 thank you! My baby girl Binx thanks you too!! 🙏🐈
"Begin to grow out of this" my butt, my cat is almost 10 years old and wakes me up around 6 or 7 every morning
6 or 7 is heaven. Ours is up at 2
yup - "grow out of it, my butt" is perfect LOL :} 🐈🐕😼🌷🌱
6 or 7. thats the time i have to wake up for work. I wouldn't even need to remember to charge my phone for my alarm. Mine wakes me up all hours of the night.
I'm lucky! In the morning, I wake up my 5 cats! At night they sleep but during the day they have all the attention they want! I love them a lot!
My cats are awake by 4:30am 🙄🤦🏻♀️😂but I love them !! This video helped me a lot !! Thank you 😊
Jackson I don’t even have a cat-I just find you to be an inspirational person and I’m really appreciating you these days. I truly believe humor is the highest form of human expression. So, yeah. All light and all LOVE!
Probably one of my favorite videos! My little Buddy wakes me up at three am, every morning, but now I'm feeling empowered to change this behavior.
did it work?
I've mostly accepted I'm not going to get out of feeding my cats at 5-6 am and switched my focus more towards teaching myself to go back to sleep after and rewarding them for waking me up nicely with snuggles instead of being noisy
Omg that girl is so cute to include that footage of 6 in the morning 🤣 got me smiling right before bedtime haha
NOPE! I adopted an older colony cat, 14(!) 4 years ago, recently he has begun torturing me at 5:30/ 6am. OMG! He isn't lovey, no lap napping, but for the last month it's been 'Mom! Get Up!' He isn't even wanting food, just walking around with me. I guess he finally trusts me.
@Choupette La Calicotte 🤣💖
Just adopted a 7 month old Siamese kitty and this channel has helped me understand cats! Now it’s time for training because as I currently write this at 12am she’s going crazy n I lose so much sleep just by keeping her from climbing on the blinds and crashing into everything. Ugh
please let me know if you managed to make your cat sleep through the night! 😭 right now its 1:30 am and my kitten is having way to much fun
@@doralilikovacs2898 as they get older they slowly get less crazy! My kittys almost a year old and she’s less crazy at night now. I just try to play with her throughout the day so she’s tired at night
I had to close my door and turn on the fans on . He's relentless playing even after we played for 30 min before bed. He jumps all over the place runs from one room back to the bedroom over and over. Im a lite sleeper. hes only 10 weeks and i know it will get better. Ill have the door back open soon. my adult female cat thinks hes crazy she stays out of my room cause he keeps her up..
My kitten is 6 1/2 months and he does that every night 😫.
@@ericapoe It does stop over age. Kittens are like kids. Wait until she a year old. Jackson's advice on this isn't spot on.
MamaCassOFee Yea I think it depends on every cat which they are all different.
Play, stop, play, stop, play, feed, hopefully sleep
"female cat thinks hes crazy" but is she really that wrong?
I have two cats and they start playing running after each other at 11pm (after I feed them).
zoomies!!!!!!!!!!! mine do it when i get on a video call for work :D
Yep! I have a kitten around 14 weeks old. He won't even let me get into bed!
Who else reading this at 4am?
5:25, but been at it since 3 am this time.
3:10
5:33 😂😂😂
I am glad you said NOT to shut them out of the room. Most people don't know that.
My cat is 4 month old and she does this all the time. This video is so what I need.
It will take a week he said. It's been 1 WHOLE YEAR that I'm trying.
lol
Me
Too 1.5 yrs later
Close the bedroom door.
@@giulias.5104 cats don’t like closed doors. They wanna know they can have access to view the territory what’s going on and to be with their human. But I let my cat in the cat enclosure, Catio at 5 AM and then I have a little bit of auto feed food at 5:30 and then I give him the wet food around 6 AM so it’s starting to work.
Ohh I’m so glad I came across this! Glad to hear they grow out of it 😂 I’ll give her a treat if she’s quiet…when we get up an hour later she sleeps 😂 ugghh
Put a tall cat tree in your bedroom. I did this a few weeks ago and now my cat prefers to sleep on the top platform instead of on my bed... for the most part. He still wakes me up around 5:30am everyday for breakfast. I feed him and go right back to bed.
I just brought home two rescue kittens - brother and sister - and your information is invaluable! Thanks so much. I'll start them off on the right food. 😊
One of my cats does this. Ignoring her does the trick. She deliberately walks on me, pulls my long hair and rips up tissues. When nothing works she goes to lie down between my legs and waits until I get up.
I'm surprised he didn't mention getting an automatic feeder. Lock your cat out of your room, set the feeder for around when you get up, and leave your room after the feeder goes off. That way you are minimizing the cat's association between you and food in the morning. That was the only thing that got my cat to quit waking me up.
Mine doesn’t usually wake me up for food, she’s just bored or lonely because I spoil her rotten, so I can’t really blame her. 😂
My cat can only have wet food due to stomatitis. I dream of this option.
I recently heard of wet food feeders @@nivision
I am hand raising three orphaned kittens. They are around 7 - 8 weeks old now and for the last few days they let me sleep through the night. REALLY hope this behavior continues, I already lost a lot of sleep because of them😄but it was (and is!) a great experience.
They are little terrors throughout the day, but that's okay ❤️ they are just so full of energy.
My cat loves play soccer about 5 o'clock in morning, before I sleep, I have to take her ball if I forget we have a problem at home. Crazy cat 🐱🐱🐱❤️💤
Thank you so much. Clifford woke me up at 4:30 am which resulted in a migraine. Today I played with him so much and gave him lot of affection this evening and now he’s sleeping. Hoping this will work
Myself and my guests can't sleep EVER!!! It's not for food... she hates the doors being closed... all doors. But people want privacy! Help! X.x
She will take her nails and grab the underside of the door and pull so it makes a loud thumping that sounds like someone breaking in. If that doesn't work or we try to ignore it, she starts screaming really loud. My door is always open to her so I don't lock her out of my room. But at night she isn't allowed into guests rooms and she hates it.
I have tried locking my cat out of my room and he just scratches the door!
Yesssssss same here and it just seems I'm a main carecter in middle of the forest at pet semetary 😭
The cat has to be behind two doors in my experience.
There's no such thing as shutting a cat out of your room
@@lindaeasley5606 yeah there is. I wish I could show you mine patiently waiting to be let in right now.
@@theknightswhosay mine does the same he waits in the kitchen until I wake up it’s right outside my room lol.
Perfect time for this video, we just got a new kitten 2 days ago and she attacks the blankets and our toes to wake us up. Our other cat has interactive toys that he learned how to “turn on” so he lets us sleep at least xD
We will probably get a couple more and try to teach her how to use them because that helped our other cat a lot in being quiet at night time
"Good morning! Here's my butt!" LMAO
So... My family is screwed til I move then. My dad definitely won't buy into not shouting at her, and my bedroom is too small for her the whole night (no spots to even set up vertical movement, I'm using basically all the available room already)
Fun. Least that shouldn't be more than 2 to 4 months from now...
I found my cat on my uncles front porch. Someone abandoned him. I took him in, got his shots, neutered and checked out. He’s a very loving kitty, but hates to be picked up. My husband wakes up half the year at 4:45, and the other half at 5:30. My cat has gotten in the habit of waking up anywhere from 3-5 EVERY day! My husband gets very angry and even told me to get rid of the cat. That’s not happening! So if the cat wakes me up, I take him out of our room so he doesn’t wake my husband up. I don’t feed him, I just try to go to the other bedroom and go back to sleep with the cat in that room with me. But the cat wants out, scratches at the carpet and door. I’m not sleeping, my husband is resenting this kitty, I don’t know what to do.
You can’t have ur cat living with a clueless owner first of all
U should teach ur husband to ignore the cat too
And how to train it
And ur supposed to ignore it completely
Pretend ur still asleep perhaps even when he wakes u up
Don’t take him out of the room
Also cats are very territorial they hate to be stuck in a room
Thanks for the tips Jackson. My cat Uh Oh is driving me crazy. I live in an apartment so it’s extra tough because my neighbors can hear her. She’ll meow for over an hour omg. I’ll try this for sure too. You’re looking great!
Dealing with the same.
My sister's cat, got up at 5am or so every morning, and then went out. Eventually my sister realised the cat was being bullied by a gingercat, but if he went out early he could do the rounds of his territory and avoid meeting them...
oh my goodness that is so precious he did that ! 😌 bless his wee heart! 🐈❤️ I hope he's able to go out normally now and not being scared by the other kitty! ❤️
@@Sssssssslf Unfortunately he was found dead, there were no signs of violence, maybe it was a stroke or a heart attack or something. It was very sad. 😢 She's got another kitty now.
@@BooBaddyBig oh my god noooo tears in my eyes reading your comment! 😰 that is absolutely heart breaking! what could have happened to him?! was he a senior kitty? did your sister not get a post mortem done on him to find out what may have caused his death? how tragic that he died alone outside on his own the poor wee angel! I hope nothing bad happened to him and that it was quick and painless and he had no idea about it oh my gosh so sad 😔💔
@@Sssssssslf We don't know the cause. He was about 4 IRC. quite young.😢I don't think he had a pedigree- some pedigrees have heart problems.
Perhaps stop letting them out?
My cat, Lefty, is 5 1/2 years old and he still does this. I have to hide my hands or he makes me pet him.
Me too! I cocoon I. The blanket till he lays back down lol
My cat doesn’t just meow or stick her butt in my face when I’m asleep. She brushes whiskers against my face and up my nostrils. She touches my face with a cold wet nose. She licks my eyelids. She sticks her tongue in my ear. She digs at my neck with her claws if I try to bury my face in the bedclothes. She lies on my head on my pillow and licks me. 🙄 I have considered getting some kind of mosquito net around my head to keep her away.
Hi jackson! I don't think you will read this comment, but I have to say. Wow, I absolutly love that you do this videos and put it online, free for everybody. A lot of other "trainers" just tell a little in their videos, so you can't do anything at home by yourself for free. I'm absolutly thankful about that.
Greeez from switzerland :)
Like...what if they NEVER stop meowing in order for you to reward them when they stop? 😂 I'm laughing but I'm actually crying on the inside. My 10 year old boy is relentless.
Wait. 10 years old?? He said it ends at 18 mos!😩😩😩😩
exactly. this is my problem. I want to reward quiet behavior, but that never happens. He's also ten.
How is it now? My cat is 10 years old now and is Not better with his age
My cat lets me sleep until she's ready to eat and play at usually around 7 AM. Sometimes 6. My girl is almost 4 and shows no signs of growing out of it yet. She's also a people cat as in she's not a lap cat, but she needs to be near at least one of her humans. She sleeps either on my bed or my parents bed at night and isn't really happy if she can't do so. Her previous home was abusive, and she and I have bonded pretty closely.
7 is nothing. But we are having 4 am problems
Every time when you’re make a video, it’s the solution that i searched for a friend , perfect timing, thanks Jackson 😁. P.s. sorry my english is not the best.
your English is fine. i worked in a bilingual Italian/american school for 6 years and could still only talk like a 2 y.o. i am not a linguist LOL except cat, i understand that very well :} 🐈😼🌷🌱
Jackson you arw an awesome cat daddy and i have adopted a beautiful yet deztructive kitten. Easter is sweet but she has to wake me up to play. Shes only 3 months old but this info is priceless. Thanks mucho!!!! Keep on rocking!!!!!
It worked! Thank you so much!!
Omg my cat never lets me sleep and I hear him playing with toys jumping on the window perch, chattering, meowing at 5:30am, nipping my feet with his teeth for me to get up and let him out to eat. I’m going to try this for sure!
For a little over a week we changed our cats (Evie and Lupe) feeding strategy from free feeding to scheduled. The last meal of the day is at 8 pm, then after we wake up and drink a coffee we will feed them again (around 5am). Lupe (less than a year old) wakes up at 3 am every day. First, she was throwing pencils to the floor and walking on top of us so that we will wake up and feed her. We ignored her for a couple of days and she stopped doing that. However, her new strategy is to attack Evie (over 3 years old) from 3 am until we wake up. She will attack Evie for over an hour our two if it is necessary, and will only stop as soon as we wake up. We live in an apartment so it is hard not to do anything to stop them fighting because the neighbors can hear them. We still drink our coffee and wait a while to feed them. But we are really exhausted of waking up at 3 am every day. What can we do 😭?? Please we need help!!!
I’m curious, how are you now and did you solve this problem?
Thank you so much, Jackson, for this one! And thank you, Anael, for bringing up the subject! We’ve just adopted a cat about Chyna’s age (they’ve calculated 2 to 3 years to Lucio. He was found wandering around, but he seems to be a “home cat” - I’m not sure if that’s the right term for it) and we’re having to deal with that same problem. I’ll talk to my husband and son and will ask them to see this particular video, to make our own RRR. I really hope this will help us! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
This worked (at least for me). Thanks so much.
My cat wakes up at 4 to 4:30 every morning! Some days she starts moving stuff around at 2:30 in the morning.
Going to try this to the best we can.
It's just like having kids:
Pretend to be asleep and hope they get bored and go away 🤣
I also have basically a blackout curtain. It has improved my own sleep too 😻