Chester use to paw and nip at me to wake me up in the middle of the night... JUST because he wanted some attention. After the third night of being woke up like that, I put him out of the bedroom and shut the door (I am a GROCH when I am woke up).. He learned real fast, it just took that one time and he stopped waking me up. That was back in those days, l-o-n-g ago when he was a only child.