I'm Crashing

[Taz_Zoee]

I hate to bring this up, but has this only been since Maxie is gone?
But I would suggest the vet as well. Good luck! I hope you can get sleep soon.

[elizabethann]

I hate to bring this up, but has this only been since Maxie is gone?
But I would suggest the vet as well. Good luck! I hope you can get sleep soon.

It's actually gotten worse since then. I think because Maxie wore the pants in the family, Cosmo thought twice about disturbing me while I slept (because Maxie always slept with me). Cosmo has come out of his shell since Maxie's death and I think now he thinks he wears the pants in the family and can wake me up whenever he feels like it.

Last night I gave him some tuna before I went to bed. I woke up at 11:10pm (because Fenway shook and I could hear his tags clinking) and then Fenway woke me up at 2am because he had to pee (he's on medication that makes him pee). Cosmo actually woke me up at 5am. So last night it was Fenway that woke me up - not Cosmo.

I give up.

[Sonia59]

Peppito did the same for years and I could not put him in a separate room as my apartment was too small by that time.
Two things that helped: giving plenty of food, as the others said; and use water spray. Peppito is really conditionned to it now: he stops being naughty just by seeing the bottle In the middle of the night it helps calming him from meowing and trying to get us up, but the problem is that aftewards he needs some cuddling to be sure we still love him, so he sits on my partner's chest (7 kg) and starts licking his face and purring like an engine A nightmare!

He is improving with years though. Now he tries to wake us up only in the morning, at 5:00 at the soonest, or 7:00. And most of the time it's because he is hungry.

Jasmine is the opposite: she gives only a very cute "meow?" just after we wake up During the night she plays downstairs alone.