Jen, like Miss Buffy, I think Gigi is testing your limits to see what she can get away with. Keep ignoring her whining as she'll possibly get worse before she gets better (we are up to half an hour with Buffy, but I'm sure she'll have to give it up soon!).

I like Catnapper's suggestion to walk her in the mornings. Are you able to do that instead of playing inside for the hour? I'd love to do that with our two, but we get up at 5.15am as it is, so we play in the mornings and walk after work.

For the jumping, try turning your back and ignoring her when she does it and face her again when she behaves. Might help??? Ours hate having the attention taken away from them ... last night Buffy didn't feel she was getting enough attention, so she jumped into the cats' bed. She knows not to do that! I asked her to jump out, which she did, and returned to what I was doing. It wasn't enough for her, so she turned around and jumped right back in again and stared at me in defiance. I cracked up laughing! I got her out again and 20 seconds later she jumped back in just to test me! She got a stern command to move her little rear end, and she cracked the sads and went to her bed