This is rage bait for sure. My dogs will happily snore cuddled in bed all day. My cat is demanding food at all hours even though he gets fed at exactly 8am and 5pm every day. We call the noise he makes machine gun meows because they are fast, loud, and relentless. The spray bottle lives on my bedside so I can get some sleep.
With my cats, whenever they do something bad I just say “no!” And I go and pick them up and put them somewhere else. Eventually they learn and when you say no they just stop whatever they’re doing and go do something else. Works better than training with fear, imo.
I also have dry food available for my cats at all times and I only portion wet food. That’s stopped them from asking for food during the night. Probably not a good tip for households that also have dogs, however.
So nowadays I rarely get woken up. When I do it’s either because I haven’t played enough with them or because of some accident like tipping over something or whatever.
I have basically the same training technique. I have one cat that doesn’t eat all their wet food immediate. When the others have tried to jump in, that no makes them freeze, then lift and remove without pets or other recognition, eventually they stop trying.
Cats aren’t untrainable but they aren’t dogs so it requires different techniques and expectations.
For keeping the dry food away from dogs, I keep their free feeders in the cat trees but that means getting the ones that have a large enough middle platform.
I also feed them at night because they can’t make me going to sleep. They will make mad dashes to the area where they get wet food if they think I’m going to bed.
I don’t know if your schedule supports this, but you might have better luck feeding him smaller meals more frequently! My vet said that the “ideal” schedule would be like 10 small meals a day since that would mimic how they eat in the wild but that’s pretty unrealistic for basically everyone unless you get an automatic feeder. And then they will just cuddle with the feeder instead of you lol.
This is rage bait for sure. My dogs will happily snore cuddled in bed all day. My cat is demanding food at all hours even though he gets fed at exactly 8am and 5pm every day. We call the noise he makes machine gun meows because they are fast, loud, and relentless. The spray bottle lives on my bedside so I can get some sleep.
Your dog doesn’t poop?
Get an auto feeder for your cat.
With my cats, whenever they do something bad I just say “no!” And I go and pick them up and put them somewhere else. Eventually they learn and when you say no they just stop whatever they’re doing and go do something else. Works better than training with fear, imo.
I also have dry food available for my cats at all times and I only portion wet food. That’s stopped them from asking for food during the night. Probably not a good tip for households that also have dogs, however.
So nowadays I rarely get woken up. When I do it’s either because I haven’t played enough with them or because of some accident like tipping over something or whatever.
I have basically the same training technique. I have one cat that doesn’t eat all their wet food immediate. When the others have tried to jump in, that no makes them freeze, then lift and remove without pets or other recognition, eventually they stop trying.
Cats aren’t untrainable but they aren’t dogs so it requires different techniques and expectations.
For keeping the dry food away from dogs, I keep their free feeders in the cat trees but that means getting the ones that have a large enough middle platform.
I also feed them at night because they can’t make me going to sleep. They will make mad dashes to the area where they get wet food if they think I’m going to bed.
Kitty 🥰 Also did you take this photo during his meow attack?
I don’t know if your schedule supports this, but you might have better luck feeding him smaller meals more frequently! My vet said that the “ideal” schedule would be like 10 small meals a day since that would mimic how they eat in the wild but that’s pretty unrealistic for basically everyone unless you get an automatic feeder. And then they will just cuddle with the feeder instead of you lol.