Tgillmeister
Lairian
- Joined
- May 31, 2022
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She’s been the sweetest, most well behaved cat up until recently. She is very cuddly, will lay with us on the couch constantly and always slept with us until recently. Instead of sleeping in bed with us, she started sleeping downstairs on the couch. She wakes us up for her food around 5am every morning and after she eats she used to go right back to bed. Now ever since she started sleeping downstairs she won’t go back to sleep with us after eating. Instead, she cries/purrs while walking all over us. We’ve shut her out of the room but she just continues to cry. My husband gets up with her and goes downstairs and she’ll eventually settle down and cuddle on the couch and go back to sleep with him. This morning she didn’t rest until she got me to come downstairs too. It’s almost like she prefers sleeping downstairs suddenly and wants us to join her there. We don’t want to start new bad habits but we’re so exhausted that we end up giving in for our sleep/sanity. I’m not sure if she’s just testing our limits in her ‘teenage’ phase?
The only things I could think of that could be upsetting her is I’ve traveled twice recently (she was fine when I was gone) and we recently lost our dog. They weren’t the closest of companions but he was diabetic and had a strict morning routine so I feel like she fell in line with him. We are also getting ready to move and having been packing a lot. I’m not sure if any of the above could be upsetting her? We make sure to feed her before bed and work from home all but 1 day of the week so she gets a lot of attention during the day.
I appreciate any advice on this! We want to try to nip it in the bud before it becomes a bigger or permanent issue!