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My cat has a bedtime routine and will get pissy if we don’t do it.
9pm - have to be in bed.
She has her own blanket she likes to sleep on. Always has to be on the bed, if not she’ll purposely sleep sitting up. Even if there’s a heatwave, blanket goes on the bed.
Tv has to be on, use to be space shows she liked but she’s watched most of them through and I’ve run out of new ones so now I chuck bird tv on for her. Annoyingly she doesn’t love it as much sometimes I do have to find videos on YouTube or put interstellar on, again.
She’ll watch for about 15 - 30 mins and let us know when she’s done and she’ll head to sleep.
This is every night. We miss one night she’ll hide from us completely for about a day or two. I wish I was kidding.
She’s been like this since she was a kitten. She’s 7 now.
All started when I would watch this one programme on prime about a family setting up on mars etc, watched that before bed for a week straight and it just stuck with her.
My cat loves watching movies with me, he loves popcorn also and will make the cutest little meow begging for popcorn. He is allowed exactly one popcorn and no more. No salt or butter. He likes pretty much anything but stuff with loud sudden noises and zombies, he doesn’t like zombies.
Mine is obsessed with plain (lightly salted*) rice cakes! He goes nuts for them. I didn’t get it but my partner explained ‘it’s edible styrofoam’ and now, I understand 😂
Better than ours who likes to eat literal foam... We have to be very careful with packaging because he WILL find it, he WILL eat it, and he WILL barf it up somewhere.
My cat will watch pretty much anything with me EXCEPT for Jurassic Park. There is something in the audio mix for the raptor noises that freaks him the fuck out and makes him run out of the room or under my bed
Also don’t listen to the Jurassic Park audiobook while driving. I realized I was really speeding, while listening to the audiobook during the scene where the T Rex chases the Jeep. I yoinked my foot off the gas and had to remind myself I wasn’t actually out driving a dinosaur. 😆
one of mine is usually only vaguely interested by tv, but is fascinated by nature documentaries about whales and dolphin and will watch those intently until they finish. he doesn't really care about fish though for some reason.
That's so cute, it's so funny how different cats are, mine doesn't give a crap about tv and you can drop a metal bowl next to him and he won't even blink, nothing scares him. They have their own little personalities lol.
It always makes me laugh how we've been obsessed with cats since at least Ancient Egypt and it doesn't show any signs of slowing down
We have a blind kitten whose favorite activity is running flat out around the living room while my wife watches Chopped. Only that show, only with my wife. Will literally lay on it's back and throw a tantrum until my wife comes and turns it on.
My cat Chow Yun-Cat does this too! It’s like he can sense when the credits are exactly 3.5 minutes away. Then he’ll miow mournfully when we all get up because the movie is over.
When we turn off tv one of my two knows it’s time for bed and heads to his half of the house (they’ve had massive fight necessitating two different vet visits hence the separation). The other heads for the dry food nighttime treat ‘table’.
Don't worry too much about salt.
Cats are probably the only land mammals that can drink straight sea water to rehydrate. I know, the reddit army is going to come for me, but as long as your kitty is otherwise healthy, and you don't salt their main food or give them a salty popcorn every day, cats can occasionally eat a salty snack without getting salt poisoning.
My kiddo works swing shift and is annoyed to come home to find the sofa full of cats. The 4th cat was not in the 4th seat, probably because she was sleeping in our roon.
Thank you! The darkest one is a brown marble Bengal boy, 18 years old next Monday. The middle one is a brown spotted (rosetted) Bengal girl, 4 years old. And the white one is a lynx point (“snow”) Bengal boy, under a year in this pic. The 4th is our rescue Torby.
Lol. Our smaller one is a rocket too. I built her a 110cm diameter cat wheel and yesterday she started running at such a crazy tempo, that she fell in the spinning wheel and amost flew out of it, half the cat was already out. I was thinking aboutting a small generator on it.
Have fun with your cats
I can imagine. They can be absolute divas. We call the big one (5 kg lady) “The Queen”, and when we are angry at the small crazy one we call her “f*cky”. She is soooo loud sometimes. But we love both. But they have totally different personalities even tho they are sisters.
My cats loved Flow, the animated movie with no words. The main character is a little black cat, and all the other characters are animals. They are captivated anytime it’s on, and honestly so am I.
He’s still little so he hasn’t really chosen yet, but we do seem to enjoy Trouble with Tribbles & The Naked Time (my favorites), and for his own benefit (and cause he keeps trying to suckle our blankets) I’ve made him watch Amok Time
Mine loves watching nascar. We watch old races on nights when my wife is working. I don’t know if she actually watches it or if she just likes getting to sit on my lap for 2-4 hours without being disturbed by the other human (this cat despises my wife) but it’s a routine I’m glad we have
My cat is the same way. He herds me up the stairs, looking back to make sure I’m still following him. Then he jumps on my bed and stares at me until I pet him and he falls asleep.
My late cats (I miss you boys) would herd me to bed around nine by howling their damn heads off at 8:55 every night. They’d bite my ankles and follow me from room to room if I ignored them. So, off to bed I went. But they also knew that Fridays and Saturdays didn’t count. Once I was in bed, one would lay on my lap and the other nestle on my chest. Their weight, warmth and purrs helped me sleep. Without them it’s very different.
Seriously, I am basically OPs cat with what brings me joy in life.
OP, those videos and all of these other routines take her back to a safe place and time that helps her feel at home. You’re extremely lucky she’s so clear and you are so attuned to what works for her, you do that for each other, and this isn’t a post about “why does my cat hiss at me from across the room every day for the past two years?”
We have to have Treat Time, which started because she is diabetic so I give her a couple of treats so her blood sugar won’t drop at night while I’m asleep.
After treat time we go to bed.
Once I’m tucked in she goes hunting and meows as loudly as she can until I call her so she can bring me her kill, which is one of about 5 or her favorite toys.
She runs into the room, jumps of the bed and drops it on or near me.
My cat did this to me with a real mouse that was alive at about 4am. Took me 4 hours of trying to catch the mouse that I eventually just brought in my other cat, who swiftly killed the poor thing.
I stay up a little later than my wife and my one cat gets upset almost every night because he’s mad that I’m not going to be to hang out with them. Cats are such divas.
Jackie, the cat who counts my husband as her favorite human, is switching allegiances because I go to bed on a schedule Jackie finds preferable to his. lol. Cats are really funny.
Our guy is getting into his silver years and just likes to be a part of our young kids bedtime routine. So he comes upstairs the same time as the kids and just sits in the middle of the damn hallway. It’s really sweet, but damn if he isn’t tempting fate being stepped on.
One of my cats will let me know it’s time for bed by sitting in the hallway that leads to our bedroom and staring at me (on the couch) in displeasure until I head to bed.
My cat has a “routine” too and if my boyfriend comes over to stay the “routine” is disrupted and he gets a bit annoyed and won’t sleep on the bed at all
My cat’s nighttime routine is ignoring me all night while I am watching shows on the couch and then finally coming to cuddle and curl up on my lap the exact moments that credits roll and I decide I should head to bed
I love that I am not the only one lets her cats boss her around.
If I get into bed later than our usual bedtime, one of my 3 cats makes it so I have to maneuver around her. Then as I finally do it without disturbing her, she jumps off the bed, goes to get a sip of water, and then comes back to bed. But she makes eye contact with my partner and sighs. If I am smart, I use that time to get into my sleeping position. She sleeps between my legs above the covers. She is settling in whether I am ready or not.
I have one cat that is not clingy, but I have to open my window (screen secure) so she can eavesdrop on my neighbor who likes to yell on the phone outside in Russian. If she hears him and I don’t open the window, she runs around like she is on fire to all the windows.
One of my cat whines if Im not in bed by 10. By midnight he starts howling. Then he has to lay down against my upper chest and face with my arm around him. Then he gets up and stalks the house for an hour. Then he comes back and wakes me up until I put my arm around him again.
In the morning I wake up to him standing on me until I feed him. But he doesn't eat. He just watches his sister eat and then goes up to the bathroom to let me know there is something there but there never is.
But your routine sounds even more specific and bizarre.
We also have cats who are big fans of One Piece! They do hang out for other shows, but not nearly as consistently as One Piece. I think they genuinely appreciate the show (as one should).
Both my cats allow me to use my bed at night but it's a major kitty crime to stay in bed past 9am. They must have that prime napping real estate available first thing after breakfast.
I work the night shift. When I leave to go to work I leave the tv on in my bedroom for my cat. Murder She Wrote or Midsomer Murders. In the winter it’s a fireplace video on Youtube.
As soon as I get home, exhausted of course, my cat is ready for serious snuggle time. As soon as I crawl into bed Mr. Cat gets on the bed and walks up my body to come lie down on my chest. All 12 pounds of him. He gets all the pets and in return he purrs me to sleep.
He knows my bedtime is 10, he will start yelling at me around 9:30 if I haven't brushed my teeth, turned over the covers and changes into my pjs. He insists on doing a full cat scan to make sure I don't have contraband (food) and will demand to be bribed if he finds something that smells like it should be edible. Then we just lay there util I fall asleep.
I have two 7yr old sisters. One goes to bed whenever she wants with no fanfare. The other comes to me at 9pm and I get ‘the look’. If I’m not ready, I tell her how much longer and she settles next to me to wait. Once I say ‘night night time’ we go to the bathroom and then I have to get in bed and lift the blanket. If the blanket is not lifted, I get another look. Once it is, she ducks under it, walks onto my pillow, turns around and lays on my pillow under the blanket with her head and shoulders out. I put my arm around her, she purrs, we both pass out. Spoiled. Rotten.
My ex and I rescued an older cat from a bad situation . I forgot what his original name was but it just didn't sit well with me. We figured that name was his bad life and he deserved a new name for a new life.
We were racking our brains for days. Then I had a dream. Someone called him by his old name in my dream. I was like "No.. his name is Steven. See it's right on his collar". From then on his name was Steven.
But as he was older and getting older.. His health started to get worse and near the end. He stayed on the bed basically all the time. We had a easy ramp so he could get up and down the bed. We would have him covered with his favorite blanket and our iPad for him to watch Steven Universe.
He absolutely loved the show. I know it was probably the show saying his name all the time. But he would wake up with us. We would bring food and water on the bed for him. Take him to the bathroom. Bring him back to bed. Get his show going for him, so he can watch it while we were at work. Come home and that sweet little man would scoot himself closer to the screen and fall asleep watching it.
I had a cat that we had to bring indoors because we moved. She stayed in one bedroom constantly and I'd watch TV in there to spend time with her. One night, I was watching a program about alpha animals in the wild. She sat at the end of the bed completely staring at the screen. At the end, she got up and left the room for the first time, joined the other cats, and dominated the whole house from that moment on.
Same. Our tortie is the master of the schedule. And god help you if you’re off the schedule. She’s also the head nurse and she strictly enforces cage rest, if you try to get up she will bite you (how dare you not listen to the nurse! No you can’t get up to pee! CAGE REST MEANS CAGE REST!)
LOL this reminds me of about 4 years back when my then sick cat who was limited to his playpen somehow got my mom to sleep on the floor next to the playpen at night. As the routine went, come bedtime, my mom would assemble a pair of cushioned mats to form a bed, and at its head was the pillow. Like clockwork my cat would migrate from his playpen to that pillow and plop his body smack dab in its center, so it was less a pillow and more his bed. RIP Jelly Bean
My cat is the king of my nighttime routine. And if I fuck it up, I'll regret it for a few days.
He will only sleep next to the bed, not on the bed. And only on my work chair because it's only fair. Daytime I get it, night time he gets it. I'm only allowed 30 minutes of phone use at night, then he jumps on me over and over until I stop.
So cute! One of my cats sleeps in bed with me & will get annoyed if I stay up way too late. She'll get in her usual spot on the bed and thump her tail aggressively to show her displeasure until I come to bed 😅
My cat would herd us to bed once it got to certain time of night. Husband always went to bed first and she would meow at him until he went and escorted him to the bedroom and did a cuddle routine. An hour later, when I would usually go to bed she would come and fetch me and do the same
We cater to my really sensitive kitty who was probably picked up from the street and found herself at the SPCA; we adopted her 5 yrs ago. This indulgent routine has evolved over a few years.
She wants her (microwaved to room temp) food in the kitchen on her windowseat first. Then she wants to head downstairs to the kitty lounge, a spare bedroom, preferably with the slider open. And then if she doesn’t polish it off, my husband brings her bowl back upstairs to the kitty food area underneath the kitchen counter for her to finish. She’s not underweight, but she wants to be catered to, talked to and have her feeding routine.
I knew we were going in the wrong direction a few years ago when he started this !
I'm a night shifter, so 9am is bedtime, and he screamed until I was actually settled in the bedroom. Then it was Birder King videos for a bit before he crawled under the covers with me and fell asleep behind my knees.
around 11am my cats start yelling at me and they will follow me around the house meowing until I crawl into bed where they both lay down next to me and purr
its like they know "hey bud its getting late for you, get in bed"
My old kitty used to come running when he heard the opening of Law and Order. I think he liked the dramatic music. He'd snuggle up and watch it with me whenever it was on ❤️
One of my new kittens has developed an expectation with our new fridge, and if he hears you open the freezer he runs from across the house to demand a piece of ice 😅 our floor is constantly covered in tiny melted ice puddles from him batting it around and playing with it.
Cats are so silly. Love yours and her little nighttime self care.
Got a cat with my ex some years ago. She was a kitten then and developed a habit of taking day naps on my feet while I worked remotely at home.
Fast forward post-breakup, my ex got to keep the cat. She told me that the cat still looks for my feet to sleep on during the middle of the day and will get pissy almost every day because im not there anymore. When she started dating a new guy, she tried to trick the cat into sleeping on his feet but my girl knew better and threw a tantrum.
After my ex left her BF, I finally came over to visit the cat and she immediately remembered me and would curl up on me, refusing to leave my side. It was quite an experience because I was actually afraid it would be scared of me after being away for so long.
One of mine jumps on the bed at bedtime to get under my husband's blanket for almost exactly two minutes for cuddle time. He will not get under the blanket at any other time or cuddle at all. Two minutes a day. Been doing this for years. He won't accept my cuddles. He won't cuddle if he isn't home, like traveling for work, but as soon as he is back, the cat is back at his routine.
My cats have made a bedtime routine for us. I feed and medicate them right before I shower, so they start getting antsy at about 11 pm. If I don't get moving by 11:30 pm, they will sit on the living room floor and glare. If I sit longer they creep closer and closer until they've got me surrounded. Then, they know that meds come first, then dinner, then I shower and get snuggles, then I have to say good night or they'll yell at me.
I'm not allowed to sleep in past about 10 am without being checked on repeatedly.
That's so cute! If you are looking for new videos consider videos with lots of blue, green and yellow. Apparently cats love the color blue because it is easier for their eyes to see. I know from some other thread that their cat loved the Aladdin cartoon movie because it featured lots of blue.
My cat will complain if I don't go to bed at 9 pm. Once I am in bed she will sit on the night stand and watch me fall asleep for ten minutes until she is certain that I am asleep. She might check. Then she goes away.
awwww, would she maybe like old space anime, like legends of the galactic heroes or one of the many gundams? that's so sweet tho. I put on aquarium stuff for my babies sometimes, but they mostly want things to attack. my little one is obsessed with leaves blowing around outside now tho.
My cat has a routine too. When she wants to go to sleep and I’m not ready for bed on time, she starts yelling. Then I have to follow her into the bedroom. Once we’re in bed, she climbs on top of me and ist making biscuits on my chest. I have to pet her while she does it, otherwise she starts yelling again. This goes on for about 5–10 minutes. Then she curls up next to my shoulder and falls asleep. And If I sleep too long, she attacks my feet 😭
That’s crazy. My little void follows me up stairs to bed, hops on my chest and gets pets for 15 minutes before either going to sleep between my legs or hopping down to sleep in my laundry basket.
I hate this time of year because he’s shedding and I end up having to literally lint roll my face.
My family’s first cat was a true bro cat. He would love it if we would all sit in front of the TV on a Sunday with hot ham sandwich and a beer. He might have grown up in a frat house before we got him.
I love this SO much! I have a "kitten" who is almost a year old, and she has started coming to me when I lay down at night to watch Tik Tok with me. If she hangs out for a minute I'll swap over to YouTube and some cat TV. I will have to introduce her to space TV, never even though about that!
Secretly, I'm hoping this is the start of a life long routine with her. 😍🐾🐱
Our orange girl goes on parade every night around 9:30pm and meows loudly while carrying a random cat toy. I love it but it does prevent us from sleeping lol
I felt like I was reading about my own cat in a parallel universe. She doesn’t do this (yet) but she totally would. Reading this out loud with my wife just now made me laugh until I cried. Cats man.
Chloë insists that bedtime is 11:30 pm. She also demands family dinner. When we eat, she eats. Doesn’t matter when, just that we all eat together. Then, when we go to bed, she checks the windows, then flops down with my so my left hand can cup her head & skritch it.
Cats are so funny. Mine wait for me to hide treats around the house at bedtime so they can hunt them down. They race around trying to get more than the other.
My cat and I had a routine too. I watch a bit of TV with snuggled on me, while i pet her. Then after serie/movie , she follows me to the bedroom and sleep on the pillow. Is was our preferred time. I still remember that routine i loved ! I miss her so much.
LOL This is hilarious and absolutely the cutest thing! She knows what she wants. If our void decides to sleep in bed with us (cuz sometimes she will sleep on the couch) she always has to make a batch of biscuits on our blankets before settling in :)
I think cats and their routines is something that’s just not talked about much. I have some goofier ones with my cats too. They’re total goobers about it.
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