The kitten doesn't let you sleep at night: what to do?

As soon as you have acquired the long-awaited kitten, some problems immediately arise, one of which is the pet not sleeping at night. The owners are tired from the day and are sleeping, but he is awake, playing or meowing out of habit. First the cat meows to be let into the bedroom, then to be let out. During the day, people need to go to work or school, but the mustache goes to bed and rests until the evening. And there again...

Of course, young animals are naturally playful, but the kitten must be aware of the limits of its territory, as well as the limits of the master's bedroom. To do this, you need to know what the causes of cat insomnia are and how to deal with it.

Reasons why a cat doesn't sleep at night

To understand why a cat does not sleep at night, you need to realize that the biological clocks of the pet and the owner are significantly different:

The first reason to understand why a kitten does not sleep at night is nature. According to their natural characteristics, cats are predators, and they tend to hunt at night. Pets living in rural areas walk excellently at night and sleep during the day, and this factor does not bother anyone. In the city, the situation is completely different. If the owner allows, the cat will calmly walk around the house at night, sometimes attracting attention to itself.
It is a known fact that cats spend 18 hours a day sleeping, and naturally, during the day they sleep well, and at night they are full of energy, demanding attention and food.
If a kitten has just arrived in the house and does not let you sleep at night, then you need to be patient a little, because it needs time to adapt to the new environment.
If a cat is alone at home during the day, he experiences a lack of communication. He's just lonely. Naturally, he believes that night is the time when the owner could give him at least a little attention. The pet begins to invite him to play, demands affection and communication.
The kitten might be hungry.
Sometimes a cat is pushed to such night wakefulness by an unrealized sexual instinct.
Excessively timid animals, which have been sitting in a secluded place during the day because of the arrival of guests or the activity of another animal located next to it, begin to meow at night and attract attention to themselves.
Maybe something is bothering the cat, she may have health problems. After all, as you know, illnesses make themselves felt more strongly at night.

Feed me!

Some cats' world begins and ends with food. No matter how much or how often they eat, these animals feel like they never got enough food.

For some pets, it is enough to eat twice a day, which is enough to suppress hunger. The unreasonable hunger of gluttonous cats forces them to turn to their owner at night to get another portion of food.

This behavior can be stopped by changing your eating habits. Change how and when you feed your animal. After making sure that the cat receives a sufficient amount of food, you need to divide this amount into several daily meals.

How to distinguish between a healthy night wakefulness and a sick pet

When a pet screams all night, doesn’t sleep and doesn’t let anyone do it, the caring owner wonders if something is bothering him. How to understand where he is healthy and asks for attention, and where he complains about his deplorable condition.

A sick animal, as a rule, meows with altered intonation. She begins to yelp or howl. He is always looking for a place, wants to climb somewhere, walks around the house and meows, cannot sit or lie down quietly.

Solving the problem of a cat being awake at night

The solution to the problem lies not in making the cat sleep at night, but in how to wean him from sleeping during the daytime. It is impossible to force a cat to do anything due to its unique love of freedom. The only way out is to satisfy her needs and try to accustom her to the daily routine necessary for both parties:

If your pet doesn't let you sleep at night, you can try feeding it late in the evening. It is advisable that the food be as high in calories as possible, because digesting it will require more strength and energy. And walking at night requires additional energy from the animal, and in order to save it for digesting food, it will rest and not interfere with its owners doing the same.
When a cat cannot be put to sleep due to lack of attention, there is nothing left to do but give it this attention in the evening. If the pet is lonely, no one communicates with him during the day, then naturally, after the owner comes home from work, he will demand the attention he has not received. This is especially true for anxious animals; you just need to calm the cat down, pet it, talk to it. She will feel the care of her owner and will stop worrying at night.
You need to follow natural instincts and let your pet walk around the territory. Sometimes he feels anxious and needs to make sure everything is okay. When the cat has walked around all the rooms before going to bed, he calmly goes to rest, making sure that nothing threatens him or his owner. If the appearance of an animal in any room is not desirable, then when walking around the space it is better not to go there at all. This way the cat will get used to it and will not become interested in this room.
Another important component in revising your pet’s daily routine is physical activity. If the animal does not allow you to sleep at night, then in order to accustom it to the necessary routine, you need to play with it for as long as possible at night. It is better that he runs for at least an hour and a half. Moreover, it is important to play not only with toys, but also with the owner; after playing enough with candy wrappers and catch-up teasers, the pet will get tired and will be left “without its hind legs.” This way he will sleep until the morning.
If the cat does not sleep at night and demands food, then you need to leave him some food at night, you can use an automatic feeder. But, if the animal begins to feed additionally at night, then the daily food intake should be reduced. This is necessary to prevent the cat from developing obesity.
An extreme method is to try feeding your cat raw meat once a week. In this way, his hunting instincts will be satisfied, and digesting raw food will take more energy. Your pet will have no time for partying at night. Just don't do this too often.
You can try to get another animal. During the day they will play much more actively, and it will be easier to train them to sleep at night without disturbing their owner.
When all of the above methods have not given any result, then in order to calm the active mustache, you can give it the drug “Cat Bayun”. This medication is well suited both for unsatisfied sexual activity in a cat and for small kittens. The product is used twice a day, morning and evening. The drug "Cat Bayun" cannot be used frequently, it is only for emergency cases.

You can try not to react in any way to the cat’s cries at night; she will see that her actions are not producing any results and will stop bothering her owner at night.

Procedure in the bathroom

Because kittens have a shorter sleep cycle than adult cats, exclusion must be considered. Kittens also have immature brains and bladders. Your kitten will likely need to use the litter box at some point during the night.

If your kitten has been trained to use a litter box, make sure she has easy access to it. Don't place the litter box too close to your kitten's bed. The smell will be strong and will disturb the kitten's sleep. Just make sure your kitten has time if he wakes up during the night.

If your kitten is not yet fully litter trained, you will need to use training pads. Before you put your kitten to bed, advise him to go to the toilet. Place the kitten in the litter box and use calming and attractive command words.

You can also stimulate your kitten's need to eliminate, just as its mother would. Take a damp, unscented wipe and gently wipe your cat's bottom with it. This will remind the kitten that it is being licked by its mother to encourage elimination.

If your kitten has an empty bladder and bowels, he will likely sleep longer. He may not make it through the whole 8-hour night. Kittens' bodies are too small for this. However, it will minimize sleep interruptions.

What not to do when your kitten won't sleep at night

Sometimes owners driven to despair resort to not entirely humane methods in order to get at least a little peace:

When a pet does not allow you to sleep at night, it happens that the owner, trying to calm the animal, locks it either in the bathroom or in another room. In this way, it will not be possible to accustom a cat to rest at night, because it will begin to run around and scream even more, not understanding why it was treated so unfairly.
When the owner, dreaming of a night's sleep, sprays the pet with water, he, of course, gets the long-awaited rest, but not for long until he licks himself. He won’t do this for a long time, then the noise will start again. The cat does not feel guilty; such methods seem offensive to him.
Sometimes the owner follows the cat’s lead and begins to play with it, caress it, and feed it. In no case should you act this way; she will get used to it, and then life will become even more fun.

You can try covering the windows in the house with heavy curtains at night, this way the morning will take longer for the cat, and the owner will have a little extra time to soak in bed.

When a healthy cat does not allow its owner to rest peacefully at night, this means that it cannot adapt to the human regime in any way, but lives under the influence of natural instincts. If the pet is not sleeping, then the owner must behave calmly and competently.

When a person behaves aggressively towards an animal, it will be even worse, firstly, the cat will be offended by such behavior and will become even more indignant about this. Secondly, everything that happens will only amuse him, because he has achieved what he wanted: the owner’s attention. Over time, cats will calm down and become less playful; you need to endure a little and retrain your pet to your rhythm of life.

What can interfere with sleep

There are other reasons why an animal behaves this way.

A cat most often does not allow its owners to sleep due to boredom. The reason may be the pet’s insufficient activity during the day, then it is in the evening that he begins to be awake, wants to play, and thereby prevents him from sleeping peacefully. A cat can jump on its owner while sleeping, and the owner, while asleep, will experience shock. The pet does all this not out of malice, he’s just bored, and has more than enough unspent energy. He needs somewhere to put his energy, especially before the age of 3. You need to play with him a lot, you can buy different balls, balls, lures on sticks and make him play even when he wants to sleep during the day. At least 1.5-2 hours of such frantic activity for young ones and up to an hour for adults, and at night both the cat and the owner will sleep soundly. It is clear that he may not sleep the whole night, then it is important to let the pet know where it is possible to make noise. For example, hiss at him when he starts to get active in the bedroom.
When a pet is alone in the house all day, he needs attention and communication, he becomes bored, since entertaining himself is not always fun. Therefore, when the owner of the house, at night, the animal believes that this is just the time to pay attention to it and play. It begins to interfere with sleep, sometimes it can even scratch and bite its owner.
Often the cause of insomnia in cats can be fear or fear of something. For example, a cat sleeps and wakes up from any rustle, this means that it is tense and afraid of something, so it is always on the alert. In such a situation, she will not fall asleep until everyone is asleep. Cats can even be afraid of their owners if they hit her or swing at her. They are very touchy and can be under constant stress because of this. You need to treat the animal kindly.
Another cause of fear is electrical appliances, for example, a pet saw a vacuum cleaner, hair dryer or mixer at night. He immediately becomes furious and can start meowing and jumping. In this case, you should try not to leave these devices in a place visible to the cat, so as not to provoke him.
Pets are also very afraid of water, so when their fur gets wet, it loses its warming functions, then the pet walks around the house for a long time, trying to warm up. So it’s better to bathe your cat during the day so that this doesn’t happen at night.
Waking at night often occurs due to unfulfilled sexual instinct. This means that the cat needs to be sterilized or taken to a cat.
If the pet is very timid and often hides in a corner when guests come, then at night it tries to regain the attention of its owners and tries in every possible way to attract it.