My new kitten has too much energyWhen im sleeping she is always attacking me or jumping up and down.I know she wonts to play but i need to sleep.Please help me!
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Hi Becky.to help your kitten settle down a bit more it's very helpful to play with her for 10-15 minutes right before bedtime with an activity such as chasing a feather toy. The key is to get her to exercise a lot so it tires her out. Think of kittens like young human children.kids have boundless/endless energy and love to run and get into all kinds of things as so with young cats. Therefore, we need to help them understand with time and training what is acceptable.
If it also becomes too much when it's bedtime giving her own place to sleep in another room may help you get some soundful rest until she is a little older.
Petco has a new plug in device that sends out a slight sound or frequency that calms down cats, I just saw it last week at the store,
Play with her and make her run around for a while. That should tire her out.
Well sometimes if you rub there belly that helps! if that don't work then try behind it ears. And if that don't work maybe you should play with her until you were her out!!
Best to put the kitten in another room when you're sleeping.
Take out about half an hour before you go to bed to play with her. Use cat toys only, never your hands and/or feet.
Some people advise putting a kitten in his or her own room while you're asleep. Like a bathroom with the essentials; litter box, food and water (try keeping them on a counter so they're not right by the box), and some toys.and perhaps a bed to sleep in when she needs to. This way she'll still be able to play, but it won't be keeping you up at night.
Don't worry, this too shall pass.
Take his food away so he'll be hungry and feed him just before bed. The first thing kittens do after a tasty satisfying meal is take a nap!
Crate training works great for cats as well as dogs. Put her in the crate (pet carrier, preferrable plastic) when it's bedtime and cover just the front portion with a towel so she knows it's nighttime. It could take some time to get her used to the routine because cats are by nature nighttime animals, which is why she gets so full of energy then. But it will work if you're adamant about it. Crating for behavioral issues works as well just as long as you're leaving her in for hours except at night during sleep. For punishments, a few minutes will work wonders!
My kitten is now 5 months old and what I did for several months is: Put a litter box in the bathroom and shut her in during night hours, cause this is the only place I could close her in and someone wasn't sleeping in the room. She cried for the first few nights, but after that it trained her to sleep nights, now she picks a bed and sleeps at the foot of the bed each night until about 5 minutes before my alarms goes off. She knows I am due to wake up and starts playing, purring.. So try this, it worked for me and I hope it works for you to. Cats are nocturnal, but they can still be trained, good luck.
Kittens are, by nature, energetic. One answer is to get another kitten, as pets in general do better when they have another of their kind to play with - then you don't get "attacked" while you're trying to sleep. Keep the kittens involved in lots of play during the day (leave little balls of newspaper on the floor for them to "attack" and carry around. Leave some loose newspaper on the floor for them to run under and slide on. Put a small box on the floor with one end open for them to run into and "hide" and then "surprise" the other kitten. With one all by itself, however, if you are its sole playmate, then you're stuck being attacked at night, I fear. Enjoy this energy while you have the chance, too. Kittens soon become cats, and cats sleep a large portion of each 24 hours - they're calm and peaceful for the most part, but I enjoy that bubbly energy kittens have. Right now I have three cavorting all over the floor in the room I'm working in and in two adjacent rooms.fun.
I have a remedy that I have been using for years, Kittens can be quite hyper and irrirating if your trying to sleep. Now if your kitten weighs over a pound do the following (I assure you it is completely safe, just ask my cat) take a tylenol pm capsule or pill. Crush it to powder if its a pill and mix it with your cats favorite wet catfood. Make sure you mix it well, not only will this knock them on their but it also takes away their feline headaches which is an added incentive. Good luck.
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While a dog can tolerate a little bit of Tylenol, this is not true of a cat. A dog may develop liver toxicity after ingesting one to two tablets daily for several days, but a cat can die from one extra strength tablet!!
ReplyDeleteA single does of 1/2 to one tablet can cause poisoning affecting the ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen!