Hi guys, quick question about our 9-month old house cat.
Long and short of it is she very, very persistently wants to visit us through the night at various intervals to purr and lick and generally be effectionate. If If the bedroom door is shut, she will scratch and scuff persistently until I open it.
If we pop her on the floor, she'll immediately come back up and start again, and this can go on for five, six, seven repetitions until she's delivered her effection!
Whilst it's lovely, it's also a little dispruptive, and on a night when we're both particularly tired I may put her on a "living room lock down" where she spends the final couple of hours of a night in the front room! My main worry really though, aside from tiredness, is if we're neglecting anything that makes this behaviour more pronounced? She's never as effectionate through the day, or on an afternoon when we get back from work. But for some reason once the lights are out, it begins!
Not sure whether it makes any difference or not but the focus of this behaviour is my girlfriend, not me, and almost daily she finds a toy mouse in her handbag!
So, any ideas as to why this behaviour exists and anything we could be doing to help her if she's displaying distress in a very positive (but assertive) way?
Cheers