Night-time antics!

[The Duchess]

we have to shut our sitting room door every night as it's over my neighbours bedrooms...he asked if we had cats 'cos he could hear them in the "morning" 

As he's got a 4 yo daughter that stays with him at weekends, I think he's used to fairly early starts but not the thundering around at 3:00a.m. like it's Brands Hatch 

[Kittybabe (Ruth)]

Lexy was at it at 5am this morning. She was so loud I got a thump on the floor  the neighbour downstairs who had clearly been woken up   

Its easier to give up. Seriously. Don't fight it, don't argue with them, don't shout at them, just agree that they own the house, the carpet and all component parts and you'll get a good night's sleep. Well that's the theory anyway.

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

I sympathise as I was woken at 4am last night/this morning by a meowing, bouncing Mosi.  Then Jaffa woke up and by the time Mosi had realised no-one was listening to him and shut up, Jaffa was pacing around my pillow purring and trying to get under the duvet, and generally being totally unsettled.  I put up with them both until nearly 6am at which point I was so desperate for sleep that I bunged them both out the back with a treat and they both shut up.

[dolcetta46]

  Can just imagine the scene Jo, with Shadow believing himself to be one of the cats...
We live in 3rd floor flat and Oliver just took after us and always get extra active after midnight, that's when he reacts with mad passion when we play.  I have to calm him (in vain) sometimes as he keeps on hurtling the whole 6kg of himself into the air then come thudding down, and the old lady downstairs is extra sensitive to the noise. 
I keep reminding myself I shouldn't work him up so much so late, and with him "tiring" with some play doesn't work at all, the more he play the more he gets excited and hyper!!

[blackcat]

It's even noisier when the dog joins in too. Up till now i have not had neighbours on the side where the stairs are, but now I do. I often wonder what they think is going on when the cats and Shadow are playing chasy on the stairs in the dead of night. Fortunately they, too have a dog - a tiny little thing that they 'rescued' while they were living in Spain, from whence they have just returned.

[Dark Moon]

I sleep poorly, if at all. Yet, when I awake from whatever sleep I have had, all the fuzzy balls and such are strewn around me. My Annabelle has been busy! And, by the by, I have always said that he who spoke of the fog creeping in on little cat paw never owned a cat. Elephants would make less noise as they rampage up and down the stairs. Over my head (sometimes on it - we don't all have perfect aim!). Across the room. Ricocheting off the chair. And down the stairs again!

[Catjane]

Last night my brood decided to 'stay up' late!  They were thundering up and down the stairs, and Shanti and Sabby have a habit of miaowing loudly with an underlying 'chirrup' when they have 'caught' a toy mousie!  They like me to admire their catch!  However, I was far too tired last night (just as well).  I woke this morning to find that the bathroom mats had been removed from the bathroom and bundled up on the landing.  The bath was now the home to a host of toys, mainly the catnip ones.  And all their balls were scattered around the house!    I keep their toys in a mini chest of drawers which they can open to get them out, so they must have been really busy last night!  Daft things!  And now they are all worn out, it seems, as even Sabby is curled up indoors! We'll have to have a vigorous game of fetch later on just to tire them out for tonight!