I may kill my cat.

[prettyshrub]

 For the last few weeks, he has taken to scratching my bed at about 6 am, thus, waking me up, thus making me tired and crabby. Yelling and smacking him have no long-term effect.

I love my cat, but I also love my sleep. Being woken up two hours before I have to be up is maddening.

Comments

[herazade]

I feel your pain, miranda did that a lot in the summer when the sun was raising at 5am. Hum what would help? .... A cage? That would probably only lead to meowing a lot. Does she sleep with you? If not perhaps you can just shut her out of your bedroom. Or would that be just more meowing?

[prettyshrub]

If I shut the doors, there would be both meowing and scratching. Not delicate scratching, the kind that marks up wood. Brat.

I'm going to get some of that soothing stuff CJ was talking about and see if it helps.