Sigh.
We've been starting to discipline Mim for some very mild behavioral stuff. She's not a bad kitty by any stretch, but she is a needy kitty, attention-wise, and she's doing all the stuff that Olive & Squeaky did when they were newborns-- re, getting into absolutely everything, climbing counters and knocking crap everywhere, and tearing up the carpet near our bedroom door. Thankfully, with the four scratching posts and kitty tower around the apartment, she's left the furniture alone.
But aside from the tearing up the carpet thing, she's scratching on the bedroom door at all hours of the night and morning, begging to be let in. She's not hungry-- she gets fed right before we go to bed, plus we space out her dry food twice during the day, starting at 7:30am. But from the time we go to bed to the time we get up and even AFTER we feed her, it's scratch scratch meow scratch. I'm tired of it, but J is absolutely fed up. She just doesn't seem to be outgrowing it like Olive and Squeaky did.
So far, we've tried the spray stuff that cat's apparently don't like (no response), double sided tape on the door (no response plus more noise), and squirt bottles with water. The squirt bottles are quite effective in keeping her off the counter, but she seems to think it's some sort of game when it comes to the bedroom door.
So. Haaaaaaaalp.
As for the other kitties... they're fine. Olive's on new eyedrops for her swollen eyes. Nox alternates between being the most chill kitty in the world and being a batshit insane black berzerker who sounds like a horse rampaging through the apartment when he runs. I've started to hide all of my pens from him, because those are his very favorite things to steal. And he stole a foil-wrapped condom the other day-- it had to be him. He's the only one with hide/hoard tendencies. We've torn the apartment apart-- no condom, no bits of foil anywhere. No evidence that it'd been gnawed on. Nothin'. Our apartment isn't huge, so we are notably mystified. One day, we will find his hoard, and it will be filled with pens, plastic bottle caps, ping pong balls, a catnip mouse, and a shiny gold condom.
But aside from the tearing up the carpet thing, she's scratching on the bedroom door at all hours of the night and morning, begging to be let in. She's not hungry-- she gets fed right before we go to bed, plus we space out her dry food twice during the day, starting at 7:30am. But from the time we go to bed to the time we get up and even AFTER we feed her, it's scratch scratch meow scratch. I'm tired of it, but J is absolutely fed up. She just doesn't seem to be outgrowing it like Olive and Squeaky did.
So far, we've tried the spray stuff that cat's apparently don't like (no response), double sided tape on the door (no response plus more noise), and squirt bottles with water. The squirt bottles are quite effective in keeping her off the counter, but she seems to think it's some sort of game when it comes to the bedroom door.
So. Haaaaaaaalp.
As for the other kitties... they're fine. Olive's on new eyedrops for her swollen eyes. Nox alternates between being the most chill kitty in the world and being a batshit insane black berzerker who sounds like a horse rampaging through the apartment when he runs. I've started to hide all of my pens from him, because those are his very favorite things to steal. And he stole a foil-wrapped condom the other day-- it had to be him. He's the only one with hide/hoard tendencies. We've torn the apartment apart-- no condom, no bits of foil anywhere. No evidence that it'd been gnawed on. Nothin'. Our apartment isn't huge, so we are notably mystified. One day, we will find his hoard, and it will be filled with pens, plastic bottle caps, ping pong balls, a catnip mouse, and a shiny gold condom.