Conference misery::feline_v1

    Forgot to tell you, we got them on Saturday, Oct 8.
    
    Cathy

    Cathy,
    
    I would say keep the breakables away for at least another 3 weeks.
    Where the kittens are still getting used to the house, they won't
    do much when you are around, once they get comfortable with you
    they should slow down at night.
    
    My 2 that I got Sept. 28, still run around at night, but they tucker
    themselves out by 1:00 am.  
    
    Have fun.
    
    Kathy
    

    Tristan used to do that all the time.  As soon as the lights went
    out -- off he went!  We started playing with him in the evenings
    to tucker him out a bit, and that did the trick.  He'd get pooped
    out and go right to sleep.  We don't make a nightly ritual of it,
    but if he seems wound up, or if he's been sleeping all day, we try
    to play a bit before we go to bed so we won't be kept up all night.
    
    Good luck with them,
    Karen, Tristan and Tenzing.

    
    
    Mine are 1 1/2 and still at it although for shorter periods of time.
    They start about 10:00 before lights out and use the living room
    as part of the race track.  It is not safe to sit or particularly
    lie on the couch.   Best defense is to go upstairs and pick up the
    pieces in the morning.

    It's hard to say because you have only had these babies
    a short while.  Some cats go to sleep when their person
    does - lights out = all quiet.  I am lucky enough to have
    a house full that settles down when I do, "most of the time."
    With, of couse, the exception - last night!  GRRRRRRRR
    Sasha decided that she didn't want Misha on "her" (my)
    bed, and talked, and talked, until I woke up (it was 2 am, GRRRRRrrrr)
    and chased her with a slipper out of the room.  Good thing
    no one saw that action - me chasing a 7 lb. cat with a 4 oz.
    slipper.
    
    Anyway, some cats will adapt to your routine, some will not.
    I think that cats under the age of 2 are more active and will
    play more - after about 18 months - 2 years, they seem to 
    mature and settle down some.   I find males, under the age
    of 2, to be very busy - less so as they reach full growth.
    
    E.T.

    My older 4 cats don't ever give me a problem at night unless I
    accidently try to stretch my feet at night and bang Taffy, then
    she lets me have it.  The two new kittens who are almost 8 weeks
    old don't get a chance to bother us at night.  I put them in the
    spare bedroom with litterbox, food and toys (I remember Cinnabar
    at that age).  The main reason for this is I'm afraid that if they
    try to sleep with us we will roll on them and not beaware of it.
    I have had nightmares with this and have woken up screeming.
    When they are bigger I'll let them have the run of the house like
    I do for the day.
    Not sure if I'm going to get any sleep once I do.
    
    Cindy

    Read the note entitled "Cat Saves Owner's Life".
    
    Good luck.
    
    :^)
    
    Edd

    This is funny, .0 that is.  This morning when I got up I peeked
    into my son's room - he's three, the picture on the wall next to
    his bed was in his bed.  Now this is a LARGE cloth picture of 
    fire engines etc streched on a very light wooden frame taking up
    a good portion of the bed poor Sam was curled up in a corner of
    his bed.  Then I went down stairs - the fire place screen was in
    the middle of the living room floor.  There were various "things"
    in the kitchen knocked over, on the floor, etc.  The den was pretty
    much in the same state of disarray!
    
    I guess Trigger comes out of hidding in the night and he and Pooh
    go at it - I slept through it all so I guess it wasn't to bad. 
    But Trigger is still in hidding - has just moved from behind the
    desk to the kitchen cabinet, in with the pots and pans!  But hopefully
    these nightly adventures will make him feel safe enough to come
    out when we are around - Sam and Mike still haven't seen him yet!

    Sometime in the early hours before dawn something went bump in the
    night in our house. I took inventory of the bed and found that Sheba
    and Sity were deep in sleep at their usual spots. Assured that both
    cats were safe I happily went back to sleep (until Sheba woke me
    an hour later with one paw in my eye and another in one ear.  Good
    grief!)  This morning my husband and I searched the house but could
    find nothing out of order that would account for the quite loud
    item that I heard hit the ground. Hmmn...  Could it be that the
    Birman I have been longing for was visiting my dreams??????????

    My four babies have been doing this for 9 years!
    
    jean