As most of you know, we keep the cats out of our bedroom at night because Chris is far too annoying. Lately, Floki has been crying outside of our bedroom door every morning starting at around 4:15. Chris decided that what Floki was doing was not annoying us enough, so he took over. Now, every morning starting at 4 a.m. Chris is out there scratching on the door. He is relentless, too. Sunday morning I thought I could wait him out. I thought he would give up after fifteen minutes. Instead, fourty-five minutes later, I was the one who gave up.
I gave them all wet food and went back to bed. My wife asked, “Did you give them dry food, too?”
“No,” I said. “If I put dry food down, Chris won’t eat the wet food.”
“Maybe not,” she said, “but he will surely be back scratching on the door in five minutes.”
I don’t know how many minutes passed, but he was scratching on the door a short time later so I had to get up and put dry food in his bowls.
That day I went to Target and bought a child gate and put it so Chris could not get down the hallway to our bedroom door. It worked but I returned it today because my wife often gets up in the middle of the night and I feared she would trip over it in the dark.
The other bad thing he has started doing is dragging his water bowl across the floor, spilling its contents along the way.
This one is a head scratcher. I had a tall bowl there before but he started tipping it over. Now that I have a shorter bowl, dragging it across the floor is his alternative. He has done this several times now, including ten minutes ago, which reminded me to write about it.
I am at a loss for what to do about both of these new issues.
Bad Cat Chris 
Oh good grief! I really feel for you, because scratching and whining at the door is the very reason why we don’t shut Catorze out. If he’s gadding about and whining on the bed, he eventually calms down and settles. If he’s shut out, he won’t. Could you maybe get one of those automatic feeders that dispenses food at certain times? Is it always food that he wants when he’s being annoying?
I suppose but he is too fat already. We can’t let Chris in the bedroom because he won’t stop sticking is claw in my face or on my neck. It hurts.
Oh boy…. Living up to his name.
As always. 😀
It’s never a dull moment with Chris around.
No. Never. 😀
And I thought my cats were naughty. You win. Maybe you could keep the water bowl in the bathtub.
I think I need to carve a bowl out of a heavy marble slab.
Those are some interesting habits and Chris likes giving you a challenge!
He has always been a challenging cat.
A super heavy water bowl would work but you know he’ll figure out some other annoying habit the minute you resolve this one. I think he will always be one step ahead of you!
Hugs, Pam
He has been so far. 😀
Chris is smart!! BTW, cats can jump over baby gates. We have two for Levi and Roary scales them with ease!
Chris is overweight and, I think, has arthritis. His jumping days are over.
I think he just likes to find ways to get your attention.
He loves attention.