Many cats, in fact, need 2 or more 20–30 minute play sessions with INTERACTIVE toys. Your cat needs daily exercise no matter what age or what time of day it occurs. Whatever your personal schedule is, include your cat! The important thing is to decide on a schedule and stick to it. To discourage this, take a shower, have your breakfast, play with them for a few minutes and THEN feed them. Feeding a cat first thing in the morning will only increase their desire to wake you up earlier and earlier because they will associate your waking up with the reward of being fed. It is NOT imperative (despite your cat’s thoughts on the subject) that you feed (or play with) the cat when you FIRST get up in the morning or when you FIRST arrive home from work. Give your cat their big meal of the day just before you go to bed. If your cat is very playful, and you keep a late schedule, begin your nightly playtime at around 11:30 PM. These tips can be used to prevent and modify behaviors with kittens, adult, as well as senior cats.
This handout will hopefully provide you and your cat with a better night’s sleep. Any senior cat with the onset of such changes in sleep cycles should be examined by your veterinarian first. The senior cat being active at night due to shifts in the sleep cycle, which can be signs of onset of cognitive dysfunction, and vocalization due to changes/loss in hearing ability or even anxieties.It’s important to remember that as far as the cat is concerned these behaviors are normal, although guardians often call them “bad habits.” This is the best hunting time and although our cats are domesticated and rarely have to hunt for their food, this behavior is still engrained and can lead to higher levels of activity and play behavior during those hours of the day. The young cat being active due to being “crepuscular” (which means they’re most active at dawn and at dusk).If you have no set time, the cat might find it harder to sleep, especially with extra energy it might have.Has your kitten been waking you up at 5 AM for food and a good play session or even keeping you up all night playing vigorously with toys they ignore during the day? Pouncing on your feet the moment you finally fall asleep? Or has your senior cat who sleeps all day become vocal all night and not able to fall asleep? There are two different categories of nocturnal behaviors in the cat: That means try to keep it where the cat knows it's supposed to go to bed. Lights off is good but also try to make the period of time for sleeping habitual. It depends on the location of the pineal gland in different animals, as well as the degree of reaction in production of melatonin, but still there is a degree.
This sensitivity to light is not limited to just humans but also cats. This is the reason why we get sleepier at night as well as during the winter time because the absence of light increases the production of melatonin. The pineal gland's reaction to a light source is that it stops melatonin production. This gland has been shown to be very sensitive in its reaction to light and production of melatonin which supports animals in hibernation as well as normal sleep. Inside cats' brains along with mammals and some reptiles' brains, they have what is called the pineal gland. It does matter if you have the light on or off for cats, or any animal that sleeps.
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