Wally cycles through various activities when he wants to be petted at night. His attention-getting behavior is designed to wake us up so we'll pet him. Unlike his litter mate, Eddie, he can't just come to the bed and meow at us for petting. Nope, he has to act out.
He will try to flush the toilet several nights in a row--he doesn't weigh enough to flush successfully, but he can get the toilet to run and of course we hear the handle jiggling up and down. Then he'll move on to knocking every single item off all counters. That's always fun to hear in the middle of the night.
Right now he's in the bang-cabinet-doors-all-night phase and was particularly enthusiastic about it last night. I've been trying my best not to reinforce his bad behavior, so when the cabinets started slamming last night, I got up and shut my bedroom door. That's not as effective as you might think because the
kitchen is right by the bedroom, although it did reduce the noise a little bit.
But then he'll be super cute and when he wants to be, he's super sweet. As Kent says, he's a complicated cat.
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Cats sleep at night when they've been out most of the day chasing birds. The downside is that we have to stay ahead of the fleas (with drops that cost $40/month for four cats) and twice a year Tristan brings in something that's not quite dead through the cat flap. Yesterday it was a bird, but I heard a noise and met him at the flap in time to sweep it back outside and rudely close the door so he couldn't use the flap for the next hour.
You are right, if they got more exercise during the day, they would sleep better at night. I use the laser pointer with them, which does help but it doesn't make up for the place being fairly small. There's just not a lot of long running stretches for them. I have to run them in circles.
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