Miss Wiggle
Practically perfect in every way
right one of our cats Lu-Li is very vocal and very demanding, particularly in the mornings. She's got into a habit/routine which I would like to break, would like some advice on how to go about it.
Basically from the minute I sit up in bed in the morning she's miaowing at me for her breakfast, she'll miaow literally every 10 seconds or so from the minute i set foot out of the bed until i go and feed her. we've another cat who doesn't do this at all, just waits patiently until I feed her and only starts miaowing at me as I get the food out of the cupboard for her.
Morning routine is basically I get up, go to the bathroom and go to the loo, as I’m sat on the loo she comes in and miaows at me and rubs herself around my legs, then I’ll go back into the bedroom and brush my hair as I’m doing this she stands in the door between the bedroom and the landing and miaows at me from there, then as I go to the bathroom she runs off downstairs thinking I’m going to feed her straight away, I go into the bathroom and get into the shower, she’ll come back upstairs maybe 20 seconds later and she jumps up onto the basin which is opposite the shower so she can see in to me and all the time I’m in the shower she constantly miaows at me. I don’t take ages but I like to wash my hair every day so I’m probably in there for 5-10 minutes. Then I go back into the bedroom to get dressed, again she follows me and stands in the doorway and moans constantly. I don’t blow dry my hair or wear make up most days so I don’t take ages, just long enough to find something to wear, put it on and brush my hair. Then I go downstairs, the other cat is often out overnight so I let her in first then give both cats their food. So this probably takes 20 minutes or so, all this time Lu-Li is just constantly moaning at me and it really does my head in. She’s a lovely cat (if a touch boisterous) apart from this but you know when something happens everyday and it just grates on your nerves that little bit more every day!!
Our bedroom door doesn’t close properly so can’t shut her out of there (we’re refurb’ing the house….. it’s on the list of jobs but it’s nowhere near the top of the list!!), the bathroom door does shut but if I shut her out she just stands outside the door, scratches at it and moans, I don’t want her running the doors so I’ve found it’s best to just leave them open.
We have a bottle of water which we use to squirt at them when they are being naughty and it seems to sort of work short term but not long term. So if they get squirted they will stop whatever they are doing, but it doesn’t stop them from going back and doing it again. I’ve tried flicking water at her from the shower while she’s moaning at me and she runs off but it back a minute later doing it again.
Is there anything I can do to discourage this or break her habit?
Basically from the minute I sit up in bed in the morning she's miaowing at me for her breakfast, she'll miaow literally every 10 seconds or so from the minute i set foot out of the bed until i go and feed her. we've another cat who doesn't do this at all, just waits patiently until I feed her and only starts miaowing at me as I get the food out of the cupboard for her.
Morning routine is basically I get up, go to the bathroom and go to the loo, as I’m sat on the loo she comes in and miaows at me and rubs herself around my legs, then I’ll go back into the bedroom and brush my hair as I’m doing this she stands in the door between the bedroom and the landing and miaows at me from there, then as I go to the bathroom she runs off downstairs thinking I’m going to feed her straight away, I go into the bathroom and get into the shower, she’ll come back upstairs maybe 20 seconds later and she jumps up onto the basin which is opposite the shower so she can see in to me and all the time I’m in the shower she constantly miaows at me. I don’t take ages but I like to wash my hair every day so I’m probably in there for 5-10 minutes. Then I go back into the bedroom to get dressed, again she follows me and stands in the doorway and moans constantly. I don’t blow dry my hair or wear make up most days so I don’t take ages, just long enough to find something to wear, put it on and brush my hair. Then I go downstairs, the other cat is often out overnight so I let her in first then give both cats their food. So this probably takes 20 minutes or so, all this time Lu-Li is just constantly moaning at me and it really does my head in. She’s a lovely cat (if a touch boisterous) apart from this but you know when something happens everyday and it just grates on your nerves that little bit more every day!!
Our bedroom door doesn’t close properly so can’t shut her out of there (we’re refurb’ing the house….. it’s on the list of jobs but it’s nowhere near the top of the list!!), the bathroom door does shut but if I shut her out she just stands outside the door, scratches at it and moans, I don’t want her running the doors so I’ve found it’s best to just leave them open.
We have a bottle of water which we use to squirt at them when they are being naughty and it seems to sort of work short term but not long term. So if they get squirted they will stop whatever they are doing, but it doesn’t stop them from going back and doing it again. I’ve tried flicking water at her from the shower while she’s moaning at me and she runs off but it back a minute later doing it again.
Is there anything I can do to discourage this or break her habit?
and then he keep quiet for the rest of the day. 
