My cat Boo

My Mum’s cat Bones (who lives with us) does that – and he’s too old to manage the stairs, so snuggling up on the bed with us wasn’t an option. One thing that helped a bit, daft as it may sound, was a small nightlight in the corner of the room where he sleeps. He now just yowls (a truly bloodcurdling sound!) once a night, usually early morning if he thinks you might have forgotten breakfast…!

My mother’s cat Mitzi (19 yrs old) does that also. She sits in the kitchen and yowls several times in the wee hours of the morning, waking up an equally elderly lady (hope mum doesn’t see this), she calls out ‘I’m here’. We think Mitzi wakes up and forgets where she is.Once mum has called out all is well for the rest of the night.

My two bad boys do that, too. One time Ruggles let out this high-pitched scream in the middle of the night, and I raced downstairs in terror. He and his brother Rotley were sitting at the bottom of the stairs, side by side, looking up at me with amusement.

Bet one of the little devils had a stopwatch on him.

Emma, lol bet one of them did too….can picture it, ‘watch if I scream, she will come running…here you time it!’