Does Anyone Else Have a Cat That Does This

Tweet

Our cat, Echo, has a weird personality trait I have never come across in all the years we've had cats. Every night, around 2 a.m., he starts making as much noise as possible to wake us up and get one of us out of bed with him. At first, I thought he was just hungry. But, most of the time, he doesn't eat his food and, even when he does, he just starts in again. He doesn't want to play either. What he wants, apparently, is for one of us to get up with him and hold him. No joke. If we take him in on the couch and cradle him like a baby for 5-10 minutes, he settles right down and doesn't make a peep the rest of the night. And, no, bringing him in bed with us does not work. We actually have to get up with him to do that. It's not the first time I've had a cat with separation anxiety. But, this has to be the first time I've had a cat that has that problem when we are only a few feet away from him and just asleep.