I have lived with cats before, but at my current home I’m in the living room of my friend’s, so I have no door. As a result both pets hang with me as much as they want, and my roommate’s cat, Nyx, has chosen to sleep in my bed every night. Even though I have had roommates with cats before, and catsit for friends, I feel like I’m learning a lot more about cats now because she’s around so much. She is extremely affectionate and one of her favorite things to do is hop on top of me. Unless I am getting ready to leave in the morning for work I try to not move for a while. Sometimes she does it to cuddle, but she often just wants to sit on top of me which cracks me up. I am curious if all cats just want to up as high as possible instinctively, or this is a “her” thing. When she sleeps on my bed she almost always sleeps on a pillow I keep at the bottom of the bed, just to be higher up I guess. Do all cats do that?

Also, on the actual advice side, does anyone have suggestions for discouraging her from meowing to wake me up? She was being a little escape artist for a while, so my friend took my suggestion and now she has a cat leash. She gets her outside need sated is trying a lot less hard to escape. She *loves* going for walks, she asks to go outside a lot. Both she and the dog get jealous when the other is taken for a walk lol. So now Nyx has started asking for walks often, but that also includes when I’m asleep. She is actually pretty smart about time and usually asks around 6:45am which is fine on a weekday when I usually get up but kinda sucks on a weekend. She meows a lot and she has food down all the time (which gets refilled by my roomie in the morning, and wet food at night), so it’s very silly. I always just go back to sleep, put earplugs in or whatever, but I would prefer if she stopped the behavior. She has never gotten a walk in the morning, they are only occasional in the afternoon/evening based on my roommates energy. I will also be able to take her for walks soon, but this walk thing is only a few weeks old. I think Generally both pets know what we want and what we’re saying, but often choose to ignore it lol. (The dog usually is trying really hard to be a good dog but makes mistakes, Nyx just does her thing as cats do lol).