94. Sleep Training Your Pets: Yes, It's a Thing

So here is my advice about sleep training your pets.

And it's very similar to babies.

The good news is I think you get a little bit less emotional about their feelings.

We're still caring about them and feeling connected to them, but it's not the same biological alarm bells going off in our brains because our cat is crying outside the

door.

It's very simple.

If you

stick to it, it can be very quick.

It is not going to be super smooth and easy.

There's going to be a little bit of difficulty that you have to deal with.

The biggest issue with pets is that they generally will wake up very early in the morning, sometimes in the middle of the night.

If you're feeding them on a schedule and you don't just have food out for them all the time, they will want to be fed.

The earlier they wake up, the more they will want to be fed.

Cats, particularly, they're not nocturnal, which means they're up at night and they sleep during the day.

They're not diurnal, which means they're up during the day and they sleep at night.

They're something that's called crepuscular.

It's a trivia word right there.

It actually was a question at our trivia night and I knew it because of cats.

crepuscular.

And what that means is that they are awake at like most active awake at dawn and dusk and they sleep in the middle of the day and the middle of the night.

And anyone who's ever had a cat knows they get those like 4 a.m. zoomies and that's them being crepuscular.

So which also leads to them, you know, nibbling on your face at 5 a.m. to get fed.

So here is my advice about sleep training your pets.

And it's very similar to babies.

The good news is I think you get a little bit less emotional about their feelings.

We're still caring about them and feeling connected to them, but it's not the same biological alarm bells going off in our brains because our cat is crying outside the

door.

It's very simple.

If you

stick to it, it can be very quick.

It is not going to be super smooth and easy.

There's going to be a little bit of difficulty that you have to deal with.

The biggest issue with pets is that they generally will wake up very early in the morning, sometimes in the middle of the night.

If you're feeding them on a schedule and you don't just have food out for them all the time, they will want to be fed.

The earlier they wake up, the more they will want to be fed.

Cats, particularly, they're not nocturnal, which means they're up at night and they sleep during the day.

They're not diurnal, which means they're up during the day and they sleep at night.

They're something that's called crepuscular.

It's a trivia word right there.

It actually was a question at our trivia night and I knew it because of cats.

crepuscular.

And what that means is that they are awake at like most active awake at dawn and dusk and they sleep in the middle of the day and the middle of the night.

And anyone who's ever had a cat knows they get those like 4 a.m. zoomies and that's them being crepuscular.

So which also leads to them, you know, nibbling on your face at 5 a.m. to get fed.