Thanks AVLady. This has been a great place and I wish I'd tried it years ago.

The cat thing (besides breaking glasses) is so much a part of my night that I usually can almost sleep through it. She has kidney failure and eats a ton and needs fed sometime in the early morning. Since she really does need to be fed then I don't get upset. It was just not great that I had to clean up broken glass while groggy and that she keeps crying because she can't hear me talking. But she's confused sometimes at night and just can't help it.

Nonetheless I would have preferred to feed her while half asleep.