Our cat started acting rambunctious at night in the last two months, being loud and destructive in my daughter's room and attacking her in her sleep. So she gets up and kicks her out so she can sleep, and then the cat screams and scratches at her door on and off for the rest of the night, which my daughter can sleep through, but I cannot. The cat is a yr old and has been fixed for 6 months. We have tried keeping her awake and more active during the day, but that's a joke... bothering a napping cat is asking for trouble. I don't blame my daughter, she needs rest for school. But I'm an extremely light sleeper and this fills me with a rage like I've never known, especially since it's new and I thought she'd be calming down as she got older, not getting worse. I posted about it on fb and several people suggested a water bottle. My daughter flipped out and said that was abusive. I read about it online and I understand it's not ideal, that you should redirect them and use positive reinforcement and all that, but if it's the middle of the night when I'm exhausted how does that work? When what the cat wants is attention from my daughter when she's sleeping or to be allowed back in there just to be destructive, what would the redirection or positive reinforcement even be? We live in a small 2 bedroom apt, there's no other place to put her. If I decide to buy a spray bottle and spray her for screaming and scratching at the door even though my daughter thinks it's abusive, aitah?