Here's what nobody tells you about cats:
Your cat sleeps all day — on purpose.
While you're at work, at school, running errands — your cat is doing what their ancestors have done for thousands of years.
Conserving energy.
Cats are predators by nature.
And predators don't run around burning calories for no reason.
They sleep.
They wait.
They store every ounce of energy until the moment it's needed to hunt.
The problem?
There's nothing to hunt in your home.
So when you finally crawl into bed at 10 PM, your cat has been napping for 14 hours and is now absolutely bursting with energy.
Your cat isn't trying to annoy you.
She's a tiny predator with nowhere to aim her instincts.
And since you're the most interesting moving thing in their world, you become the prey.
The midnight chaos isn't a behavior problem. It's a stimulation problem.