Cats are "crepuscular" meaning most active at dawn and dusk. It's a word I'd never heard until recently. My cat is allowed out up until we go to bed between 11pm and midnight.
She is most unfriendly to other cats much to my disappointment. There's a lovely little ginger and white cat comes around our garden and is obviously wanting to make friends but she will have none of it. Then there is one jet black kitten and one pure white kitten who I think live together
- they want to play as well but she bristles at them too.
We do have a cat flap but I block it up at night rather than lock it because I think if I lock it, she wouldn't understand why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and just keep battering it with her head - and then she might be wary of using it.
ariadne xx