Here’s a quick video shot of Chica - my camera phone isn’t too good.
Cancel that - I cant figure out how to link it. I’ll take some big girl shots tonight.
Thanks for asking about my sweetie.
I don’t think it will stop the insanity, just make it easier to ignore. 
Last night I got out some ribbon and gave them a little kitty workout and then fed them an extra spoonful of wet food right before bed. This seemed to work pretty well and they didn’t start being nutballs until around 6:30! I am all exited to be awake and at work now since I had a decent amount of sleep. I hope this continues to work, but knowing my boys they will find some reason to wake me up early in the morning.
I’m gonna go home and love on my very sweet, non-FRAPPing kitty. Sometimes he meows loudly, but I find ignoring him and sleeping like a log does the trick for me.
I think the solution to the problem should be obvious: you need to wake up earlier. 
I feed my cats twice a day. In the morning, only after I’m out of the bathroom. It doesn’t matter what they do beforehand, I can’t hear them in the shower. In the evening, I feed them right after I get home. Again, I can’t hear them before that.
My advice would be to completely separate you getting out of bed from them getting food.
I’m with PapSett. When I read how you’re looking forward to a door, I just thought, “poor naive little thing.” That’d be you.
A door will not stop the insanity but it will give you one more thing to try to ignore. The yowling and pitiful mewling on the other side of the door, the thumpa-thumpa-thumpa as they try to open it with their paws, the scratchy sound of the mole-felines trying to burrow through the door - ah, yes. I have never had a cat that liked or accepted the sight of a closed door - whether to the bathroom, a closet or the great outdoors and whether he or she actually wanted to go through said door.
I hope your kitties are different and you actually get a whole night’s sleep. I can’t offer any advice because my brain is mushy from many many years’ lack of a whole nights sleep. Congrats on the new digs, though!
Hee. Ain’t that the truth. In theory, a door helps. In practice, not so much.
Well. I have a door and my cat learned how to open the goddamned thing. Sure, it takes her a few hours and a lot of noise, but she’s got nothing better to do than try!
I should have known better than to adopt a stray with thumbs.
My only advice is to learn to sleep through the noise and start arranging your furniture and belongings as if you live with a crazed toddler chimp with ADHD.
YOUR cats just want to be fed. My husband’s kitten, on the other hand, wants to play Fetch at three in the morning, every morning. My husband would vastly prefer to sleep until about 5:20, at which time he needs to get up to get to work on time.
Kittens wanting to play Fetch in the evening are really, really cute. Kittens wanting to play Fetch when someone’s asleep are really, really annoying.
Hah!! We had to replace all the lever-style door handles when we bought our house 6+ years ago. Shoogie learned how to open all the doors within minutes of settling into his new digs.
Shoogie is a blue-mitted Ragdoll, and his brother Merci is a flame-point Raggy. Being a flame-point, Merci is Blonde with red points. And very, very blonde. I once saw Shoogie open the coat closet door, wait for his blonde brother to enter said closet; and then *shut the door *trapping his hapless blonde brother inside.
We now have the classic round-knob door handles. Much to Shoogies’ dismay.