How can I stop my cat from sleeping near my kids heads at night?

If you don't have a room to put the cat in and you don;t want to close the kids door at night you're doing the only thing you can. It is NOT safe for an animal to sleep with a child if they don't know when they're smothering the them. Whether its just affection or not, its not safe.

I understand your problem. However, the easiest solution would be just to shut the door to your kids room. However, if you have concerns about that, you can replace the heave door with a cheap screened door (or make one yourself, if you are handy). That way, the cat doesn't have to be crated, and you can still hear you child. You can also try baby monitors (which is what my sis and BIL) use when the baby is in her room with the door shut.

Also, I see no problem with locking your cat up at night. Do you have a basement or extra bedroom? Crates are okay too, as long as your cat spends only spends his nighttime hours in the crate.

Other things you can do - Maybe you can give or make your daughter a Princess bed, where the bed is covered by a netting that the cat can't get to. The trick with this is to make sure the netting can't be caught by your daughter, and is very easy to access by you.

If you have no room to shut her into and you're not comfortable closing your child's door, maybe you help your daughter understand that she doesn't have to be afraid and that the cat is just being affectionate?

She's not going to get suffocated. At 3 years old she's plenty strong to shove a cat off if she's having trouble breathing, and cats don't really like sleeping on faces anyway. When I was a small child I had a dog who would sleep on or near my head and my parents explained that she was there to protect me. It made me feel safe, not terrified.

In any case, if it really bothers the two of you, then maybe you need to make a better place for the cat to sleep. She's just looking for someplace dark and warm - if you offer her that and shoo her off the bed every time she goes on, she should get the message.

Our cats are not allowed into our sleeping area at night. The dog sleeps at the bottom of the stairs and if they try to get past him we hear about it. They gave up trying ages ago. We come down in the morning and the dog and cats are sleeping there waiting for us.

You could always try using a fragrance on the top of the kids' beds that is not harmful to the children, but that the cat does not like. I have heard that cats do not like the smell of citrus...im sure there are others.

It seems your cat really loves your daughter and it finds that spot really comfortable or much warmer then other parts of the house, have you tried keeping the cat in your room?

Try making a little hiding spot for her in a corner of the room introduce it to her, but don't push her into it, she'll be curious about it and if its comfortable enough she might adopt it as a new sleeping place, make it warm and cozy.

Kepp the 3 yr olds room door closed?? if this is not possible then ur gunna have to shut the cat in a room elsewhere at night, or even confine it to downstairs only

if you are worried about the cat suffocating the kids, it is a very stupid old wives's tale

I don't see any problem with the cat sleeping with your kids

just shut the cat out of a night good luck