We have adopted a lovely stray Bengal /tabby. He turned up about 5 months ago and didn't ever leave 
His miaow is gutteral to say the least, he can be heard from outside with all the doors shut 
ALL day he has yowled, I couldn't do anything to settle him and I couldn't work out what was wrong. He went out, then yowled to come in, then wanted to go out, then wanted food then turned his nose up at it....
Half an hour ago he was yowling on the door step and when I opened the door he just carried on yowling Arghhhhhhhhhh!
He's eating, sleeping and grooming ok.
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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 09/05/2016 18:59
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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen ·
09/05/2016 20:10
Oh, so he's just telling me about it then?!
Thanks!
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cozietoesie ·
10/05/2016 07:42
The only thing that works for me is to keep up my end of the conversation - and that means replying to every yowl. Every yowl. (You wouldn't want to be around at cozietowers if you had a hangover! )
You might feel a bit daft at first but it seems to make them happy. (You need to answer them in roughly the same tone of voice to start off with and then calm your voice down if you can.) Just be sure to have the last word. 
cozietoesie ·
10/05/2016 08:20
Just be sure to answer every single yowl - not an occasional soothing reply.
It is difficult at times though. They can have such total belief that their Mum will fix whatever is wrong with their world that if you don't............ 
DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen ·
10/05/2016 08:54
Yes,that's exactly it,he looks at me with total faith I will fix 'it.'
Having trouble with food atm, finding something he seems acceptable is hard! We seem to have settled on a mix of dry, wet and raw. Feel like I'm missing a trick though. Any suggestions?
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cozietoesie ·
10/05/2016 09:59
I'm a busted flush with Seniorboy as far as food goes, I'm afraid. My inclination is to hang tough with cats but he's elderly and has to have very regular meds - so he has the upper hand. (He's perfectly capable of refusing to eat and doing a 'Death, where is thy sting?' on me. )
I've managed to switch him to Nature's Menu Country Hunter which is quite some feat after 4 years of Felix AGAIL but I suspect that he just happens to enjoy it. (The plates are certainly cleared and, luckily, I can buy four flavours which gives him a 5 meal rotation. (He won't tolerate the same flavour, meal after meal.))
There are at least a couple of posters who have Bengals, though, so they will be able to comment more knowledgeably.
Diamogs ·
10/05/2016 10:02
Surely you should be sharing a pic of yowly-boy so we can help you work out what's wrong?
DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen ·
10/05/2016 11:42
He likes fish only , goes green and wails at meat flavoured foods unless it's real meat
He'll eat Iams pouches, Perle,Aldi salmon single tubs, plus raw steak,fish, cooked chicken and Iams dry food.
When he was a proper stray he ate ANYTHING I put down,now he's fussy!
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BlossomCat ·
10/05/2016 11:47
I have a bengal/moggy mix. He is so loud and chatty. He has convinced half the neighbourhood that he is a stray, and has spent time in the local cats home and had the RSPCA out to check him out. (An hour after he had eaten breakfast at home...)
He yowls and chatters and convinces people he's starving and lonely and neglected. He's not, he's very loved. Just loud.
I was expecting that picture to be him, but at that time his morning, he was sitting in the bath chatting to me as I used the loo. (I think he likes the acoustics in there,it makes him even louder
DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen ·
10/05/2016 11:48
Oh yes,the loo singing... I know it well
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Goingtobeawesome ·
10/05/2016 11:53
I took my moggy for his jabs today. He cried the whole way there in the car, while waiting in the reception (so he got to queue jump 
) and then the whole way home.
Vet said he was lovely .
DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen ·
10/05/2016 11:59
Awwww
Weirdly the only place the cat is quiet is in the car an the vet's, he LOVES his cat crate!
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