He's driving me crazy! He's 12 years old, and every night he wanders around the house, shouts at the top of his voice, scratches the carpet, walks all over me, tries to climb the curtains. I've tried putting lots of food down, making sure all internal doors are open. There it's no reason for all this noise except he's contrary. I live in a rented house, so the scratching makes me very anxious, I wouldn't care if it was my own carpet. But I also rarely sleep longer than a few hours at a time. He insists on sleeping in the bed with me, sometimes won't settle until 4 a.m, but wakes me at 8! If I shut him in the kitchen he just yowls to be let out. He's worse than he was as a kitten! He was quite ill in the summer and is now on daily painkillers.
Could this be the onset of some sort of dementia? I suspect if so there's nothing they can do about it.
Even if I play with him in the evening for quite a while it makes no difference. He wants to sleep all day, then is wide awake at night. I realise cats are semi nocturnal, but this is extreme.
I expect extreme behaviour from a siamese, but am really struggling with this.
Any tips?
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DrDolittlesParrot · 02/01/2021 14:36
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