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To be getting majorly pissed off with a yowling cat?

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NapQueen · 29/05/2018 22:02

About a month ago we started hearing a cat yowling loudly during evening and through the night. The thing clearly thinks its a wolf. It seems to make a beeline for ours and immediate neighbours yards.

We have cats ourselves (who dont even bloody meow unless their food bowl needs refilling), so cant look for any sort of cat repelling device, but its getting beyond a joke. Im being woken 2/3 times a night. Tried earplugs no joy as its so peircing.

I just dont know what to do.

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Joboy · 29/05/2018 22:17

It it on heat ? Are your cats done?

ElizaBenson · 29/05/2018 22:29

Sounds like it could be on heat? Our female cat had to be neutered twice, she regrew a bit of her uterus (or the vets left some in there) end ended up gping on heat accidentally, she drove us and next door made for a couple of weeks before we could tet the vets to believe us that there was something wrong, the yowling is very annoying! We kept her in the house, but once she managed to escape she was a nightmare to get back in again

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NapQueen · 29/05/2018 22:37

Our cats are done. Not sure about next doors. Its back.

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NapQueen · 30/05/2018 20:39

Dh has rigged up some sort of waterjug, string through the window jobby. He thinks tipping a jug of water on or next to said cat will scare it away for good and is currently camped out with a whiskey at the window.

NDN has confirmed she is also being driven mad by it and says she plans to sit out with a glass of wine in silence and wait before scaring it away.

God help us.

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AllMYSmellySocks · 30/05/2018 20:42

Definitely in heat! I used to work in a rescue centre for cats and the females will yowl incessantly even if there are no unneuteured males around (I guess they're trying to attract the males).

penguinsnpandas · 30/05/2018 20:43

Ours does this every night but she's neutered, just after attention. As soon as I say hello cat she shuts up for an hour. If you ignore she doesn't stop.

echt · 30/05/2018 20:43

Is it getting old? My cat, when about 16/17 started sitting on NDN's roof yowling for no reason at all, in the day time. It can be a sign of disease in an older cat. The NDN didn't mind, was just concerned the cat was in pain/trouble.

penguinsnpandas · 30/05/2018 20:45

Ours is about 14, doesn't appear in pain and last check up fine but good idea to get that checked out thanks.

ziggiestardust · 30/05/2018 20:47

Have you tried an ultrasonic cat scatter? You can get them on Amazon, it worked well for us.

LucyAutumn · 30/05/2018 20:55

A few years ago I too was being kept awake by a yowling cat. Eventually I lost it and opened my window and screamed I know who you are, just a tramp in a fur coat hissed as loud as I could.
I've heard nothing since!

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NapQueen · 30/05/2018 21:04

ziggie I dont want to scare my own cats away though just this one.

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WittyJack · 30/05/2018 21:18

Are you sure it's a cat and not a fox? Those things make a dreadful noise!

ziggiestardust · 30/05/2018 21:49

Yeah, we just kept our two indoors for a few nights and put it out every night before bed... seemed to work anyway but we’ve since moved so I’m not sure about the longevity of such a solution

wittyjack has a point, foxes sound horrendous!

WittyJack · 30/05/2018 21:51

The Op probably knows the difference and thinks I'm a dimwit, but I honestly couldn't believe it the first time I heard foxes and realised that those slinky little orange animals were making that racket. Like a million horny cats on speed and steroids!!

ziggiestardust · 30/05/2018 22:34

wittyjack right!? I moved from the countryside to a city and I was freaking out when I first heard it, jumped out of bed thinking a woman was being attacked and was wanting to call the police! Luckily DH (city boy) was there to stop me or I’d have made a total tit of myself in front of the police!

penguinsnpandas · 30/05/2018 23:40

A tin of tuna up the other end of the road though maybe its in love with one of your cats. My cats in love with a fox.

ImPreCis · 31/05/2018 01:22

Could be dementia. Our lovely rescue started doing this at about 15 years old, diagnosed with dementia. It was awful at the time but then the yowling stopped only to be replaced with urinating on the furniture and even people sitting on the furniture. How we missed the yowling!!
Fortunately that delightful phrase stopped too and we had him for another 3 years. We miss him dreadfully.

StillMedusa · 31/05/2018 01:27

I have an elderly cat with (presumably) dementia and she yowls on and off all day and night. I think she is a bit deaf too and can't hear herself!
Drives me nuts, (as does the peeing in random places) but then I kick myself and remember she's about 90 in human terms and cannot help it!

imweirdandcool · 31/05/2018 12:12

He's singing to you

Loobyloomicles · 31/05/2018 12:24

No useful advice, but you have my sympathies as I have a very vocal cat. I know when his Feliway diffuser is running out as will get woken up repeatedly at night by 'singing'. He's mainly an indoor cat, but has taken to sunbathing on the patio in the recent hot weather. Today it's raining and he has just shouted (honestly, there's no other word for it) at me for over ten minutes because he doesn't want to get his paws wet and something must be done.

How did my life come to this? Being bossed around by a tiny ginger dictator...

penguinsnpandas · 31/05/2018 12:37

I do wonder if our cats neutering failed as when she yowls she sticks her bottom in the air. Thankfully she's an indoor cat. She stopped last night for cuddles from DD.

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