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To despair at my noisy cat

32 replies

Papaaa · 06/01/2019 13:53

Before we start this is 100% not a 'should I rehome' thread. I love my furry friend but I am at a loss at what to do.

It sounds trivial and a bit of a non issue but my God, my cat is so noisy. She never, ever stops meowing since we've had her (2 years nearly). And it can get so bad that it keeps us up well into the early hours because it's so loud.

I think she is happy, we play, cuddle, she goes outside. I did take her to the vets as I was concerned she was in pain but they confirmed there was nothing wrong and she is just 'vocal'.

Does anyone else have this problem?! We have other pets and none of them are like this.

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steadtler · 06/01/2019 13:59

Can't you swap it at the shelter for a better one?

Santaisfastasleepatlast · 06/01/2019 14:01

Well obviously you need to get her a dcat speaking friend. Your banter is quite clearly rubbish op!! Grin

Calvinsmam · 06/01/2019 14:03

My cats are all really vocal,
At bedtime (it doesn’t matter what time we go to bed) our boy cat yowls and yowls at one of his toys for about an hour.
He sounds deranged but apparently he’s happy.

EthelHornsby · 06/01/2019 14:03

How old is she? They get louder as they get older. Also, you are clearly not responding fast enough to commands!

agnurse · 06/01/2019 14:05

Is she spayed? If not, I would get it done. Female cats in heat can be extremely vocal.

Wavingwhiledrowning · 06/01/2019 14:06

I feel your pain. Our cat literally does my head in - constantly meowing, no matter what (except when he's on my lap when he switches to an insanely loud purr). There's nothing wrong with him - he just seems to enjoy it (not sure if the enjoyment is for him or if he just likes winding me up. Like when he 'follows' me absolutely everywhere about 5cm in front of me). It got so bad at night we've had to shut him downstairs because he was keeping everyone awake. Even when he's outside we can hear him meowing through the double glazing!
Haven't given you any help here, but at least you know you're not alone!

lavenderbluedilly · 06/01/2019 14:19

Ours is similar, he used to have free reign if the house st night but due to constant meaowing and walking over me/trying to wake us up, he is now kept in the kitchen during the night, where he can make as much noise as he likes as I can’t hear it.

madcatladyforever · 06/01/2019 14:23

My Dcat does the same Calvin's mum. She is 16 and has hysterics yowling over her catnip banana, then she has to show it to me in the early hours of the morning, make a godawful row until I wake up and tell her what a clever girl she is Smile. Perfectly happy the rest of the time.

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Papaaa · 06/01/2019 15:11

We do have another cat and a dog who all get on great and are no where near as noisy!!

Nothing seems to make a difference. Cuddles? Still meows constantly throughout. Play? Still meows constantly throughout. Food? Eats quietly and then the meowing starts the second she's finished. It is relentless I've never known anything like it.

Sometimes she naps through the day and it's blissful!

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Greenteandchives · 06/01/2019 15:14

Mine is the same. He is a Bengal and loud loud loud. I love him but wish he would shut the fuck up sometimes. Its so nice when he is asleep. I am embarrassed when I hear him out and about. He is not allowed out at night but on the odd night when I have failed to get him in he has woken the entire neighbourhood with his caterwauling.

StrawberrySquash · 06/01/2019 15:21

Does the layout of your house let you keep her away from bedrooms at night? We temporarily confined ours to the living room when she was howling at bedroom doors to be fed in the early morning.

iklboo · 06/01/2019 15:22

Do you talk back to her? Even stuff like 'did you? That must be exciting' nonsense. She's probably just after some conversation Grin

Olddognewtricks2019 · 06/01/2019 15:23

I nickname mine R2D2 because she peeps and beeps and chirps so much. Only time she’s loud is if she’s had a successful mousing mission which isn’t often, or if she brings one of her toys to me

SciFiScream · 06/01/2019 15:23

According to the rubbish on Pinterest a vocal cat is a cat that loves you! So enjoy it and love her back.

UncleFailBOOT · 06/01/2019 15:28

Oriental type cats are notorious for being loudly vocal, is she one of these breeds of cat? Siamese in particular are very chatty and also very people-oriented, they are not the laid back and chilled type. It might just be she's the chatty type though. Sadly nothing you can do about it, I don't think they can be trained out of it.

Our cat was very very quiet when she was young, hardly said a word... then we put her in a cattery when we went on holiday and discovered when we collected her, she had very much found her voice she shouted at us the whole way home and turned the air blue

In case she sounds traumatised, the cattery owner was very engaged with the inmates and our timid, scared of people cat came back delighting in being stroked and petted, a massive improvement in her soft skills.

I took her dead mouse away from her and she went zooming round the house demanding "Where's my MOUSE? I had a MOUSE! Where's my MOUSE?!" and I admit having wobbles about whether I had done the right thing getting a cat, her volume was horrendous...

Athena51 · 06/01/2019 15:29

Some breeds and some cats are just more vocal than others. Apparently cats rarely meow to each other, it's reserved for their humans.

My Dcat is pretty quiet, he purrs a lot and chirrups at me but he doesn't meow much apart from when it's windy when he basically doesn't shut up. Sometimes he calls out in the night and I have to answer him to tell him where I am and he'll rush into the bedroom Grin.

A PP's suggestion to talk back is a good one, she's definitely trying to communicate, I talk to Dcat all the time.

@Greenteandchives I had a wonderful Bengal who was SO chatty, with a full and high volume repertoire of calls. We nicknamed him 'Chairman Meow'

MammonRouge · 06/01/2019 15:45

I have 2 yowlers, we have conversations with them Grin

Zippea · 06/01/2019 15:48

My BSH girl is a talker/yowling fool. If a cat could narrate their stream of consciousness then she does it! Her brother isn’t quite as chatty but purrs really loudly and deeply.

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Papaaa · 06/01/2019 15:53

I do try and talk to her when possible but I admit it gets rather tiresome when we are trying to catch up with our TV show and we can't hear it above the constant yowling 🤪

She is a domestic short hair, not a Siamese or Bengal. The vet did say females are often more vocal but I've had cats in the past and never experienced this level of noise!

I will try to have more conversations with her in future.

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Papaaa · 06/01/2019 15:56

She is not allowed in our bedroom at night for obvious reasons and I'm fairly certain that she doesn't sleep at all through the night. However, the layout of our house (mostly open plan downstairs) means it's difficult to confine her to one space at night time so she often ends up outside our door.

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RayRayBidet · 06/01/2019 15:59

Ha ha, I have two boys 7 months old and one is very quiet the other never shuts up.
We don't let them in the bedrooms but they otherwise have free rein over 3 floors. If I go in a bedroom noisy is outside the door yowling till my return. The litter tray is in the cellar and he also sings when he is in it.

TooManyPaws · 06/01/2019 16:04

I had one black and white shorthair who seemed to have some oriental genes (pointed face and big ears) and she could talk for Scotland. She would barrel in through the cat flap and come to tell me all the gossip and her adventures. We would have conversations with me going 'really?', 'no!', and so on.

iklboo · 06/01/2019 16:06

She would barrel in through the cat flap and come to tell me all the gossip and her adventures. We would have conversations with me going 'really?', 'no!', and so on.

Yes, this! Grin And 'were they big birdies? Did you see the meeces (mice). Oh he never said that, did he?'

Claudiawinksatmen · 06/01/2019 16:21

Claudia cat chats constantly, it's not meowing it's chatting and chirruping. She drawls aaallriiight? In a southern accent to greet you then chats excitedly about her day. I try to lie very still at night as any movement means she has to ask you if you are OK sometimes accompanied by hair stroking and loud purring. To be honest I prefer this to her younger behaviour which was releasing mice under the duvet, on a particularly hot night I turned the pillow over to get the cool side to find a vole sheltering under there😮

WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 06/01/2019 16:28

Do you have an Alexa? Ask it to meow - she can have a conversation with it. One of ours does this but he needs you to acknowledge that yes, he could have caught that squirrel honestly guv; of course it's rainy - yes it could indeed be climate change; yes I have seen the state of the food bowl; no I don't know where his sister is etc etc

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