Cat chat thread we've lost count

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Walter can join the boy band. Bloody noisy creature!

How is darling Matt? So good and beautiful

Beautiful yes. Good? Hmm, well, apart from the wailing he scoffs Socks food and terrorises the dog!

The Cap'n is looking gloriously fluffy. At least he only looks irritated by the noise. My friends have a stick vacuum cleaner. When the husband was vacuuming the hall one day (don't be too impressed - he's reasonable in terms of housework but not a paragon), I saw their cat walk past pressed against the wall as if the cleaner was a dangerous python that he needed to navigate his way around 😸

@nettie434 Ollie is terrified of the hoover

@nettie434 might have been angling for some comfort dreamies...

Leroy hates the hoover to the extent that hoovering is done when he's out for a walk. Which means, given that I'm the one who takes him on his walks, that I never hoover.

Bonus 😁

Leroy is a little star getting you out of housework. Breeders should breed cats who won’t let you cook after 4pm.

Asbo hated the robo hoover, he had a habit of going where Sebastian was heading though.

I'm really struggling with ollies howling. Any bright ideas?
If he's not sat on me, eating or asleep he's howling like its his default setting
It's basically "pet me/wanna go out/bored/I don't know but I'll yowl anyway". Telling him off doesn't work, shutting him out the room means he yowls because you've done that... it's most of the day and night except between 7pm - 10pm when he's sat on me
I've tried feliway before and zyklene and no joy

Ear plugs.

@Fluffycloudland77 I'm actually at the point tonight I've made a telephone vet appointment
I've found some calming stuff but whether he will eat it...

I wasn’t joking, I wear them when dh is playing guitar through an amplifier you can use on stage. I own ear defenders too.

I would try them but I can't really hear customers through them actually...

Handsome Nature on YouTube? Squirrels, chipmunks, birds... keeps Leroy happy for ages.

Having said that, DH gave him a pinch of dried catnip out of the bag about an hour and a half ago and he's still asleep. Is that an option?

He doesn't react to catnip weirdo cat
Might give youtube a go. He will probably yowl at the birds knowing him

Have you tried Silvervine?

Sympathies, love. He does stop in the end. You must be deaf and knackered.

Ooh no I'll add them to the list. I've bookmarked a calming supplement too and booked a phone vet appointment

Is Paws presence unsettling him? He might think he’s going to lose Mama to another cat.

Cozie would have said to out talk him. Talk his ears off until he’s fed up with talking.

@YetAnotherSpartacus no, I don't think so. He's always been.. vocal. Think I'm noticing it more as I'm with him 24//7!
I tried the talking and he strops off into another room to yowl in the mirror. Weirdo

Could you wear him in a sling?

Nope, the little brat won't be picked up. Hates it and panics. He's mute now because I did "end of my tether" voice earlier so he keeps giving me side eye

He's howling again
I'm thinking if he's really so miserable is it fair to him to carry on?

Is he miserable though? Asbo never had an unexpressed thought either.