Cat is the bain of my life 😭

[Donut22]

I've had my cat for 15years! He's always been very vocal and ver LOUD. But it's driving me mad now, it's constant when I'm home! He wakes me up EVERY night! It's like having a screaming baby follow me around!! He's in good health and isn't like it with anyone else. my son could be at home all day with cat and he wouldn't make a noise the minute I get in he's at my feet crying! We moved last year and it's been like this since then. His routine has had to change but surely after a year he should be used to it by now. He used to be out all night in all day,it's now the other way round will he ever get used to this??? I haven't got hundreds of pounds to spend on a cat flap (only have french doors so would need to get glass cut etc) but I can't stand the crying or keeping me up at night for much longer 😭😭

Are you sure it isn’t dementia? Your cat is a good age and my cat used to start doing these really loud miaows in his later years. There was nothing physically wrong with him but it sounded as if there were. The vet said it was probably dementia and quite common. Not that that helps you as there is not much to be done about it.

I don't think so no, like I mentioned he's always been very loud and vocal. If was dementia surely it would be at everyone not just me his cat mum 😅😭 he wants the freedom at nighttime but it's unfeasible right now. I even started leaving the back door open so he can come and go at night but 1 it's not safe and 2 he then wakes my neighbors with his bloody crying I'm sure they hate us now because of the cat 😺🙈

Have you had him at the vet?

Get him a cat flap. Of course he is cross. You moved, now you need to put it right. Get a mish mash job of a cat flap. He is 15, he isn’t going to be around much longer to miaow at you. Don’t tell me he has lived most of his, life with a cat flap and you are expecting him to take it stoically that one isn’t available. Maybe he is frightened in the dark in his old age. Poor cat.

My last elderly cat started howling really loudly, usually at night, and when I took her to the vet she had a thyroid problem. The vet removed it and she was very much improved. I wonder if that could be the problem with your cat?

You can't have a "mish mash job" of a cat flap in glass doors. You have to cut the glass.

A different option, which my sister used in her house, was to replace the glass door with a cheap non-glass door and put the flap in that. If you aren't planning on another cat afterwards, you can keep the glass door and reinstate it after Dcat has died.

I have two yowlers. They make noise for no explicable reason all the time. All needs are met, day in and day out. So they stay shut downstairs at night and I sleep with wax earplugs. They're not hard done by whatsoever. Just noisy fuckers. One old and one young. They are very well cared for and spoilt rotten. In exchange, I sleep in silence. There's only so much feline fuckery I'll put up with, we have to live together.

There you go. Replace the door, reinstate when moggy shuffles off his mortal coil. Don’t spend much money= a mish mash.

Why did his routine need to change just because you no longer have a cat flap?

Just leave a window slightly open for him to come and go as he pleases?