Howling Cat...aaarrgghhh

[pastafreak]

Caspar is deaf-so naturally noisy....but sometimes he drives me crazy.
After a relatively quiet period...today he's been howling all day-and it's LOUD! If I am downstairs in the street-I can hear him 4 floors up.
He sounds like a desperate cat in heat....but he's 'done'.
Any ideas why?

[daffy654]

Could he be ill or in pain?

[daffy654]

Ps, if you can hear him four floors down he must be driving your neighbours insane!

[pastafreak]

I don't think he's in pain or ill...he's behaving normally....like a pain in the bum ;-( He just 'does' this periodically.

I wonder if he still has some hormones in him....though he was done years ago.

[tonyav]

pasta, does he still fight with other Tom cats ?.

[MyBlackHen]

http://pets.webmd.com/cats/guide/cats-excessive-meowing

Interesting reading.

[pastafreak]

@tony...he's deaf-so an indoor cat. My daughter thinks he may be bored....He does play...but it's difficult as the dog joins in and takes over....

[ladybirder]

How old is he pasta?

[pastafreak]

@ MyBlackHen...that is useful...I'll have to give him more cuddles-though he is not always a cuddly cat...he can get a bit over excited.

[tonyav]

Right then pasta so he doesn't see other cats then.

[pastafreak]

@ladybirder-I think he's about 4.5-5 years.

[Sparkles62]

What type of cat is he pasta?
I have a blue tipped american rag doll and she is very vocal, very loud.

[Eve]

Maybe it's his way of finding out where you are, maybe clingier as he gets older and especially as he is deaf. When he starts do you usually go to him?

My Mish was done (ladycat) and I had an awful evening after I heard her wailing as if in pain, I was walking the streets with a coat and jeans pulled on over my nightie and calling her to try and work out where she was (my hearing isn't great).

I ended up knocking on a door and these two guys who probably thought I was a bit mad helping me look for her with torches in their overgrown back yard. Found her and she was fine! Turns out she was a bit of a local...erm...madam!

[pastafreak]

No Tony...in fact-before I got the dog,I was thinking of getting another cat. But then I worried about it stressing him-though he is quite laid back in many ways. He adapts to change ok...or so it seems.

[pastafreak]

I think he may well be 'looking' for me....but I tend to think if I go to him,it will encourage more 'shouting'.

[Eve]

That said, mine is very loud too, comes running down to meet me as I walk up the street home meowing her head off, similar when I get in until she gets her food then cuddles! :)

[pastafreak]

Sorry...missed you sparkle...he's just an ordinary,semi long haired white moggy.

[tonyav]

Manipulative little b*gger's arn't they.

[daffy654]

One of our cats is very vocal, she meows at all times of the day and night. When we first got her a few months ago she took to waking us up in the early hours, she would 'shout' until I came downstairs and slept in the same room as her. Now she meows when she wants feeding, when she wants fuss, when she wants to go out.... or come in and for any other reason that enters her tiny brain at any given moment :)

[tonyav]

Our female cat Daisy is also very errrrm vocal as well, and she's been done.

[Sparkles62]

Maybe he is just looking for you, my puss is very loud and very posessive,
She's not mine......I'm hers...lol
She is only happy when she is over my shoulder, on my knee, or in bed with us......and I mean in bed with us, under the covers head on the pillow.
Thats how I got her in the first place, my friends sister bought her and couldn't cope with her.