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Is he fixed? My cat (also a male) done the same thing! To the point I was loosing sleep! :( Seriously, loud howling every night all night! We got him fixed & now he doesn't howl at all. :-) He is so much more loving too!
He should be! When we got him from the SPCA they said they fixed him early (he was born n raised there, so he has some behavior issues because he doesn't really have all of the normal cat instincts...). But he still has testicles, and they are quite big for a neutered cat... Our vet is doubtful that they actually did fix him but the people at the SPCA assured us they did when we got him...
@squeak: If the vet is doubting it then talk to them about checking him out better & seeing if they can fix them their selves if they still doubt it. I swear by this! I didn't think anything was going to work. He would howl during the day too! It drove me CRAZY! It stressed me out because we live in a apartment & he was so loud I thought the neighbors was going to complain! I hated it. He has been fixed for about a month now & complete silence!! LOVE IT! He is so happy now & wants to rub on me all of the time & sleep with me. I think he was miserable do to having sexual feelings all of the time & not being able to act out on them! He is happy as ever now. :-)
I am not sure what causes this. My female cat that is about 13 does it too. It is so annoying! We always assumed it was because she thought she had "lost" us because as soon as she sees us again she stops.
If anyone knows what would make a FEMALE cat do this, please let me know!
@Stassney: My mom's female cats do this as well. :/ They're not fixed & I told her to get them fixed to see if it would help like it did with my male. But if your cat is fixed and doing it maybe she is just really vocal.
@Mrs.Estep: Thank you! I just called my vet's office and left a note with her. Maybe there's a testosterone blood test we can do to check if he's neutered or not? If he isn't, we definitely want to have him fixed right away. He's always been vocal but this time it's deeper howls, not cute little cries.
The vet would be able to do a physical examination of the cat and know whether or not he was fixed. There should be no "doubt" about it.
The entire testicle is removed and the vas deferens/epididymus are clamped together, cut and sewn shut. Then the tunic (skin that had the testicle in it) is sewn shut.
There should be an obvious area where the testicles were but they should not be hard nor big. I know it's gross - but if you can feel something hard in them, then he's not neutered.
(I work at a vet clinic - sorry if that was a little TMI!!)
@kayberry: that's what my vet said as well, but the people at the SPCA said they just snip the particular veins (i don't know the correct terminology) and leave the testicles there. I read online that that is possible...
my cat used to do that too and i know he was neutered. he only started doing it later in life around 15yrs+. he did it whenever we weren't in the same room as he was. he would always stop when we called out to him. i think he was just lonely. i don't know why, he got soooo much attention. i think he was just spoiled. mind you, he was sick. he had diabetes and i gave him insulin injections 2x daily for 6-7 years.
@mypinkshoes: Awww, that sounds so sad. I've heard that before. Ours is young and pretty healthy, and he does it in our room, even when we speak to him in a comforting way. Sometimes we have entire conversations where he cries, I respond, he responds, etc... it's pretty funny! But it's a different kind of cry at night...
My little fur-baby does this too! He's almost 2, 'fixed', and a total mamma's boy. I do work long hours, so it is possible that he is just lonely, but he howls and howls any time I go in a room and shut the door, even if I've been home with him all day. If I go to use the restroom and close the door, he sounds like he's going to just diiiieeee out there allll byyy himseeeelllffff. How terribly cruel of me to close the door when I go potty!
Usually after a while he'll settle down and go find something to do. Either that or I pass out and sleep through it. I don't let him in the bedroom anymore (he was "stealing" jewelry and SO is just allegic enough to wake up with puffy eyes and sniffles if Boo-kitty decides to cuddle up with him at night). I've gotten used to it over time. If I keep quiet and don't move around too much, he loses interest and goes off to play in "his" room (the office has most of his toys and his favorite chair in it).
@squeak: OMG I talk to my kitty too. For a while I was "that crazy single chick with the cat" and let me tell you...he knows some pretty gnarly secrets...there are times when I am convinced he is telling me I need to just shut up :)
I had a cat who howled when his health was going downhill, for like 2 years after he had had a stroke he wailed all the time. Then he died and his sister wailed all day and night looking for him until she died. Has he seen a vet to make sure there's nothing medical causing it? My current cat wails when she can't find us or the dog, then we call her name and she stops and comes to us and relaxes. I think they sometimes do it when they're looking for something/someone. Does he sleep in the room with you or is the door open for him to go in and out? Maybe try giving him tons of attention before bed so he's sick of you before you go to sleep and maybe leave out some toys for him and leave a tv on low volume... I know it's annoying you but it's a little cute that he's so needy :)
Also, some breeds like siamese are much more vocal and there's just not much you can do about that.
Our cat does it too. He's part siamese and he's almost 18(!). His internal kitty alarm clock usually goes off at around 5 or 6 am and then he'll start meowing. Every. Morning. I think it's because he wants attention. In the morning he usually stops if one of us gets up, picks him up, and puts him on the bed with us. He'll usually settle right down and start purring.
He also does it sometimes at like 10 or 11 at night. I think it's because he either has to poop or just pooped. For some reason having to and completing a poop gives him a weird burst of energy and he'll bolt out of the cat box and zip around the apartment meowing like a crazy cat for a few minutes.
I imagine this is his thought process: I'm lighter! I'm free-er! I must zip around now!
Cats are so strange.
Howling often happens when they fight over territory. Could it be that there are stray cats around your house at night? Are the girl cat and he siblings? How long have you had them?
@reginaphalange: My part Siamese girl used to howl, too. I have a boy now who doesn't howl, but like yours, he gets all excited after he takes a poop and has to run all around the apartment and leap from couch to couch for a couple minutes afterward. Kitties are silly.
@GreenEyedMoon: Hahaha that is so funny!
I just talked to my vet. She said that they would not have left dead tissue in there so his testicles must still be connected to the bloodflow, but he probably just can't deliver any sperm. So he still has testosterone and normal unneutered male cat behavior, but just can't have babies. So we scheduled him for surgery, he's going in on Friday and coming home on Saturday a ball-less kitty! Tehe I feel a little sorry for him but glad we are finally going to have peace. The vet said since he just recently started howling, not just crying, he's probably reaching sexual maturity. Also, he just loves to lick his sister's butt, so that might go away as well, thank god, it was kinda disgusting!
@AprilJo2011: We live in an apartment, there seem to be no cats in the area, and they have been raised with dogs around so they are friendly to other animals. His sister and him are very close, she's not his real sister but they've been together since they were like 1-2 months old, they're inseparable!
@MissGreenBean: Haha oh wow that is so funny!!! Haha he knows some of my dark secrets too, he's such a little mama's boy! And his balance isn't great so he stumbles into my lap and then just throws himself down with a sigh... it always cracks me up!
@MissGreenBean: Haha oh wow that is so funny!!! Haha he knows some of my dark secrets too, he's such a little mama's boy! And his balance isn't great so he stumbles into my lap and then just throws himself down with a sigh... it always cracks me up!
@squeak: Ah yes, that sounds like my Boo as well. He's, uh, special.
@reginaphalange: Haaahahahaha! Oh godness I laughed too hard at this. Mine does stuff like this but at random times. Sometimes he will be curled up in my lap, happy as a clam, and all of a sudden....the ears go up and he is OUTTA HERE!
Aaaah kitties. Bless their hearts.
@MissGreenBean: Haha that is so funny. Yes, he is definitely special.
Until the full neutering (which is Friday, yay only a couple more days of howling!) I have actually noticed that if he starts crying at 6 am (which he always does) and I kick him out of the room and shut the door he stops. He'll just go to bed in front of the door and an hour later when I wake up come and cuddle with me, but he at least will stop crying. I keep his sister in our bedroom because she'll scratch the door otherwise, plus she sleeps in our bed and is silent.
I hope I'm not a bad mommy because of this but I just can't wait to have him fully fixed!
@squeak: "he just loves to lick his sister's butt, so that might go away as well"
It might, might not. The mom cat does that to her babies to encourage them to go to the bathroom. He's being "nice", but hopfully the snip will help. One of our dogs loves to lick one of our cat's bums-so disgusting-and then tries to kiss us. Lovely. And our cat LOVES it. Blahh. GL!
I have a female 1 1/2 year old kitty! For the first 9months she would meow and meow.. and it's seemed to get a lot better. For a while, I wouldnt let her in the bedroom with me because she would keep me up all night and once I started putting her out is when she started crying.. But, it was a matter of getting 6hrs of sleep or 4, and I was working over 12hrs a day so I needed what I could get..
After a while, I would wake up, and if I even so much as shifted in the bed she would start meowing again, almost like she could hear me. Id get up and love on her to let her know I heard her and then go back to bed, leaving her meowing some more. Once she started getting used to this routine, she wasnt AS bad, but on the weekends the little pain in my butt would wake me up at 6 o'clock in the morning expecting mommy to be getting up.
Nowadays, I live with my boyfriend so we keep the door open (im creeped out with the door open when I sleep alone) and she doesnt do it at all, EXCEPT when she hears me in the morning get up and walk to the bathroom.. she starts meowing up a storm and chases me down for love. So, im wondering if its just their way of saying, hey I hear your up now come love on me! (Ive also noticed my cat sleeps all day and is up from 6-12 acting like a crazy wildcat, I dont know if this is how most cats are.)
Hope this helps! I also recommend getting him neutered if he's not, like the other girls say, that could be a whole lot of it. Best of luck!
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Hi bees,
My SO and I have two almost 1-year old cats. The girl is a dream of a kitty but the boy is kind of vocal and a little dodo. He has always had his moments of running/going around the apartment crying and sometimes howling pathetically. Recently they both got over a cold, but he has feline herpes so his eye acted out. We had complete silence for about 1.5 weeks while they were sick. Since he started feeling better he's been more active and vocal, which we welcomed of course. The problem is, for the past week or so he's been howling at night, one fit around midnight-1am and another one starting at 6 am and until about 7. He just goes around howling...if it was crying we could sleep to it but he's just too loud! I'm not sure if he wants attention, we tried to give it to him but I can't wake up in the middle of my sleep just to give him attention every night! Nothing seems to stop him, not food, nothing. The girl just sits there staring at him, maybe he wants to play? He cries when he's playing too... We started squirting him with a water gun when he does it and it's better, but it's driving us insane and we're both so tired because of this! Have any of you experienced this? Any tips?