Share My Cat Thread #7

[Mamacita]

I love Cleo but her constant crying is sending me over the edge. Its like she's always hungry but she gets plenty of food and I dont want to make her large. Shes a very vocal cat but she cries when im eating my dinner or talking to my boyfriend. She stands in the kitchen and screams. Does anyone have any advice? I just dont know what's for the best.

One of mine does the same! He does it to us in the kitchen as well, i genuinely think he's trying to participate in a conversation. It rarely seems about food, he's not that food motivated so i think it depends on a cat. Sometimes i think he does it cause he wants to play and will meow constantly when im trying to watch tv, then might add a gentle paw slap in my face too. Then he starts again when he wants me to go upstairs to bed. Never ending story.

Then my other cat can't meow really thank god

It might not be about food at all, more about attention and just "talking" to you basically

 

[Joannaspanner]

Scampi, my sweet girl x

 

[LouBug19]

Do you feed her after you or vice versa? Maybe change that? That said, my parents cats are exactly the same, nothing they do makes a difference

Usually I give her dinner just before I eat mine. Nothing helps

I would quote everyone but thanks for the advice. I think I need to get used to the fact she's just a very vocal cat and she's only a baby so she should grow out of it. Ive probably encouraged it by when she cries I get up and see what she wants, or talking back to her. She cries when she's tired, when she wants her litter done you name it i always make time for playing, ive got a lazer pen that she likes. She is such a good cat but the crying is just crazy sometimes.

 

[Mamacita]

Usually I give her dinner just before I eat mine. Nothing helps

I would quote everyone but thanks for the advice. I think I need to get used to the fact she's just a very vocal cat and she's only a baby so she should grow out of it. Ive probably encouraged it by when she cries I get up and see what she wants, or talking back to her. She cries when she's tired, when she wants her litter done you name it i always make time for playing, ive got a lazer pen that she likes. She is such a good cat but the crying is just crazy sometimes.

I feel I've encouraged it too cause it really gets to me too so try to make it stop sometimes just want to chill and not be meowed at. That's how i know children aren't for me

 

[MediumLoad]

Jimmy can be vocal as well.

I mostly ignore it as he shouts about various things and I only really respond to a cry of distress.

He shouts when he has used the litter tray and I am in bed.

He shouts when I have gone to bed and he still wants to play.

He shouts when he wants food. Although, that is more like squealing like a piglet so I respond to that or he'll just get louder and louder.

When he first arrived here, he was almost completely silent apart from any cries of distress so it is down to him learning how to 'speak' to me.

 

[TheCat'sMother]

I feel your pain, Merry is very vocal. She's worse if there's a full moon weirdly but even so she's a proper shouter and attention seeker. We've just had to embrace it and 'talk' back to her and that seems to calm her a little x.

My tortiecat Rita talks a lot too! I know exactly what she wants by the tone of her voice

She is very bossy

 

[MaineCoonMama]

Thor and Susan are half-siblings but couldn't be more different. Sue's loud, pushy and bossy while Thor's very quiet (he has a really croaky, soft meow) and such a gentle giant.
Also she's pear-shaped and Thor is really long and slim. That's why we call him SpongeThor Squarebutt.

 

[Wooh]

Jimmy can be vocal as well.

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When he first arrived here, he was almost completely silent apart from any cries of distress so it is down to him learning how to 'speak' to me.

This! The rescues, or freaks, or the ones who were without homes when they were kittens, they often overcompensate, and I LOVE it.

I say that Dill read the How to Live with a Human Handbook, but he skim read and skipped the boring parts, which is why he often gets things wrong. And this is why he likes to run in, chomp my foot, grab a sock, run away. The chapter actually says "humans enjoy you rubbing your head against their foot, and you get to put your smell on them."

@LouBug19 sorry I don't have any advice. I'm also quite good at just ignoring cheekiness and I suspect I'd do this re your cat. It could get a tad annoying!!

 

[jojida]

I'm also part of the "very vocal, seemingly nothing wrong though" club. Peach always yells at us when we're eating dinner at the table because (I think) she wants us to go into the living room, but then she'll shout from in the kitchen doorway when we're there like she wants us to go back. Sometimes I think she's just a yapper!

She also moans like crazy when her dad is out of the house (he's such a homebody that she's used to him being there), like she's reminding me something isn't quite right. I like to think she's asking me to phone him to come home

 

[LouBug19]

I feel I've encouraged it too cause it really gets to me too so try to make it stop sometimes just want to chill and not be meowed at. That's how i know children aren't for me

Im exactly the same!! Cleo has put me off kids for life shes actually been very chilled this morning so she must know im talking about her. She's the sweetest girl, I love her but ive never had the experience of a very vocal cat. It has helped that a lot of people on here say their cat is the same so I know im not alone.

 

[MediumLoad]

I was browsing this place earlier today.

Jimmy, rightfully, felt that I was neglecting him so bit me on the arm, twice.

He's probably been on CatNet complaining about me as well.

 

[emm]

I was browsing this place earlier today.

Jimmy, rightfully, felt that I was neglecting him so bit me on the arm, twice.

He's probably been on CatNet complaining about me as well.

I'd dread to imagine what my cats would say about me if they could access the Internet

 

[MediumLoad]

I'd dread to imagine what my cats would say about me if they could access the Internet

It would be as bad as Mumsnet with the little furry fiends competing to show who has the worst human cat-slave.

Jimmy would be:

"Only feeds me twice a day instead of when I want to be fed."

"Won't do playtime at 3 am when I am wide awake and in dire need of attention."

"Insists on doing stuff with computers for hours and hours most of the week. When I complain, he starts boring me to death about earning money to feed me. I'm a cat, what do I care about the likes of that?"

 

[emm]

It would be as bad as Mumsnet with the little furry fiends competing to show who has the worst human cat-slave.

Jimmy would be:

"Only feeds me twice a day instead of when I want to be fed."

"Won't do playtime at 3 am when I am wide awake and in dire need of attention."

"Insists on doing stuff with computers for hours and hours most of the week. When I complain, he starts boring me to death about earning money to feed me. I'm a cat, what do I care about the likes of that?"

All of the above and I'd add "tries to cuddle me when I'm not interested. Needy and annoying, I'll decide when cuddles are appropriate (4am or when she's about to leave for work)"

 

[LouBug19]

Cleos attitude at the minute is sleep all day, party all night

 

[MediumLoad]

As it's mild today, I have all the windows and back door open to air the house.

Much excitement from Jimmy.

Three times now, he has charged out to the yard for some loud shouting before doing a mad charge around the house.

Right now a toy mouse is being beaten to death.

 

[Keikochan]

I bought these nice curtain lights. They look pretty and are battery operated. They go across the curtain rail and hang down fairy lights to the floor. I didn't think about the cats when I bought them....
So yeah Boss #2 has been attacking them and biting them It's been a few days and so far, calling her and clapping our hands has been working well the stop her. But today or right now has been the worst, she must have the zoomies or just a bunch of energy. Plus they are on right now so that is probably calling her to them.
We have brought out the dreaded water spray bottle and have sprayed her 3 times so far... I hate it bc I don't want her to hate me but I also def don't want her hurting herself by biting them. We are also trying to distract her with all the toys and the peak-a-boo yoke, and the laser. Hopefully this works.

 

[emm]

I bought these nice curtain lights. They look pretty and are battery operated. They go across the curtain rail and hang down fairy lights to the floor. I didn't think about the cats when I bought them....
So yeah Boss #2 has been attacking them and biting them It's been a few days and so far, calling her and clapping our hands has been working well the stop her. But today or right now has been the worst, she must have the zoomies or just a bunch of energy. Plus they are on right now so that is probably calling her to them.
We have brought out the dreaded water spray bottle and have sprayed her 3 times so far... I hate it bc I don't want her to hate me but I also def don't want her hurting herself by biting them. We are also trying to distract her with all the toys and the peak-a-boo yoke, and the laser. Hopefully this works.

My cats used to climb the curtains as kittens, they haven't done it in years, I'd probably take down the lights until they're older tbh

 

[Keikochan]

My cats used to climb the curtains as kittens, they haven't done it in years, I'd probably take down the lights until they're older tbh

Nah, I like them up. It's Boss #2 who is just over 1 yr old who is doing it. They've been up for maybe 2 weeks now and tonight is really 1st night she has been persistent with them. It was funny how she would look at us, seeing what we were gonna do, will we use the spray bottle, think she was playing with us as well as the lights. After husband did it that's when she stopped She is mostly his cos he picked her & she has him wrapped around her lil paw! Right now she is passed out on her blankie on the sofa, all tired out. She so cute!
Hopefully it's just a random night of chaos for her.

 

[Mamacita]

Got my renewal documents for cat insurance and for one of the cats it's going up by almost a tenner a month honestly what the hell

Is it even worth shopping around for cat insurance?