My cat, my buddy, my bff, won't stop yowling at night.

[TechBoyJK]

His name is Onyx and he just sits at my bedroom door and yowls. All night. Nothing's wrong. He's fed. He's just lonely I guess, even though there's 3 other cats who hangout peacefully. But if I open the door, he runs off and then comes around wanting to cuddle.

But it's becoming beyond annoying and I'm not sure how to make it stop. It's loud. He's a 20 pound, stocky black domestic short hair cat.

He's about 12yo. Recently went to the vet and got all his shots and everything. He's fine.

thoughts?

 

[flexy]

Male cats: yowling, spraying, humping, attacking other male cats in the household...tell me about it. I think the only thing you can do is having him "fixed".

 

[gorcorps]

My gf's cat does the same thing, but mostly because we have to keep it locked in with us at night or it'll attack the other cat. He has everything he needs (food, water, litter box)

When a cat wants through a door he'll just be a dick until you let him out. They'll yowl until they can't yowl anymore, but they'll keep trying and make an even worse noise.

The point is that dogs are better and this thing is annoying

 

[dank69]

Your options are:

1) Leave door open and let him go wherever he wants.
2) Supersoak that bitch every time he yowls until he gets the message.

 

[OutHouse]

squirt bottle of water?

 

[Ruptga]

In my experience there's only one thing you can do with an asshole cat, trade it in for a discount meal at a roach coach. Cats are almost entirely untrainable, so if yours is already in the habit of doing something you don't want there's not much else to do other than try to outlive it.

 

[CraKaJaX]

The point is that dogs are better and this thing is annoying

:thumbsup:

 

[VtPC83]

12 y/o? too old for squirt bottle to do much good (taken from experience). I say just let him in unless there's a reason you're not?

 

[TechBoyJK]

12 y/o? too old for squirt bottle to do much good (taken from experience). I say just let him in unless there's a reason you're not?

Because he'll just get into bed and yowl in my face.

And he farts.

 

[TechBoyJK]

squirt bottle of water?

I think he's too old at this point for the squirt bottle to do anything. I've already tried it, and I think all it did is teach him that yowling gets attention. Even if it's negative.

I think that's why he runs from the door at this point. He thinks he's going to get sprayed. But as soon as he realizes he wasn't going to, he comes back around and starts it up.

 

[chitwood]

do you own a gun?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Our cat goes thru similar phases. I work him out heavily (until he's panting) with toys and or a laser pointer.
I bet he's just bored.

 

[dank69]

I think he's too old at this point for the squirt bottle to do anything. I've already tried it, and I think all it did is teach him that yowling gets attention. Even if it's negative.

I think that's why he runs from the door at this point. He thinks he's going to get sprayed. But as soon as he realizes he wasn't going to, he comes back around and starts it up.

Consistency is key. You have to get him every time. Chase him until cornered and get him wet enough to be uncomfortable. Don't just squirt. Soak that fucker. Every. Time.

 

[Denly]

Two reasons

1. he is uncomfortable. There are many things a regular check up can't tell, especially 12yrs old.

2. Unknown, pretty much all cat did that at some stage. It is like a clock work, sametime everyday they yowling. I had a deaf cat for 15yrs and he yowl like a monster, I had many complaint back when I am in condo.

you will get used to it.

 

[Homerboy]

One of our cats is a 5:00am alarm clock. He just wants people up. Perfectly content and quite all night long. Then around 5am or so he just start howling. Stops when I get up, but then if wife/kids are still sleeping will eventually go back up and yowl until they get up too.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Is he fixed? That might help if he isn't.

Other than that, cats love to hunt, especially at night. Do you play with him during the day? Try playing with him before bed to wear him out. Might help anyway.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Are you in the new place, our cat acted strange when we moved for a few weeks. Play with him get him tired out.

 

[DaTT]

Is there anyone inside the house that may have his penis inside the cat? That may cause yowling as well.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Are you in the new place, our cat acted strange when we moved for a few weeks. Play with him get him tired out.

Yes, we are, but the yowling has been a thing for a while.

Issue now is that my fiance is pregnant and not sleeping well, and his yowling isn't helping.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

My cats want to be in the bedroom with me too. But they kinda hate each other, so not at the same time. So I leave my door cracked.

Unfortunately, my housemate's cats also take it as an open invitation.

So there were three hungry cats crawling all over me this morning at 6:30AM, pawing at me and hissing at each other. (This is not abnormal, I feed them around 7, but they "wake up" when my housemate leaves for work at 6:30 and sometimes want to eat early.) I kicked them out and closed the door, only to turn around and find the fourth one crawling out from under my bed.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Yes, we are, but the yowling has been a thing for a while.

Issue now is that my fiance is pregnant and not sleeping well, and his yowling isn't helping.

Cats sometimes do that, our male cat does it usually in the early morning hours (4:30-5AM) and he'll run around like a maniac for a few minutes yowling like he's crazy. It doesn't really bother us though and he doesn't do it for very long. He's really a sweet cat and very loving. He just likes to get his cray on from time to time (our term for him when he acts cray cray).

I would try letting him into your room at night and see if he stops.

 

[ElFenix]

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[JSt0rm]

12 years is about the age for liver failure if you have been feeding them mid to low level foods. You may want to get that checked.

 

[JoeBleed]

As someone else said above, you can't just let it go with running them away from the door with the squirt bottle, you have to chase them down and soak them. I've had one that did that. on top of that, he would reach his paw under the door can pull back to make a LOUD popping noise with the door. I tried a lot of things and strategies. You may wan to add yelling and flailing your arms around while chasing him. Not sure if that helped with his issue or just made me feel better. Probably just made me feel better.

Being 12, i hate to suggest the above, but i know how annoying it is and can be. The above stopped it for a while, on occasions, he would still do it, yelling at him from bed usually stopped it. Another possibility, make sure they have a few cat toys and change them out/rotate them every couple of weeks or so. They seem to get tired of them after a while, picking them up and throwing new ones out keeps the interest. latter, just put the old ones out when you pick up the others.

Don't know why some are like this, the others aren't unless they ran out of food over night. One of my others is whinny during the day/evening. thankfully he doesn't bother me at all when sleeping. He just wants attention when i'm awake. which is usually fine unless i'm in the kitchen.

Edit: oh, with spraying them with water, avoid the face and ears i'm told.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

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