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So our youngest cat who is almost 1 year old, Annie, has started to incessantly cry for our attention and it only started maybe 1-2 weeks ago. I mentioned her age because I'm wondering if it's an age thing, but she's never been this bad before, even when she was younger. She'd still cry a little for our attention but it was never this persistent and she'd usually be satisfied after some play time.
She'll sit and cry at us no matter what we're doing. It's breaking my heart to hear her cry like this but we end up having several hour long or so play sessions multiple times a day until she's panting, then she'll take a break for 5-10 minutes, or sometimes take an hour or so long nap and then go back to crying when we sit back down to do our own thing or go back to work.
She has plenty of toys to play with alone, but isn't interested in them that much. We have another cat that we adopted for her benefit so she wouldn't be alone, but they aren't the closest of friends yet and don't like to play with each other as much as they enjoy us playing with them. She usually stops after several minutes of crying but it still pains me to hear her like this, but it seems no amount of play is enough for her. She's not much of an affectionate cat either so it's not like she'd be happy with some pets or cuddles. I do believe it's to do with wanting to play as she does a different kind of "happy squeak" whenever we get the wand toy out and start to play with her, but this isn't something we can do all day.
I don't believe there's anything wrong with her illness wise, it doesn't seem like she's in pain (even though I know cats are good at hiding it), she's using the bathroom just fine and eating and drinking fine. Because of this, my husband doesn't think there's a reason to take her to the vet so that's out of the question right now. We don't think it's food related either as she'll still continue to whine/cry after being fed. She does follow us around more than usual though and is overall just way more vocal than she used to be. We love how talkative she is now but I'm just worried there's something more to it and wanted to express my concern.
She'll sit and cry at us no matter what we're doing. It's breaking my heart to hear her cry like this but we end up having several hour long or so play sessions multiple times a day until she's panting, then she'll take a break for 5-10 minutes, or sometimes take an hour or so long nap and then go back to crying when we sit back down to do our own thing or go back to work.
She has plenty of toys to play with alone, but isn't interested in them that much. We have another cat that we adopted for her benefit so she wouldn't be alone, but they aren't the closest of friends yet and don't like to play with each other as much as they enjoy us playing with them. She usually stops after several minutes of crying but it still pains me to hear her like this, but it seems no amount of play is enough for her. She's not much of an affectionate cat either so it's not like she'd be happy with some pets or cuddles. I do believe it's to do with wanting to play as she does a different kind of "happy squeak" whenever we get the wand toy out and start to play with her, but this isn't something we can do all day.
I don't believe there's anything wrong with her illness wise, it doesn't seem like she's in pain (even though I know cats are good at hiding it), she's using the bathroom just fine and eating and drinking fine. Because of this, my husband doesn't think there's a reason to take her to the vet so that's out of the question right now. We don't think it's food related either as she'll still continue to whine/cry after being fed. She does follow us around more than usual though and is overall just way more vocal than she used to be. We love how talkative she is now but I'm just worried there's something more to it and wanted to express my concern.