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When I say constantly I mean it. He doesnt stop for hours. and its not really yowling its SCREAMING. As loud as a cat can possibly get.
My cat is almost 14 for a long time he would sometime in the early morning cry to seemingly wake me up. He does seem to have some form of separation anxiety towards me and doesn't like me to be asleep when he isn't. It used to only be every once and a while he did this.
A couple years ago he started doing it much more frequently. Now extending to doing it at all hours. It was still just loud meows and he would pull the classic cat knocks everything off the counters move in the morning. I always thought he was just hungry or as I said above anxious about me not being up with him. But as he did it more during the evening, while I was up, he would go to our upstairs door which separates our living spaces. Hes never been a playful cat so when I try play hes not interested, food gets no stopping, attention not it either.
It became everyday with him scratching that door, which I cant let him out. I think he wants to get up there but there are cats he refuses to get along with up there. Our area is very spacious so I don't think he wants room, I honestly think he wants to kill those cats (which are female so I dont think its standard malevsmale aggression. All parties are also spayed/neutered). He'll leave the door only to go scratch other things, our tv, our mirror, any loud surface he can find, any sort of bag that makes a loud crinkle. Or he'll come cry at me directly but run away when I try to pet him or show him attention.
So for years we've delt with crying day and night, driving us to go insane, but then it got worse. Our other cat passed months ago and the crying became yowling in the early morning. I looked into depression and know thats probably the cause for the new level of crying, but he still did this for years before his friend passed.
So now recently we finally adopted another cat, I thought perhaps getting him a new friend would bring him some comfort/a new play friend to get his energy out. It hasn't helped at all and he literally just screams and then yowls for hours straight. Nothing gets him to stop, the vet said he looks perfectly healthy. I've read every article about not giving them attention or what it "could be" and nothing has helped, nothing has seemed like what hes doing.
Please help if you have any ideas. This cat is my baby for 14years, my best friend, but hes driving me insane and to feel like I just hate him. I could never get rid of him but I feel like my life has just been misery for a few years and even more so now. I don't want to be mad at him for the rest of his life because I can't figure out how to help him.
My cat is almost 14 for a long time he would sometime in the early morning cry to seemingly wake me up. He does seem to have some form of separation anxiety towards me and doesn't like me to be asleep when he isn't. It used to only be every once and a while he did this.
A couple years ago he started doing it much more frequently. Now extending to doing it at all hours. It was still just loud meows and he would pull the classic cat knocks everything off the counters move in the morning. I always thought he was just hungry or as I said above anxious about me not being up with him. But as he did it more during the evening, while I was up, he would go to our upstairs door which separates our living spaces. Hes never been a playful cat so when I try play hes not interested, food gets no stopping, attention not it either.
It became everyday with him scratching that door, which I cant let him out. I think he wants to get up there but there are cats he refuses to get along with up there. Our area is very spacious so I don't think he wants room, I honestly think he wants to kill those cats (which are female so I dont think its standard malevsmale aggression. All parties are also spayed/neutered). He'll leave the door only to go scratch other things, our tv, our mirror, any loud surface he can find, any sort of bag that makes a loud crinkle. Or he'll come cry at me directly but run away when I try to pet him or show him attention.
So for years we've delt with crying day and night, driving us to go insane, but then it got worse. Our other cat passed months ago and the crying became yowling in the early morning. I looked into depression and know thats probably the cause for the new level of crying, but he still did this for years before his friend passed.
So now recently we finally adopted another cat, I thought perhaps getting him a new friend would bring him some comfort/a new play friend to get his energy out. It hasn't helped at all and he literally just screams and then yowls for hours straight. Nothing gets him to stop, the vet said he looks perfectly healthy. I've read every article about not giving them attention or what it "could be" and nothing has helped, nothing has seemed like what hes doing.
Please help if you have any ideas. This cat is my baby for 14years, my best friend, but hes driving me insane and to feel like I just hate him. I could never get rid of him but I feel like my life has just been misery for a few years and even more so now. I don't want to be mad at him for the rest of his life because I can't figure out how to help him.
