He is Yuri, a kitten that we adopted 1 year ago. We found it in an post on social media. At the time we adopted him he was around 30 days old and was found on the street. He is a very docile and loving cat. Extremely friendly. He behaves very well, has never broken or scratched anything in the house. Our home has a park where Yuri plays with our other cat, Gandalf, a 5-year-old male, with whom he never had any problems of adaptation (they wash each other, eat together, play, and sleep rolled up).
The only thing that really calls our attention about Yuri is his behavior in relation to the meow. Every time he sees us arrive from work, or even at any time of the day, seeing us he meows very hard, almost with the intensity with which a female usually does it in heat (the sound is quite annoying). If we stroke it, the meow immediately stops, and he seems to enjoy the caresses very much. Sometimes we observe him meowing alone in the yard, while playing trying to catch bugs or while wandering around the park. Unlike our other bigger cat, Yuri never leaves the perimeter of the house. Sometimes he climbs to the roof (he is very skilled at climbing trees and sneaking like a good young kitten), but he doesn't leave the property.
We have tried different techniques to teach him in that he does not need to meow to get our attention, but we are not very experienced in animal behavior to understand what is the best method, if anything actually can be taught, besides observing it and seeing that he does not do it exclusively in our presence, although he do stops meowing if we caress him. The meow does not seem to be related to a health condition, it is very well fed and the veterinarian who vaccinates him says that there is nothing wrong with his physical condition. When he turned 1, we castrated him, although the meow did not start there, but he has been like that since we adopted him.
On some occasion we were mentioned that the meowing in abandoned kittens on the street may be related to the fact that they were separated from their mother at a very young age, prior to the period of breastfeeding, but we have no concise information about whether this is true.
Is there anything we can do to teach him how to meow less? He is already 1 year old, and we fear that it´s been too long to start teaching him new behavior tricks now.
PD: Oh! I almost forgot, Yuri does this cute trick: if we are on the couch or the bed, he approaches and with his paw touches our hand intermittently and rubs his face on our fingers. It's almost as if he´s saying "come on silly human! I need those cuddles now!”
We really love him, but he can’t shut up!
The only thing that really calls our attention about Yuri is his behavior in relation to the meow. Every time he sees us arrive from work, or even at any time of the day, seeing us he meows very hard, almost with the intensity with which a female usually does it in heat (the sound is quite annoying). If we stroke it, the meow immediately stops, and he seems to enjoy the caresses very much. Sometimes we observe him meowing alone in the yard, while playing trying to catch bugs or while wandering around the park. Unlike our other bigger cat, Yuri never leaves the perimeter of the house. Sometimes he climbs to the roof (he is very skilled at climbing trees and sneaking like a good young kitten), but he doesn't leave the property.
We have tried different techniques to teach him in that he does not need to meow to get our attention, but we are not very experienced in animal behavior to understand what is the best method, if anything actually can be taught, besides observing it and seeing that he does not do it exclusively in our presence, although he do stops meowing if we caress him. The meow does not seem to be related to a health condition, it is very well fed and the veterinarian who vaccinates him says that there is nothing wrong with his physical condition. When he turned 1, we castrated him, although the meow did not start there, but he has been like that since we adopted him.
On some occasion we were mentioned that the meowing in abandoned kittens on the street may be related to the fact that they were separated from their mother at a very young age, prior to the period of breastfeeding, but we have no concise information about whether this is true.
Is there anything we can do to teach him how to meow less? He is already 1 year old, and we fear that it´s been too long to start teaching him new behavior tricks now.
PD: Oh! I almost forgot, Yuri does this cute trick: if we are on the couch or the bed, he approaches and with his paw touches our hand intermittently and rubs his face on our fingers. It's almost as if he´s saying "come on silly human! I need those cuddles now!”
We really love him, but he can’t shut up!
That saidhrre are two stories that might help.
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I blow on my Jackie (& or tell him no) if he walks over my face, sits in my heads down (push him off my head/pillow with a cranky “NO!”) , the blatantly ignore him & refuse to get up. It worked! He knows if mom is in bed, all I will give him is snuggles and then I sleep. 
