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Cat Forum / General Topics / May 2007My Cat Screams at the door.
I have had my cat Sophie, for four years now. She is five years old. For the last two months she spents most of her days and nights howling at our front door and sometimes our back sliding glass door. There are times were she will scream for four hours long before taking a break. We have tried feeding her, letting her out, not letting her out for a long time, bringing her into the room where we are to cuddle, and even to the point of spraying her with a spray bottle to make her stop but she won't. She has had no change to her normal routine, she has no signs of any health changes and she only screams at the door. In the houses I have lived in with her, sometimes she was allowed out and in some houses we kept her in. She has never had a problem with being kept in before. Anyone know what could be the problem as well, how can we make her stop! >I have had my cat Sophie, for four years now. She is five years old. >For the last two months she spents most of her days and nights howling [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Anyone know what could be the problem as well, how can we make her >stop! Did you recently loose another cat? Maybe this cat is calling out for her long time comanion? One of the cats I had a few years ago would cry out as if to call another cat that he was very close to but died several years prior. It was almost like the two cats were brother and sister even though they weren't. Is her access restricted? Can you put a catflap in for her? >I have had my cat Sophie, for four years now. She is five years old. >For the last two months she spents most of her days and nights howling [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Anyone know what could be the problem as well, how can we make her >stop! On May 27, 11:23 am, blhanc...@hotmail.com wrote: > I have had my cat Sophie, for four years now. She is five years old. > For the last two months she spents most of her days and nights howling [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Anyone know what could be the problem as well, how can we make her > stop! Has she been spayed? If not, maybe she is being attracted by a male cat outside. Even if she has been spayed, she could still be sensing the presence of another cat and it's causing her to want to investigate... Sophie is spay, has not lost another companion or had any change to her normal routine. This is why we are so confused. We do not want to put a cat flap on for her as our front yard is right beside a road and our back yard has our two dogs in it during the day time. We don't mind going outside with her if we are there, but if we are away, we are afraid she would not come back as everyone on out street has dogs. Plus our other cat used to be a stray when we got her and she is very skittish. I would worry if she went outside and something scare her she would not return home as well. We decided to take Sophie to the vet just to be sure. A sudden behaviour change like that can indicate illness so a visit to the vet will at least (hopefully) put your mind at rest where her health is concerned. Here are a few other ideas to help zoom in on the cause of the problem. Did you change or introduce ANYTHING into the house at the time she started this? Cats can sense all sorts of things that humans can't (as you know). Is there any new machine or similar thing that may be giving off high frequencies? Cats can hear far (far, far) higher frequencies than humans (and quite a bit higher than dogs). Some people use boxes which give off very high frequencies in their gardens to keep cats away - & I shudder to think of what the indoor cat next door must feel about that. Then there are smells. Was anything with a new smell which Sophie may not like introduced to the house? It may be something that a human couldn't smell like the varnish on a shelf, or a new cleaning fluid, and so on. I'm thinking that maybe Sophie isn't wailing because she wants to go outside but rather, because she wants to get away from something in the house (or the near neighbourhood). If none of the above apply then is there anything at all which happened at the time she started this? Did she have any bad encounters (or even seemingly good ones) with a new human, or a dog, or another cat? Was there anything, no matter how trivial it seems, which happened just before her wailing started? Did anyone visit? Did she have an encounter with another animal (of whatever sort) on the other side of the glass doors? Was the furniture changed around? Did anything happen which may have reminded her of a time in her past - a visit from someone who used to look after her when she was allowed out for example? In the cat's mind there is some reason. When she's wailing can you look at her body language, her eyes especially, and tell a bit more about what she's feeling - is it fear, anger, discomfort, yearning for something? How does she act when you go near her when she is wailing at the door - does she ignore you, or get hyper-affectionate, or is she grumpy, or something else? What seems to be going on in her mind when she's like this? > Sophie is spay, has not lost another companion or had any change to > her normal routine. This is why we are so confused. We do not want to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > We decided to take Sophie to the vet just to be sure. |
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