cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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- Land of confusion
our mog is 8 soon, its very vocal when it comes in most of the time almost like its learnt to say hello
WHY is my cat shouting for me at 4am?
- Thread starter Cathryn
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Mo1959
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- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
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Cathryn
Legendary Member
- Location
- Marlborough, Wiltshire
Yes, Charlie has always been vocal. It's one of the things I most love about him. I don't think he's MORE vocal - he's just vocal at inopportune times.
- Location
- Glasgow
And hopefully thyroid medication twice a day 👌
My cat is 20 and she has become very vocal at night. I'll be sleeping deeply and suddenly AROOOOO AROOOOO! she also likes to be fed in the early hours (leaving food out before I go to bed doesn't work, she likes it fresh). She has kidney disease but won't eat her special diet food-- she likes to change what she eats frequently (but it's hard to guess what she might want so some of her food gets fed to the alleyway fox).
She's a good cat though, I just have the wrong job because I'm up at 05:30 most days and being woken at 04:30 is frustrating (I prefer, say, 03:30 because I can get back to sleep- but I don't get a lot of choice). Every now and then she'll give a bloodcurdling screech in the middle of the night and I'll wake up with my heart racing- probably caught sight of her nemesis 'the grey cat' through the cat flap door.
She's a good cat though, I just have the wrong job because I'm up at 05:30 most days and being woken at 04:30 is frustrating (I prefer, say, 03:30 because I can get back to sleep- but I don't get a lot of choice). Every now and then she'll give a bloodcurdling screech in the middle of the night and I'll wake up with my heart racing- probably caught sight of her nemesis 'the grey cat' through the cat flap door.
I don't have any advice- might he be going deaf? (it's not easy to tell with cats- if there's a particular thing that bothers them like the the bin truck or hoover they might stop noticing). Deaf cats sometimes start to vocalise more loudly.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Maybe because it's getting light and the birds are making noise.
Birds = possible breakfast
Birds = possible breakfast
raleighnut
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- One of the 'Elite'
Cats are Crepuscular animals, they hunt mainly at dusk/dawn when their superior eyesight comes into it's own, they have a reflective membrane at the back of their eyes to increase sensitivity too and are also quite 'long-sighted' and far more able to detect movement than something that is static.
Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
raleighnut
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- One of the 'Elite'
Yep
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
True.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Our Leo (one of four) yells 'ohh no, no, no, ohh no, no, no', just before he chucks up - gives you just about time to move him to a better surface for cleaning up. Always the same process. The other three just go 'blurgh'. 
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Our Leo (one of four) yells 'ohh no, no, no, ohh no, no, no', just before he chucks up - gives you just about time to move him to a better surface for cleaning up. Always the same process. The other three just go 'blurgh'.
Lexi makes this weird gargling noise just before she's about to upchuck. If she's on my bed, nothing wakes me up faster during the night, I tell you!
P.S. There was the time that Pearl barfed up a rancid mouse *IN* my bed. Eeeew!
