Anyone's elderly cats miaow loudly early morning??

Recently my cat has started waking me up quite a lot during the night as she's taken to sleeping on my pillow and trying to snuggle into my hair! I can cope with this - it's the early morning miaowing that is annoying, and she's also waking my young son too.

I don't really want to shut her downstairs as she always eats upstairs and when she's not in my hair she sleeps upstairs always!

Years ago I had a cat who, when he was older would miaow early morning, but also pull loads of books off the bookshelves! Why DO they do this kind of thing when they're older?? Maybe it's just a case of dementia setting in!! :wink:

 

I don't know if they only do this when they're older. Copper isn't elderly and he does stuff like that just to wake me up. Like knock things off of the dresser and meow VERY loudly. :0011: Who knows why??

 

my younger cat is the one who wakes me up by standing by my ear and meowing. when im getting ready for school buster decides to drag down my brothers cloths ;and meows the whole way to the laundry room.

 

Milo will be 5 next month and he's getting really bad in the mornings. To wake us up, he would either stomp on the bed, walk back and forth on the pillows, and meow really lound while doing all of the above. If that doesn't get our attention, he claws us. :roll: The older he gets, the bolder he gets. He's one spoiled, rotten kid! :mrgreen:

 

loud pussy cat meowing in da morning

hello!
i have just today taken my elderly cat (18 years old) to the vet for numerous reasons. But mentioned to the vet that he has been meowing very loudly lately especially early in the morning. I am pretty sure that my cat has kidney disease as he drinks alot and his weight varies monthly. He seems to meow really loudly after drinking too! but the vet said that kidney disease affects the blood pressure, which can also trigger this very loud meowing (hight blood pressure). Also the fact that he is getting ery old and his hearing is diminishing, i would presume that he cannot hear the awful racket that he is making. So next time you are at the vet, get them to check his hearing and blood pressure and the possiblity of kidney disease. Hope this was of help

 

Kyrre wakes us up every morning, and the reason is no secret: he is spoiled! When he was younger it used to be cute, but now he acts like a brat! (and he is only 9months old...) We have tried to change his diurnal rythm, but no matter how much he is awake during the day, he is always awake and active during the night, especially early mornings.

He used to wake us up at any time during the night if he got bored, but we started to ignore him and he soon stoped that behaviour. Now he wakes us up in the mornings if he is bored or thirsty or wants to go outside... So now our main focus is trying to teach him to only drink from his water bowl again. Ever since he was just a few months old he has been drinking from the bathroom faucet... I told you he was spoiled! :?
I really hope this works, cause he is driving us crazy the way it is now.

And to Kyrres defence: the remaining 22hours of the day, he is an angel :wink:

 

I'm very lucky it seems!!! My clock radio goes off at 6:15 am every morning and I have to wake Ruby up!!! She sleeps either on my head or at my feet and I think I keep her awake with my tossing & turning! She's going to be 2 years old in June, so really she's still a young girl and should be full of spit. BUT, on the flip side, when I come home from work it's Ruby Ruby Ruby! If I don't pay attention to her from the minute I walk in the door until "Ruby, are you ready for bed?" at around 11pm, she gets quite moody! I play hide and seek (she knows all my hiding spots, so this gets old fast), rolling golf balls (until they all go under the fridge, that's game over), claw in the bathtub (until my hands and arms are dripping in blood, she's nasty!), tin foil ball chase (I should just buy a tin foil manufacturing company), eat-Ruby's-pumpkinhead (until I have swallowed so much cat hair that I need to hack up a hairball), sing to her "You Are My Sunshine" (look the heck out....she HATES when I sing, actually growls), pat-her-smellybum (that one's private!).

We poop eachother out I tells ya! She's a nutball !!

Peace

 

My cat has done this her whole life. She sleeps in the garage, since with her meowing, and the litter box, and the fact that she likes to attack feet as we sleep, it was too hard to keep her inside. We actually took her to the vet for it when she was little, thinking she was in pain. It would start just as meowing and turn into this yowling that could scare the daylights out of you if you didn't know what it was. The vet told us she was simply very vocal, which turned out to be very true! You can hold a full conversation with, her and she will generally meow in reply to everything you say