Very Loud, Deep Meow. Almost a howl...

You know I see that all of you seem to have male cats, mine however is a female. She is fixed and I heard about a female looking for a mate but they don't do that if ther'e fixed I would think.  and I just don't remember when this deep meow has started and she doesn't do it all the time. We just got 2 little dogs and there is a gate that separates them from my cat carlie but I just heard her doing that meow again. I think she is lonely and I feel sorry for her because of the change with the dogs, but it was unavoidable as the dogs has been in the family for a long time. I think she is trying to tell me to pay attention to her, I don't know.

I think she's trying to get your attention too. Carlie will most likely be upset about the dogs moving in, and it could take a while before they get used to each other. The change in her routine would definitely have caused her some stress.
When my (male) cat yowls, it's not sexual or anything, he just wants attention of some kind, usually food.

My cat Snoop does the same thing. He does it when he can't find me or i go upstairs without inviting him....so this seems like a common thing....and he does it when he's going to puke up a fur ball...so it is likely related to discomfort. My other cat never did this....but Snoop is very demanding and stubborn and SWEET but my other cat was very laid back.

My cat's a 1 and a half yr old female, she's never howled before until now and I don't now why, its driving me insane

melanieandsnoop said:

My cat Snoop does the same thing. He does it when he can't find me or i go upstairs without inviting him....so this seems like a common thing....and he does it when he's going to puke up a fur ball...so it is likely related to discomfort. My other cat never did this....but Snoop is very demanding and stubborn and SWEET but my other cat was very laid back.

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rachel1995 said:

My cat's a 1 and a half yr old female, she's never howled before until now and I don't now why, its driving me insane

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To both of you. Welcome to TCS. I invite each of you to start your own thread in this forum. That way we can address the specific behavior of your cat. Each one is different and what works for one may not work with the other.

Please include whether they are spayed/neutered and how many other cats/dogs you have, if any.

I decided to get online tonight and investigate why my Patches does this deep howling when I am out of his sight.  I soon found from this site that this is a common occurrence with quite a few other cats out there!  As your cat does, I will call Patches's name and he will immediately reply back with a regular, soft meow.  We live in a very small apartment, so most times he sees me, but I am guessing is just trying to get my attention or possibly he is lonely and wants a playmate.  He was one of five cats at one time and is an only child at this time!  Thanks to everyone for all the advise I have found on this site!

My 2 year old cat meows very loudly in the other room or on the stairs landing. It is not necessarily very deep--the sound is more like a 'Mrro' sometimes 'Mrow' long on the vowels. He doesn't do it when I am in the room. Mom tells me he meows like that when I am gone. 

He was abandoned by his mother when a kitten--he was sitting on a cold window sill when I found him, half frozen, with a bad cold. Maybe he has abandonment issues. I am like his mommy. Whenever I leave, he is extra affectionate when I come back and will cuddle on my lap, looking up at me with his eyes closed. Not that he doesn't do that normally, but when I come back, he sits on my lap soon as he can and stays there longer. I wish I didn't have to leave him but it's just not practical to stay with my cat all the time. It's funny he even meows loudly when I am here though. He is a very vocal cat and mows a lot in a more normal voice-- looks at me and meows as if he thinks I can understand what he says.

Welcome, Ameraka!     I have a kitty who yowls sometimes, too.  I took him in after his owner died.  He's 13, and is almost deaf.  In the mornings, he starts that yowling.  I think he gets a bit disoriented when he wakes up, it's dark and his world is quiet.  Usually I go in his room, turn on the light and wave my hand to make sure he sees I'm there, and that calms him down.  

If you want to start your own thread about this, you may get some ideas from some of the experienced kitty owners here about your cat's meowing.  

Thanks for all the comments above;

our older cat, GrayCat, was an insistent adoptee about 8 years ago:

he came over the back garden terrace and loudly insisted on being fed; we should have guessed --  he never left

he was never excessively noisy, though he was always fairly dominant, biting another male very hard on the tail once, and with blood all over (never seen a tail cast before); but occasionally he would get very impatient before dinnertime and meow a LOT

anyway, we moved back to N.America from Europe last March, and suddenly in a 3rd-floor apartment  Gray no longer had the outdoor access he had at garden level;

this was possibly the origin of his late-night /early morning "yowling and prowling" sessions, which awakened us often and caused havoc with our sleep; I would awake and rush him into a back TV room with access to the outdoor balcony, and cover myself 3-deep in blankets as he stayed out a while late winter nights;

we moved to permanent quarters by summertime and he had again easy indoor-outdoor access. Perhaps for this reason his yowling greatly diminished.

However, in the last month, December, again perhaps with the cabin fever of a very cold winter (but maybe not) , he is back at it again:

deep guttural "me-yowling" spurts, starting at ungodly hours, and all through Christmas with a house full of visitors.

It is continuing into the New Year and my wife is absolutely exasperated. nowhere in the house to stow him without hearing him clearly, downstairs, kitchen, anywhere.... try calming him and lying on the couch together, but he soon tires of this and he scampers down a hallway or under a bed, yowling again.

Going to the vet Saturday, but previous vets have had few worthwhile suggestions... Anyone??

All your posts scare me a bit... Emilio is 8 to 9 months, neutered, healthy male cat. He is a very nice and behaving cat only he is a bit naughty player because he bites and it is being very hard to try to make him quit biting, so he still bites. But he's a silent cat, he hardly ever meows and never cries during nights. We have parakeets at home, in a separate room where he is forbidden going inside alone. And the only time he meows is when I'm with the birds not being allowed himself into- then he cries, not a loud crying the way most of you are describing, but a soft, sweet and I'm-a-baby-hopelessly-needing-my-mom meow. And now reading your posts I cannot help being worried when he's a year or two. Will Emilio become a noisy cat when he gets older? How to prevent-detect it? [emoji]128534[/emoji][emoji]128008[/emoji] I know at the moment there's not a reason apparently, but in my inner, it's something that I'm quite concerned about.

Smilax said:

All your posts scare me a bit... 

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 My eldest, Rosie is famous here for being a chatterbox since she was a kitten. So l have her in one ear, Jack in another, then Sophie when she wants the door open to the conservatory

If your concerned though you could have a word with your vet, but it sounds normal to me?

betsygee said:

 
Welcome, Ameraka!  

  I have a kitty who yowls sometimes, too.  I took him in after his owner died.  He's 13, and is almost deaf.  In the mornings, he starts that yowling.  I think he gets a bit disoriented when he wakes up, it's dark and his world is quiet.  Usually I go in his room, turn on the light and wave my hand to make sure he sees I'm there, and that calms him down.  

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Well I've discovered the lights calm him down temporarily.  Then I thought maybe it's his IBD--I know some IBD cats need smaller portions of food more frequently and he's always so hungry in the morning. I don't know.  I just know the yowling has got louder, more frequent and it's driving me crazy.  I'll be seeing a vet this afternoon to see what she thinks.

Ilpav said:

My cat has been doing EXACTLY that for the past year or so. He's has these "phases" where he won't do it for months and then he will start again.

He's 2.5 years old and I had him since he was 3 months old. He isn't neutered and we don't plan to neuter him anytime.

When he does this, he usually goes into the basement (maybe he's smart enough to know that a loud noise in the basement can be heard all around the house because of the ventilation system

) and does either a normal loud meow or a very low-pitched meow, or like a howl like you said.

He's very healthy and lovable when he's normal; he eats right and uses the litter box regularly.

Also, he can tend to pee somewhere in the basement (unfinished basement with lots of junk in boxes) when he does this; does that mean he's like giving us a sign that he's not happy with us because he doesn't get any attention?

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since your cat is not neutered, the howling and the peeing could be that he wants to get out and mate. is he peeing on the floor...or is it like vertical sprays against your boxes or the wall?

maybe take him to the vet because he maybe be having some issues to cause him to pee on the floor and not on his litter box...he could be going into the basement to meow because cats like to hide when they are in pain...or he could just want to go out to mate and he's spraying because of that too.  

Okay, that is exactly what our Nero does.  My husband and Nero are really connected and Nero follows him EVERY WHERE!   My husband takes a shower, Nero is in between the shower curtains.  My husband throws his laundry down the laundry shoot, Nero tries to rescue it.  Apparently, socks can be rescued and he LOVES his socks...we were thinking perhaps he was "in love" with the socks and making this noise.  He will run and jump on the sock and act like he is naughty.  The other two cats are just as disgusted by my husband's socks as I am...pretty funny.  Moral of this story, my cat is making this sound with my husband's socks...sick yet true.

the situation with GrayCat outlined in post #49 above has changed a bit, but we still have many sleepless nights and are just hoping spring brings some relief;

for an unknown reason, Gray is loud ALL THE TIME some days, meeowing and breaking into a yowl as he walks the corridors... drives us crazy, wife ready to get rid of him to get some sleep

 the vet said maybe age-related, "vocalization" a common response to ageing, and gave/sold us an antioxidant dry food -- which he eats little of ...

the big move a year ago looms large, since he did not yowl before that,

but he was quiet throughout much of summer 2013 when he was outside more; very cold winter in Montreal

still looking for solutions, as me getting up every single night at 3-5 am to herd him away from bedrooms and down to basement just too disruptive

I will soon try those pheromone scenters again, as they seemed to calm the beasts when we moved -- but other than that not a solution in sight

Any more ideas?

Jenny Hadorn said:

 
Okay, that is exactly what our Nero does.  My husband and Nero are really connected and Nero follows him EVERY WHERE!   My husband takes a shower, Nero is in between the shower curtains.  My husband throws his laundry down the laundry shoot, Nero tries to rescue it.  Apparently, socks can be rescued and he LOVES his socks...we were thinking perhaps he was "in love" with the socks and making this noise.  He will run and jump on the sock and act like he is naughty.  The other two cats are just as disgusted by my husband's socks as I am...pretty funny.  Moral of this story, my cat is making this sound with my husband's socks...sick yet true.

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lol I wonder if Nero thinks the socks are some kind of stinky prey? A baby skunk, perhaps?

DaveW said:

 
the situation with GrayCat outlined in post #49 above has changed a bit, but we still have many sleepless nights and are just hoping spring brings some relief;

for an unknown reason, Gray is loud ALL THE TIME some days, meeowing and breaking into a yowl as he walks the corridors... drives us crazy, wife ready to get rid of him to get some sleep

 the vet said maybe age-related, "vocalization" a common response to ageing, and gave/sold us an antioxidant dry food -- which he eats little of ...

the big move a year ago looms large, since he did not yowl before that,

but he was quiet throughout much of summer 2013 when he was outside more; very cold winter in Montreal

still looking for solutions, as me getting up every single night at 3-5 am to herd him away from bedrooms and down to basement just too disruptive

I will soon try those pheromone scenters again, as they seemed to calm the beasts when we moved -- but other than that not a solution in sight

Any more ideas?

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The pheromone diffusers sure wouldn't hurt, especially since it helped him in the past. My Cookie does that loud mrooowwww sometimes. He's elderly and has cataracts so at first I thought he got disoriented, like Betsygee mentioned, but it seems it's usually when he doesn't get his bedtime snack. I'm pretty sure now that he's just calling for someone (guess who) to give him some food! You might try giving GrayCat a big dollop of his favorite canned food before you go to bed. Otherwise my guess would be boredom. The best cure for that is to wear him out playing before bedtime, or find him something that he likes to play with quietly after bedtime. Good luck!

Hi. I cant believe someone else has my problem.  My kitten is 6 months old and hardly ever meows, but makes the same sound that your cat does. It was just after drinking, and it was low, so we never worried. Recently, it has gotten to the point where he does it out of the clear blue and extremely loud and scary. We went to the vet and she checked for any obstruction. She took xrays of his body and skull and found nothing wrong. The vet said if he continues with that sound, she wants to put him under and give him in endoscopy. When did your cat start making those sounds?

Rascal has a brother and they have each other to play with, so he's not alone. We live in a coop and at night when he howls, WE can't sleep. The vet originally said it could be his vocal chords. We don't want to put him under needlessly, so does anyone have any answers?

could it be a  laryngeal paralysis? my cat had a similar issue that is wat my vet told me... kinda reminds me of these poor guys..