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Hi folks. I'm here because I'm out of options and I'm sitting here feeling like a terrible mother because I just lost my temper with my fur kid.
My cat, a 4 year old black striped tabby, is extremely vocal. While normally this is fine, lately he's been getting more and more pushy. He yells and it develops into yowling, as if he was wounded and bleeding to death. (It's very dramatic.) This happens at all hours, and now it's turning into extremely loud scream/yowling. Not quite a cat "scream", but demanding and extremely loud. He woke us up at 4:30 AM standing on the landing upstairs outside of our room, but when we call to him and try to reassure him, he stands in our bedroom doorway and does it. He refuses to come to bed. He has food, his litter is clean, he doesn't have an illness or UTI, he just....yells. It's awful. I'll be home and he does it every few seconds and I will talk to him but it does no good. I just lost my temper and spanked him for being naughty, and now I feel terrible. That didn't even do it - I scruffed him and told him "No!" and he is now hiding under the bed. I hate that I felt it needed to go that far.
Our vet told us he has "mental issues" and was very condescending about it. He is adopted from the Humane Society. The medication the vet gave us a year or so ago turned him into a lump. He stopped talking, stopped cuddling, and just laid about, so we took him off of it. He's normally very smart and gentle, so this yelling is extremely concerning. I'm at my wit's end and don't want to be so mean to my kid!
HELP!
My cat, a 4 year old black striped tabby, is extremely vocal. While normally this is fine, lately he's been getting more and more pushy. He yells and it develops into yowling, as if he was wounded and bleeding to death. (It's very dramatic.) This happens at all hours, and now it's turning into extremely loud scream/yowling. Not quite a cat "scream", but demanding and extremely loud. He woke us up at 4:30 AM standing on the landing upstairs outside of our room, but when we call to him and try to reassure him, he stands in our bedroom doorway and does it. He refuses to come to bed. He has food, his litter is clean, he doesn't have an illness or UTI, he just....yells. It's awful. I'll be home and he does it every few seconds and I will talk to him but it does no good. I just lost my temper and spanked him for being naughty, and now I feel terrible. That didn't even do it - I scruffed him and told him "No!" and he is now hiding under the bed. I hate that I felt it needed to go that far.
Our vet told us he has "mental issues" and was very condescending about it. He is adopted from the Humane Society. The medication the vet gave us a year or so ago turned him into a lump. He stopped talking, stopped cuddling, and just laid about, so we took him off of it. He's normally very smart and gentle, so this yelling is extremely concerning. I'm at my wit's end and don't want to be so mean to my kid!
HELP!
