Constant meowing at all hours

I have an 8 month old Siamese mix kitten and she will NOT stop meowing, which is fine during the day, but at night it's getting to be a little too much. I haven't had a good night's sleep in weeks, and I'm not sure what to do.

We have taken her to the vet, and she had a URI but she has been medicated and she is now perfectly fine, so she isn't meowing because she is in pain, and we give her cuddles and play with her all evening, and play with her before bed to try and make her tired. She has a ton of toys, we feed her a big spoon full of her wet food before bed so she isn't hungry, and she has dry food out all night even if she was hungry, same with clean water being out for her at all times. We clean her box daily and she has a bed she sleeps in with a blanket.

She wakes us up every night any time from 3am to 5am. We close our door, but she rips our carpet apart and claws at the door and cries even louder. We open the door and she sits on the floor and meows, or jumps on the bed and meows at us. I've seen posts all over saying ignore them, some saying don't ignore them, it doesn't change her behavior either way.

I used to get up and comfort her to make sure she is okay before I realized it didn't matter what I did she would meow anyway.

Our apartment is small, so if we leave lights or music on for her, they will keep us up as well, so I really don't know what to do.

Any suggestions? I feel like I've tried everything, and tried even more than I've typed here, I don't know what to do!

Also, the Vet said she should be in heat around February, but we plan on getting her spayed once our voucher comes in, so she is not in heat right now

I'm no expert, but I believe females can go into heat any time, regardless of the weather. And I know females can get pregnant if there is a Tom around, regardless of the temperature outside. Not sure where you live, but in Maryland we have had a very warm November/December (Saturday's high: 65). I take care of a small community cat colony and I know at least one kitten was born around January (tried multiple times but could not trap her before she gave birth). I am feeding another cat who looks like she is about to give birth any day. (Appears too infrequently for me to try to TNR her, and I live 30 minutes away.)
So, my advice is: (1) call the vet and tell him/her that you believe your cat is in heat (describe behavior) and ask what else could the problem be; and (2) try to hurry up the process of getting that voucher. And keep her inside for now Justin case.
Good luck!

The only reason I don't believe she is in heat is because she has meowed like this since we got her in the end of October. She's always been a chatty cathy, so I don't know if it's her being in heat or her just being ridiculous lol.

And the process to get the voucher is a pain, we have to leave our details on some answering machine, then wait until they can fund the voucher. She'll also get her rabies vax with the same voucher, so it's a great program, it's just not very efficient.

In my experience most cats who are talkative it will be fairly obvious when they are in heat (the quite ones are less obvious). The more talkative the cat, the louder they will be in heat. Some kittens go through a phase where they meow almost constantly, some grow out of it, others don't.

If she has always meowed like this it could just be her personality. My 8 month old kitten Shadow who is very loud and talkative has been this way since I found her when she was only 3 weeks old. She is very emotionally needy compared to other cats. She always lets me know what she wants and what she is thinking. She will meow after using the litterbox to let me know to clean it ( she has always been very picky, won't use a litterbox unless you scoop it EVERY time she goes - which led to me having many extra litterboxes in the house),  when she wants to eat, when she wants to play, when she wants to be petted and also to wake me up in the morning at the same time every day (she is my alarm clock LOL) she knows my routine and meows to let me know "it's time". At first when she was a baby it was hard to figure out what she wanted and I tried everything to figure it out. Soon I learned this was how she was communicating with me.

It's just rough because she has everything she could want, and she is always welcome on our bed at night if she wants the companionship, but she will scream in our faces at random times of night, which throws our sleep cycles off completely, or if she's not screaming, she's attacking our legs and feet under the covers. I love her to death but I would love to sleep through the night!

Hi there,

Feeding and play before bed is a good idea.  When you play with her though, how intense is the play?  I have a very playful little 1 yr old.  She actually cries at her toy box around bed time because she know I'm going to play with her soon. What I noticed though is no matter how long I play she will wake me up later if I dont make her work hard during the play time.  What I mean is I use a wand toy and have her run and jumping all over the place.  I dont stop till she is panting.

I've also never had a cat that wasnt already fixed but from reading around that seems to be the number one fix for most noisy cats, so hopefully that will be it once you get it done.

In the mean time I have a tip for closing the door.  The same 1yr old I mentioned would tear out carpets to closed doors too.  I ended up going out and buying a shower mat or some other mat that was plastic and stuck it under the door so she couldnt do that.

The hardest part is you really just have to ignore it.  Any reaction from you like letting them into the room or even opening up the door to say "stop" just encourages them.

Cortney Brown said:

 
It's just rough because she has everything she could want, and she is always welcome on our bed at night if she wants the companionship, but she will scream in our faces at random times of night, which throws our sleep cycles off completely, or if she's not screaming, she's attacking our legs and feet under the covers. I love her to death but I would love to sleep through the night!

Click to expand...

It really sounds like this is playful behavior. All of my cats liked to go after feet and legs under the covers when they were kittens especially if they saw them moving (even if I was sleeping). Pumpkin did not stop waking me up in the middle of the night until he was over a year old and even now he still wakes me up occasionally hyper and wanting to play. Best thing seemed to be to ignore him and go back to sleep so he doesn't think if he woke me up he would be rewarded. He did learn that eventually. I know it's tough when you don't get any sleep and are tired all day, I had a lot of these times myself but it does get better, you just have to get her ready for bed and playing immediately before bed does help a lot. Sometimes kittens are like the energizer bunny- they could play all day and still be hyper. She will grow out of it though.