Midnight yodeling

<sigh>My seven year old female yodels throughout the night... very, very loud and simply unrelenting. Why oh why does she do this? I've had her five years now and its always the same night after night. Could it be she's not spayed after-all? I adopted her as a spayed female from our local shelter... she was a stray they picked up and they determined she was spayed by a previous owner. She also raises her hind end at the slightest touch and has a continuous discharge from her vagina. Anyone else ever experience this behavior?

Has she been to a vet recently? A continual discharge is not normal and should be checked out

If she was adopted to you supposedly already spayed, then this is not normal behavior or presentation from such a cat.

If she has a discharge from her vagina, then she needs to see a vet. This very well could be estrus and in that case, the vet can tell you so you can get her spayed appropriately, but if it is not estrus, then there is the potential for it to be a uterine issue which needs to be addressed by the vet.

Let us know how it goes,

~gf~

Yes, I would say she either isn't really spayed, or part of her ovary was left and possibly regrew, and she is going into heat. I think they can do an estrogen test for this...If she didn't always do this, I'd say have her thyroid checked, as they often cry at night. But, that doesn't support the discharge or raising her butt up, so I'll stick with the ovary theory.

Originally Posted by menagerie mama

Yes, I would say she either isn't really spayed, or part of her ovary was left and possibly regrew, and she is going into heat. I think they can do an estrogen test for this...If she didn't always do this, I'd say have her thyroid checked, as they often cry at night. But, that doesn't support the discharge or raising her butt up, so I'll stick with the ovary theory.

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I agree! I would have a vet check it out!

Oh my lord! How have you coped for 5 YEARS with the yodelling!! Round of applause for you!!

Gee everyone, thanks for all the terrific replies, what a great group of people. Yes, I have taken Mookie in to our vets for a check-up on her discharge. They just weren't too concerned (this was during the first year of her adoption), so I took her to another vet (because I was a worry wart) who kept her five days to "run tests". When I picked her up the vet was too busy to speak to me and the vet techs just insisted that nothing abnormal came up.

So, basically, I just stopped worrying. FoxyFantastic, you asked how I managed to put up with it for five years. Well, I didn't... because it happens mostly at night. Both cats have their own bedroom on the first floor (husband doesn't like cats in bed with us) so at night in they go. Just four months ago we put them in a new kitty bedroom, next door to ours. So that's how I now know that the yodeling I heard on my nocturnal wanderings in the house over the past five years were a constant and I'm guessing nightly occurrance (I had chalked it up to the fact that she had heard me walking around and was meowing to get out too).

But, now that I am armed with all these wonderful suggestions about estrus, thyroid etc I am making an appointment with my new vet. Thanks for all the help, I'll post back again letting you know the outcome.

Oh, funny thing. About two years ago I took Mookie in for her rabies vaccine and the vet on call that day was fresh out of school. As she did a health check and palpated the cat's abdomen she kept asking me "are you sure she's spayed?". To which I replied, "well, I assume so, as that's what I was told".

Anyway, its all adding up now isn't it?

Let us know what they come up with, and in my opinion, the treatment you received from the second vet was atrocious and shady to say the least! 5 days of testing!? I would for sure have them fax all the records to you or to the vet you go to next, so maybe you won't have to put her through any of the supposed testing they already did on her. Keep us posted!