alright, so a bit of history on my strange little kitty first.
Either he's inbred, or there's some medical issues with him, we know this for a fact as when we went to get him neutered they had issues. Neither testicle had dropped so they had to go exploring, they found one but really couldn't find the other. They searched around for a long time and eventually found what they thought was the other. Turned out it was an inactive kidney they took out instead. Also, his gall bladder was in the wrong spot, his kidney (obviously) and two other organs that i forget at this point.
Since then, his other testicle appears to have dropped, and is working fine, we have yet to scrape up the moula to get the job finished though.
it's suspected he has feline herpes as one eye is almost always leaky, (usually his right but sometimes it switches) though he hasn't had a big nasty break out in awhile. When he does have a breakout (goes really red, looks like he's bleeding from his eye) we have a cream for his eye and that clears it up pretty quickly.
We have no idea what kind of cat he is, he's white whit a few black spots but i'm sure that doesn't help (40 dollar pet store kinda cat).
Finally, just recently we did a big move with him. We were living in toronto and drove with him to Vancouver, for those who don't know that's just under 5000 km. He was completley fine the whole trip, slept through most of it, barely said a peep, no problems what so ever!
Now that we're in Vancouver he was fine for a little while, and we had planned to make him an indoor/outdoor kitty, we knew it woudl take a little work as he's scared of his own shadow (literally) but after three tries we got him really comfortable to where he was leading us on the leash instead of shaking in a corner somewhere.
This is where the problem developed. Ever since that night that he did really well outside, he's developed this howl. He howls and howls and howls and howls and I'm starting to go a little crazy (he's doing it as I type here). It's somewhat controllable during the day, but at night he's keeping me awake and I don't know how much longer I can survive here (literally, i'm a carpenter and I misfired my gun this week as I was half asleep, nail ricocheted and took a chunk out of my arm). In order to work safely i really need to have my sleep.
I'm kind of at my wits end here, and really don't know what to do. I've tried everything from teh "ssshh" and "Ch" noises to a squirt bottle. This is the fifth cat i've had over the years and i've never experienced anything like this before. My girlfriend had a cat that did the same thing and after 2 years of it they had to put her down.
The final thing here is it's slightly embarassing as well, we live in an appartment building, it's a small one with only 7 units, and the walls are a touch on the thin side and I don't know how long it's going to be until I start getting nasty looks from neighbours (fortunately the unit right next to us is vacant at the moment)
I thought i'd try a forum before i took him to the vet for recommendations
Either he's inbred, or there's some medical issues with him, we know this for a fact as when we went to get him neutered they had issues. Neither testicle had dropped so they had to go exploring, they found one but really couldn't find the other. They searched around for a long time and eventually found what they thought was the other. Turned out it was an inactive kidney they took out instead. Also, his gall bladder was in the wrong spot, his kidney (obviously) and two other organs that i forget at this point.
Since then, his other testicle appears to have dropped, and is working fine, we have yet to scrape up the moula to get the job finished though.
it's suspected he has feline herpes as one eye is almost always leaky, (usually his right but sometimes it switches) though he hasn't had a big nasty break out in awhile. When he does have a breakout (goes really red, looks like he's bleeding from his eye) we have a cream for his eye and that clears it up pretty quickly.
We have no idea what kind of cat he is, he's white whit a few black spots but i'm sure that doesn't help (40 dollar pet store kinda cat).
Finally, just recently we did a big move with him. We were living in toronto and drove with him to Vancouver, for those who don't know that's just under 5000 km. He was completley fine the whole trip, slept through most of it, barely said a peep, no problems what so ever!
Now that we're in Vancouver he was fine for a little while, and we had planned to make him an indoor/outdoor kitty, we knew it woudl take a little work as he's scared of his own shadow (literally) but after three tries we got him really comfortable to where he was leading us on the leash instead of shaking in a corner somewhere.
This is where the problem developed. Ever since that night that he did really well outside, he's developed this howl. He howls and howls and howls and howls and I'm starting to go a little crazy (he's doing it as I type here). It's somewhat controllable during the day, but at night he's keeping me awake and I don't know how much longer I can survive here (literally, i'm a carpenter and I misfired my gun this week as I was half asleep, nail ricocheted and took a chunk out of my arm). In order to work safely i really need to have my sleep.
I'm kind of at my wits end here, and really don't know what to do. I've tried everything from teh "ssshh" and "Ch" noises to a squirt bottle. This is the fifth cat i've had over the years and i've never experienced anything like this before. My girlfriend had a cat that did the same thing and after 2 years of it they had to put her down.
The final thing here is it's slightly embarassing as well, we live in an appartment building, it's a small one with only 7 units, and the walls are a touch on the thin side and I don't know how long it's going to be until I start getting nasty looks from neighbours (fortunately the unit right next to us is vacant at the moment)
I thought i'd try a forum before i took him to the vet for recommendations