Comments on: Calling all cat psychologists http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/ You'll laugh you ass off. (I did.) Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:02:58 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kat http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24108 kat Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:18:45 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24108 what do you do every time he meows at you? you pay attention to him. thats all it is. no mystery, no 5 paragraph into the cats thinking. hes bord and wants you to look at him. and when you ignore him, he keeps doing it because they know you will eaither give in, or scream at them, which is paying attention to him anyways. what do you do every time he meows at you? you pay attention to him.

thats all it is. no mystery, no 5 paragraph into the cats thinking. hes bord and wants you to look at him. and when you ignore him, he keeps doing it because they know you will eaither give in, or scream at them, which is paying attention to him anyways.

]]> By: Andrea DeWerd http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24107 Andrea DeWerd Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:31:28 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24107 My cat cries a lot, but it's usually when we close the door to a room he wants to go in, or if we left him alone for a long time, or if he just feels like crying. (He came from a shelter... who knows what happened to him before we got him?) Anyway, I asked our vet, and she said, "I just can't tell you what your cat's thinking." Cats are weird. Don't let it worry you. It sounds like he has a happy, loving room and lots of food. He's okay. My cat cries a lot, but it’s usually when we close the door to a room he wants to go in, or if we left him alone for a long time, or if he just feels like crying. (He came from a shelter… who knows what happened to him before we got him?)

Anyway, I asked our vet, and she said, “I just can’t tell you what your cat’s thinking.”

Cats are weird. Don’t let it worry you. It sounds like he has a happy, loving room and lots of food. He’s okay.

]]> By: Sarah http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24106 Sarah Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:23:18 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24106 I think that animals, like people, tend to thrive on routine. We live in a reasonbly sized house and my folks didn't like the idea of cats roaming at night, playing on kitchen counters, etc. so we started "tucking in" our first cat and continued with cats two and three. The two eldest sleep in the laundry room where their kitty beds/food/litterbox are and the youngest sleeps in the powder room (he's a little wild). Both rooms have a night light too. Every night at about ten o'clock they start wandering the upstair hall mewing reminding us it's time for treats and bed! The cats are ten, nine, and two so I guess it's been a pretty good system. I think that animals, like people, tend to thrive on routine. We live in a reasonbly sized house and my folks didn’t like the idea of cats roaming at night, playing on kitchen counters, etc. so we started “tucking in” our first cat and continued with cats two and three. The two eldest sleep in the laundry room where their kitty beds/food/litterbox are and the youngest sleeps in the powder room (he’s a little wild). Both rooms have a night light too. Every night at about ten o’clock they start wandering the upstair hall mewing reminding us it’s time for treats and bed! The cats are ten, nine, and two so I guess it’s been a pretty good system.

]]> By: Diane http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24105 Diane Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:03:22 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24105 I'll join the chorus that says it's perfectly normal behaviour. DK started doing it about 4 years ago, aged around 5. She's always been a chatty hatty but suddenly she started the mournful night-time meow/howl routine. This resulted in me losing sleep worrying about her and her laughing her paws off while she slept an hour or so more in the day. She has a couple of particular toys that she's fond of and on nights that she's howled I normally find them somewhere outside of her toy box. I think in her tiny, deranged and demented mind she has convinced herself that she has successfully hunted something and is doing her best to tell us. Krupke, by the way, is a most handsome specimen - but I guess he knows that. How are he and Java Bean getting along now? I’ll join the chorus that says it’s perfectly normal behaviour.

DK started doing it about 4 years ago, aged around 5. She’s always been a chatty hatty but suddenly she started the mournful night-time meow/howl routine. This resulted in me losing sleep worrying about her and her laughing her paws off while she slept an hour or so more in the day.

She has a couple of particular toys that she’s fond of and on nights that she’s howled I normally find them somewhere outside of her toy box. I think in her tiny, deranged and demented mind she has convinced herself that she has successfully hunted something and is doing her best to tell us.

Krupke, by the way, is a most handsome specimen – but I guess he knows that.

How are he and Java Bean getting along now?

]]> By: sarah http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24104 sarah Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:30:23 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24104 @Susan - I was going to say the same; one of ours hunts Pringles lids with that yowl & brings them to us. We always tell her "good job, Squeaker!!" which seems to help her stop sooner & allow us to sleep. :) @Susan – I was going to say the same; one of ours hunts Pringles lids with that yowl & brings them to us. We always tell her “good job, Squeaker!!” which seems to help her stop sooner & allow us to sleep. :)

]]> By: KellyQ http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24103 KellyQ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:18:22 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24103 I'm glad you wrote about this and it was interesting to read all the replies. My cat, Esme, does this at night, every night, as soon as I go to bed. I have 3 other cats and none of the others do it. As far as I've seen, she doesn't have a toy or socks or anything else but the hunting theory is interesting. I have often wondered if she is disoriented or scared of the dark. She was a stray and I have no idea how old she is or how she was treated before I adopted her. I am curious to see if there are any further theories about that sad, mewling cry. I’m glad you wrote about this and it was interesting to read all the replies. My cat, Esme, does this at night, every night, as soon as I go to bed. I have 3 other cats and none of the others do it. As far as I’ve seen, she doesn’t have a toy or socks or anything else but the hunting theory is interesting. I have often wondered if she is disoriented or scared of the dark. She was a stray and I have no idea how old she is or how she was treated before I adopted her.

I am curious to see if there are any further theories about that sad, mewling cry.

]]> By: Regi http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24102 Regi Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:34:13 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24102 Take him to the vet and have him checked for urinary tract problems. older, nuetered males can get "blocked up". one of mine nearly died from it, only surgery saved him. Take him to the vet and have him checked for urinary tract problems. older, nuetered males can get “blocked up”. one of mine nearly died from it, only surgery saved him.

]]> By: kristin http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24101 kristin Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:19:16 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24101 Maybe Krupke was prematurely weaned? My runt Columbo does this. She was taken away from her mother too early. (not by us). Maybe Krupke was prematurely weaned? My runt Columbo does this. She was taken away from her mother too early. (not by us).

]]> By: Bonnie http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24100 Bonnie Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:33:20 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24100 Do you read the comic strip bliss? I thought of you today when I read this. Check it out <a href="http://www.gocomics.com/bliss/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gocomics.com/bliss/</a> Enjoy. Do you read the comic strip bliss? I thought of you today when I read this. Check it out http://www.gocomics.com/bliss/

Enjoy.

]]> By: Kathy W. http://pastaqueen.com/blog/2009/07/calling-all-cat-psychologists/comment-page-1/#comment-24099 Kathy W. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:30:47 +0000 http://pastaqueen.com/blog/?p=1127#comment-24099 It's a hunting thing--if he'd caught a real bird or mouse, he'd make the same sound--which sounds sad, but it isn't really. All our (many) cats have done it. It’s a hunting thing–if he’d caught a real bird or mouse, he’d make the same sound–which sounds sad, but it isn’t really. All our (many) cats have done it.

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