(This is a long rambly post. Sorry in advance.)
Adopted a nine month old fluffy tabby cat about two weeks ago, and this cat has me stumped. I'll be taking him to the vet in a few days to see if they have any advice. He is eating and drinking and using the litter box. He plays, sometimes. But he constantly meows. High pitched short ones. Longer ones that sound kinda whiny. And the occasional very long, loud mournful meows. I've figured out his meows for food at least. Usually he just seems like he wants attention. But if you get up or move towards him to see what he wants, he'll bolt towards the bedroom and under the bed. Then he will come back downstairs and meow again until the same thing happens. If you follow him upstairs, he just meows at you from under the bed. At night he meows if anyone shifts or gets up to go to the bathroom. Sometimes he meows completely randomly in the middle of the night.
Two weeks of this has wrecked my sleep. I have tried to play with him, but he doesn't get very interested in any of the toys I have for him. He'll just smack various things half interestedly, with only rare tiny bursts of excitement. He doesn't even care for a laser pointer. I thought cats loved laser pointers. I even planned to lead him towards treats and things too.
He gets fed twice a day, dry food for now untill he's fully shifted from the food the rescue shelter provided to the new food I bought. He has clean water changed whenever he is fed. His litter box is kept clean daily and man does he use the thing. I was worried he was sick but he doesn't seem to be.
The cat likes attention, but only from my wife. He doesn't seem to care much for me at all, probably because I won't let him in my closet. He's been a bit more distant today however, since my wife shoo'd him out of the room after he meowed for an hour and a half in the middle of the night. My wife climbed out of bed and played with him for a good twenty minutes before she tried to go back to sleep, but he just started meowing constantly again, so she chased him out of the bedroom and closed the door.
Today we moved his food and litter box out of the bedroom and downstairs, which we had planned to do anyway. He has used them fine, but he hasn't let back into the bedroom because we can't have him constantly screaming at us in the middle of the night. He doesn't seem to be taking to this well.
There are boxes and cat hutches downstairs for him to hide in, but he rarely uses them aside from their scratching post parts. He prefers to sit at the windowsill, behind the drapes, but tends to fall off because he's too big. And now he hissed at me when I came up the stairs. He was sitting at the top and either the creaking bothered him, or just my tall self freaks him out.
So now he's terrified apparently. I have low lights, I have that cat calming pheromone, and I have soft music playing. He has hiding spots. But he seems to just want to be under the bed. And I'd let him back in the bedroom too, except he's just going to meow constantly again. I'm really hoping the vet will have some ideas.
So I don't know what to do besides waiting untill the vet can see him. I hate having to keep him locked out of his preferred comfort spot, but the lack of sleep from his random constant meowing is taking it's toll.
Anyway, thanks for reading this mess of a post. I'm trying to treat this cat well, but if I've done something stupid or missed something obvious, please forgive me.
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