Excessive Vocalization in Cats

Hi!
I'm Ceren, a Sound and Music Computing master student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
For my master thesis, I'd like to create/find a dataset of sick/ill cats sound to analyze and compare with healty cats by using machine learning techniques. I believe if I succeed it will be a very good master thesis.
The only problem is I need a lot of data. Even if I go to veterinary clinics in a very short time I won't be able to collect enough data.
So I'd like to ask you if you have any suggestions or knowledge about this kind of data sets and can you share with me.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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We have 2 cats one being Pancho around 4 years & the other being Clark around 3 years. Today we have a problem where Clark all of a sudden got very vocal but only when he’s around Pancho. This has happened before when one of them accidentally gets out & we think it’s the different smell from getting out. We just wipe them down w some baby wipes & they’re fine. However today Clark hasn’t stopped every time Pancho comes around. We’ve used the baby wipes & everyone says none of them got out & we’re out of ideas. The vocalizing sounds like cats before they’re about to fight for reference.

Hello,

I have a 15 yr old cat who has increased her vocalization substantially at night. She sits on the landing upstairs or on the top step and howls deeply for 4 hours straight at a time, and gives no clear reason for her meows. It is not attention seeking because she seems disinterested in being petted. The Vet checked her Thyroid in January 2018, which was elevated (5). The level is currently controlled well with food (T4 test in Feb & May normal) and all other labs normal including kidneys. I've tried Feeliway, water fountains, cat toys/trees, lights on/off, and for the past month Prozac. Nothing is working and she seems to be getting worse. Any further suggestions?

I have a female cat. She is about 6 years old (human years). She has increased her vocalization substantially over the last month. I have been going out of town on the weekends more frequently. When I am getting dressed she will sit on the bathroom toilet and meow nonstop. It is like more of a crying meow. She does this every morning while I'm getting dressed for work and she also does it on the weekends when I am getting dressed to run errands. Other than that she is a pretty quiet kitty. Unless I'm giving her treats or playing with her. I give her a lot of love and attention when I am home, but I think she may be upset if I leave her for too long on some weekends. I am think about getting a kitten. Will a playmate help her?

HI - I've a 19 year old Maine Coon, Snickers is in good health, we've taken her to the vets a couple of times recently and everything is fine. she has got mild arthritis in one front leg. her appetite is HUGE, she's now on rice and chicken with a few of her Royal Canin Urinary biscuits to aid he cystitus. the problem is her meowing / howling the house down. all day yesterday, she can meow up to 40 time per minute, and howl when we leave the room, once she sees us again it's the eowing again. it's tiring for us, let alone how she must be feeling!! help, please. (she is totally deaf byt the way)

I have a 6 year old male cat. He was born in feral and adopted by us at 8 months. From the day we brought him home, he was an excessive meower. In 2014, he was diagnosed with a clogged urethra, and went through a lengthy treatment and was resolved without surgery. Since then, we feed him wet food twice per day and free feed dry, special-formula dry food. We put powdered lysene in his wet food to prevent future blockage and have been okay since. We had a scare last year but he was able to get unblocked by the vet. We moitor the litter box and don't see any signs of another problem developing. The meowing has never changed whether he's blocked or not.

He meows constantly. If I pick him up, he stops and will relax in my arms and drool. He won't stay though. His energy is good, he chases his sister around the house and is playful when we play with him. He just meows a TON. Day and night. Sometimes they're normal meows, other times they're deep, gutteral howls.

I don't know what else to do. HALP!

My female cat is 7 years old (human years) and has really become vocal over the last 8 months or so. It started off as an occasional occurrence at night, but is now happening every night and during the day as well. There seem to be some definite triggers, and some I just don't understand. At night, she'll pick one of a few random spots and just yowl constantly. The edge of a desk, the corner of the room (always the same corner, facing the wall), or next to the washing machine. Once I go pick her up and bring her to bed she's usually okay for a few more hours. Now, she's doing it even when we're awake. Looking up at a wall in the dining room, or from the top of our arm chair. Always the same constant cry. We get her attention, try to call her over, but we go ignored and she continues to cry until someone physically goes to pick her up. She'll also do it everytime I walk into the kitchen because she thinks I'm getting treats or food (she is WAY more food motivated now than she's ever been, even though I've never been one to give her a lot of treats). I've tried getting more engaging toys, playing with her more during the day and right before bed, giving her more attention. Nothing seems to ease the behavior. Any advice would be helpful.

why does my cat meow so much? around the time my mom gets home from work, he starts meowing and won't stop. this goes on for hours. he has been trying to get outside; sneaking out as we walk out the door, pawing at the door, etc. he has been peeing on beds and couches too. we live by the woods so i'm not sure if it is another animal, or what. We have taken him to the vet to see if he has a UTI, but he doesn't. we haven't yet gone to see about excessive vocalization. I don't think there is anything they can do about it.

My cat Lucy-Fur is now 18 and completely deaf, but otherwise physically healthy according to the vet. We suspect that she has cognitive disorder because she yowls a lot every day, most of which occurs at night. She's extremely loud and has several episodes every night so we now resort to put her outside before bed so we can get some sleep. I read that some wet food with vitamin E and selenium may help with cognitive issues. Is there any special food on the market which would help and provide her with high levels of helpful nutrients? Someone suggested CDB or cannabis extract - could it help? Can you suggest any other ways to change her behavior? I don't want to keep her out at night once it gets cold so we'd love to find ways to soothe her before the cold weather returns. Thank you so much for your suggestions!

My cat meows excessively around the time i get home from work. But, he still keeps going on for around half hour after im home. He always tries to get outside at around this time of day. Im unsure if it is because he wanted me to come home, or if he wanted to go outside. He has peed on my bed about three times, and the couch more. We live sort of near the woods (it starts in my neighbor's yard), so im not sure if he sees animals there and if this is something territorial. but i dont think there is anything in these woods because there is a main passage to an elementary school, where the kids and parents walk through. We have taken my cat to the vet for the peeing and all they did was see if he had a UTI (he does not). They went on to suggest we move litter box closer, but he still regularly uses it, so it can't be that.

I have a 14-year old female cat who was born feral, lived with my (ex-) girlfriend from about 6 months to a year old, them moved in with me when her cats wouldn't tolerate her. I later got another cat in similar circumstances who died about six months ago from kidney disease that I didn't notice until it was too late. When he was alive, she was definitely the beta cat in the relationship; she tolerated him, but didn't always enjoy his company. She has always been a bit of a vocalizer, but, in retrospect, I noticed that she became more vocal when the other cat became sick, and now that he's gone. However, lately, it's been getting excessive -- she has developed a habit of shouting during and after she drinks water that I keep on the windowsill, especially as she is coming down from there. She also shouts randomly, mostly in the morning but occasionally at night. But in the last few days she has begun to shout at me whenever I take a shower, even coming right up to the bathtub. They sound like panic shouts, although she doesn't appear obviously distressed -- although, just now she finished a shouting spell, and has gone into a hiding place in the storage closet (one that she hadn't seemed to use for a long time. And of course, with her age and my experience with my other cat, I've been fearful for her health, noticing every little change in her behavior -- she seems to defecate less often (from once or twice a day to what seems to be down to every few days); she has been licking her lips more often; and although she still has an appetite (she's always been thin), she seems to lose interest in recently-liked foods. (About 2 years ago, I took her to the vet for bad breath; she was diagnosed as having slightly elevated kidney levels. She still has spells of bad breath, but her energy level, if anything, has gone up in the last 6 mos.-year.