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!

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!

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.

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.

My cat who is 20 yrs old has started meowing constantly when I am around. She has never been a loving cat but has also started wanting to be around me more. Her water intake has increased also. Aside from this she seems healthy. No pain, I have checked her out. She eats and drinks and eliminates. She is not overweight. She gets stressed easily (always has) and I am wondering if it would be worth stressing her and the vet - she is not very nice - to an examination at her age.

My 3 year old Male cat has been waking me up daily at 2am. He gets on my nightstand and meows and meows, if I dont wake up he starts knocking things down and gets louder. He is eating normally and is completely fine during the day. He sleeps a lot during the day and will play a little but has never been the most playful cat.

Drevon my yowler! I have 2 senior cats Rico is my other senior boy but he is not a yowler. The really weird thing is that it is mostly while at the water bowl. He will have water in his mouth and gurgle with water in his mouth trying to yowl. I have 4 flights of stairs and he insists on using them. I do not see any evidence on mouth pain. They have multiple water "stations" and a child pool as a litter box in 2 different places.

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.

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! ceren.can01@estudiant.upf.edu