Re: Yowling?



"Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What does yowling mean?
>
> Shmogg is 15 give or take a few years. Recently, he's taken up the fine
art
> of yowling, usually within an hour of being fed - sometimes its just a few
> minutes, sometimes an hour, but always happens after gooshyfood. He ywols
> every single night after his dinner, and sometimes in the morning too.
I've
> never heard him yowl at any other time.
>
> As far as I remember, he didn't yowl before IBKFergus came to stay
>
> He'll stop yowling is I yell out to him and say something like "you're a
> cat, you're grey" or something like that, and doesn't yowl again until the
> next load of food arrives.
>
> Any ideas? He's otherwise a fit and healthy 15 year old who can still beat
> up a hollikitten and win, so I don't think its just old age catching up
with
> him.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Yowie

I don't want to alarm you as it may be something entirely different, but
that's what Percy started doing. We didn't know what it was and didn't take
him to the vet soon enough and he died of kidney failure. Of course it may
be something as simple as he's getting a bit deaf in his old age.

Hugs,

CatNipped


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