We have two kitties. One is very sweet. One is psychotic. Psycho kitty has this problem. Every few months, she stands at the door and screams to go outside. She's never been an outside cat, I don't allow them outside. She's also been fixed since she was very small. So yesterday, as I'm bringing in groceries, she bolts out the door (as she does every few months). Normally, I can walk outside and yell at her, and she'll run back in. She laid under the shrubs for over an hour, before she'd get close enough to me, so I could grab her. Then when I got her in the house, she still stood there and screamed at me, so I opened the garage door and let her in the garage so I didn't have to hear here. I have no clue what's causing this, but she does not discriminate the times she does this either. Happened again at 12 am this morning. What am I missing here?
Maybe there's something outside that she can hear/smell/sense that you can't. One of our cats walks around inside the house growling and hissing some nights. I figure it's probably a stray cat.
It's really starting to become a problem though. And vocal? Oh my gosh, if she doesn't shut up, I'm afraid my DH is going to "let" her live outside in the woods somewhere!
Jenn... I have a cat acting very similarly. She was mostly an indoor cat, if she went outside it was just to check out the front porch, and god-forbid if she have to walk in the grass or dirt and get her feet dirty. If she got left outside by her own choosing, and we went off for the day..... you should have heard all her yowling, as if she was yelling at us for leaving her out. More recently, she got really wierd in the house, she started needing to be constantly near Craig or I, camping out on our laptops, we figured shes going through some wierd cat-version of mid-life crisis. She is 10 years old, fixed when she was 6 months old. About 2 weeks ago, she would sit at the door at random times and yowl!! So we started letting her out because that was what she wanted. Now, she hasn't been inside unless we get her and bring her in, and she has taken up residence on our neighbors front porch (which they are ok with, they love her). When we do get her and bring her in, she is content being held and loved on for about a minute, and runs right back to the door wanting out. We haven't figured it out yet, I haven't changed anything in the house, cleaning products, scented plug-ins, etc.... I just don't know.
I don't know either, but it's driving me nuts. And I can't let her live outside because we live in a subdivision and I'm sure my neighbors wouldn't appreciate her camping out on their cars, and in their flower beds. lol... But it's seriously getting to the point where it's so completely annoying, I'm going to lock her in the garage! Short of hiring a "kitty shrink", I don't know what to do!
How old is your cat? I've been reading some interesting things about kidney/thyroid/liver problems and also what some are calling kitty Alzheimer's. Strange behaviour and yowling was mentioned in all of the above cases. A trip to the vet to rule some things out may be in order.
be careful Jen, the last time I had a cat do that is when it was trying to chase a snake around the house. or a mouse
OMG thats my cat Thumper reincarnated. She was a declawed cat when I got her and she always wanted to go outside.
