Dementia in senior cats?

Taadaa

My cat Cuddles who was run over used to do the miaow thing when he couldn't see us, and that was in the past year, he never used to do it. He would miaow to get picked up and put on the sofa sometimes....! And do you know, the injuries he received when he was hit suggest he just stepped off the pavement and it clipped his head, albeit hard...he wasn't stepping in between parked cars...which makes me wonder if he had a hearing issue we never picked up on.

Sagz_2

My old boy used to do the horrible meow thing too, and he was as deaf as a post. He used to stop as soon as he saw someone. I think he was just a little batty and insecure, bless him.

Thanks for the photos of your kitty, she is beautiful.

mandyl

hi zippy
my cat tigger does this. he only does it at night and usually just after ive gone to bed. he gets up on living room windowsill and meows.

HRV

My cat jenny does this yowl thing too (she's 21). She does it when she's upstairs and mum is downstairs. She has sometimes had a little wee in the pantry for some reason although she happily goes through the cat flap. Shes a happy little sole though even if she does sleep rather alot now

no1catman

HRV wrote: »

My cat jenny does this yowl thing too (she's 21). She does it when she's upstairs and mum is downstairs. She has sometimes had a little wee in the pantry for some reason although she happily goes through the cat flap. Shes a happy little sole though even if she does sleep rather alot now

Well done, that's what I call a senior cat. My first cat, got to fourteen before having a stroke (there's a light on but no one in), but my last one reached 20.33 years. now she could howl, trouble was it was 0045, 0330, 0530, &/or 0645, well maybe not all, but often more than once a night!

tanith

Our cat Jade also yowls at night , she is also in her 21st year and healthy apart from a little Arithritis, I don't know what all that noise is about but it don't half get on your nerves but a loud SHUT UP stops her in her tracks...lol... but I forgive her cos I love her to bits

zippychick

again thanks for the experiences and stories. It's just hard to know when it's vet time. Don't want to be an over worrier

scaredy_cat

Zippy, my cat is 21, she'll be 22 in august. She's always had a heart murmur, and is on meds for it for the last 4 years or so (atenonal and istin). The murmur caused her to have high blood pressure which made the blood vessels in her eyes burst so she is now blind. Did your vet check her eyes?

She also did the yowling for a bit, i just picked her up and stroked her til the episode abated. She is also suseptible to seizures, which are triggered by sound - mainly high pitched - so that might be something to just be aware of. I notice the beginning by her starting to twitching excessively - starting with her face and whiskers... if the sound is ceased straight away, it stops.

madget_2

Love the photos, zippy - especially the one of her walking towards the camera with the plant pots in the background. I'll see if I can dig up a photo of my old girl.

madget_2

She used to love being with me next to the computer. She's lying on a special blanket I put behind my keyboard. Her fur started to look like an old piece of carpet, bless her, in her final years, but she was still the most incredibly intelligent cat I've ever known.