Help with howling cat - UPDATE

Kim_kim

donnac2558 said:

Yes, they do quieten with age but it's like 10 years.

When he is howling just talk to him in a quiet voice he will get used to you quickly.

Can you overdose on feliway!  I’m trying to dope him up!
Ive a plug in at the bottom of the stairs, so that wafts around the house.
A 60ml spray In my bedroom and a 60ml spray in the living room.
Hes still a noisy !!!!!! but he’s not quite so bad, I’m not so worried about the neighbours sending around the cat warden :-) 

Kim_kim

donnac2558 said:

Yes, they do quieten with age but it's like 10 years.

When he is howling just talk to him in a quiet voice he will get used to you quickly.

If I talk to him when he’s howling he howls louder!!!
Hes def howling less today.
Bless him he’s taken to spending much of the day sleeping in my bed while I work downstairs.  He’s exhausted after howling all night 🙄 

Kim_kim

Quick update - well he’s definitely starting to calm down.
Hes still a noisy git, but not so loud and not so often.  He’s letting me get a tiny bit closer too.
Next problem, he thinks he’s a dog, he runs to the door giving off when the postman drops the letters through....,
Identity crisis? 

Artytarty

It sounds like you are falling in love with him! 

He's coming round slowly but surely.
y by the sounds of things, the two of you will be fine.
i didn't find Feliway any use for my aggressive adopted stray.

clive0510

they all have there own characters. I have a fat black n white tom whose owners had to leave there house for some reason and couldn't take the cat with them. 
when he was first here we thought he had run away. couldn't find him. he had climbed inside the back of a living room chair and stayed there for 24 hrs!. hes been here few years now and hes fine.and I'm sure yours will be too. a new home is a  stress full  thing for a pet, when all he wants is to be back in his old home with his brothers. 

Kim_kim

He’s so greedy, I had lunch today at my dining table - I practically had to fight him off!
He’s VERY food motivated! 

He struts about giving off!
Lets see how ballsey he is next week after they’ve been chopped off lol 

donnac2558

He will still be as ballsey as you can it.   You need to set boundaries with food, one of mine when a kitten used to actually try to grab the food off my plate.  Just say no and keep putting him down on the floor, well that is what I did or lock him out of the dinning room when you eat.

hb2

Our rule is that cats are never given our food, they know this and don't bother making a fuss to get some. Except that my OH started putting down his yogurt pot (for example) at the end of the meal. Within a couple of days, Alfie-cat was making a nuisance of himself when we were eating. The rules were re-established and Alfie has gone back to joining us at the table (he likes to sit on one of the spare chairs) as we eat but not mithering for food. Set your rules early and stick to them, otherwise you will never get a meal in peace!

Kim_kim

hb2 said:

Our rule is that cats are never given our food, they know this and don't bother making a fuss to get some. Except that my OH started putting down his yogurt pot (for example) at the end of the meal. Within a couple of days, Alfie-cat was making a nuisance of himself when we were eating. The rules were re-established and Alfie has gone back to joining us at the table (he likes to sit on one of the spare chairs) as we eat but not mithering for food. Set your rules early and stick to them, otherwise you will never get a meal in peace!

I will definitely- thank you.
Hes clearly a bit of a hooligan!
Hes stopped being nervous of me now & adores being stroked, he walks up to me and howls to be stroked - why on earth did I pick the ballsey one! Lol 😆 

donnac2558

Burmese are all ballsy and you got him at his teenage phase.