Why is my cat talking so much
Stop The Constant Meow: 6 Reasons Why Your Cat Over-Vocalizes
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you talk too much you worry me to death
you talk too much you even worry my pet
you
talk too much you talk
too much talking to you cat
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what's up everybody jackson galaxy or
cat daddy here
with answers to your questions sometimes
and you know what today
sometimes i i will say that right off
the bat you know i'm honest with you and
if i don't have the complete answer
then i'm not gonna give you a complete
answer or
will i anyhow let's check in with our
friend jason
and his cat meow or mew
and that'll give you a little bit of a
clue as to what this question is check
it out hello jackson
this is jason with my cat mew
hi buddy so i was wondering if you
knew why a cat would over vocalize or if
this is over vocalizing
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i don't know i don't even talk i don't
even have to say anything she'll just do
this
all day as soon as i walk in the house
and
there it is jason with a very
appropriately named
meow or mew he says it a couple of
different ways so
either way that's one chatty caddy and
that's what today's topic is going to be
about
chatty caddies what to do about it if
you can do anything about it
and i will say this to you jason right
now not so sure
i don't know i'm gonna give you every
tool that you could possibly need and
then at the end of this
i'll give you the bonus okay so let's
start with
why uh cats might be chatty the first
thing right off the top of my head
is breed and there are certain breeds
that are known to be
more talky than others the the biggest
sort of
suspects here are the so-called oriental
breeds which
includes siamese i don't have a cure for
that one now of course
jason mew doesn't look siamese but there
you know
could be her dad or granddad or whatever
but you know
some of you guys out there who have had
siamese all your life you may have one
of those workarounds but i surely don't
but that's one reason
why meow might be a chatty caddy
so the next reason why your cat may be
talking too much
is a very serious thing it could be
either physical or medical
the first sort of signpost here is if
your cat
is is starting to talk too much and they
never have before
but suddenly they're like mew then do
not pass go do not collect 200
go to the vet because it could be a sign
of pain they could be meowing because
they're in distress and so that's
something you want to address
immediately so another sort of category
in the physical
realm here is if your cat is intact you
know those noises if your females in
heat that cater walling sound
males who are intact will try to attract
the females making all types of
varieties of horrible sounds you know
and so of course there's an easy fix for
that one
fix you know spay neuter your animals
come on you don't need me to tell you
that by now please
do it it's just for everybody's sake for
your cat's sake and for your ears sake
as well
another sort of physical issue that will
cause excessive vocalization
will be a cognitive dysfunction sort of
decline in cognitive ability so we'll
see that obviously
in seniors and you might see that your
cat is suddenly confused
or they're just you know the lights go
out and suddenly they're meowing up a
storm
that is indicative of that issue for
cats that are suffering from
you know whether you want to call it
senility cognitive dysfunction there are
medications that have are being approved
more and more regularly
that can help your cat along with with
different types of supplements so check
that out
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so the next thing to look for is changes
in the environment
have you just moved into a new place are
you starting to bring somebody
into your place whether that's a new
significant other or
a roommate new friends um are you just
changing your habits all the way around
in that home that could cause the kind
of stress
that would lead to excessive
vocalization as well
so a lot of this is about reassuring a
lot of this is about
positive associations which we've talked
about in many videos before
but this is about that sort of detective
work that this has never happened before
it started to happen why is it happening
oh it must be because my new roommate is
around all the time and
she's totally stressed out by this and
and then we just create a positive
association between
that new person and your cat so the
first thing is to try to isolate
when if this never happened before
something had to change let's figure out
what it was
environmental changes are a lot of times
the suspect here
another thing that you can do when it
comes to environmental change
is make sure that your cat's favorite
things are always available to them
whether that's their scratching posts or
uh their favorite beds more litter boxes
around so they can get their scent
placed in
in all these important places to them
these are always remember
cats identify and they find a lot of cat
mojo through scent so let's make sure
their their sort of scent soakers are
nearby
now this one jason i think applies to
you because you say it does you come
home and then she just doesn't stop
you know so i think the first thing to
figure out is is this attention seeking
is this truly something that's happening
right when you walk into the house or
are you not sure whether it's happening
while you're gone i am just so big
on security cams you guys i mean it
doesn't matter
what kind of an issue that you might be
dealing with with your cat having
these these cameras on hand i mean i i
use them
all the time and they're they're simple
most of them are both
motion detecting and sound detecting in
terms when they turn on they have night
vision
and so while you're gone let that sucker
roll because one of the things
when we talk about attention seeking
that's one thing which i would circle
back to
but it could also be separation anxiety
it could be going on
within five minutes of you leaving the
house and then she just doesn't stop all
day long and then when you come home
it's just a continuation
of that stress that she's been
experiencing all day long
separation anxiety it's its own issue
again i've got a video about that right
above my head
yeah right there so check that out uh
but in the meantime
you want to know is it happening when
you get home or is it happening the
entire time so let's say it's not
separation anxiety
let's just say it's when you come home
the next step jason
is what you do because this is where i
think a lot of
folks just fall into a trap your cat is
talking talking non-stop
talking non-stop so what do you do you
try to get her to stop
so maybe you give her some treats maybe
you just give in and start petting and
start doing
giving her that attention the problem is
you're rewarding the behavior
she meow sheen meow she meows you pet
you pet you pay you feed you pgp you
play you play play she's doing it the
entire time because she's figuring
this works if i do this i get good stuff
so why would i stop
so the first thing i would tell you to
do jason is cut it out
if that's what you're doing stop one
part of the solution here
is just ignoring it just not looking at
her not saying her name not begging her
to be quiet
not giving treats playing just giving in
in any way
so you gotta stop but the second part of
that is
you can reward the silence so as soon as
she's
not speaking that's when you can break
out the treats so when we're doing
something like clicker training
then what we do is we want to make sure
that the second
that the behavior happens that you want
to reward you do the click and the treat
you reward it the second it happens so
they can start making that association
but you got to do it quick
i mean when we get about two or three
seconds of silence bang reward that when
you can
the thing that i find of the most use is
when it comes to cats and actually this
overlaps with humans it's the thing i
call the three r's routine
ritual rhythm creating a rhythm to our
lives based on things like
ritualizing play ritualizing food making
sure that things happen
the same way every day that helps to
keep a cat
level so they're not spiking out all the
time and all of a sudden they're just
like i need this i need this i need this
i need this
because they know when to expect things
that we've created a circadian rhythm so
that they know at a certain point of the
day
based on where you are where you've gone
when you come home the position of the
sun
all of these things i know what to
expect out of my life and that makes for
overall a calmer cat
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our next little section here is boredom
let me translate
i'm bored i'm bored i'm bored
so with boredom you know there are ways
to get through this i just talked about
the three r's so structuring when in the
day that you do play
and every day play with your cat run
them around use that interactive toy
make them tired because that helps to
drain the boredom away from them but
also don't forget that the environment
can help
drain boredom away as well and that's
where cat tv comes in
if you're lucky enough to live in a
place where you can like hang a bird
feeder outside your window
go for that give them something to watch
there are actually youtube channels that
are
dedicated to nothing but cat tv
squirrels and birds and things like that
and and just having seats in the windows
every window has a place for your cat to
sit so they can do something as simple
as
watch cars and people don't forget cats
spend
more time in a day looking out a window
if they're given the chance than
sleeping believe it or not
and so giving them something to look at
will help the other boredom reliever
here that i think is really helpful are
puzzle toys
check out the website that's in my
description here some good friends of
mine
built this great website where they sort
of road test different puzzle toys teach
you how to build your own
are they for novices or experts and that
whole thing but
again giving them something especially
if there's a treat that they really like
to get to and they really want their
jackpot treat and we give it to them in
a way that they have to sort of
dig it out of there it helps relieve
boredom it helps relieve stress and
anxiety it gives them
an action that's based on something that
they want and the best part about it is
you don't have to be the provider of
that so she's not constantly looking at
you
and now we've gotten to our final
category here jason you ready for this
no reason discernible whatsoever
and the reason that i'm so animated
about this one is because i got one of
those i got my own meow
and her name is gabby you see how we
work together you name your cat meow i
named mine gabby i didn't name her
anyway my wife did but that's because
she has never stopped talking she talks
all the time
gabby talks and and we've looked at
every one of these causes
and we've tried a whole bunch of
different things i have tried every
trick in my book
gabby talks but that's just who she is
i am fully convinced that half the time
she doesn't know why she's talking she
really doesn't
she just she just does it all the time
gabby meows at pg she meows at the dogs
the the humans the windows the rug
i mean just who she is so jason i'm
giving you every tool i know
go for it man explore these things make
sure that you know if things have
changed that you explore why things have
changed observe
get those cameras that's really worth it
all of these tools should help and at
the end of the day
if you have a gabby me and you jason
we're together on this one i
you know maybe both get some rest
tonight all right you guys
if you have any questions all i ask you
to do is exactly what your son did
so eloquently say your name say your
cat's name
tell me what the problem is and show me
your cat and then
send it to this address right here and
maybe i'll answer it for you
in the meantime pass this on to anybody
that you know who has a chatty caddy and
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all love and all mojo tea until next
time
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