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[quote=Anonymous]My 14 year old cat, who has previously never been interested in water, started getting in the shower with DH and I about 4 weeks ago. He isn't drinking the water, he likes to get in and stand in the spray, and get absolutely soaked. It has escalated over the last few weeks, from getting in and back out, to getting in and not wanting to get out, to yowling at the shower door any time we'd go close to the bathroom.

However, I was out of town for work for 3 nights this week, just DH was home, and it escalated to the cat having to be shut out of the bedroom at 4 am the last 2 nights due to him yowling (extremely loud and with no end) at the shower.

I hoped coming home he would return to sleeping on the bed and only obsessing about the shower during the day. No luck. At 12:15 tonight, he started up with the yowling at the shower. DH shut him out of the bedroom. He was so loud, I went out to the living room, tried to snuggle with him, and he liked it for about 5 minutes - and went back to yowling at the bedroom door louder than ever. I ended up shutting him in our large laundry room, where he has a comfortable bed, litter box, food and water, simply so we can get some sleep, but I feel bad about it. He has always slept with me/us.

I even got him one of those fancy running water fountains last week, thinking maybe that would entertain him and give him his fill of running water. No luck.

He is generally healthy and sees a vet regularly (hyperthyroid and had some GI issues about 2 months ago, resolved by changing him to an Rx food). Feliway diffusers have never worked on him in the past.

I'm thinking I need to take him to the vet, do a full panel and confirm nothing has changed (his last one was about 4 months ago), and then if he checks out physically, ask for some sort of meds to calm a neurotic cat - kitty valium/prozac/whatever.

Any suggestions on other things we could do behaviorally? I hoped shutting him off from the bathroom would minimize his interest, out of sight out of mind, but it just ramps up his yowling. I want him to be able to come back and sleep with us and have free roam of the house without being so disruptive. I feel awful he is alone in the laundry room tonight![/quote]

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