We have had our kitten since she was 9 weeks old. She is now 8 months old. She a beautiful cat who can be very loving. But our problem with her is, she will not stop meowing.
She sleeps downstairs and has the run of the lounge and kitchen. We have a door between the lounge and stairs which we shut at night to stop her from coming upstairs. Every night when we go to bed she meows constantly for 20-30 minutes. She will wake in the night and meow for ages.
Sometimes, for her own safety, we have to look her into a room away from us. She will meow constantly until we are back.
If any door is shut - for instance the dining room door - she will sit by that door and meow. It doesn't matter if anybody is in that room or not.
Sometimes she'll even sit by the wardrobe doors and meow constantly at them.
It is driving us all mad as it's almost constant.
She has plenty of toys. A scratching post. Loads of balls, mice, catnip toys. But she doesn't really play with them (however she had a fun 3 days with a bit of sellotape recently, she was obsessed with it)
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How do we stop the cat from meowing?
MerryChristmasEverybody · 03/01/2013 19:24
She wants you and not toys. Why don't you let her sleep with you?
Good luck with that!
I have a chatty kitty- she's nearly 8 and has always been very vocal.
I don't find it constant or irritating thou as she's always with me- we have to shut her in the kitchen at night or she'd come screaming into us at 4am! 
It's definitely attention seeking in my case- and we always have wondered whether she has Siamese in her as her face is quite pointy.
I think it's lovely that she wants to talk to you
tribpot is right, even after living here for 7 years DCat still insists on inspecting the walk-in wardrobe, the linen cupboard, and the boiler tank cupboard. Fair enough, she sometimes sleeps in the first two, but there is just enough room at the side of the tank for her to squeeze down.
Got to check every inch of your domain, if you're a cat 
Over many many moons, I've never had a Siamese that didn't sleep with me at night - and sleep in my bed (or occasionally my armchair if the weather was very hot) during the day. To the point that if one of my Siamese had taken to sleeping elsewhere, I would have been gnawing my fingernails wondering what I was doing wrong.
Each of them has regarded being shut away from The Person (they bond to one person usually) as a punishment and becomes desperately upset. It makes for easy discipline in the cozie household but I'm wondering if your girl has developed that sort of close bond with you and needs to fill up her tank regularly on 'Personness'. If so, letting her sleep/be with you will calm her down a lot.
I'd give it a try. They tend to sleep quietly and thoroughly once they're upstairs and they're desperately clean. I'd rather have a cat in/on my bed than some people I know!
Oh it's not at all unreasonable - just that many people assume that cats sleep downstairs and people sleep upstairs and don't give the alternatives any thought. It may be the answer to the OP's problems if they have no objection to it.
having the cat in the room doesnt necesarily mean on the bed - my cat has a radiator bed and cat tree in bedroom and she only goes on the bed when im not in it. mine meows in the middle of the night if i let her wander round so she gets shut in my room at night. only way for me to get a full nights sleep!
Ah - then that makes sense. I've never had a ragdoll but I understand them to be very gentle and incredibly people-oriented. If she's got that bloodline in her, she almost certainly wants extra night-time nearned to you.
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