# Vocal Siamese and Neutering Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 9, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108 "2005-02-09T01:55:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jillyvn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Jillyvn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jillyvn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/1 "2005-02-09T01:55:59Z")
I have a kitten, now 6 months old, siamese/manx cross, who has just recently started being very vocal. I was used to his meowing before, but now it is more or less constant. He meows to be pet, meows when you pet him, meows for his food, meows while he eats, meows while he runs up and down the stairs, ad nauseum. I’m taking him in to get neutered on March 1, and I’m wondering if the surgery will calm down the vocalizations? Also, the little guy has a VERY high pitched meow. Will this deepen over time? Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/2 "2005-02-09T02:02:45Z")
Castrato Kitty! Uh… oh, you wanted a real answer rather than calling him the next Farinelli? Siamese cats are very talky in general. Kinda high end too. Oh, they can jabber on, talk to themselves, the sky, their invisible friends… Neutering the kitty may calm down his overall disposition, but he may just be jabbery. Fatcat is half-siamese, half-tabby. He blathers on an on and on, and because Sniffs\_Markers is a musician, he also got in the bad habit of singing along when she was trying to write. The good news is, his voice deepened to a tabby tone, but there is no guarantee. You may have a chatterbox. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/3 "2005-02-09T02:27:22Z")
I’ve had lots of siamese, and found that if you talk to them, often, and alot, they don’t have so much of a need to talk to you. Mine would usually be talkative when I’d first get home, I guess, telling me about their day, so I’d tell them about mine, and they were happy. Just my experience, of course. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/4 "2005-02-09T02:30:34Z")
I have had two Siamese, one chatty and one not. In neither case did neutering seem to have any effect. I do love a talkative kitty! I currently have a grey tabby, a rescued street-cat who makes comments all day long. Siamese don’t have an exclusive deal on this characteristic. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/5 "2005-02-09T03:25:55Z")
I have a 6.5 year old Siamese cross cat who was neutered in fall 2003 (when I adopted him) and he is VERY chatty. Very. Um, with this breed, it’s just part of the deal, but it is sort of endearing, really. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/6 "2005-02-09T04:08:34Z")
Neutering won’t do much to the voice of a male, but it sure will quieten a female. A female siamese in heat is _very_ loud. ---
**Author:** ![Jillyvn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Jillyvn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jillyvn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/7 "2005-02-09T04:51:43Z")
I do kind of like the chattery aspect, but I was honestly curious since the escalation seems to coincide with his adolescense… sort of makes me feel like he wants to chat, ya know? The other worry I had was that he is vocalizing because he is lonely. He is an only cat, and my roomate and I work during the day… ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/8 "2005-02-09T05:28:36Z")
> [@Desmostylus](#): > > Neutering won’t do much to the voice of a male, but it sure will quieten a female. A female siamese in heat is _very_ loud. You misspelled unbelievably there. I have a female meezer, who I adopted as a young adult. She hadn’t been spayed when I adopted her, and she was a bit under the weather, so I brought her home to nurse her back to health after swearing on a stack of SD books that I WOULD get her spayed as soon as she was well enough. She went into heat. I believe that she could be heard throughout the neighborhood. Now, she’s been spayed for 3 or 4 years, but she’s still very, very talkative. And very affectionate, especially towards my husband. However, she’s not quite as bad as when she was in heat. Siamese cats are known for their chattering, and for their voices. You probably just have a talker. He’s probably also lonely, and would like another cat for company. Most cats enjoy having another cat to socialize with. The two cats that live with us spend a great deal of time together, playing, grooming each other, and just sitting in the front window with their front legs wrapped around each other (which looks really cute, by the way). ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/9 "2005-02-09T05:37:39Z")
In my cat-mom experience, I’d say male cats are the opposite of male adolescent humans. Their voices get HIGHER, not lower. All my male cats have sounded like sopranos, whereas all my females (save one, who has a speech impediment) sound like rusted gates. And Siamese are just talky. I’ve never met one that wasn’t! ---
**Author:** ![Jillyvn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Jillyvn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jillyvn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/10 "2005-02-09T05:43:49Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > He’s probably also lonely, and would like another cat for company. Most cats enjoy having another cat to socialize with. I’d love to have another kitty for my Jakkob, but the roomate is not amenable to another cat 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/11 "2005-02-09T05:53:34Z")
I think maybe it’s because all the cats in their ancestral homeland are now **Thai Cats.** Here in the US we still call them Siamese. Humans from Thailand are Thai. Why not the cats? I think Pekingese Dogs are a little snippy for the same reason. It’s Beijing, people! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/12 "2005-02-09T06:12:21Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > I think maybe it’s because all the cats in their ancestral homeland are now **Thai Cats.** Here in the US we still call them Siamese. Humans from Thailand are Thai. Why not the cats? I think Pekingese Dogs are a little snippy for the same reason. It’s Beijing, people! 😛 So Persian cats now have to be called Iranian cats? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/13 "2005-02-09T06:53:29Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > So Persian cats now have to be called Iranian cats? Exactly. Why did you think they were so snooty? ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocal-siamese-and-neutering-question/289108/14 "2005-02-09T14:48:30Z")
Neutering will likely have no effect on the cat’s vocalization (frequency or timbre).