Our Zinzan shouts at us night and day - he doesn't stop! He loves the sound of his own voice, but other people don't - he sounds like a baby that's being strangled! My husband (who works from home) has to apologise constantly to people he's on the phone to, because it sounds so awful in the background! However - he seems perfectly happy, and loves a cuddle and some fuss. We've come to the conclusion that he is rather simple and misguided - our very intelligent tonkinese is openly contemptuous of him - and we have given him the nickname of 'shouty nutjob'. He's still my beautiful baby though, even though everyone else thinks he's barking mad.