Y'all have me cracking up over here.
My kitty is also 12 and he does the same thing. Usually it will start off with regular meowing. Then when he realizes that is not going to get him anywhere, he starts trying to sound like a cute little baby kitten. It is quite funny. Sometimes it gets so bad that he opens his mouth to meow, but no sound comes out. Like he is too famished to even squeeze out a little mew anymore.
