ah man, cat problems rant or whatever...

So, Smokey was an indoor only cat until he was like 2, then at our next house we lived at about a year i allowed him on the roof through my window a lot and in the back yard a couple times. The next house we lived in, probably a year and a half or two years, dont remember, had a cat door that was already installed. So for those ~1.5 years he was indoor/outdoor whenever he pleased. The NEXT house (yeah we moved a lot) didn't have a cat door and has several outdoor cats living nearby and all our cats are declawed (my mom insisted because shes mean). We tried to not let them out at all, which lasted about 2 weeks because smokey would walk around yowling to the point of being hoarse every night at midnight and we kinda wanted to sleep. After living there for about 4 months i have now moved, with smokey, to college. The last few weeks before moving i was trying to harness train him in so i could take him out at my apartment, but the ideal situation is to have him be a chill indoor cat because he always wants out at inconvenient times and would yell at me the whole time i ate dinner or something.<br /><br />
We moved last monday and after the couple days that he hid under the covers most of the time, he's been okay with being inside and not yelling at all. Today is thursday, and monday night, i got hot and opened the window a little to get some air. He all of a sudden remembered that the outside is a thing and started meowing at the window and door for upwards of an hour until i finally got him to lay down and petted him until he fell asleep. he has meowed the two nights since then, and last night it was for 2.5 hours, and i have to get up constantly and try to put him back on the bed and make him stop meowing because obviously my neighbors are trying to sleep.<br /><br />
I know the best way is to wait it out until he decides that his protests are useless, but he doesn't give up being annoying easily. I moved here to washington from idaho and he screamed nonstop the first 6 hours in the car and the last 4 he could only do it for a couple minutes at a time because his throat hurt. i thankfully don't have morning classes but after being in the weld shop till 10:30 i need to be able to get to sleep before TWO IN THE MORNING. last night he even took two short naps and got up and kept meowing. am i doomed to deal with this for a month or something? or longer? we aren't even supposed to have pets here but i got an exception