My ginger cat does that, I've got 4 cats and he still does it. He's oriental cross and I know that some oriental breeds can be quite chatty, he does the meowing, then the batting to get my attention, I ignore it for some of the time as with having 4 cats I can't spend my time just with one cat. After a while he gives up, he'll come back again later on though just incase. He's very people orientated, when I went away one time all the cats were in the cattery and after a couple of days he was taken into the owners house - they could hear him yowling from inside, lol, if he sees me in the street he's running towards me meowing, he follow me everywhere including to the loo, he was a rescue cat but I didn't get him until he was a few years old so don't know much about his background.