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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / October 2004deaf cat?? (sam cat)
or hearing loss she's 14 and the yowler and throid we think she's deaf or has hearing loss vet checked told its hard to tell, Sam didn't respond to anything she did: clapping hands, snapping fingers but i was standing behind called her name and Sam turned & looked at me yet if I walk up behind her she's always startled as for coming when she's called...well we know how cats are about that : ) seen my hubby call her, she looks but in the wrong direction how do ya tell if she's deaf or has hearing loss? all can picture is hearing tests they do on ppl, Sam w/little headphones & nodding her head yes & no...LOL ensoul and thank you all In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. ~Douglas Adams > or hearing loss > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > and thank you all The earliest sign that I had that my 14 - 15 yr. old cat was going deaf was that one summer she didn't come racing into the house from out on the porch when I poured food into their bowls. Prior to that, no matter how much I tried to muffle the sound, she'd hear it & come trotting into the kitchen. If you feed her wet food, then I guess the sound of the can's lid popping would be the equivalent. Cathy >how do ya tell if she's deaf or has hearing loss? > >all can picture is hearing tests they do on ppl, Sam w/little headphones & >nodding her head yes & no...LOL The best way to test hearing is to have your vet do a BAER test. http://www.lsu.edu/deafness/baerexpl.htm BAERs are primarily done on puppies and dogs, but they can and are done on cats and kittens. Orchid See Orchid's Kitties! -- http://nik.ascendancy.net/bengalpage Want a Purebred Cat? Read This! -- http://nik.ascendancy.net/orchid > >how do ya tell if she's deaf or has hearing loss? > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > BAERs are primarily done on puppies and dogs, but they can and > are done on cats and kittens. I have an absolutely beautiful, all pure white Turkish Angora (I think) with mesmerizing blue eyes who I thought was deaf. Turns out she's only deaf when she just doesn't want to be bothered! >> >how do ya tell if she's deaf or has hearing loss? >> > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >mesmerizing blue eyes who I thought was deaf. Turns out she's only deaf >when she just doesn't want to be bothered! *grin* That certainly sounds like a cat. Since I've moved to a variable reward schedule for my boys' recall they come pounding like mad fiends every time I call them. Which is fun, not to mention a neat party trick. "Want to see my cats' impression of a herd of elephants?" Orchid See Orchid's Kitties! -- http://nik.ascendancy.net/bengalpage Want a Purebred Cat? Read This! -- http://nik.ascendancy.net/orchid > >> >how do ya tell if she's deaf or has hearing loss? > >> > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > neat party trick. "Want to see my cats' impression of a herd of > elephants?" A couple of years ago, we had a cat that would always turn his head back and forth from left to right whenever he couldn't actually see the source of sound. He clearly wasn't deaf since he responded to sounds - even sounds in other rooms. Turns out he was deaf in one ear. By turning his head from side to side, he was actually changing the intensity of the sound to pinpoint its location! Talk about a brilliantly adaptable creature! Phil >A couple of years ago, we had a cat that would always turn his head back and >forth from left to right whenever he couldn't actually see the source of [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Phil Brilliantly adaptable indeed. Was he an white odd-eyed cat by any chance? I read recently that sometimes they will be deaf in the ear that's on the side of the blue eye. I thought that was interesting. Sherry > >A couple of years ago, we had a cat that would always turn his head back and > >forth from left to right whenever he couldn't actually see the source of [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Brilliantly adaptable indeed. > Was he an white odd-eyed cat by any chance? No, but he did have very suspicious eyes - one was always watching the other.... - just kidding! :-> I read recently that sometimes they > will be deaf in the ear that's on the side of the blue eye. I thought that was > interesting. I remember reading that, too. I forget which gene is responsible for that. Give the Yo man a scratch behind the ear for me! Phil >>I read recently that sometimes they >> will be deaf in the ear that's on the side of the blue eye. I thought >> that was interesting. > >I remember reading that, too. I forget which gene is responsible for that. Good paper on it -- http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/brini/whtdeaf/whtdoc.htm Orchid See Orchid's Kitties! -- http://nik.ascendancy.net/bengalpage Want a Purebred Cat? Read This! -- http://nik.ascendancy.net/orchid >No, but he did have very suspicious eyes - one was always watching the >other.... - just kidding! :-> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Phil I sure will! Funny thing I thought about... this week is the four-year anniversary of that awful bout with hepatic lipidosis. Time flies when you're havin' a good time, huh? Or something like that.... Sherry > I have an absolutely beautiful, all pure white Turkish Angora (I think) with > mesmerizing blue eyes who I thought was deaf. Turns out she's only deaf > when she just doesn't want to be bothered! I thought LeMieux might be losing some hearing when he stopped running out when we came home. Turns out, he snores when he's in deep sleep, so he doesn't hear us come in. Usually he sleeps in the spare room, but when he sleeps in the bed with me, he occasionally snores loud enough to wake me up. LOL  Signaturejamie (jamiemck@newsguy.com) "There's a seeker born every minute." > > I have an absolutely beautiful, all pure white Turkish Angora (I think) with > > mesmerizing blue eyes who I thought was deaf. Turns out she's only deaf [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > but when he sleeps in the bed with me, he occasionally snores loud > enough to wake me up. LOL Did you ever see a cat's pinnas move while she's sleeping? They use the ~30 muscles in their ear to turn the pinna like a directional antenna so they don't have to bother turning their head and disturbing their sleep! LOL! Seriously, its a hunting tactic for tracking prey without moving their head which might give their position away. > or hearing loss > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > how do ya tell if she's deaf or has hearing loss? There doesn't seem to me to be any question that your cat is deaf. Did your vet really say that? > all can picture is hearing tests they do on ppl, Sam w/little headphones & > nodding her head yes & no...LOL heh. |
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