anyone have any special ideas/techniques I can use to communicate effectively w/our cat ?
2007-07-13 15:28:52 · 8 answers · asked by linlovlac69 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
I have a deaf cat. Most of the time he doesn't notice when I come home from work and continues sleeping away! As with a person who is hearing impaired you dont want to startle your cat. He is already living in a scary world. Make his life as non-traumatic as possible. I use my own kitty sign language with my cat. I simply tap on the floor to get his attention, or I motion with my hand for him to come to me. There's really not too much you can do for a HI cat. Just make his life comfortable and without suprises. Keep him safe and dont let him outside unsupervised. An odd thing my cat will do is go down into the garage and howl at the top of his lungs. I dont know if he can sense himself or what. But I have had to let my neighbors know what is going on so they dont think he is being butchered!! All in all enjoy your special kitty! Just keep him safe, he's depending on you!
2007-07-13 15:37:30 · answer #1 · answered by Ann 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We're going through that now with one of ours. He's 15 and we found out in November (totally by accident) that he'd gone almost completely deaf. He only hears some high pitched sounds but they have to be close to his head. Otherwise he's totally deaf now.
Hand signals to him don't work yet. The best results I've gotten so far are with making sure he gets hands-on contact. We would talk to him all the time and he misses that a lot. The hand contact on his ribs and sides seems to make up for some of it. But he still is persistent in wanting things back the way they had been, so it's frustrating.
Plus now he can't hear my alarm in the morning and has been trying to get me up an hour earlier....THAT'S not fun!
He is responding to a palm out facing him for 'wait, I'm coming'. And a light tap on the side of his hip when I want him to follow me to the kitchen. He picked that up fast.
2007-07-14 22:20:24 · answer #2 · answered by Elaine M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
seriously. The use of sign language. It can be taught certain
signes for commands, like get down, food, water, etc.
My daughter has taught her one year old child sign language.
He responds beautifully with the signs long before he can
speak them. The book if for parents teaching their children
sign language the basic words a child need to know, and it
works beautiful. Check with your book store. My wife can't
remember the title or the author, but she worked in the
library and knows its there. I am sure the cat can learn some
signs even though it can't sign back. good Luck :-})
2007-07-13 22:52:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hand signals work wonderfully for hearing impaired animals
2007-07-13 22:32:27 · answer #4 · answered by Chiappone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could try and use a laser light or a flash light.. if your cat cant hear well try something that will catch his eye easily
2007-07-13 23:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Touch and gestures. And lots of love!
2007-07-13 22:37:20 · answer #6 · answered by Judy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just touch. most cats understand touch better anyway. if he's good then a good stroke, if he's bad, then a gentle swat.
2007-07-13 22:32:06 · answer #7 · answered by Wallflower 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try hand gestures..
2007-07-13 22:35:25 · answer #8 · answered by rewind_94 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋