Hi,
Does anyone else have a deaf cat? Frosty is all white with blue eyes--you know the story--and deaf. He looks like a Turkish Angora but I´ll never know as he was found on the street as a tiny kitten. He´s a year and a half now and doing just fine. He loves his new house and gets along well with his two adopted sisters--well, at least HE thinks that he gets along with him. Sometimes they think differently. Lately I´ve been experimenting with letting him explore a bit around the outside of the house. We live on a pedestrian street so cars are seldom seen. He does like to visit the neighbor´s patios and rooftops but so far without too many complaints. The obvious problem is that I can´t call him to come back once he´s out of sight. He´s a pretty good cat and extremely good natured so when he spies me then he usually comes back right away. He has been spayed, by the way, so no problems there.
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. I´m considering letting him a little more room to explore...maybe around the street in front of the house where cars do pass from time to time but once again, very seldom. Still, he wouldn´t hear them, of course. What I don´t know is how far he will go. The four streets surrounding the house are narrow, one lane pedestrian streets but I live next to a market place and there are delivery trucks that come and go. Two streets down there is a busy street with lots of car traffic and a parking lot which will open soon. There will be lots of people of course but he gets scared when he sees strangers and usually comes running back inside.
Thanks for any advice.
Does anyone else have a deaf cat? Frosty is all white with blue eyes--you know the story--and deaf. He looks like a Turkish Angora but I´ll never know as he was found on the street as a tiny kitten. He´s a year and a half now and doing just fine. He loves his new house and gets along well with his two adopted sisters--well, at least HE thinks that he gets along with him. Sometimes they think differently. Lately I´ve been experimenting with letting him explore a bit around the outside of the house. We live on a pedestrian street so cars are seldom seen. He does like to visit the neighbor´s patios and rooftops but so far without too many complaints. The obvious problem is that I can´t call him to come back once he´s out of sight. He´s a pretty good cat and extremely good natured so when he spies me then he usually comes back right away. He has been spayed, by the way, so no problems there.
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. I´m considering letting him a little more room to explore...maybe around the street in front of the house where cars do pass from time to time but once again, very seldom. Still, he wouldn´t hear them, of course. What I don´t know is how far he will go. The four streets surrounding the house are narrow, one lane pedestrian streets but I live next to a market place and there are delivery trucks that come and go. Two streets down there is a busy street with lots of car traffic and a parking lot which will open soon. There will be lots of people of course but he gets scared when he sees strangers and usually comes running back inside.
Thanks for any advice.
