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Please help - My cat is deaf and noisy

post #1 of 7
10/28/10 at 6:57am
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Hello Everyone

I am new here. I have 6 cats that are all rescued and are mine and my husbands world. One of them, Bowie, is deaf. He was left behind by somebody who moved and we took him in. We adore him, but I need advice on how we can try and support him with the amount of noise he makes at night.

Sometimes its like he needs comfort. If he see a fox outside through the window or another cat he miaows and miaows so loudly. But usually it is for no reason.

This happens throughout the whole night - and it has come to my husband sleeping on the settee as he does it less if he can see us yet doesn't really want to be in the bedroom either. We have tried giving him the hallway with a comfy area in but he just scratched and miaows even louder at the door. We have tried wearing him out by playing in the evening, but that doesn't help.

It has been a long long time since we have slept all night and we have also had comments from our neighbour about it waking him up as well. It is sooooo loud!

We would never part with him so does anyone know what else we can try please?

Thank you xx
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post #2 of 7
10/28/10 at 9:53am
Welcome to TCS!

Do you have Feliway plugged in? That helped calm my cats down a bit. You also mentioned the little guy scratches at the door--is it possible to just allow him into the room? Maybe laying down with you guys will put him at ease.
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post #3 of 7
10/28/10 at 10:23am
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Hello - thanks for your reply - I have bought some Feliway plugs in on line today, so am hoping they will help.

Also him being in the hall was something we tried once, but he has free reign of the whole place at all times. I think it is hard for him as he doesn't go out as I worry about him too much and he is only about 1.5 years old. He is just so loud that it even annoys the other cats! Last night two of their heads spun up so fast from deep slumber when he wailed out!

I am just so tired but at the same time I feel for him as he seems scared whe he cant see us. But now its at the stage that I have been married for a year and we have to sleep in seperate room just to keep Bowie and the neighbours happy. I have to laugh - it could only happen to me! xx
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post #4 of 7
10/28/10 at 11:25am
Wish I had an answer. We have a deaf kitty, and she's our loudest (though she also makes the sweetest trills too!). In fact, all of ours are feral rescues, and they were taught not to talk. We rescued her... and now they all talk.

The best advice I've seen to help get a kitty to sleep through the night is to have a SET play time just before bed - a regular time, every night, that just that kitty gets the play time. At the end of the session (however long he'll go), feed a special high protein treat that is not a food he gets any other time. (Something like chicken baby food pops to mind, cats LOVE it. Gerbers or Beechnut have nothing but chicken in them).

I know our deaf little baby LOVES to be as high up as she can get, especially if it's someplace up against a wall or in the corner of a room. My theory is because she's deaf, she feels safe "up," and she can look out and keep an eye on everything. So we bought a cat tree to put up in the bedroom - one of those ones that uses a support up against the ceiling. It had a "hanging basket" at the top of it. We'd close the bedroom window curtains, she'd curl up in there - and she couldn't see or hear anything once asleep.



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post #5 of 7
10/28/10 at 3:22pm
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Wow thank you very much or sharnf your pictures and information. Your cat is identical to Bowie - I cant see what colour eyes yours has but Bowie is white all over and has blue eye and one green eye.

Its is now nearly bed time tonight and Bowie has just fallen sound asleep after us playing and trying to keep him up playing with a ball with feathers attached to it. My hubby just gave him some fish and weetabix which he loves as a treat - but I will try the chicken high protein just before bed.

I love your cat tree. I agree and think Bowie does like to be overlooking proceeding from his perch on the windowsill. He is the nicest cat and like I say we adore him, he has just started to sit on my husbands lap after having him nearly a year and he is so affectionate to us in the mornings. Its just the 2am, 4am, 6am part when he wants a chat! ha ha

I have explained to my neighbour tat he is deaf - he is not impressed. He has recently had a grandchild born that I can hear crying through the wall when it stays over and pointed this out. He said dont be ridiculous its a baby! I said I didnt mind hearing it and that Bowie was my baby and I was doing everything I can! Oh Bowwwwwiiiiee!!!!
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post #6 of 7
10/28/10 at 7:23pm
The other alternative is to buy ear plugs for everyone - including your complaining neighbor.

...Sorry, I don't mean to make light of it. I hope the suggestions help!

And her eyes are sea green. Well - her eye. She had to have one removed because she was so badly infected with herpes when rescued.

Almost all blue-eyed kitties (and I think the one eye green / one eye blue) are deaf. It's genetic.

Flowerbelle is most likely deaf because of damage to her ear drums/canals from the herpes. She can hear certain frequencies - but the vacuum cleaner is not one of them.
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post #7 of 7
10/29/10 at 5:18pm
I have two white/blue eyed deaf girls. Twitch is virtually silent, I've heard her purr maybe twice in her 8 or so years. Ophelia Rose, on the other hand, is almost never silent. She has this blood curdling scream/yowl thing. She's always "talking" about something. I have never had any success in about 6? years to get her to tone it down a notch or two (or three).
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