Deaf cat has destructive behavior!!

It is partly his age, though in a fairly recent discussion of deaf cat behavior, we found out by accident that pushing things off of tables and shelves seems to be a common practice of deaf cats! They don't hear it falling - but WE react to it. Deaf cats seem to universally be fascinated with gravity. !!!!

The only answer we've figured out is to keep clear surfaces (though we generally wake up in the morning, and put our pens and pads of paper back up on our work tables ), and keep stuff you don't want broken put away. In fact, thankfully our curio cabinet has a glass door - it was probably the only way we could put out breakable stuff and not have it broken.

And yeah, the spray bottles won't work. In fact, if any water gets in your cat's ear, it can cause problems. Best to toss it, quite frankly.

The problem with the crashing lamps is a function of his energy and age. Do you have much vertical space for him? Do you have any way to create it? Having "appropriate" places where he can romp and run around and jump may help save your lamps.

Do you have ANY wall space? There are a couple of options. If you can afford them, several cat trees pushed together make a GREAT place for kitty to leap and run around. If you can't afford them, can you put up shelves? Because something like this works GREAT for cats: Kitty Wall

A quick and inexpensive alternative is stacking into a pyramid a number of those cheap sterlite storage boxes you can buy at places like Walmart. Stack them, cut holes so he can go up through some of them, , so he can go through them, and so there's a few windows looking out.

OR you can use sturdy cardboard boxes. We used to make huge 3D mazes - and of course running around across the tops and different levels of the boxes was good fun. they do have to be replaced though.

Otherwise, for the lamps.... would it be possible to use that "industrial" kind of velcro to help anchor them?

Wow! My deaf cat Extra shoves things off of counters, desks, etc. I never realized that he was part of a 'crowd'!!! I used to have PVC vertical blinds and Extra would sit on the window sill and rattle the blinds to wake me up in the mornings to feed him!!! I will have to look back and see if I can find the discussion on deaf cats!!!

My senior cat Joji is deaf and she does not knock down things. But when my orphans got to be your Milo's age, the house would often look like a tornado passed by in the morning. I agree with LDG that you need to set up some kind of kitty playground for Milo to reduce the "destructive" incidents.

Yayi, maybe ALL deaf cats aren't enthralled with gravity, but apparently quite a few are! Here's the thread I referred to in my original post: http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...hlight=gravity

I don't have experience with deaf cats. But is it possible your cat is hungry? Lynxx would always knock things down as a way of telling us he needed food.