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Someone please give me some more information and advice , etc on my cat 
here is a bit of background:
Ive had my male brown tabby, Marlow since he was about 4 months old. He was born in a garage during winter and we got him off kijiji (local selling/add site) from the persons garage he was born in. He's a year now and when we took him to get fixed (he was about 6 -8 months old) they told us he had ear mites- a bad case too! Marlow has always been very shy and timid of us and its hard to touch him and look at him so we had no clue he had ear mites.
He doesn't like to be touched or have anyone come up to him or go near him in general. He's loosened up the last few months, will sit in the same room we are in, we are able to touch him sometimes but whenever we pet him, he gets all tense and his tail gets stiff, sticks out and you can tell he isn't enjoying it so much.
We've never seen him freely wag his tail like a normal cat does. Its always either straight up or straight out. When he does move it around its very quick and snappy. He has never scratched us or bit us so we know he isn't angry when he moves his tail like that.
Never heard a sound outta him, he's a year old now and nothing. We just realized he is deaf. He doesn't look or even show any signs he hears that we are calling him/making noise, only when i made high pitched noises. We figure it is because the ear mites... (he had them for roughly 6 months)
This breaks my heart to see him have these problems and be so scared of us
Is there any possible reason why he doesn't talk and is this scared of us/ doesn't want to be touched? Him being deaf, could it be because he had the ear mites as long as he did? Is there anything we can do to make him come around and not be so timid like he is?!
Ive looked up deaf/mute cats and basically nothing comes up anywhere.. Is it common? or not really?
PLEASE anyone! give me all the information, knowledge and advice/tips/concerns/questions ANYTHING&EVERYTHING you know to help me out
thank you <3
here is a bit of background:
Ive had my male brown tabby, Marlow since he was about 4 months old. He was born in a garage during winter and we got him off kijiji (local selling/add site) from the persons garage he was born in. He's a year now and when we took him to get fixed (he was about 6 -8 months old) they told us he had ear mites- a bad case too! Marlow has always been very shy and timid of us and its hard to touch him and look at him so we had no clue he had ear mites.
He doesn't like to be touched or have anyone come up to him or go near him in general. He's loosened up the last few months, will sit in the same room we are in, we are able to touch him sometimes but whenever we pet him, he gets all tense and his tail gets stiff, sticks out and you can tell he isn't enjoying it so much.
We've never seen him freely wag his tail like a normal cat does. Its always either straight up or straight out. When he does move it around its very quick and snappy. He has never scratched us or bit us so we know he isn't angry when he moves his tail like that.
Never heard a sound outta him, he's a year old now and nothing. We just realized he is deaf. He doesn't look or even show any signs he hears that we are calling him/making noise, only when i made high pitched noises. We figure it is because the ear mites... (he had them for roughly 6 months)
This breaks my heart to see him have these problems and be so scared of us
Is there any possible reason why he doesn't talk and is this scared of us/ doesn't want to be touched? Him being deaf, could it be because he had the ear mites as long as he did? Is there anything we can do to make him come around and not be so timid like he is?!
Ive looked up deaf/mute cats and basically nothing comes up anywhere.. Is it common? or not really?
PLEASE anyone! give me all the information, knowledge and advice/tips/concerns/questions ANYTHING&EVERYTHING you know to help me out
thank you <3
