Unfortunately, several percent of cats have congenital deafness. It is considered to be that usually it is white cats; actually different genes are responsible for a color of an animal and for deafness. Coincidence of their combination at the same animal is no more than accident. Whether it is possible to define somehow that the cat or a cat hears nothing?
Instruction
1. Present that you decided to take yourself home a kitten. Certainly, you wish it was beautiful, good-natured and completely healthy animal. Think, not hearing cat or a cat in family is not that a problem, but such pet can cause certain inconveniences. For example, to calm excessively "talkative" animal free of defects of hearing, usually happens rather quietly, but to ask it to become silent firmly. If a cat deaf, then you have to correct her behavior, using any other method of influence.
2. Before taking away a kitten home, check, how well he hears. For this purpose get up at him behind the back or hide to such place where the kid will not be able to see you – for example, round the corner or a door. Create noise – clap, for example, or whistle. If the kitten shuddered, jumped aside or just scaredly looks around with the pressed ears - generally, adequately reacts to the unusual sounds proceeding unclear from where - with hearing at this specific animal all in a full order. If no reaction to the noise made by you followed, then it is impossible to exclude that the kid hears badly or absolutely deaf.
3. If you suspect that your cat has deafness, try to carry out such test. When the animal only just dozed off, drop on a floor in the same room an empty pan or shut the door with a bang. If the cat distinguishes sounds, then he will scaredly jump from the place; the deaf animal will continue to sleep serenely, even without having changed a pose.
4. Do not panic if suddenly it was found out that the cat living at your place or a cat hears nothing. For a start make sure that the animal actually does not distinguish sounds. With absolute confidence either the veterinarian, or the specialist felinologist can confirm you it. If the animal is really deprived of hearing, then it is not so terrible, this defect is usually compensated at it by hypersensibility to the movement of air and vibration of a floor. You will hardly manage to creep to the adult not hearing cat unnoticed, only the kitten does not know yet what is meant by fluctuations of floor boards under his pads. The adult animal not only understands that someone tries to approach him, but also is capable to distinguish who exactly of family members does it.
5. It is not necessary to let out not hearing cat on the street, despite the acute eyesight and supersensitive tactile receptors, the animal can not manage to react to a sudden source of danger. The dog can attack a deaf cat or bring down the car therefore keep the pet and do not allow it to go out of the house.