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Hi everyone
This may take quite a few lines to explain.
My oldest cat started having problems with her hearing last year and now she is almost completely deaf. It has been going well so far with hand signals but there is one big problem. She has always been an outdoor cat. Luckily we hardly have any traffic out here and there are plenty of safe fields for her to hunt on. But we can't call her home if she doesn't see us. That hasnt's been a big issue until recently because we knew she would come sooner or later.
A few months ago we had visitors and they stayed for three days. It was very chaotic! The house was a mess and the cat ran away. I honestly understand her. Appearently something happened to her. We found her about a month later with a bump in her face. She was acting like a wild cat that didn't know us at all. :'( We kept her inside the house and after a week she was almost her old self again but she didn't want to stay inside and she would run away all the time. Every chance she got she ran out. After two months she is now herself again. We have given up keeping her inside. She is too used to being an outdoor cat. She stays close to home now and comes when there's food. She sleeps inside. Everything is fine.
Except...
Saturday night she slept outside. Sunday morning she wasn't there for breakfast. The problem was that I couldn't feed her later since we were going away all day. Monday we weren't home much either so I guess she gave up and found someplace else to eat. Today I found her in the neighbor's carport and I discovered that another neighbor feeds her cat outside their house. So I guess that's where she survived back when she was injured and now comes back to when we aren't there. Like a second home.
I had called her and whistled but of course she didn't hear that. When she realized I was outside the carport she came running towards me while meowing loudly and she seems very grateful to be home now.
So the big problem is that she has a backup plan for whenever we're not there. A place to eat and a place to sleep and she probably also has a big area she can go hunting there, too. She got use to that back when she wasn't herself. And we have to find the exact place she is before we can call her. Only a little over a year ago I could always call her home but her hearing loss is a big problem!
How do we deal with that? It's a little embarrassing to have to go get her in the neighbor's carport... I really hope it doesn't happen again!
Meows from Wonderfulcat
This may take quite a few lines to explain.
My oldest cat started having problems with her hearing last year and now she is almost completely deaf. It has been going well so far with hand signals but there is one big problem. She has always been an outdoor cat. Luckily we hardly have any traffic out here and there are plenty of safe fields for her to hunt on. But we can't call her home if she doesn't see us. That hasnt's been a big issue until recently because we knew she would come sooner or later.
A few months ago we had visitors and they stayed for three days. It was very chaotic! The house was a mess and the cat ran away. I honestly understand her. Appearently something happened to her. We found her about a month later with a bump in her face. She was acting like a wild cat that didn't know us at all. :'( We kept her inside the house and after a week she was almost her old self again but she didn't want to stay inside and she would run away all the time. Every chance she got she ran out. After two months she is now herself again. We have given up keeping her inside. She is too used to being an outdoor cat. She stays close to home now and comes when there's food. She sleeps inside. Everything is fine.
Except...
Saturday night she slept outside. Sunday morning she wasn't there for breakfast. The problem was that I couldn't feed her later since we were going away all day. Monday we weren't home much either so I guess she gave up and found someplace else to eat. Today I found her in the neighbor's carport and I discovered that another neighbor feeds her cat outside their house. So I guess that's where she survived back when she was injured and now comes back to when we aren't there. Like a second home.
I had called her and whistled but of course she didn't hear that. When she realized I was outside the carport she came running towards me while meowing loudly and she seems very grateful to be home now.
So the big problem is that she has a backup plan for whenever we're not there. A place to eat and a place to sleep and she probably also has a big area she can go hunting there, too. She got use to that back when she wasn't herself. And we have to find the exact place she is before we can call her. Only a little over a year ago I could always call her home but her hearing loss is a big problem!
How do we deal with that? It's a little embarrassing to have to go get her in the neighbor's carport... I really hope it doesn't happen again!
Meows from Wonderfulcat