You know Shell , I know Snowball can hear but not to good . I know he is always laud in voice , in humans usualy you speak laut when having a hearing problem . But I do have to speak up to him . Somebody ( I think it was a woman ) miss treadet him , his right back hipp is demaged and need to be realignt . But he is not hurt the vet told me so . The vet said he may get athritis later on in life if not done .Shell also I want to thank you again for helping me to show some of my cats off .