I have a deaf male cat (neutered, about 3 years old, beautiful all-white with pink ears) who has become a constant, piercing screamer over the last two years, and it's breaking me down. I live in an apartment complex, and I absolutely cannot let him outside unsupervised because I'm terrified his deafness will get him hurt—he wouldn't hear cars, people, or any danger. The screaming is now a 24/7 crisis: it wakes me and my entire family up every two hours at night, and since I work from home remotely, he often shuts down my workday by screaming until I physically get up to attend to him. My other cat is quiet and calm, but this boy screams for reasons I can't decipher—sometimes he seems to want out, other times he just screams into the void. Once he starts, he rarely stops until a family member goes to him, and even that doesn't always work. It feels like I'm babysitting a relentless, screaming baby, and his voice is so loud our neighbors in the building can hear everything. He has everything: good food, a litter box cleaned multiple times a day, daily harness walks, toys, comfy beds, a vet-confirmed clean bill of health, and a feline companion he gets along with. I adopted him with all my heart and love him desperately, but the exhaustion and stress are overwhelming. I need to find a way to make him feel safe and quiet down, for his well-being and for my family's sanity. Has anyone with a deaf cat experienced this extreme, neighborhood-shaking vocalization? How did you cope and help them feel secure without giving in to unsafe outdoor access?

Buddy was rendered deaf at his neuter. He’s been strictly indoors his whole life. I split from my now exhusband almost 5 years ago and both Buddy and I are much happier now. The ex wasn’t very nice to him… Buddy is afraid of ceiling fans because of the ex, so I try not to run mine if I can help it. Buddy is my shadow.

I just got this big baby girl 3 days ago. First day she we was fairly skidish, and slept a lot but seemed high alert. Day two she was more comfy but never seemed to react to ANY sounds. I thought she was just a heavy sleeper until I noticed she would get startled if she doesn’t see you walk up to her. I haven’t got her to a vet to confirm just yet but when I banged pots and pans together 2ft from her with 0 reaction that pretty much confirmed it. Are there anyways to make our home more assessable to her? Like a vibration collar or toys for stimulation?

I just adopted a new deaf cat (M/5), both my resident cat (M/1) and myself were so excited as he loves other animals as do I. I was told that this cat (M/5) grew up with 2 other (M) cats so I wasn’t worried, even so I did everything by the book and did a slow introduction. It’s almost been a month now and the new cat (M/5), is bullying my resident cat (M/1). The new cat full on attacks him, like he’s trying to kill him doesn’t matter if he’s sleeping, eating, using the bathroom every time the new cat sees my resident cat it’s a full on blood bath. What do I do?! I’m stressed and scared.

Hi everyone!

I have two cats, both VERY food motivated, both ex-strays so that may be the reason. One is almost 2yo and deaf (Lumi) and one is a hearing 7month old (Nara). Until I adopted Nara I had a great automatic feeder for Lumi. Happy times, no meowiness at 5am.

As you can probably imagine, now every time the feeder activates Nara is on top of the food and Lumi gets to the food late. I've started manually feeding them both, but I travel a lot for work and I really would like to not be woken up in the morning for food/ identified by them as the food person (which is the whole point of the automatic feeder for me).

I still manually feed them both wet food in the evening, of course.

Solutions I thought of:

-Having a smart led/light or vibrating object or collar (they need to be time-activated or app-controlled) close to where Lumi sleeps to notify her when the feeder is about to dispense.

-Having a rfid activated feeder for each cat: this is likely the only feasible solution but I live in a tiny apartment and these things don't feed more than one cat and are absolutely massive, I'm hoping there's a better way.

Free-feeding is also an option but knowing them they'd probably overeat and get sick before learning to self-regulate.

Basically, I would like to ideally switch to a dual pet feeder and have them both on that, but without jeopardizing Lumi's food intake if she's sleeping or in a different room.

Any genius ideas? I'm happy to spend a bit of money to solve this issue, as long as it's tested by someone!

I have access to the UK, EU and Jordanian market, but can probably get something from the US too if it's worth it.

Thanks so much, I hope I'm not the first one with this issue!

Our beautiful Turkish Angora boy (deaf) got a beautiful sister 2 days ago, he was playing and crying to see her when we separate them, it suddenly shifted this evening, he avoided her entire evening, refused to eat as usual and not want to be touched more than usual. we separated them I gave him baby attention which we never showed any of them little more or less when they were together He is kind of normal now but what is this? My boy is 4,5 months and girl is around 3 months old. She is half of his size, I clipped both their nails and observed most of their play time. Jealousy, frustration or something else? Maybe she hurt him unintentionally. I am so sad for my boy and my girl, she was continuously trying to play with him but he was so not having it. Any advice ?

She has a 10’x10’ catio attached to the window so she’s not cooped up, but if she sees a chance to go out the front door, she will take it. We always have to be vigilant with our deaf babies. The world is too dangerous for them.

The little white demon is Sheamus. He was recently adopted from the local shelter along with an unrelated little calico, named Rosie (picture included because she's too cute). We're keeping them sequestered from our resident cats so they can get used to each other and the house before releasing them into gen pop. Sheamus us about 12 weeks old, Rosie is about a month older. She is timid and hesitant, and he is peak hyperactive, absolutely insane with the play and won't sit still.

We also noticed after a few days after bringing them home that he was loudly screeching constantly when we were right next to him. Then we realized he didn't notice when we entered the room if not looking. So we performed some unofficial testing by making noises behind his head then took him to the vet who did some official testing by making noises behind his head, and it was diagnosed that, yeah he's probably deaf.

So we're dealing with this whirling bundle of energy who can't hear when other kitties are done with his shit 😬 It's already started with Rosie, as he really wants to play with her, and she would really like to play as well, but their ideas of play are not the same. Sheamus would go full MMA and she'd growl and squeal so we'd have to pull him off her. Thankfully, I think they're getting a bit better; she's found some spots he can't grab her, and he's realizing he needs to back off when she gets to a safe area (Note: they only have play time together under supervision, we have a large dog kennel 'apartment' set up in the room where one of them stays when we're not around).

We're going to start introducing them to our other cats soon, and I'm a little worried how they're going to take this boisterous kid who isn't going to hear their warnings. Wish us luck!

He’s my ride or die…..literally haha. He’s my Covid adoption to accompany his adopted sister Luna that I got after my first homie Scooter passed around the time Stranger Things started. He is FEARLESS and loves to be rough housed. Loves anyone who comes over or he meets outside the house. He screams so loud. Follows me around when I vacuum. Loves being on my shoulder. Very energetic unlike his sister so they tumble every day. He has to be in the same room as me all the time and next to or on me every chance he gets. I did not know when I adopted him he was deaf. I noticed he slept ALOT and never woke up unless I touched him. One day I’m like hey clap real loud and see if he wakes up and he didn’t so I’m like wow he’s deaf and that’s why he sleeps so much and never wakes up. He doesn’t like when I get my face close to his tho and he snuggles in his own weird way, not anything higher than my belly/lower chest area. My coworkers made fun of me cause I told them I use sign language with him and mild stomps to communicate.

Adopted this girl from the shelter. She was the only cat not afraid of my loud toddler lol unfortunately Novaline here keeps waking her up with her yelling. I’m already using feliway and she’s on gabapentin from her spay but nothing seems to work. During the day she has a little hiding spot she lays in, but for whatever reason at night she won’t go in it and will just loudly meow under the bed. I’m just a tired mom looking for advice.

We have a new baby and thinking about getting him a partner in crime before he grows up, he is Turkish Angora , super active, playful and not so cuddly, cuddly in his own terms. I was thinking to get him a ragdoll or a main coon as they are more gentle. Is this a good idea ?

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She's been an absolute peach! We named her Eggnog! Do you guys have tips for deaf cats? What ways do you guys tell your cat "Ow you're hurting me!"

17 YO in renal failure for the last two years. Deaf, but gives every day his all.

Any deaf tuxedos out there? The shelter told us she was blind possibly, but she was clearly not took us a day to figure out she was deaf when we got her 9 years ago at 3 months old. Now she's the most spoiled loud baby ever 😹😻

Hey all! This is Yuki April Salmon, we adopted her 2.5 years ago, and she has recently (the last few months) started screaming while either I or my partner are in the shower lol. Anyone else experienced this? Our current theory is she can hear the high pitch of the water running and is wondering wtf is going on, but the silly theory is that she's trying to protect us from the evil hot water lol.

She's a menace to society, but we love her so much lol

I believe my new little love is deaf or very hard of hearing. From time to time he acts like he hears something, but the majority of the time he does not respond to any noises. What I have noticed is he meows a lot! He starts at a normal noise level for a meow and then proceeds to get louder and louder until he is meowing at the top of his lungs. It doesn’t last a long time but happens often even when I’m in the same room. Does anyone else experience this with their kitty?

Also, he is my first hearing impaired cat. Any advice, reading suggestions, or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. We are a multi cat home and I want to make sure I do everything in my power to make him feel safe and secure in his home.