If I could talk to the animals..............

[Newportnobby]

With my cat, Hookey, being predominantly white I frequently tell him to beware getting his ears burnt in the sun or I'll have to put some sun blocker on them. The message obviously got through and he found the solution....

[Bealman]

Explains why the bum and tail are brown 

[Malc]

Sometime white cats are deaf. Our brown tabby female was. If she was somewhere she shouldn't be, I would tell her to get down and she never took any notice.

[Papyrus]

We have an all-white cat, about 15 years old now, and this time of the year she is not allowed outside before about 1630. She's not deaf fortunately and rules the two dogs with an iron fist (and I mean that literally... whack!, get out of my way!).

Cheers,

Chris

[guest311]

Sometime white cats are deaf.

a bit like Huskies, though with HB it seems to be intermittent / selective  :'(

he can hear the fridge door open from upstairs, but doesn't hear you when you are stood next to him telling him NO.

and before some bright spark suggests it, I'm not humping a fridge round the fields just to get his attention

[themadhippy]

he can hear the fridge door open from upstairs,

we proved  that things can travel faster than the speed of light .mates ridgeback asleep on the bed upstairs,openthe  fridge door and the ridgeback  is at your side before the light in the fridge has turned on.

[chrism]

Sometime white cats are deaf.

a bit like Huskies, though with HB it seems to be intermittent / selective  :'(

he can hear the fridge door open from upstairs, but doesn't hear you when you are stood next to him telling him NO.

and before some bright spark suggests it, I'm not humping a fridge round the fields just to get his attention

Isn't he big enough to carry the fridge himself?

[Newportnobby]

Hookey definitely goes deaf when he's washing himself. I could set a hydrogen bomb off next to him and he'd still carry on regardless.

Well........probably

[chrism]

Hookey definitely goes deaf when he's washing himself. I could set a hydrogen bomb off next to him and he'd still carry on regardless.

And if you were to open a tin/packet of food next to him?

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

Hookey definitely goes deaf when he's washing himself. I could set a hydrogen bomb off next to him and he'd still carry on regardless.

Kato does the instantaneously-there-when-you-open-the-fridge thing.  Quite unnerving when you know he was two floors up chewing on a signal just a second ago, it's as if he can fold the space-time continuum.

Based on your intelligence above, I'm wondering if a cat's bottom is actually a wormhole?

I must check the fridge for thermometers next time he goes to the vets.

[Newportnobby]

Hookey definitely goes deaf when he's washing himself. I could set a hydrogen bomb off next to him and he'd still carry on regardless.

And if you were to open a tin/packet of food next to him?

Absolutely no contest. He can hear a tin of tuna chunks being opened above anything else, probably even the aforementioned hydrogen bomb!

[Bob G]

We got a new kitten two weeks ago.
He's growing so fast right now, eating German Katzenminze (true), and yet the quality of my dinners has gone down hugely.
They had gone up in quality and creativity when my wife retired at the start of March, but the kitten now has all her attention.
I wish I could go down the pub but I cant!
Still he is beautiful. As is my wife.

Bob

[chrism]

We got a new kitten two weeks ago.
He's growing so fast right now, eating German Katzenminze (true), and yet the quality of my dinners has gone down hugely.
They had gone up in quality and creativity when my wife retired at the start of March, but the kitten now has all her attention.
I wish I could go down the pub but I cant!
Still he is beautiful. As is my wife.

He's a little cracker, Bob 

[dannyboy]

Our cat Bella does not appear to be deaf, but only has one eye and is partially sighted in the other. When she wants to go out, she, literally, howls until I go to her and say "Come on then". She will then follow me to whichever door I open. Yet, she will come in the same way our other four cats do - jump up to a window ledge, (I have just measured it and it is 49 inches off the floor), and then in through a small window. Not bad for a cat that is about 18 years old. She was our very first cat, so does get a bit of special attention.

[Newportnobby]

Careful, Bob. If your wife sees that you may end up with a chilli con carne made with katzenminze. You'd end up with a nice shiny coat but halitosis.

Lovely kitten