My cat's idea of "helping" is, as you'd expect, to get in the way as much as possible. Actually this made me laugh, but I did need to find another box for my ripped-up cardboard (destined for the compost heap)...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I think the theory is that it’s allied to albinism so if they also have blue eyes then it’s likely a white cat will be deaf. If the cat’s eyes are not blue then it’s not a true albino and its hearing should be ok.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not long after we move into our current house we had a lovely new shed erected. A few months later there were gales during the day and I had a phone call at work from my neighbour to say the shed roof was in his neighbour's garden! I contacted the company who had installed the shed to ask how the roof was attached - brackets and screws apparently. When I asked how my shed roof was two gardens away in that case the response was a bit of a shock. He said "Well it had stayed in place up to now"! Only after a fairly heated conversation did they agree to come and put the roof back on. Even they they tried to charge me for the new felt but didn't get paid.
Sorry, @B3 & @Hostafan1 - I started it... ...but my cat doesn't cause anyone else any problems, being entirely an indoor animal.
She isn't deaf. Her eyes are green; we adopted her with her (also all-white) sister, who had blue eyes, but also had perfect hearing (spiders in the next room, for instance).
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Cosmos is white and has pale aquamarine eyes. Not deaf. Lots of white cats round here for some reason and the farm one are not deaf either. The only worry here is that their ear tips are easily sunburned and that can lead to skin cancer so we have to put on factor 50 in summer. He doesn't like it but also, mostly, stays out of the hot sun anyway.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I had a white cat once, he wasn’t deaf but he got skin cancer on his nose, I’d never given it a thought back in the early 80’s, I wouldn’t have know what it was but for one of those vet programmes on tv, The vet lasered it off, had to do it twice but he was fine after that. They recommended sun cream on his nose, (and ears) not an easy job but he got used to it and eventually didn’t bother to lick it off.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
She isn't deaf. Her eyes are green; we adopted her with her (also all-white) sister, who had blue eyes, but also had perfect hearing (spiders in the next room, for instance).
They recommended sun cream on his nose, (and ears) not an easy job but he got used to it and eventually didn’t bother to lick it off.