02-08-2002, 09:15 PM | #31 |
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quote: He looks at you when you speak. it's not like his eyes wander.. He'll look right at you.. freaky. When I first got him, I thought he was faking it.. HAHA.. j/k.. |
02-08-2002, 09:29 PM | #32 |
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quote: I think sometimes they can be born blind. I remember there was a poodle for sale in the paper a while ago that needed a special home since it was born blind. Of course that's a dog but I imagine cats are similar in that way.
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02-08-2002, 10:05 PM | #33 |
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Z, I think I know why Choc seems to look at you when you call him... I dont think a cat can be completely disabled in one area... just severly weakened. They can still use their sight/smell/hearing/whatever, just not as well.
One of the four I described earlier- Minty, the pure white one- is deaf... she can hear some things though... she cant hear you yelling 'BANG' directly behind her head, and she cant hear the dog barking at her, but she can hear, for example, my watch alarm. She can here, i think, high pitched sounds... AFAICS, Choc's sight would be similar... he would probably be able to make out rough shapes, but not in as much detail as most cats can. Ofcourse, cats are very intelligant (sometimes i think theyd have to be more intelligant than alot of humans... (no i said HUMANS not POLITICIANS!!)) and so I think they would know that they were weakened in that sense, and so they wouldnt rely on it... they would thus develope their other senses just as would happen if they were completely disabled in that area. |
02-09-2002, 04:59 PM | #35 |
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Well, actually all male white cats with blue eyes are deaf, and if they have one blue eye and one another colour, they are deaf in the ear on the blue eyes side, it's a genetic defect in the male chromosone of that type, also, it's so amazing how animals compensate, I've seen a cat with three legs that could still jump up walls and such.
Also, they don't just need their eyes for that sort of thing, they can judge the distance something is from their face with their whiskers. Amazing creatures, aint they? [img]smile.gif[/img]
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02-10-2002, 05:54 AM | #36 |
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How did you come up with the name "Choc"? It's short for "Chocolate" isn't it [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]
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02-10-2002, 06:02 AM | #37 |
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quote: Did You have ANY Doubt!? [img]tongue.gif[/img] That's Cool Ziroc. Maybe Because He Can't Use His Eyes, His Sense Of Smell And Hearing Is More Acute. Seriously, Some Blind Humans Now Use Echo-Location! Totally Weird!
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