Staff Photo: Jason Braverman Betty Macaluso holds her cat, Tom 2, at her Lawrence-ville home. Macaluso is deaf, and the cat wakes her up in the morning and functions as her ears.
Staff Photo: Jason Braverman Betty Macaluso holds her cat, Tom 2, at her Lawrence-ville home. Macaluso is deaf, and the cat wakes her up in the morning and functions as her ears.
My dogs are my door bell. My bell does not work properly and seems to defy being repaired but I don’t need it. I have 4 dogs and they alert me when someone drives up into the driveway and then they go nuts when someone pushes the door bell. I don’t know what they hear but I know what they are telling me.
Nice story.
Thanks.
She adopted Tom 2 and Tiger ... from PetSmart ...
If I adopted every cat I fell in love with at PetSmart I would need a farm. :)
Now, this is how God made animals and mankind..., in such a way as to complement each other... it’s a good story...
The article said — Since Macaluso can’t hear her cats’ meows, whenever the two want to play, they know to gently paw at her leg to get her attention.
—
Ahhh..., cats are intelligent and adaptive, too... :-)
These cats appear to have turned into “alert animals” for this deaf person, but I have heard of dogs being trained to alert deaf people to things. However, I’ve never heard of a cat being *trained* in this manner. I think she’s fortunate to have it turn out that way for her...
My cats have alerted me to strangers coming out of the woods and walking through my neighbor’s yard. They are like watchdogs kind of, just quieter and you have to look and listen for their ques.
My cat is my alarm clock and notifies me when it is time for breakfast and time for dinner......She’s the smartest cat in the world.........../NOT!
Big deal. James Traficant used to have a ferret act as his hair...
