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Post by smokeyoshi on Apr 21, 2014 10:50:50 GMT -5
I was pretty convinced that Pandora was deaf, but the last week or so, I'm not so sure. When I call her by name, even loudly, "Pandy Pandy Pandy!," she doesn't respond. But when I call "Soupies!" in my high-pitched ferret-talk voice, she magically appears. And today when I ran the vacuum in the ferret room she and Abita both popped out of a drawer at the same time. She also doesn't respond to a squeakie. Others respond to "Soupies!" so maybe I should just call them that way, but I hate for them to show up and not get rewarded.
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Post by dee517 on Apr 21, 2014 18:28:44 GMT -5
I know what you mean. We thought and the vet agreed that Zeus was deaf. Yet he will still come sometimes when I call soup time. I guess we will never know for sure.
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Post by huronna on Apr 22, 2014 7:26:29 GMT -5
As you said...selective hearing (like my husband)
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Post by dee517 on Apr 22, 2014 17:39:53 GMT -5
Mine too Heidi!
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Post by dookcitygang on Apr 23, 2014 9:12:46 GMT -5
Sometimes they can hear at different frequencies, so might hear high pitched sounds or low pitched sounds. Then there are the ignore you sounds, which I think they all use, when engaged in doing a naughty thing.
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Post by smokeyoshi on Apr 24, 2014 10:06:16 GMT -5
Someone on another forum said that one of theirs acted deaf for over a year and suddenly it was like they could hear. Pandy is responding to soupies as well as shaking the treat jar, so I guess now I have to teach her her name, lol. She turned 2 in January (we estimate.)
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Post by huronna on Apr 25, 2014 8:50:32 GMT -5
I definitely go along with selective hearing.
Shake that treat jar and they come running, call their name because they peed on the floor....and you'll never find them
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