Sorry not horse related - cat question?

[Aoibhin]

in dec 07 we found 2 six week old kittens dumped in a carrier bag in our ditch, it was freezing & the bag was held in by ice.
the female was huddled ontop of the little black & white male.
i brought them in & my siberian bitch washed them & got Rob breathing again (he was blue rather than white when he came in, vets checked them out & he have been with us since (she died a few weeks later).
BUT Rob is "special" he does not know how to land on his feet, has never sussed out the litter tray,doesnt miow (just wines), has no interest in females & shows no male traits (he isnt done but doesnt mark or anything), has no interest in hunting & is generally very slow to work things out.

so can cats be brain damaged? i am assuming yes but how do you know? and is there anything you can do? he seems appy enough playing with my toddlers & never goes far from the garden. Just wondered really.

 

[pookie]

Yes, cats can be brain damaged, but equally some animals are 'just like that' - atypical, strange habits and so on. We've currently got two cats, one of which was a successful former show cat who we constantly say is a rubbish 'cat'. He's also useless at hunting/hunt-like play, talks to his water (literally!), hasn't got the usual cat balance you'd expect.....but there's nothing neurologically wrong with him. He's just a bit of a daft, soppy baby-like cat. In your case, it's difficult to tell whether his start in life has permanently affected him, but if he's happy and the vet's happy with him I'd say just let him get on with being a special cat

If the litter tray is a problem there are ways to try to help him, but other than that I'd say he sounds adorable and he's very lucky he found someone willing to look after him (I won't say what I want to about the sh1t(s) who dumped them in the first place).