Of course - the dashes played havoc with the formatting
Get back here, Sid
Stop eating that child, Sid, you have mice at home
Sid!
SID!
I've had a deaf cat. The current ones aren't deaf (unless they want to be, like a couple of dogs I've owned) and they respond to the following
Bang bang Up (hand raised, palm sideways facing them) - happens to be Morse ..- , which is 'U'. When the original cat also went blind, the dash was putting my hand onto the floorboards and leaving it there.
Then thud thud thud (three dashes) or bangbangbang is S or O - like the sssss or nO! (Or 'Oy'!)
Middle finger to index finger taptap taptap taptap taptap when I'm waiting for them to decide what I've told them is an acceptable course of action - A A A A (tick tock tick tock, time's running out)
And drumming my nails on the surface they're standing/sitting on - five rolls, four taps, kind of like a drum roll - means 'Come, look, here' - it's also H H H H H
There's also long range arm signals for my old dog and the close range finger movements that mean things like 'Now I've got your attention, GET DOWN from there'. And exaggerated eyebrows, head dips, etc.
I was a very bored child mostly left to entertain myself with the animals.