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Phil - 25 Jun 2005 14:48 GMT
My 16yo female cat has developed a twitch and I am hoping someone knows the
reason. Randomly, her head or whiskers or paws twitch ,often several times a
minute. If she lays on my knee I can feel her body jump a little bit too.
She seems quite healthy and happy apart from this. Any ideas?

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Phil Hirst

John Doe - 25 Jun 2005 15:32 GMT
> My 16yo female cat has developed a twitch and I am hoping
> someone knows the reason. Randomly, her head or whiskers or paws
> twitch ,often several times a minute. If she lays on my knee I
> can feel her body jump a little bit too. She seems quite healthy
> and happy apart from this. Any ideas?

Is she sleeping?
biggerbadderbarry - 25 Jun 2005 19:56 GMT
> My 16yo female cat has developed a twitch
> Regards,
>
> Phil Hirst

Short Story: It's been a good life, a long run, and now it's time to
get some serious rest.

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Your cat has hit a mental milestone, where she is actually laying her
burdens down in a sense - she is in transit to a new shade of vim.

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Twitching can be a bodily response to shedding itself of stresses,
tensions, etc.

Stress and tension are not just things we gather from a temporal
situation, but on a much more subtle level; we can gather and carry
stresses for years and years and just become copestetic about it. (I'm
making this up, just stop me if it gets too weird...lol)

I would venture to say there have been some recent changes in her
environment that have caused her to take relaxation to another level. I
also think the twitching will fade.

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Rhonda - 25 Jun 2005 21:54 GMT
Hi Phil,

Is she a siamese? Our siamese developed lots of twitches as she got
older. By the time she was 18 her body was like a Mexican jumping bean
when she relaxed!

I asked the internist vet about it and she said it was nothing to worry
about -- some cats, especially siamese, are just wired differently. I
knew it did not bother our cat. She would be laying there twitching all
over, yawn, then continue to twitch.

If there are signs of distress or pain, you might want to ask your vet.

Rhonda

> My 16yo female cat has developed a twitch and I am hoping someone knows the
> reason. Randomly, her head or whiskers or paws twitch ,often several times a
> minute. If she lays on my knee I can feel her body jump a little bit too.
> She seems quite healthy and happy apart from this. Any ideas?
Phil - 25 Jun 2005 22:39 GMT
She's just a black and white pussy, not Siamese. She's awake when twitching,
in fact now I come to think of it I've not seen her doing it when asleep
(which is most of the time nowadays)

It must be some sort of brain disturbance I guess.

> Hi Phil,
>
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>> times a minute. If she lays on my knee I can feel her body jump a little
>> bit too. She seems quite healthy and happy apart from this. Any ideas?
 
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