Dear All,

My cat (Shuna, 8 yrs, female moggy) has a strange twitchy head which
concerns me. Her head only occassionally does the shakes, but will
very often shake when she's otherwise completely relaxed (ie. sitting
on me), and she sometimes seems almost in a trance-like state. Her
head doesn't shake when she's asleep.

The degree of twitch varies: sometimes it's only a couple of little
shakes (almost as if she had something in her ear), but at other times
it's a rather scary-looking parkinsonian tremor. She seems otherwise
healthy and happy. I've mentioned this to the Vet before, but he
fobbed me off with some stuff aboout her teeth needing cleaned (which
he was recommending at that time, and which we had done: never again).

Any ideas? Do I need to get more investigations done, or is this one
of those things that some cats do (my other cat doesn't do it at all,
but then he's a neutered male and thus rarely conscious) ?

TIA

Dogbertd