cat seizurs?

Okay an epileptic seizure is one caused by your mind firing signals at an alarming rate causing your body to convulse and you to lose control. Same thing happens in cats. Usually cats can live a long and healthy life with them.

I know about seizures in humans more, but they effect cats the same way. I'm a long time sufferer with Pseudo-seizures (when your body convulses, but no signals are fired in your brain, your body just kind of loses it) and I have drop seizures (A type of epileptic seizure where your head drops down and you don't realize you are doing it and your mind goes blank) Cats can also get these as well as the two other most common ones under epilepsy: Grand Maul: Total loss of control of the body, shaking, "flopping like a fish," Drooling. foaming at the mouth, urinating ones self, and also soiling ones self (For cats it's a little different, it appears your cat had a grand) or a Petite Maul: Shaking of limbs, slurred speech, drooling and possible loss of bladder control.

Wait for the blood work to come back. I hope your kitten starts to feel better soon.

I'm sorry to hear about the seizures. Our first cat, Rookie, started having seizures when she was only 3 and was diagnosed with what they call "primary epilepsy," meaning that it was just seizures and nothing else systemic that was causing them. I know how scary it is to watch it happening.

One tip for you. When Rookie had her third seizure on a Saturday, the seizure ended and she took a leap at me and hung off my wrist by her teeth. I learned that it's not uncommon for cats to attack either a person or another animal after having a seizure, just because they're so disoriented and fearful when they come out of it. It's probably a good idea for you to be there while she's having a seizure, but I wouldn't try to handle her at that point.

Also, an interesting thing I learned was that the seizure itself doesn't harm them. It's only if something happens during the seizure that would otherwise hurt them, like hitting something sharp or falling down the stairs, where any harm would come.

Our story had a very sad ending. We found that Rookie's seizures couldn't be controlled, she was obviously miserable and covered in her own pee all the time, and we ultimately made the gut-wrenching decision to have her euthanized. I certainly hope that's not your case, but I do want to say that I sympathize for how hard it is.

Here was the timeline for Luna with her seizures
1-2 days before seizure she would have trouble with basic commands. She wouldn't respond in any timely sort of manner and would constantly do things she knew were not allowed. At first we thought she was just being difficult until I started keeping a diary of her behavior. THen we pinned it down to the days before her seizures.

The day of her seizure she would be very very clingy. She was not an overly demonstrative dog and was pretty independent but all she wanted was to be touching either my ex husband or I. If we left her out of her crate she would become destructive when we weren't home (behavior she had grown out of). At this point we would start carrying around her foam baseball (I'll tell you why later).

SHortly before her seizures she would slow down and seem slightly drunk(for lack of a better description).

THen she would drop down and start twitching and and jerking like crazy. Her teeth would snap together hard and early in her seizures she would vacate her bladder AND bowels but as she got older that stopped. She would still drool a LOT though. Most people said to stay away from her but we always knelt next to her and pulled her upper body onto our thighs and slipped the foam baseball between her canine teeth (She had chipped a tooth during her first seizure and we didn't want her to do more damage). IF she had ever shown any sign of being aggressive during or coming out of her seizure we would have stayed away, but she never did.

ONce the twitching would stop she would be still for a few minutes. Her eyes would be open but unfocused and we would pet her and talk to her (and if she soiled herself use this time to clean her up) Then she would suddenly moving a little. ALmost like she was asleep and started to wake up. She'd look around disoriented and confused and we would help her up and keep her steady until she could walk on her own. She was always *SUPER* thirsty after so we'd give her little sips (so she wouldn't drink gallons and throw it up) and keep petting her until she was back to 'normal'. She always seemed so happy when we were there when she 'woke up' from a seizure.

The few times I would not be with her when she had them I would hear her crying from somewhere in the house and when I'd find her she would be covered in drool and shaky and very very scared so when we knew one was imminent we tried to make sure one of us was always home or she came to work with one of us so that she would never have to be alone when she came out of it.

It was very very scary when it first started happening but after a little while it became a routine. Soon I started carrying her baseball, a roll of paper towels, natures miracle and a terry towel in a little diaper bag when she was getting close to one so that I'd have those things right at hand when they were needed.