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Please read Who Would Do This To My Cat! Before this:
Her name is Murphy,
We don't really know if she is going through, we are setting up a cam corder tonight to tape her having fits, right now we are keeping her in, in the bathroom as its small and she can't injure herself, heres a discription of what happens that I found on the internet:
There are usually 4 clear phases in a fitting animal :
Phase 1 - the prodromal phase : abnormal behaviour. Can last for several hours.
Phase 2 - the aura - a very short-lasting period of unusual behaviour just before the seizures
Phase 3 - the ictus or fit - uncontrollable limb movements, often the head is extended backwards, there is increased salivation, chomping of the jaws and vocalisation. Often animals lose control of their bowels and of their urinary bladder during this phase. It usually only last 2-3 minutes, but the fits can recur very rapidly inducing a state of continuous fitting (status epilepticus)
Phase 4 - the postictus - animals are dazed, disorientated, stagger about and show altered behaviour such as an inability to recognize familiar people.
Right now my lovely, friendly, spotless, big, ginger and white cat is just a bag of bones, terrified, wide-wided, her paws where her nails should be are bleeding when she fits and she is covered in her own urine because of one of the phases above, she wakes me up every-night because the abnormal behaviour is her crawling up the walls, bashing on the door and knocking her bowls of food and water everywhere, we don't know if she will pull through
Her name is Murphy,
We don't really know if she is going through, we are setting up a cam corder tonight to tape her having fits, right now we are keeping her in, in the bathroom as its small and she can't injure herself, heres a discription of what happens that I found on the internet:
There are usually 4 clear phases in a fitting animal :
Phase 1 - the prodromal phase : abnormal behaviour. Can last for several hours.
Phase 2 - the aura - a very short-lasting period of unusual behaviour just before the seizures
Phase 3 - the ictus or fit - uncontrollable limb movements, often the head is extended backwards, there is increased salivation, chomping of the jaws and vocalisation. Often animals lose control of their bowels and of their urinary bladder during this phase. It usually only last 2-3 minutes, but the fits can recur very rapidly inducing a state of continuous fitting (status epilepticus)
Phase 4 - the postictus - animals are dazed, disorientated, stagger about and show altered behaviour such as an inability to recognize familiar people.
Right now my lovely, friendly, spotless, big, ginger and white cat is just a bag of bones, terrified, wide-wided, her paws where her nails should be are bleeding when she fits and she is covered in her own urine because of one of the phases above, she wakes me up every-night because the abnormal behaviour is her crawling up the walls, bashing on the door and knocking her bowls of food and water everywhere, we don't know if she will pull through