anyone else with a trembling cat? READ THIS!!

my cat has been shaking for about 3 years. she's been to the vet with numerous tests with no answers. I've done so much research trying to figure it out. I finally found something about aflatoxins. We use corn cat liter and the brand checks for this prior to shipping it out. But aflatoxins grow with moisture. My cats urinate in the potty boxes, which of course is moisture. When I discovered this, I went straight to the pet store and got ground up walnut shells for cat litter and scribbed the cat boxes. The very next day she quit trembling. She has also lost weight and her back legs are very uncoordinated and if you look up the symptoms of aflatoxin she has them all. I also lost a cat from having a constant bloody nose and she went through a lot of testing and medicines to no avail. That is also a symptom. But the vets couldn't figure it out. I kept thinking it was mold and after finding this information, well, I was right. Wish I would've figured it out sooner. But please share this everywhere you can because we need to get the word out. Any grain cat litter can grow this aflatoxin, which can be fatal

WOW, this is very interesting.  I know there is a group of people on here who use "chicken crumbles" fot cat litter and wonder if this would be of interest to them since there is probably corn in chicken crumbles.  I use corn cob horse bedding for litter and have had no problem, but I dig out all the damp spots daily and it never sits around long enough.  Still, if any of my cats were to show signs of aflatoxin poisoning (which I shall now look up and list), that would be the first thing I suspected.  Thank you for sharing this.

I actually scooped the box every time a cat came out of it. We live in a studio and the longest it sits is a few hours when we're not home but it gets scooped right when we get home. I'm very tedious about my cat's health and nutrition, probably more so than myself, lol.  So I personally know that is does not take much moisture at all. If you have a trembling cat, or other symptoms for that matter, try changing litters if it's made from grain to rule out the cause of symptoms. I tried every kind of food (grain free, high quality) and it never occurred to me it could be the litter. It was really hard to find online, and I just want to get the word out, so that other people with cats that have the same problem and hopefully find the answer easier. There's plenty of people with trembling cats but no answers to why, even after the cats were getting tested for everything at the vet. Thanks for reading!

I actually scooped the box every time a cat came out of it. We live in a studio and the longest it sits is a few hours when we're not home but it gets scooped right when we get home. I'm very tedious about my cat's health and nutrition, probably more so than myself, lol.  So I personally know that is does not take much moisture at all. If you have a trembling cat, or other symptoms for that matter, try changing litters if it's made from grain to rule out the cause of symptoms. I tried every kind of food (grain free, high quality) and it never occurred to me it could be the litter. It was really hard to find online, and I just want to get the word out, so that other people with cats that have the same problem and hopefully find the answer easier. There's plenty of people with trembling cats but no answers to why, when the cats were getting tested for everything at the vet.
 Also, aflatoxins are mostly know to be found in pet foods. Quite a few years ago, there were food recalls because this had killed some pets. aflatoxin was not showing up whenever I tried to lookup my cats symptoms. I would've had to know that was the answer first, which obviously I didn't, or I wouldn't have had to look up my cats symptoms. I hope this all makes sense, lol. This is how I figured it out..It was a forum with someone asking why her cat shakes. The vets answer was "did you change food or litter?" And it clicked in my head, it's the litter!! So then I looked up allergies to litter and is corn litter bad, and everything else I could think of. And that's when aflatoxin appeared. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them, if I can. Thanks for reading, and please tell anyone with grain litter to be aware of this!! 

Wow! I've used corn-based litter for a couple of years now. This is the first I've heard of aflatoxin. I'm definitely going to check into this further. Thank you for telling us about this hidden danger!

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