So, Erik, our deardemented dog-cat, has developed an odd habit that I've been meaning to ask about here for quite a while now. He randomly starts to "chew" air. It's quite noisy, and there's no lip-licking going on. He never has anything in his mouth, nor does it seem to be related to any vomiting, or anything of the sort. Sometimes he does it while just sitting around, though I'm most conscious of him doing it while he's cuddling, or sitting on top of a human (perhaps it's because it's usually right in my ear!) It's been going on for at least a year now, not constantly, just completely out of the blue, sometimes a ton of times in a row, with days going by without any of this.
He's a former stray, guessed to be about 9, though he's lived with us for 7 years. He has a good appetite, drinks a good amount, but not too much, fairly active (well, as active as any of our cats ever are, being that they're all seniors!) He's been on different foods since this started happening, including wellness and hypo-allergenic stuff.
He's a bit of a nutcase, and has had an ever changing group of manias, from the start, which often last between a couple months to a couple of years, and then go away as suddenly as they started (like the mad licking of all human flesh, which left my skin really raw, particularly the knees that he licked whenever we were in the bathroom!
, or a decision that all small rectangular box shaped objects were the devil, including paperbacks, remote controls, cordless phones etc)
Any ideas? Has my cat got Parkinsons?
He's a former stray, guessed to be about 9, though he's lived with us for 7 years. He has a good appetite, drinks a good amount, but not too much, fairly active (well, as active as any of our cats ever are, being that they're all seniors!) He's been on different foods since this started happening, including wellness and hypo-allergenic stuff.
He's a bit of a nutcase, and has had an ever changing group of manias, from the start, which often last between a couple months to a couple of years, and then go away as suddenly as they started (like the mad licking of all human flesh, which left my skin really raw, particularly the knees that he licked whenever we were in the bathroom!
Any ideas? Has my cat got Parkinsons?