Showing posts with label Feline Hyperthesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feline Hyperthesia. Show all posts

Sunday, 26 January 2014

Charlie cat finds his home



Charlie’s neck watch did not work as well after several weeks so I decided to give him a rest from it: this had an interesting effect, he stopped fitting completely again.


We observed Charlie closely over the next few weeks, each time he showed signs of fitting we would either put the neck watch back on or take it off, which ever was the opposite to his current situation. This worked but the duration of it working was getting shorter, he was getting used to the effect.


I stepped up the healing he was having, added another homeopathy remedy to his collection and added a small drop of linseed oil to his chicken dishes. The combination was slowly wearing him down, as the fits became less intensive and less frequent. 


Over the next few months Charlie started to respond to our TLC, he realised he was home. Today we have a soppy, cuddly, dribbly, playful, fit-free, over weight beautiful cat that is the happiest he has ever been and we love him to bits, even Harry cat likes him!


What a difference this white and ginger ball of fluff is: one year ago we wondered what we had taken on with an illness that had no cure, today he has a beautiful fur coat and is happy to be picked up and even groomed with no sign of fitting.


So please do not give up on cats with Feline Hypaesthesia…. It can be cured, we managed it.

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Charlie Cat; in Beat



One evening as I sat with him in our lounge he was under the coffee table with one of his front paws on the top of my foot. He had been quite calm for a couple of hours when his manic grooming started up again. I tried to distract him by tapping my foot up and down, therefore moving his paw up and down. He stopped grooming and watched the motion, as I continued it seemed to send him into a trance-like state which led to him falling asleep. 

An hour later he woke and started again, once more I tapped my foot and his, up and down rhythmically and he fell asleep. My brain started to work overtime: perhaps the rhythm was changing the manic rhythm in his head and preventing a fit? Maybe sound had the same result. It was getting late, my husband had long gone to bed but I now had a ‘Bee in my bonnet’ and needed to check this out. I retrieved my husbands’ metronome, wound it up and placed it in front of Charlie. As its pendulum swung back and forth with a loud ‘Tick Tick Tick’ at a speed of 60 beats per minute, Charlie was mesmerised by it. He lay directly in front of it watching and listening, he was calm but not sleeping: I changed the pace to 30 beats per minute and watched him fall asleep!

I was so pleased with myself I nearly woke Charlie with my laughs. Could it be this simple, the answer to all those long suffering cats and owners: a metronome? After 20 minutes Charlie still slept but I had a problem if I wanted it to last the night….. it was a wind up metronome that only lasted half an hour and I was not getting up each time to re set it. 

I tip toed into my Step daughters’ room and found the ‘Mr. Bean’ alarm clock I had bought her a year ago, it had a wonderful loud tick (not so wonderful to the person sleeping next to it). I replaced the metronome with Mr. Bean…….. It had the same effect. Dear Charlie slept soundly all night.