male cat goes in licking fits when back scratched

Male cat, fixed, overweight, no declawd,
when scratch his spine he goes into licking fits, licking the air.
In summer he may have had a flea infestation, thick hair, outside cat.

stevn moore

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Male cat, fixed, overweight, no declawd,
when scratch his spine he goes into licking fits, licking the air.
In summer he may have had a flea infestation, thick hair, outside cat.


Google "feline hyperesthesia" and stop scratching him there.
It is the equivalent of hitting your funny bone over and over
or tickling you until you can't breath. There is nothing that can
be done about it. Be happy your cat just licks, others get
aggressive. (My tuxedo has it.)

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"Steven Moore" wrote in message
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Male cat, fixed, overweight, no declawd,
when scratch his spine he goes into licking fits, licking the air.
In summer he may have had a flea infestation, thick hair, outside cat.


Google "feline hyperesthesia" and stop scratching him there.
It is the equivalent of hitting your funny bone over and over
or tickling you until you can't breath. There is nothing that can
be done about it. Be happy your cat just licks, others get
aggressive. (My tuxedo has it.)



Mine has progressed where it now happens when I touch her anywhere on her
back - she has seized once from it - my Old English Sheepdog loves to lick
her and she caused her to have a seizure. She bites herself madly and
screams most times. The only really safe place to pet her is her head...

One previous vet recommended kitty prozac... but I just stay away from
petting her there...

"Steven Moore" wrote in message
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Male cat, fixed, overweight, no declawd,
when scratch his spine he goes into licking fits, licking the air.
In summer he may have had a flea infestation, thick hair, outside cat.

stevn moore

This is fairly common - the 'lick response' when scratched in a particular
place. One of my cats used to do it if I scratched her in one special spot
on her back.

Cathy

"Connie" wrote in message

One previous vet recommended kitty prozac... but I just stay away from
petting her there...

Forgot to mention it is because feline hyperesthesia is considered an
obsessive compulsive disorder...

On 2005-02-16, Steven Moore penned:
Male cat, fixed, overweight, no declawd, when scratch his spine he goes into
licking fits, licking the air. In summer he may have had a flea
infestation, thick hair, outside cat.


I knew a cat in high school who, when petted in a certain way, would literally
flip herself, pee, and scratch, all at once. Apparently, she was epileptic.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

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"Steven Moore" wrote in message
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Male cat, fixed, overweight, no declawd,
when scratch his spine he goes into licking fits, licking the air.
In summer he may have had a flea infestation, thick hair, outside cat.


Google "feline hyperesthesia" and stop scratching him there.
It is the equivalent of hitting your funny bone over and over
or tickling you until you can't breath. There is nothing that can
be done about it. Be happy your cat just licks, others get
aggressive. (My tuxedo has it.)



Mine has progressed where it now happens when I touch her anywhere on her
back - she has seized once from it - my Old English Sheepdog loves to lick
her and she caused her to have a seizure. She bites herself madly and
screams most times. The only really safe place to pet her is her head...

One previous vet recommended kitty prozac... but I just stay away from
petting her there...


Oh, Connie, I am sorry to hear that. How old is she? For whatever reason,
once we put my girl on Tapazole and a beta blocker for her irregular
heartbeat,
the hyperesthesia lessened. Now her skin just ripples a bit when I brush her
on her lower back, but she does not yowl and wag her head anymore.

On Tue 15 Feb 2005 07:11:18p, Steven Moore wrote in
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Male cat, fixed, overweight, no declawd,
when scratch his spine he goes into licking fits, licking the
air. In summer he may have had a flea infestation, thick hair,
outside cat.

stevn moore



It tickles?

--
Cheryl

On Tue 15 Feb 2005 07:44:30p, Connie wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav
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Mine has progressed where it now happens when I touch her
anywhere on her back - she has seized once from it - my Old
English Sheepdog loves to lick her and she caused her to have a
seizure. She bites herself madly and screams most times. The
only really safe place to pet her is her head...

One previous vet recommended kitty prozac... but I just stay
away from petting her there...

Shamrock is like that too. He reacts violently if you pet him
anywhere other than his head or his shoulder blades (he loves being
rubbed there, like a shoulder rub). He gets very overstimulated,
but even though I've posted here before about drugs for this, I
don't think I could bring myself to drug him (prozac, sedative,
etc) just to pet him. His overstimulation problem does flow down to
how he reacts to one of my other cats, though, but we're going
through some behavior modification now to try to stop that. He's
just a very high strung cat. But he's o so lovable most of the
time. He also has allergy or EGC problems, and that obviously
affects his personality when it is flairing up.

--
Cheryl

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Mine has progressed where it now happens when I touch her anywhere on her
back - she has seized once from it - my Old English Sheepdog loves to
lick
her and she caused her to have a seizure. She bites herself madly and
screams most times. The only really safe place to pet her is her head...

One previous vet recommended kitty prozac... but I just stay away from
petting her there...


Oh, Connie, I am sorry to hear that. How old is she? For whatever reason,
once we put my girl on Tapazole and a beta blocker for her irregular
heartbeat,
the hyperesthesia lessened. Now her skin just ripples a bit when I brush
her
on her lower back, but she does not yowl and wag her head anymore.

She is going to be 11 this year. She has it pretty severly. When she needs
to scratch, she'll go under a chair and rub back and forth. I watch her
closely when she does this, cause sometimes we have to stop her. She can
tolerate being petted up toward her neck for a slightly longer time than
near her tail... that is almost instantaneous. She is still
happy-go-lucky...