Can Sounds Cause Cats to Have Seizures? YES!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this episode of Cat Advice, I explore the reality of a condition called FARS. Many cats experience thi but because it is a newly recognized syndrome, it is often not diagnosed, leading to the head scratching that our cat guardian Julie is having with her cat Bucket. Does your cat have any of the telltale signs? Watch the video to find out!
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0:00 Introduction
1:38 Analysis
2:08 What is FARS?
6:12 What to do
8:53 Cat Mojo Rockstar
9:48 Closing
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I often see people on YT or tiktok making videos of their cats gagging when they crumple aluminum or scratch something to make a sound and they think it's funny and keep doing it. Meanwhile the cat keeps retching uncontrollably. It makes me angry and breaks my heart that they are doing this to their pets continuously as a joke.
Totally agree. Some are even worse. Yesterday I watched a video in which the person put hot water in her cup because the cat drinks out of her cup. And she laughs about it when the cat drinks it... sigh....
They will be dealt with, harshly.
Ugh, yeah, someone on Twitter retweeted a cat reacting to ice cream not too long ago...*sighs*
Meh
Y'all overreacting
@@Giliver You are underreacting. Abuse is never okay. All those who bully helpless creatures will pay the price. Guaranteed!
kudos to julie - she recognized something was wrong and went to the vet instead of just blowing it off as something her cat just...does. and when the answer the vet gave her didn't sit right with her gut, she reached out to somebody with more information. all of that, plus she didn't force her cat to have a reaction on camera (even for the sake of "diagnosis" or providing more info), but provided a video of it happening in the past. she's such an awesome cat mom! you go julie!
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Yes! Awesome, rare human.
My cat had this, and I couldn't get my vet to believe me either. I think some vets just don't even know that this exists.
Yup! Being proactive is so important- 5mo kitty started sneezing nonstop all morning, lethargic and couldn’t keep his eyes open so we took him to the vet right away, turns out the poor baby got a viral infection. 😥 He was treated and now I trap him in the bathroom with me while I shower as a makeshift humidifier.
@@andaiibori7205 oh no! hope he's doing better.
I love that Julie didn't want to do that again to Bucket. That is what I call love for your cat (pet). I see people do it just for fun, look what my cat does when I do this or that. No....just no!
same here. if this was my cat, i could only bring myself to "force" it to happen in front of the vet, and even then i'd feel bad about it. you can tell bucket is important to her and she truly wants to get him help, not show off a "trick" or something.
I actually suffer from this sound induced micro seizure thing and honestly a lot of the things that invoke them are in that list. Literally those sounds cause me to have panic attacks sometimes... Crazy I never knew it was a thing. Maybe I'm a cat.
-_-
R u a cat?
madscientist I can relate.
Well, now when people ask you if you’re a cat person, you have a pretty definitive answer!
@@amaliakamon9210 no and for real I don't think what they experience and I experience are exactly the same conditions, but almost all of the things that affect me are on that list. It's more akin to a panic reaction in myself that distracts me from what I'm focused on, and it overwhelms the ADHD in me.
As opposed to figuratively?
This didn't happen to my calico until she was 17 - then suddenly almost every high-pitched noise would send her into a full on epileptic seizure. The first time I witnessed this, she took off, sliding sideways, heading for the wall (I caught up to her before she hurt herself). After some help from the local vet, I learned that this was relatively normal in 16+ year old cats and just to snuggle her tightly when she'd have a seizure. When the shaking stopped, she'd look at me like "why am I here - and why are you holding me?" Then she'd trot off and eat like nothing happened. My household modified her environment and kept those high frequencies away from her as much as possible - we'd do that for any family member. Otherwise, she was perfectly happy and healthy and passed at the age of 23.
I have above average hearing and suffer with chronic tinnitus as a result. I can hear every high frequency noise in my home. Even if something is turned off, if it's still plugged in.. I'll hear it.
WiFi gives me hell and since we have had it, my migraines have escalated.
Stumbling across this a year later as I’m reading up on FARS
My kitty was diagnosed a while ago and isn’t medicated as we have done similar to you, modified our home environment to reduce likelihood of her having seizures and we know if she has them she will be ok, just gotta rehydrate her after.
I literally cried reading that your cat lived to 23! I’ve panicked everyday since she was diagnosed that my kitty may not live as long so this has given me so much hope. I hope you are going wonderfully in life 💕
I have auditory sensitivity issues myself. I know cats have much better hearing so I can’t imagine how annoying every day sounds are to them.
Same here, I have autism and a lot of electronic devices screw with me. Some people with epilepsy experience seizures when they hear a specific song.
Fibromyalgia gives me auditory sensitivities, and I can chime in with you guys. It can be really horrible for some of us humans. So, whenever I see a sound is having a negative impact on my felines, I try to stop whatever it is. It makes me sad that people "abuse" this for laughs.
I have misophonia. Also, to my annoyance, I have very good hearing. The two together makes it impossible to eat with my family, and sometimes even be in the same room. I’ve always related to cats quite a bit, but now even more so.
Saaame
i have misophonia and pots. all i can imagine is someone chewing in my ear but at an elevated volume... i don't think i could take it either
as a person who randomly developed a seizure disorder at 22 certain noise is the trigger for my own different types of focal seizures so i sympathize with these cats. i wish brains could be nice..
I am so glad that Jackson made that video, I had no idea about this seizure thing......but that cat-toupee joke was real baaaad!!
Hahaha he’s a rascal
There was a white cat in my neighborhood who had a black marking just on top of his head. We called him Toupee Cat.
I dont think this happens to all cats..
I had a cat that had full-on tonic-clonic seizure when I opened an especially noisy pretzel bag. I haven't eaten pretzels since.
It was 10 years ago.
This is a great video. My son's cat, Peter Parker, used to gag when I would use an adding machine and when he was near the printer when I was printing documents. We asked his vet about it and the vet just said, "That cat is crazy." Hmmmm not a great diagnosis at the time.
Does he still do it? Did you get a second opinion?
@@tanyawieczorek6603 Turns out that it is a form of seizures that the sound triggered.
My Maine Coon cat was very sensitive to specific noises and he let me know he didn't like them by pawing at my hand. The sharper the noise the worse he reacted. And to him the worse was having my cell phone playing that gosh aweful elevator 'your on hold' music. Now 17 and deaf he is no longer bothered by noises whether I can hear them or not. A cats hearing is very sensitive so epileptic reactions is totally reasonable. Good catch Julie and Bucket! Thank You Cat Daddy for presenting this cat health issue.
Jackson it was whenever Jerry scratched his fingernails on a chalkboard and rang bells yes including Tom's bell
I'm a new meowmy and I learned so much from you. I bet my kittens will grow well, thanks to you!
Pink Mochi me too! I just adopted my kitties last Saturday. This channel is a huge help!
i've had cats for 20 years and even i learn new things from JG. :)
So all the video "challenge" I saw on tiktok a few months ago about people rubbing a comb in front of a cat to make it gag... it was actually micro seizures? damn I'm happy I didn't try that on my cat!!
Jackson thanks a lot for this info I had no idea my cat was feeling this way xx
Oh my gosh!!! So last year when I moved into my new house (it’s an old house with gas heater attached to the wall) I was trying to light my heater but was being unsuccessful. I had just moved in during the winter and was freezing. The ticking noise from trying to light anything gas (stove or heater) went on for like 30 seconds and towards the end I thought to myself wow this sound is annoying I wonder if my cat can hear. And the second I stopped the ticking my cat flew off the couch, ran herself into the other wall on the apartment and smashed her head, then she ran into another wall.and then had a pretty severe seizure, a lot of shaking, she urinated on the floor with the loss of control, and then she just fell to the floor while she was returning to normalcy. It was the most freaky thing to watch and I swore I was watching her die. I felt to my core it was because of the sound of the Tick but the emergency vet told me it was carbon monoxide poisioning Lmao. I was like ehhhhh no like we just moved in and have a monitor. 9/10 times vets are right but not this time haha. Anyways, hear to say this does happen... and a lot of the times in elderly cats. My cat also almost developed into another seizure when I was clicking my pen while studying but I noticed her head jerking and stopped it. She is a okay now and still kicking her 19 year old legs!!
I dont know. Maybe a mix of the noise and carbon monoxide. My mom's stove is a gas stove and her old one used to have that problem of taking forever to light up. And the smell of the gas would make me queesy
@@ScarletRain26 gas, not carbon monoxide though. CM has no smell whatsoever which is why its so dangerous and you need monitors for it
Allie how is your cat now? I hope she's still going strong.
@@tanyawieczorek6603 She had passed late in 2020. but nothing related to this incident, just old age. I have since gotten another kitty baby and we have been honoring her life
Wow I actually know what that reaction is now! I i tried googling it with no luck before. Thank you, I definitely wouldn't want to make any kitty have that reaction intentionally!
Years ago my wife-to-be and I had an old cat, and I noticed his eyes bugged out a bit when he would hear keys shaking or silverware clanking, so I started to be careful to avoid those sounds. Then for a while there were these super noisy potato chip bags (I believe they've been discontinued) and my wife happened to sit down and crinkle a bag while the cat was between us and he had a seizure. It was something that seemed to happen to him, or to worsen, with age.
Is the cat still alive? Is he doing OK?
@@tanyawieczorek6603 He died of old age many years ago; he was about 20. I remember looking on the internet at the time and couldn't find anything more than a couple of comments from other people who described something similar, then a few years later I noticed somebody figured out what was happening to these cats and posted info. about it. We just had to be careful not to make those sounds when he was around.
Thank you so much for pointing out cat sensitivity to noise. One of my biggest pet peeves is how most of the cat collars I see have little bells on them. It must drive the poor cars crazy to have to hear that noise every time they move. Poor babies!
I never knew mice and rats communicated at high frequencies, interesting! I guess "quiet as a mouse" doesn't really mean much
Getting ready to finally adopt my first cat and found these videos. I have to say... just discovered this channel this week and so far have watched hours of videos. My #1 favorite channel so far. Authentic, funny, educational... and soooo much about cats.
I was actually searching for a video just like this. I have a handsome long-haired boy who reacts to the sound of a metal Slinky by sticking his tongue out as far as possible. I was utterly baffled by the behavior but now I have an answer. It seems like his sister has the same problem, but to a lessor degree because she just closes her eyes and flinches. Needless to say, the slinky got retired a long time ago and I found less disruptive stress toys. Thank you for sharing your videos, much appreciated!
I bought this professional skin scrubber from Amazon that vibrates at a high frequency to lift blackheads and other dirt from your pores. I turned it on and started using it, my cat got up and walked over to me, at first I thought he was just confused about the vibration sounds, but then his head started jerking and he was gagging. I immediately turned it off and never used it again. Without seeing this video months ago, I would’ve had no idea what was happening to him. I’ve never seen him react like that to any other noise. I’m glad Jackson Galaxy put out this video. People on TikTok need to see this, I’m so tired of seeing people purposely putting their cats through that. It’s really just animal abuse.
My daughter’s cat does this when water is running in a sink. It is awful. She tries to have her cat in another room when she does dishes
Is she able to get a dishwasher or move to a place that has one? I know they're expensive, but it could make a good all-in family present for the next holiday or her birthday. There's a lot of perks to a dishwasher beyond not spazzing out the cat...
One of my previous cats, he had seizures as he got older due to tapping noises. When he was younger, the sound would excite him for play but getting older it was a huge trigger. Poor baby. He was a gentleman grandpa cat. This was during a time of no social media. I also can’t stand when people scratch their cats’ butts and they laugh at their cat making “funny” noises. This is because after my research, I found out it was very uncomfortable for the cats if they make this sound...
huh whats wrong with scratching your cats butt?
@@missyc13 they like their but scratched. That and their cheeks and behind their ear
@@heartforall5853 No, depends on the cat. There's a major nerve that gets stimulated, can be very painful for some cats and very pleasurable for others. It's the same reason some cats go crazy with zoomies after taking a shit, the nerve runs down the spine to the rectum.
@@heartforall5853 Research feline biology and bug off.
@@catman4084 you won't help anyone with that tone of yours.
I have epilepsy and I have various triggers. Some are certain noises, or too much noise. Cat's ears hear a whole lot more. Good job Jackson . 👍
Wow - great info! Thanks for putting this out there, Jackson!
Is this why sometimes it’s not recommended for cats to wear bell collars? Also would you do a video on FIV cats?
I’m wondering the same thing. My cat was having seizures nearly early day (sometimes twice a day). I took his collar off (with a bell) about two weeks ago and I haven’t noticed one since
I learn more from you than I did all my life. Thanks a lot you are the best galaxy
Thank you for including the link to the study! I am, most definitely, one of "those people".
Don't think my cat has reacted to sound like that, not yet anyways. Glad I haven't encountered anything like that.
One of my cats hates it when I hang laundry on the metal laundry hanging rack. It's sort of exit stage left with him. He sees me bringing laundry into the bedroom and leaves now, knowing it may make tiny metal sounds.
I have never seen a cat do this but I do find it fascinating and sad. Thanks for posting this.
I got my baby Christine when I was 21- she died in my arms when I was 43. The last 4-5 years of her life the crinkle noises gave her horrible seizures... flipping over. spasms, foaming at the mouth- it was terrifying. My vet had no clue (was 15 years ago)
I love your channel. I have learned so much about cats from you. Thank you!!!🐈
Really interesting, I didn't know about this. I learned something today. Thank you for sharing this. Love from Denmark
So interesting. The sound triggers remind me of misophonia - a condition where certain everyday sounds trigger a fight-or-fight response. A few of the sounds mentioned here drive me nuts!!! Poor kitty 💗💗💗. I hope the seizures have ceased.
Firstly, credit to Julie for recognising this as an actual problem and reaching out to learn about it and resolve it. You'd be disgusted by how many cat owners fail to do just that. Secondly, I and many other Autistic people have had somewhat similar experiences throughout our lives. The main difference that we impacted by overstimulation through emotional/mental/psychological distress rather than a feline seizure response.
Love your work Jackson, your brilliant at what you do & the best part is your so funny. I love a good laugh first thing in the morning before I go to work. 👍🏼😃
nice and purely educational! my cat has FARtS... hehe
my cat hates when I play guitar, drums, keyboard, sax..... he does not exhibit FARS but just shows disdain and contempt when I play music...
I even get the wtf look just by picking up the guitar..
"It's bucké!" (Still written Bucket). Older people who watched british tv shows will know. 😂
This is not the first time I've seen this happen. That's interesting that that's what that is. Thanks for the info.
My cat recently developed fars after getting really ill. She recovered but seemed to have gone almost completely deaf. She's only twitches but had 1 full on seizure that scared the 💩 out of me. She's 18 and I was 18 when I got her... I really can't imagine what life will be like without her.
This explains a lot. Crinkling up paper when throwing away packaging from Amazon makes my cat run for her life. She also hates dishes clinking together dishes while putting them in the dishwasher has the same effect.
Now it all makes sense.
The ring light showing in the glasses drives me nuts. I just wanted to cat yack lol lol. Your biggest fan.
One of our cats has epilepsy but I don't have any videos of his seizures. He hasn't had one in 7 years now because his medication is working perfectly. But at first our vet thought he was just having stomach trouble. His face would twitch and crinkle up, then he'd cry loudly afterward (probably disoriented) and drool a bit. We knew it had to be something else though so we kept bringing him in. Most of his seizures were only facial but he had a full-body one at the vet, which showed them exactly what the issue was. Sometimes you have to trust your gut when you think something is wrong with your babies.
Thanks for sharing guys. My Maine Coon, Aussie, is responding the same way to repeated spray bottle squeezing and running a finger nail through a comb. So incredibly random but I’m avoiding these things as I learn my cat’s triggers.
Maybe talk about RSS = Rolling Skin Syndrome, too!
My boy Lux does this! Once I was sitting down to breakfast. I was stirring my coffee when he jumped up onto the table and sniffed my cup. The metal straw on the ceramic straw caused him to barf straight into my coffee! It goes without saying I try my best not to trigger his FARS. Thanks for the info as always, Cat Daddy 🐱
When one of my cats consistently, loudly meows a lot, my other cat who's mostly quiet all the time would start to meow and bite his brother as if he is angry.
I'm a cat lover (and long-time My Cat from Hell watcher, I just subscribed here). My beautiful Russian Blue mix died a couple of weeks ago, but this resonates with me. In addition to being a cat lover, I'm a singer with a large voice. I noticed that Bruce Wayne (my cat, if it isn't obvious) would move to another space in the house if I started to practice or even if I put on some opera music (particularly he did NOT like male opera voices!) I never saw any behavior except taking his leave, but when I inevitably get another cat I will definitely be more sensitive to this.
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Hi Jackson! around halloween my friend came to visit and has been to my apartment before and has met my two cats blue and finn. not even a full day of my friend over my cat blue experienced her first siezure. i took her to the emergency vet right away and they mentioned it could be from stress of my friend over. which seemed strange because she was hanging out with him in the same room. until she had her siezure. its been one whole week without her having one and two weeks without him here. it took a little over a week to get her home back to normal (smells, sounds, etc) and now that i'm watching this video i'm realizing my friend having my TV on VERY loud, his laptop playing his classes not through earbuds, and him on his phone playing videos, songs etc....could have been the biggest affect on her. i'm naturally a very quiet person, and i am too sensitive to sounds....just wanted to say, thank you for this video, honestly...all videos i've got her to a place where she is herself + on a journey to be the happiest kitty ever. finn on the other hand lol i'm still working on...patience is key 😊
huge lesson - but no no longer letting friends stay over. (or at least being VERY picky about who)
Wish I had found this channel a couple years ago. My cat (she was 19 at the time) was having full blown seizures (violent muscle spasms, foaming at the mouth, urinating on herself) and I couldn't figure out why. Because of her age, I worried it might be epilepsy . The vet said there was nothing wrong with her and she probably just got into some cleaning chemicals, but we didn't have any that weren't pet safe and where she could get to them and the seizures kept happening no matter what cat-proofing I did. After several anxiety-filled weeks, I finally figured out the seizures were getting triggered by sounds. Putting fresh water in her bowl, pulling tape off a package, clinking keys. My roommate even set one off by opening a bag of chips. It was pretty easy to be careful about certain sounds near her after that and since she's gone mostly deaf, they've stopped completely.
wow! this is good information
So informative. Love Jackson Galaxy. 🐱
This happens to my chihuahua. Loud noises like the sound when someone is vacuuming the carpet near her, she’s outside when someone is using a lawn mower, or the smoke detectors are beeping she has a full blown seizure. She runs full speed through the house banging into walls and furniture and makes a constant noise that sounds like a mix between barking and howling. She also foams at the mouth and urinates and defecates on herself. It lasts less than 10 minutes and when it’s over she is disoriented and confused….it’s so sad to see.
Scranton, PA. I still always think of 20,000lbs of Bananas when I hear of this place. :)
One of my neighbors has one of those noise emitting cat scarers in her backyard. It hurts my ears and it hurts some of my friends' too.
I empathize(sympathize?) with those cats suffering from that noise disorder
Me and my cat has a call to call her. I do a whistling to call her home and she has always came to it. My cat will try to calm me when im upset or crying, there was this one time me and the bf was argueing and i was very upset and crying and my cat came up to me got in my face and bit my cheek(not hard just a nibble) all i could do was laugh at why she did it while she was lovey and purring. Shes very much a protecter of my 3 yr and gonna be soon to the new baby. Everyone was scared she might be in the way when the kids came along but nope shes their big sister.
Yes.. I know this because for Hurricane Ike/Rita the power went out here. There were lootings and home robberies happening so I in my living room and stayed up while my family slept. I fell asleep in the wee early hours and heard a loud bang/ruckus (neighbor stupidly destroying his shed at 5 am), so I screamed in panic. The noise was loud, long, and woke me from a deep sleep.
My cat had the worst seizure of her life. She had been sleeping next to me.
Been watching you for awhile now love the info you share! But I always thought you looked familiar finally figured it out you remind me of Dave Growl from the foo fighters! If he shaved his head you’d guys would like so much alike
I have recently purchased a sonic cleaner that the tub is stainless steel sheeting. And my cat looses his mind when I turn it on, he will go as far away as he can in the house and won't return for a while. I had to throw it away as I care more for him. Our other cat doesn't get bothered at all when I used it. Great Channel.
There's a trend of people doing this on Tik Tok to their cat (running their finger through a comb) and when the cat gags they think it's hilarious. Always gave me a bad vibe, imagine making your cat gag for clout. :(
My cat hates sounds especially when I'm on the phone, I speak softly, but she still hates it, she sits on my chest, trying to knock my phone off my hand. I run my business from my phone, it's always on vibrant, and I go to a different level of the house to use the phone.
Also all her toys, I removed the bells off of them. She loves clam environment
Thanks for caring fir your beautiful Bucket of 😊 joy
My cat hates loud noises in general. That's why I don't invite people. 😂 And I'm introvert, that's a reason too. 😂
My cat also gets this with those bell ball toys! Never knew it was a thing!
One of my cats actually used to exhibit the same behavior when you got the dot from a laser pointer too close to her. She grew out of it after an ear infection she had when we got her resolved.
My cat experiences a very mild version of this. Most of the time he just licks his mouth (like he does when he sees food he likes), rarely he gags. So I always assumed it was just feeding instinct being triggered. Thank you for the information, I will be careful to put away the toys that trigger such a reaction. My poor boy.
My cat has myo-clonic seizures to keyboard typing, mouse clicking, tin-foil crinkling, and occasionally even her own purring. It started when she turned 10. If I type for a long time and don't realize she's in the room, she'll have a tonic clonic seizure so we have to be very careful. Prior to having reproducible reactions to sounds, she had tonic-clonic seizures (foaming at the mouth, rigid body, spasms for < 5 min) about once a month. Now, along with the myo-clonic seizures, she has tonic-clonic seizures 2-3 times a month. If the auditory stimuli isn't removed, the event ends with a tonic-clonic/grand mal seizure. We've tried three different meds for seizure control and she had adverse skin reactions to all of them (reddened, blistering skin after a single dose for one of them, very scary) except gabapentin, which also handles pain control. I wish there was a solution because it clearly bothers her and she clearly doesn't understand what's happening to her. After a series of micro-seizures, she pulls out the hair on her belly for some reason.
One of my current cats, and a cat that passed away years ago would make those faces from smells. I call it a "yacky face." Both cats make it when they sniff a pill bottle that I've opened. But my living cat also does it when he first smells a little bit of meat that I give him. It doesn't matter what type, beef, turkey, chicken, pork. His first sniff, he yacks, then he comes back to eat it. And it's not that flagron face that they make when they're really smelling something deeply.
My cat just started experiencing this same thing. It is pretty severe for him. His vet started him on phenobarbital.
Is it caused by something you're doing like the list he mentioned?
We're having very loud road construction on both sides of our neighborhood. My poor cat isn't a happy camper, but I haven't noticed the gagging thing. My son has a loud voice, and it gets louder when he's excited or upset. When he starts ranting about how he hates his job, the cat gets upset. I have to remind him to tone it down for her.
Good video
Hey Jackson! Something that always made me curious about cats is petting or tapping their back/base of tail area. Some cats I’ve petted on the base of their tails reacted positively because the owners told me they liked it, but some others seemed irritated and overstimulated? I watch a lot of cat TH-camrs and some have cats that as they claim like to be patted repeatedly on their bum areas. I am curious if this is true? What are your thoughts on this subject? Some people claim it arouses the cat sexually, others get reactions where a cat would furiously lick themselves or make weird sounds and they keep stimulating the cat that way for amusement which is wrong. What is your verdict?
I had situation that cat of owners in a flat had seizure during ringing sound of glass ball while food sachets touches edgedes when I tried to take food out. She dropped on a side and after a moments lift her self up and started walking in circle . I knew that ringing frequency caused her this brain paralysis. Frequencies do these days to all of us anxiety on long terms. Very interestingly swirling your body does some physical help. The cat naturally started swirl himself to undo the 'harm' . I looked on dervish dance tradition ,it is needed for some earth periods to fix possibly magnetic fields...
I just adopted my first cat days ago & I have wooden floors, I walk barefoot, my cat jumps/get scared & the wood floor really disturbs her😕
Posh Sims it could also be that your new kitty hasn’t adjusted to the sound yet. I adopted 2 kittens last Saturday and at first every little sound would startle them but now they’re getting used to the sounds in their new home.
2020 vision is right. It may be the cat freaking out at unfamiliar noises. Mine spazzed out at everything when I first brought him home because he was 8 months old then and extremely high energy. Now he's 6 years old and watches and listens to everything, and only spazzes out in episodes of the zoomies. If it persists after kitty gets comfortable, it may be worth looking into as FARS. If it is FARS, covering the wooden floors with area rugs to minimize creaking and foot contact may be helpful.
Get some socks that have those dot things at the bottom, then you won't slip or disturb her 😊
This is no joke, cats are very susceptible to noises
That's insane. And you wouldn't even expect sound to be the cause.
Wait hold up do I have something like this?
I jerk and twist my head to the side when I hear certain high pitched sounds and have since i was a baby
Its like nails on a chalkboard times 10
Very eye opening the FARS video! I might know now why my cat vomits-no cat hairs and I give fresh food so might be FARS! Why do cats eat hair? Pica??Just to help you scoop their feces cause they get to be like a line of sausage in the litter box, LOL!
My cat does this to a bell ringing as well. I could never understand any of the bell cat toys, she never enjoyed them. She is quite old now (14 years) and it hasn't become any worse.
Sometimes human's seizures can be triggered by a particular tone or light pattern. I knew a woman who was poorly controlled by medication and her seizures were triggered by ambulance sirens. Plugging her ears with her fingers helped!
My cat BaeBae has this weird thing she does when she drinks something cold or feels very cold air or touches something very cold. Her two front legs jerk out from under her. When she was a kitten she’d fall face first into her bowl. Now that she’s older, it still happens but she’s able to keep herself from falling into her bowl. From time to time I’ll let her have the last couple of drinks of my milk that’s left over after I eat a bowl of cereal. I know, I know, you’re not supposed to give cats milk. But she’s been drinking it, in small quantities, since she was a kitten. It doesn’t give her diarrhea or any tummy upset, just the jerking legs when the milk is very cold or she touches something very cold or feels cold air from the front door when it’s wintertime. It doesn’t seem to bother her. It’s just weird. I wonder if it is something like FARS?
I had a cat that developed this problem when he was around 13. He was triggered by most alarm sounds, so I had to use a bed shaker, and I had to turn the TV down when watching it. One time he was even set off by hitting his own paw against the litterbox while burying waste. It was so weird not having to walk around on eggshells anymore after he passed. 😔
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My last cat HATED plastic bags, I figured it was the sound it made rather than anything else. My current cat also hates plastic bags and also tin foil - I'm glad I know why now!
This is super interesting.. I had no idea cats can have something similar to misophonia in humans!!
Hey Jackson is that guitar ok? That sounded like a nasty landing on the floor! As a musician I felt that guitar's pain on my skin!! 😁
Greeting from Greece!!
This got me wondering if my cat’s little collar with a bell was a contributing factor to his seizures. He was having them multiple times a day and I took it off about two weeks ago and he hasn’t had one since
My cat gets all over excited and pacy and all bush tailed, when I get anxiety. and if I make any breathing sounds at all she immediatly jumps up even if asleep and launches on me, and if I dont move she starts head butting my arm pits and my hands with a good force. She is also a shoulder cat and a bit of a hair dresser for me at times.
Hi Jackson!. I happen to have a 17 year old cat that suffers from FARS. We already noticed that she was very sensitive for sharp noises, but on time she sat under my computer chair that happens to creak when I turn or move on the chair. At that moment she got a real seizure and during that seizure fell from the stair. No Veterinarian knew what was going on, but I happened to find what was wrong with her on the internet. She has had two more seizures but is now under medication with phenobarbital and hasn't had a seizure in two years. All the causes that You named is making her shake, so I really take care when she is around. We keep our fingers crossed. I'd love to let You see her, But I'm afraid Amsterdam is a little bit to far away!
Had a cat with this, he always hated plastic bags crinkling but around 15 I noticed certain wrappers opening and crinkling of bags made him have a few myoclonic jerks so I just tried to avoid that with him.
One morning he was sleeping w me and my phone alarm went off in our faces and he had a generalized tonic clonic seizure for about a minute- iPhone classic “digital” ring
This explains why running your finger across the teeth of a comb causes gagging in some cats ☹ Did that as a test, it worked, but my gut told me never to do it again and now I know why
Thank you! Now I have a name for what I think is bothering Dexter cat. Eight hundred bucks in a bloodwork visit and I couldn't afford the recommended $1200 MRI.
One of my vets told me not to scratch a cat on the spine at the base of the tale. Some like it, but she said in rare cases it sets up a sort of cycle in the nerves? that can cause seizures and possibly death. I haven't done it since. There are other ways to make them happy.
I had a siamese that had epilepsie and it got triggered by the crinkling of a bag of crisps...it started like you saw in the video and it developed to a serious condition. But I do think it doesn't need to
my cat has some kind of positive seizure at polyphonic melodies of a cell phone (any melody) - as it is the most wonderful sound in the entire universe. she scrubs her face all over the phone until the moment that she starts to bite it in ecstasy. on the other hand, when the interphone buzz, she momentarily disappears in some cat dimension. cats are more aware of sounds and frequencies than we can imagine - so whisper around them to make them happy and calm :)
This sounds a lot like the nails-on-chalkboard effect. If I understand the study correctly, there was no real-time recording of seizure activity in the cats by EEG, so that means there is a possibility it is just that. Everyone has that one sound that makes their stomach turn over and they just have to *move*. A fingernail squeaking on the car door handle, fork slipping on a plate, wet sneakers on linoleum, the TV on mute... Your cat just can't turn around and yell at you to KNOCK IT OFF, nor do they feel any social pressure to not do whatever the corresponding movement is.
I'm not implying that it is any less seizure-like or involuntary or that it's unimportant, just that humans DO experience something just like this. You can totally relate to what you're cat is going through.
All of those sounds trigger me too, the difference between my audiogenec reflex and a cat is it only happens to me just before or during a migraine. The sounds do hurt me physically and my hearing is increased a 100 times, e.g. I can hear a mouse fart at my neighbours house. Sound and light increase the migraine pain and can make me throw up, the cats don’t look like they are in any pain but I can sympathise with them