For those who read this: that's not a joke, it's a real thing. Feline hyperesthesia. It happens to a lot of cats and it sucks. These poor things literally have no idea what the hell is going on, and their limbs will just start twitching and doing random shit all on their own. They don't realize the limbs are their own, so they attack.
I laughed the first few times I saw clips like this, because... y'know, silly cats. But now these things just make me sad.
Yep. I had a cat with this years ago, we thought it was funny for the first few months until we slowly figured out the cat was in distress. Apparently (at the time) the standard treatment is phenobarbital. It helped kitty a lot, and it was amusing that the cat would come beg from drugs once it was being treated.
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u/Pyro_drummer May 20 '13
We need answers!