Seizures?

Hi there! I just joined because of a frightening issue I had with my cat. We were going about our day, just like normal, I woke up to her meowing and nibbling on my chin, but then at about midday she fell asleep by me and started shaking pretty hard. It was concerning so I said, "Maple, wake up. You're having a nightmare." When she didn't wake up, I got a little scared. I lifted her head. It was heavy and extremely limp. When I took away my hand, her head fell down like she was dead. I picked her up and lightly shook her-- she was still looking dead. I started crying and shook her harder and then after about 10 seconds she woke up. I was so scared. Since then she's been acting completely normal, but a little drowsier than normal. Is this a seizure or deep sleep?

That sounds like a seizure to me. I would call your vet and describe what you saw.

susanm9006 I don't know the number of our vet, my mom does. BTW it happened again, but it seems to only occur when she's sleeping. It may be that they caused loss of consciousness. Thank you for your support. Recently we switched her to tuna instead of wet food because of the carbs. Do you think this has anything to do with it?

I hope that you don’t mean regular people food canned tuna? That isn’t a complete enough diet for a cat. I don’t know if it can cause seizures but it isn’t a good diet for a cat. There are wet cat foods with tuna in them that are fine.

susanm9006 we thought it would be healthy to avoid feeding her carbs and other unhealthy things that cat food brands include. But thank you, we'll take your suggestion.

I would get her on regular cat food just as fast as you can, hopefully her next meal. How old is she and how long has she been eating only tuna? Also when you talk to your vet, tell them about the tuna diet. Feeding tuna exclusively can cause mercury poisoning.

susanm9006 She's 7 months old and we started feeding her tuna about three cans ago. We can do that. We got her 1 month ago. She goes through 1 can a day. Since she's skinny, we feed her when she meows at us for food. She has a very distinctive food meow.

I would also try to get some video when she has these deep sleeping/shaking episodes so your vet can see exactly what is going on. Young cats can sleep very very deeply.

This cat needs a vet stat. 2 seizures within 24 hours is alarming especially at only 7 months. Also never ever feed cats anything but complete and balanced cat foods. You are not wrong on the carbs idea but it HAS to come from cat food. Please read through this for some help with cat food and for a list of low to no carb canned foods. As long as you are under 10% carbs you are in good shape, however a growing kitten needs all the calories they can get so she should eat until she is not interested anymore.

Please get this poor baby to the vet now.

Also why is she so skinny? Is she being underfed? How big are these cans? Kittens need lots of food and calories.

jen we've researched and concluded that they're probably just dreams and deep sleep but we'll be seeing a vet. And we aren't starving her, she does eat until she's not hungry. She's just got that type of build. Weirdly long legs, weirdly long body-- she's born that way.