My cat Freya is having really weird issues, and I'm getting nuts.
She's generally lovely, quiet and cuddly, she follows me when I call her, plays a lot, she's very smart and learns things quickly.
But... Occasionally she goes through some "mental blackouts", and when these happen, it seems she doesn't even remember or understand where she is, who is around her and where her things (dishes and litter box) are.
This happens suddenly, out of the blue. She can be lovely and playful now, she is completely forgetful and disoriented the minute later. And the "mental blackout" can last half a day to a few days. And it ends at the same speed as it started, though, usually, it seems that this sort of "spell" vanishes after one of her visits at the litter box. Please, notice that she can visit her litter box a few times during the day(s) she's in this condition, but then one of those visits wakes her up from this magic spell. At least, I think I have noticed this pattern. I didn't found what triggers this issue yet.
When she's in this condition, she mainly fears us, doesn't recognize us, tends to hide or run away from us, and of course doesn't know her name anymore. She may stand or lie in a safe corner or place and looks at us with fear, she lies flat and her pupils are dilated most of the time, doesn't want to eat.
In the last month it happened three times. First time on April 23, it only lasted a few hours. Second time on April 30 to May 1, a little longer than a day. Then over the past weekend. She started acting strange on Saturday evening, she was quite stoned or disoriented yesterday, doing strange things, until this morning at 9, when she visited her litter box, she peed, and when she came out of it she was her usual.
I believe that all began after this terrible episode a year ago. After that scary night, she had three more minor episodes, about two weeks apart from each other.
Freya was seen by a few vets, had several complete blood works done, all of them came back clear. She was seen by a neurologist too, who thought she might have a brain anomaly of unknown nature, and he advised me to have an MRI scan done, though, he said, once that we have a reason for that, we will hardly have a therapy or a treatment to correct it.
Any of you, do you have ever heard of or dealt with something like this?
Thanks!
She's generally lovely, quiet and cuddly, she follows me when I call her, plays a lot, she's very smart and learns things quickly.
But... Occasionally she goes through some "mental blackouts", and when these happen, it seems she doesn't even remember or understand where she is, who is around her and where her things (dishes and litter box) are.
This happens suddenly, out of the blue. She can be lovely and playful now, she is completely forgetful and disoriented the minute later. And the "mental blackout" can last half a day to a few days. And it ends at the same speed as it started, though, usually, it seems that this sort of "spell" vanishes after one of her visits at the litter box. Please, notice that she can visit her litter box a few times during the day(s) she's in this condition, but then one of those visits wakes her up from this magic spell. At least, I think I have noticed this pattern. I didn't found what triggers this issue yet.
When she's in this condition, she mainly fears us, doesn't recognize us, tends to hide or run away from us, and of course doesn't know her name anymore. She may stand or lie in a safe corner or place and looks at us with fear, she lies flat and her pupils are dilated most of the time, doesn't want to eat.
In the last month it happened three times. First time on April 23, it only lasted a few hours. Second time on April 30 to May 1, a little longer than a day. Then over the past weekend. She started acting strange on Saturday evening, she was quite stoned or disoriented yesterday, doing strange things, until this morning at 9, when she visited her litter box, she peed, and when she came out of it she was her usual.
I believe that all began after this terrible episode a year ago. After that scary night, she had three more minor episodes, about two weeks apart from each other.
Freya was seen by a few vets, had several complete blood works done, all of them came back clear. She was seen by a neurologist too, who thought she might have a brain anomaly of unknown nature, and he advised me to have an MRI scan done, though, he said, once that we have a reason for that, we will hardly have a therapy or a treatment to correct it.
Any of you, do you have ever heard of or dealt with something like this?
Thanks!