Hi to all
I live in Suffolk, England, with five darling kitties: Sunbeam (tortietabby girl), Cobweb (mackerel tabby girl), Princess (black and white girl), Kandy (white and black semi-longhair girl) and Red (ginger semi-longhair boy). All moggies, not posh cats, all named after racehorses and they make waking up in the morning a joy. Sunbeam is a pretty good show cat too - in England we have classes for pets at shows as well as pedigree breeds - and she has qualified for the big national show in November.
I wonder if any of you with all your experience of things feline have run across a problem that I have with Kandy. She is a year old and loves life and does all the things happy cats do - runs, jumps, plays, wrestles, climbs, bickers with her friends, sleeps on my bed - but she cannot bear being stroked along her back. She is ultra-sensitive to touch and it seems to hurt her to do so, although she rolls over and crawls through undergrowth without apparent pain.
Of course I've had her checked thoroughly by vets - ex-rays, blood tests, the lot - and they can find nothing physically wrong with her. They said there is a feline hyper-aesthesia syndrome and the only suggestion was that perhaps she'll grow out of it.
She is a happy, healthy little soul and the way she comes to me chirruping with her tail up, it seems as if she would dearly love to be cuddled. It's just when it happens she then remembers, hey, maybe this isn't such a good idea.
I'd be really interested to hear if anyone has experienced anything similar.
Selene
I live in Suffolk, England, with five darling kitties: Sunbeam (tortietabby girl), Cobweb (mackerel tabby girl), Princess (black and white girl), Kandy (white and black semi-longhair girl) and Red (ginger semi-longhair boy). All moggies, not posh cats, all named after racehorses and they make waking up in the morning a joy. Sunbeam is a pretty good show cat too - in England we have classes for pets at shows as well as pedigree breeds - and she has qualified for the big national show in November.
I wonder if any of you with all your experience of things feline have run across a problem that I have with Kandy. She is a year old and loves life and does all the things happy cats do - runs, jumps, plays, wrestles, climbs, bickers with her friends, sleeps on my bed - but she cannot bear being stroked along her back. She is ultra-sensitive to touch and it seems to hurt her to do so, although she rolls over and crawls through undergrowth without apparent pain.
Of course I've had her checked thoroughly by vets - ex-rays, blood tests, the lot - and they can find nothing physically wrong with her. They said there is a feline hyper-aesthesia syndrome and the only suggestion was that perhaps she'll grow out of it.
She is a happy, healthy little soul and the way she comes to me chirruping with her tail up, it seems as if she would dearly love to be cuddled. It's just when it happens she then remembers, hey, maybe this isn't such a good idea.
I'd be really interested to hear if anyone has experienced anything similar.
Selene