Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / February 2005

Hello,

I have a 15 year old cat.  A year ago her bloodwork came back with mildly
elevated urea, creatinine, and T4 levels.  The doctor said she was
indicative of chronic renal failure.  Since then, the urea and creatinine
have been controlled with a special diet (Medical Reduced Protein canned and
dry) (In December all values came back normal).  We are not treating her
hyperthyroidism because the doc said it would aggravate her kidneys and that
the elevated T4 was probably helping the filtering in her kidneys.

In the past couple months I have noticed that sometimes when I'm petting her
and she is relaxed, her face, ears, and whiskers will twitch very noticibly.
This is not just your regular twitch, it looks really weird.

She has also begun to "miss" the bed when she jumps up.  She will jump
enough so that her front feet grab on, but then she just slides back down!
I attributed this to her just being older and weaker, but I thought I should
mention it just in case because this has also just started in the past
couple months.

Any ideas as to what is causing the twitching?

Thanks,
Kelly