A Fold-eared cat sitting in a strange posture may be sick. If you find a Fold-eared cat sitting like a human, it may be due to rickets. Most cats sit like this to groom and lick their chests and abdomen. Hair, and when a cat with folded ears often adopts this sitting posture, it is very likely that achondroplasia causes pain in the cat. Sitting like a human is to avoid squatting or lying down as much as possible, when the joints of the four soles touch the ground or bear The pressure on the body weight aggravates the pain.

Symptoms of the disease in cats with folded ears

1. The tail is short, stiff, and cannot be bent

After the disease occurs in cats with folded ears, the disease is the most serious The place is the tail and limbs. The tail will become thicker due to bone hyperplasia, the flexibility will decrease, it will not be able to swing, and it will be painful when touched.

2. Abnormal curvature, hyperplasia or lumps in the limbs

After limb lesions, the most obvious manifestation of a cat with folded ears is an unwillingness to walk or lameness. The hind limbs will be shorter than the forelimbs and very stiff, causing pain when flexing, causing it to sit in a human-like posture. At the same time, the joints and toes will also be deformed due to swelling of the joints.

3. Abnormal growth of toenails

Generally, the abnormality of toenails is that the pads are thicker than normal cats, and the back paws are also abnormally thick. When the cat sits upright, the pillow meat of the back paws It cannot touch the ground.