Cat Difficulty Walking Back Legs

This happened to my cat many years ago.

Cat difficulty walking back legs. Three senses are important for the sense of body balance in cats. The cat may be having a hard time jumping on furniture and in more serious cases the cat may have a hard time walking. Sense coming from cat muscles muscle tendons and joints.

Paralysis unable to move the legs at all. Even though she seemed to recover a year later she started having balance problems associated with weak back legs. Weak and stiff back legs in cats can come on suddenly or more gradually.

Tonight her back legs werent working for her and she again kept falling over. Lameness limping Struggling to stand. Ataxia itself is a symptom of an underlying disorder negatively affecting the cats sense of motion and balance.

Reluctance to exercise jump or climb. In addition to walking unsteadily diabetic neuropathy left untreated could lead to complete loss of movement. If so your cat may be suffering from ataxia.

Treatment Controlling your pets diabetes is the best way to improve overall health and leg. She let me touch her and pick her up but threw up again and lost control of her bowels. As a result cats will walk weird with their back legs which will be weak unsteady and wobbly.

Rather than walking normally up on his toes the cat will walk down on his hocks in what is called a plantigrade gait. Why Is My Cat Disoriented. There are several theories about the exact mechanism of this condition but overall leg weakness is due to long period of uncontrolled diabetes and high blood glucose.