Subj : Re: OT: Sharon...Cleft Palates & Cats??
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Ellen K Hursh
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 01:05:03

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

Connemara wrote:
> Sharon,
>
> I was wondering if your husband has ever seen a cat with a cleft palate?

Piggybacking with my own "has he ever seen it" question: how about
sleep apnea in cats? (Our vet hadn't heard of it, when I asked him at
Willow's last visit.)

Willow does this thing in her sleep, every once in a while (though I'm
sure she's done it other times that I haven't seen), where she either
has stopped breathing - although she doesn't gasp, like one would
expect with apnea - or is so sound asleep that her breathing is just
very slow, and her body goes eerily limp (like, dead-cat limp). Never
fails to scare me when I notice it, but she always seems perfectly fine
- if surprised by the fuss - when I shake her shoulder.

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