(www.meowbarkblog.com) — Today, I found a YouTube video featuring Charley, a cat suffering from cerebellar hypoplasia. But the thing is, Charley isn’t suffering at all! He may fall down a lot, but otherwise he’s a perfectly normal cat with some balance and motor control issues.
Cerebellar hypoplasia is a disorder found in cats and dogs in which the cerebellum is not completely mature at birth.
Usually symptoms of cerebellar hypoplasia can be seen immediately at birth in cats, but sometimes can take two months or so to become apparent in dogs. Cerebellar hypoplasia causes jerky movements, tremors and generally uncoordinated motion. The animal often falls down and has trouble walking. Tremors increase when the animal is excited and subside when at ease. (source)
The neat thing about cerebellar hypoplasia is that the animal typically isn’t in any pain and doesn’t require any special care (though if you have a large dog with the disorder, for instance, it might make sense to pad pointy objects just to be safe).
Meet Charley, and learn more about cerebellar hypoplasia:
My Moses has been vomiting and don’t know why this last time was really bad it smelled awful I have a 2 story house his bed is in 1st floor the whole house reaked of his vomit what could be wrong maybe vomted 4 times today?
Answer
It’s hard to say without knowing more about the situation, but here are some questions your vet will probably have — and I do think you need to take Moses to the vet if he keeps throwing up.
Have you changed his diet recently? In what way?
How frequently does he throw up other than this? Is it really common, or very unusual?
When he vomits, do you see anything in the vomit? Pieces of toys, remains of any weird food, plant matter?
Has he gotten into anywhere he shouldn’t have been in the last few days, like the garbage can or the garage?
My dogs throw up all the time, but it’s usually because they chewed up a toy and ate it and then threw up the pieces or because they got into the trash and ate something spoiled. Those times, they throw up once and that’s it. Any vomiting that’s ongoing is dangerous because it could signify something serious. It can also lead to dehydration.
When it doubt, call your vet right away. They won’t charge you for a phone call, and that may be all you need to solve the problem.
I hope Moses feels better soon. Let me know what happens!
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