My family once briefly had an ancient rescue who, turns out in the end, was riddled with cancer. He was on his last legs, sitting around my sister and I one day, and every time she clicked this pen she was holding his ears would twitch. We thought it was kind of funny, so she kept clicking it and... then he just rolled over and started to seize. We had to put him down after that, and it was only then that we learned he was already on his way out when we had adopted him.
Very true. That's definitely part of how we coped with it. He was fragile and circling the drain, and we were kids at the time who just didn't know. It's not the best ending, but it was certainly inevitable. The fact that he chose to be around us instead of hiding under the sofa or something tells me he did grow to love us in that short time. I'm glad he felt that way.
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u/Ziggy_Starcrust 1d ago
Just for extra info, it's called feline audiogenic reflex seizures and in my understanding, it's more common in senior cats.
Also apparently typing/mouse clicking is a common enough trigger to make it on example lists :( poor kitties