Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Can cats be Narcoleptic?

I think I should google this.  I really feel like satan's spawn might be a little narcoleptic.  Wait can you only be a little narcoleptic...? Most should know what this is but in case you don't.  Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that causes excessive sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks.

The reason I say this is because she is well...she is weird okay.  Adorable and funny and lovable but she is an oddball.  The first time I thought this was a few weeks ago.  I was home from work and she was laying on my stomach trying to distract me from my computer.  As in she was attacking my hands, pressing keys...ya know usual cat stuff.  Then suddenly she face planted into my side.  Like she was sitting up and *BAM* face into side.  Kind of like the below but she was playing right before.


I've seen videos of kittens doing the above so I didn't think much of it. Then I started noticing things.  She will be full on attacking my arm.  Like biting and scratching me (not hurting me or breaking the skin, she is playing) and out of no where she is sleeping.  I am talking out cold, deep sleep.  You can poke her and move her legs and nothing.  Then she'll wake up and continue what she was doing like she didn't just pass out.  She has been doing it more lately but it is not all the time.  She'll come running like a bat out of hell down the hallway, jump on the couch, and when you look over she is on her back, legs in the air sleeping.  You can pick her up and coddle her like a baby.  She may stir slightly but is immediately back to sleep and purring.  After a minute or so she bounces up and keeps playing.  If you are holding her she stares at you like "hoomin why are you holding me?  I do not like this *bites hand*.  Put me down now! *meows like she may rip your face off any second*".  Don't get me wrong most of the time she is a ball of endless energy.  She is all over us and the other animals.  It is like she just runs out of steam and is out.  She takes a literal cat nap and she is back to bouncing on your head. 

I am seriously waiting for the day when she is running at top speed and just *splat* face plant because she fell asleep. 

All joking aside, I hope it is just her playing too hard and wearing herself out.  I don't want her to have a disorder.  It isn't frequent and it doesn't seem to be brought on by stress.  If we have another dog visiting she isn't happy about it but she doesn't pass out.  So maybe I am just being silly and she is actually a heavy sleeper.  Or maybe its a mild case (again is that possible?)

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