u/TinyFeetTiina wrote to check if she is only vocal at pats to the spine - maybe she enjoys pats to the side more to avoid irritation. I dont know how long you have had her, but if you saw a decrease in her readiness to jump up or down counters/couches etc, since the impact is hard on the joins. If her playing is less energetic is also a sign. If you can afford it, a vet has a better approach to checking for athritis. I bet there is a few youtube videos that show how to check for athritis in older cats, or atleast give you a hint if they have inflamed joints etc.
Athritic cats are also drawn to heat pads bc it gives pain relief (but then again all cats love a warm spot and older beings, animal or human, tend to feel cold).
This is what I thought too and maybe good idea for OP to check if her cat always reacts when touched on the spine or being patted like that. I have an extremely talktive cat so I have gotten used to which meow sounds like what and it just made me hear more of "hey I'm in bit of pain/uncomfortable" meow rather than just chatting.
She definitely doesn't always react like that. Right now actually she got on top of my stomach and I gave her full body scratchies and she's purring up a storm. I think if she was in pain she'd be running away and hiding. But I do wanna take her to the vet as she's getting older.
My moms dog has arthiritis that she gets a shot for so i bet there's treatment for cats too and that makes me happy
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25
Confused.
Is she in pain or generally talkative?