by Frank Will

Created on: October 26, 2009   Last Updated: October 27, 2009

Lameness in cats can be present your pet with several challenges as it can be a temporary situation, a quality of life condition, causes paralyzes, or it can a life threatening event in some cases. It can affect just lone of your cats limbs, or several all at the same time. It can also be very subtle at first, or it can attack with such force that your cat may not be able to walk at all.

If your cat is obese, the chances of them becoming lame are much higher the normal weight cats.

This potential debilitating has absolutely no breed favorite as it can attack any breed and either sex equally, as well as both young and old cats. If lameness starts off slowly in your cat, in the long run it can be much just as serious as if it is a very sudden attack. The slow forming causes of lameness in cats are generally from a disease or a medical condition that is just starting to build. However, a very sudden problem with your cats limbs can signify that your pet has some type of a spinal condition.

Lameness in cats is a condition where you pet has a decreasing or a very sudden inability to place weight on their limbs. It can affect just one leg, or it can affect more than one. This condition is so confounding that there is no real predisposition of when the pain can set in as it can be worse in the morning than at night, or it can be worse at night. It can also be a lot more painful after exercise; it can be more painful after a lot of rest.

But there is one thing that is a sure thing with lameness, it is not a normal condition and at the first sign of any type of a gait or a problem with walking it should be taken very seriously.

Causes:

There are several potential causes of you're your cat developing a degree of lameness or difficulty with placing weight on their legs. The first and most obvious cause will be some type of a traumatic injury that has occurred especially if the symptoms just suddenly appear. There is a misconception that cats can jump off of very high places and land with a great resiliency in almost every case, but it will all depend on the actual health and condition of your cat.

Your cat has two definitive bone structures that can become fractured; the carpus and the tarsus. The carpus in your cat is what we refer to as our wrist, and their tarsus would be our ankle. It is not common for them to fracture, but if they do, it can cause an instant gait or limping in your cat, especially if they are overweight.

Sudden lameness may also be something very

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