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Back pain in cats can be absolutely excruciating to the point that they will cry out in pain that will chill you to the bone. For anyone that has ever had any form of back pain, we can sympathize with this very painful ordeal in our cats. But there is one major difference; your cat can not tell you or show you where their back is hurting, and in some cases, this is an extremely difficult condition to properly identify.

Cats have perhaps the most resilient backs of any known species, but they can and do still experience back pains.

Folklore is full of stories about cats backs and the very threatening posture that is presented when a cat arches their back to full capacity. This is a natural defensive mode that your cat goes into that makes them look a lot bigger and meaner than they actually are; and in most all cases, it works.

A cat backs is extremely flexible but is very different than our backs as their spine contains over 60 vertebrae, which are twice as many vertebrae than humans have. Cats are also by nature are perhaps the most dedicated life form in their daily routine; just watch your cat every time they wake up. They will usually stretch their paws out in front of their body and than lift the rump which naturally stretches the body even further. They will then put their back into a high arch in the final stretching mode.

This happens like clockwork as your cat is stretching almost like a feline yoga class. But even with this flexibility, back pain in cats can and does occur.

Back pain in cats is an extreme discomfort along the spine that usually affects the neck as well. The pain can be mild or it can be so extreme that your cat will cry, moan, refuse to move, and if it severe enough, refuse to eat. With back pain in humans, it is more of a nuisance, but it is entirely different in a cat. It is usually the sign that something is very seriously wrong and it should be treated as the urgent situation that it is.

Symptoms:

There are several symptoms that you can watch for that will signal that your cat has back pain either developing or has become very severe.

The first symptom that you will see is a change in your cats posture. When this occurs, they will arch their back but it will not be the same stretching routine that you are used to seeing. It is more of a guarded stretch that will also show you signs that their neck hurts as they will not be able to move their neck when they arch or it will be extremely stiff and you can see them straining to try

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