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Tremors in cats will happen several times during your pets lifetime and it is a normal reaction to either fear or excitement. However, tremors and shaking that persists or suddenly develop for no apparent reason is anything but a normal reaction. Tremors or shaking can attack any part of your cats body and can have a multitude of causes ranging from genetic to something that is seriously wrong with the nervous system.

In some cases, when the tremors in your cat appears both rapidly and with severity, there is a very good chance that they have had a toxic reaction to something and need emergency medical care.

However, regardless of the actual underlying cause, tremors should always be treated very seriously if they persist for any duration of time.

Tremors in cats are an involuntary movement of the affected portion of the body that is almost rhythmic in nature and will continue to occur the entire time that your cat is awake. If it is truly tremors, they will stop when your cat goes to sleep. They can and do affect the muscles of any part of your pets body and are caused by the rapid alternating contraction and than the relaxation of the affected muscles.

It will in most all cases be a motion that seems to go back and forth in your cat and it the majority of cases it is an infectious disease in your pets nervous system that is the cause. These tremors or shaking in your cat can be very subtle or they can become almost violent in nature.

There are three basic types of tremors in cats: Tremors that affect the head, the rear limb or pelvic area, or generalized tremors that affect the entire body. When you start to see any type of irregular movements in any of the three areas of your cats body, they have developed tremors.

Causes:

Tremors that affect your cats head can often be the result of an inherited condition but this condition is not related or specific to any particular breed. What is inherited is the underlying cause of the tremors. The most common causes of head tremors in your pet are from cerebellar abnormalities, which affect your cats brain. However, this condition can also cause the entire body to shake.

The cerebellum in your cat is part of their brain, and when there is an incomplete development of this part of the brain, it causes tremors. This lack of development can be inherited, or it can be the result of an infection, some type of toxic agents, or it can be a nutritional deficiency of either Thiamine or Vitamin E. It is most common in kittens

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