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We had a cat who developed brain problems after a reaction to a flea treatment. It was somewhat seizure-like, but instead of a typical grand mal seizure, he’d fly into an uncontrollable berserk rage out of nowhere, then a minute later be somewhat confused and sluggish but otherwise his normal intelligent, loving self.

I nearly lost an eye to him, got climbed and had punctures and tears from calf to scalp on that side, some of which took months to fully heal, and he sent another adult to the ER with her wrist opened to the bone.

Mind you, this wasn’t normal “angry cat”. I’ve dealt with that before. Even the vet agreed it was some sort of brain problem.

We had to put him to sleep over this...he was only 3 years old which made it all the sadder since he was normally the sweetest cat around but we had an elderly person on blood thinners around and since he would flip out with no provocation...just wasn’t safe. Something totally random would trigger it and he’d be berserk...a cough or sneeze, being bumped into, one of our female cats getting a little upset over getting a claw caught in a blanket.

We had a cat who developed brain problems after a reaction to a flea treatment. It was somewhat seizure-like, but instead of a typical grand mal seizure, he’d fly into an uncontrollable berserk rage out of nowhere, then a minute later be somewhat confused and sluggish but otherwise his normal intelligent, loving self.

We've got a cat that started doing the exact same thing several years back. Our vet said it was a reaction to fleas, not a flea treatment. She would like to sit on my lap at night while we watched tv. One night she had one of these siezures and flipped out while on my lap. By the time I could throw her on the floor she had scratched the hell out of both my hands and bit clear through one. I had to go to the ER for treatment that included a very high potency antibiotic IV treatment. Cat's mouths are dirty nasty things. The vet gave us some flea treatment that absolutey cured her in about a week. That cat now is 20 years old. Talk about 9 lives!

As a side note to an earlier poster, my son got cat scratch fever when he was in jr high. Some gland in his neck swelled up like a goiter and he had to have it drained several times and was on antibiotics for months before it finally went away.

Sometimes humans have what I think is called temporal lobe seizures, when they manifest bizarre or uncharacteristic behaviors, then get post-seizure sleepy for a while, then go back to normal. It’s sad because they don’t know they’re doing it (amnesia after the event.)