Good evening kind folks,
I'm looking for some advice on my boy, he's around 9/10years old (he wasn't ours originally as we rescued him) over the last few years he's developed a slight head tremor, this has gradually worsened over time, its like an aggressive vibration in his head, it generally happens as he's focusing on catching his live worms, when he's chewing it stops and then once he's swalled his food it starts again. It dosent generally happen when he's relaxing but it does when he moves his head to focus on something. We had him at the vets around 2 years ago for this issue, they inspected him and put it down to a degenerative issue purely age related I.e arthritis or parkisons in humans, they said they could do brain scans and such but due to his age they arnt sure if they can do much to help, so we left it they're. As is said earlier it has gradually become more obvious and aggressive, but still only occurs at the same times as stated earlier such as focusing on an area. I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this before?? I have a video and would be happy to send along to anyone who may be able to advise. He's also slowed down alot over the past 3/4 weeks, he's not moving really at all, we're bathing him and trying him with live food but he's only bitting and bobbing when he can be bothered really. He hasn't touched his greens for about 2 to 3 years now, he's got very picky. We still put fresh greens in daily but to no avail. He's sleeping all the time over these last few weeks also. We have contacted the vets for advice, they have advised we go in with him but me and my wife are both on the shielding list and are not meant to leave out house and we don't have any family who can drive him they're as the person available dosent drive and our exotic specialist is a 1 hour drive away. Sorry this is so long winded but wanted to give as much info as possible. Thanks in advance xx
I'm looking for some advice on my boy, he's around 9/10years old (he wasn't ours originally as we rescued him) over the last few years he's developed a slight head tremor, this has gradually worsened over time, its like an aggressive vibration in his head, it generally happens as he's focusing on catching his live worms, when he's chewing it stops and then once he's swalled his food it starts again. It dosent generally happen when he's relaxing but it does when he moves his head to focus on something. We had him at the vets around 2 years ago for this issue, they inspected him and put it down to a degenerative issue purely age related I.e arthritis or parkisons in humans, they said they could do brain scans and such but due to his age they arnt sure if they can do much to help, so we left it they're. As is said earlier it has gradually become more obvious and aggressive, but still only occurs at the same times as stated earlier such as focusing on an area. I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this before?? I have a video and would be happy to send along to anyone who may be able to advise. He's also slowed down alot over the past 3/4 weeks, he's not moving really at all, we're bathing him and trying him with live food but he's only bitting and bobbing when he can be bothered really. He hasn't touched his greens for about 2 to 3 years now, he's got very picky. We still put fresh greens in daily but to no avail. He's sleeping all the time over these last few weeks also. We have contacted the vets for advice, they have advised we go in with him but me and my wife are both on the shielding list and are not meant to leave out house and we don't have any family who can drive him they're as the person available dosent drive and our exotic specialist is a 1 hour drive away. Sorry this is so long winded but wanted to give as much info as possible. Thanks in advance xx