Cats With Down Syndrome Walking
The acronym DISH helps us to recognize the signs of CDS in cats.
Cats with down syndrome walking. Can cats have mental retardation. If you do more research you will realize that the cause of these symptoms might be due to trauma inbreeding poor health or nutrition or genetic disorder. Low muscle tone.
Down Syndrome can appear in other animals including tigers giraffes and chimpanzees. Cats wrongly attributed to down syndrome have droopy ears poor muscle tone a wide set of eyes squished noses social and communication abnormalities etc. This is because cats dont have a chromosome 21.
The simple answer is that cats cannot have Down syndrome. It is not necessary to panic. These features include slanted eyes flat nasal bridge short neck and stature small chin protruding tongue and abnormal outer ears.
Cerebellar hypoplasia can cause a cat to have difficulty eating food and walking which can confused for Down syndrome. Furthermore kittens that experience head andor face trauma can seem to have been born with abnormal facial structure and neurological problems. People with Down Syndrome usually have several physical features that set them apart and certain conditions cats get can mimic these same psychical features.
Still there are also some other diseases that can cause similar symptoms. For example people with Down Syndrome can have larger tongues slanted eyes outer ears that are abnormal small chin one crease in their palms and a short neck. Well look at genetic anomalies in cats to.
Cats that may seem extra clumsy may have a neurological disorder and kittens born with feline distemper virus exhibit a lack of coordination. Cats dont have a chromosome 21 because they have only 19 pairs of chromosomes making Down syndrome an impossibility. However just because the cat behavior is odd this doesnt mean your cat has the down syndrome.