Has anyone's cat panted in excitement? My two-year-old boy was, I think, with another cat yesterday evening as he kept looking down into next door's back garden from off the fence and then jumped down.
Eventually got him in and he ate and then sat in his favourite spot on front room bedroom windowsill. After a bit he started to give a deep miaow, his tail was thrashing about, and he had clearly seen something although I couldn't see anything.
And then he started to pant, which I've never known a cat do before. Googling it suggests heart trouble but he always seems very fit and well, apart from a little overweight. He also gave me a gentle little nip on the hand, which he does sometimes, as if to say "look, mommy, look!" Rubbing his head against me, then back to glare out if the window, tail swishing.
He then went to another window before returning to the first, and when I woke up this morning was asleep on the bed as usual.
I'd say he was excited rather than agitated, but it's the panting which I found unusual.
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Panting with excitement
Papergirl1968 · 30/06/2016 09:54
I intervened in a cat fight between my boy and a neighborhood cat who has been giving him lots of trouble recently. My boy (who has a heart condition) was Ok, he ran in the house and was quiet and subdued for the rest of the day. The other cat, however, was panting, shaking and really struggling to breathe. My little boy had drawn blood from him in at least a couple of places (the other cat is largely white so it was obvious he was bleeding). I had intended to send him home in no uncertain terms but ended up worried about him, he left very slowly in the end. I have no idea where he comes from, and neither do my immediate neighbours, or I would have checked up to see he was OK. I haven't seen him since.
I have never seen my little boy panting and his heart condition is fairly bad (he is seven months into his six months to live 
) he has absolutely no symptoms and acts like a normal lunatic young cat.
My cat used to do this on the way to the vets. It was like how a dog pants with her tongue out. I asked the vet and he said it was a type of hyperventilating because she hated the car and carrier (not well looked after until we had her from about aged 8 so hadn't been used to them).
It was really odd the first time she did it, I thought she was choking on something 
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