Can Cats Detect Seizures?

Hospital staff have told the family that animals can sometimes detect impending epileptic fits. The cat recently beat 6,000 other pets to win the Top Cat prize in a competition called My Pet Superstar.

What animals can detect seizures?

Seizure-alert dogs, as implied by their name, are dogs that can sense and notify their human companions of an oncoming seizure. This alerting behavior has been reported to occur several seconds to 45 minutes or more before the onset of the seizure.

Can cats be seizure alert animals?

I happened to mention this behavior to my service dog trainer and my trainer told me that cats are actually great at detecting or alerting for seizures, especially the kind that I have which come on suddenly and without warning.