I’ve had Ichabod for 16 years, and she’s a spaz. She’s always been a spaz. Her favorite thing is attempting to trip you when you walk down stairs. She also likes randomly flinging her body at things like people, walls, other cats, water dishes, etc. She likes figuring out how to do things like opening the microwave, knocking the phone off the hook, turning on the vacuum. She loves to ambush people. She will headbutt you every three seconds when you try to sleep.
I took her to the vet last week because of weight loss and the vet asked if she was lethargic or anything. I laughed at the very idea of my hyperactive cat being lethargic.
Turns out that she’s hyperthyroid, and now I’ve got medicine I’m supposed to be putting on her ears twice a day.
She’s now twice as rambunctious as she was before.
She’s putting on some weight and has had no side effects from the medication that I can see.
But she’s like a black and white rubber ball bouncing around the house. She keeps breaking things. She hurtles into the bookcase and all the books go flying, then she looks over her shoulder as if to say, “That was fun. Put them back in so I can do that again!”
She’s like an elderly, evil kitten, plotting my downfall.
My cat Bo was diagnosed hyperthyroid at age 14. I opted for the radioiodine treatment (he was vomiting on the pills) but I don’t recall any hyperactive moments. He’s always been a very mellow, laid-back cat. I hope you survive - I have a two year old cat who tries to trip me an kill me all the time.
That totally made me laugh. But seriously: If you can afford Radiocat and there’s one near you, I highly recommend it! Like Boscibo’s Bo, my Smokey went through radioiodine therapy for hyperthyroidism when she was about Ichabod’s age, with no problems.
But looking into those eyes, I see much mischievousness.
Trust me. I been around cats long enough to tell.
Be vewwy, vewwy carefull. I think he’s planning on taking over the world or sumthin’.
Well, sure. You gave her a boy’s name. It’s a wonder she hasn’t knocked you down the stairs.
The docs keep testing my elderly cat, Squirt (she’s 21 years old) insisting she must be hyperthyroid or something, but she never loses weight, and she just laughs at them, in that loud frightening horrific Siamese voice. The cat that tries to kill me on the steps is Jack, who looks a bit like your Ichabod. Must be a tuxedo cat thing.
My cat is hyperthyroid, as well - for a while I had to give her the ear gel medicine. You’ll want to make sure to get some other wipes to clean out her ears periodically because the gel will make them pretty dirty.
But seriously: If you can afford 
