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Losing Fur
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:37:47 -0230, Cheryl
wrote: Kerry, my newish cat, seems to be lacking fur on part of her belly near the back legs. I only just noticed - she loves being petted, but like many cats, she takes exception to belly-rubs so I hadn't looked at her belly in quite a while. I have an appointment with the vet for her tomorrow - I hope it's just a bit of minor over-grooming. Anyone have experience with cats losing fur?? She certainly grew it all back after she was spayed about a year ago, and now, a largish area is either very thin of or missing fur. Overgrooming? I was looking at Marlo a few months back and noticed that her whole tummy was pink. Odd, because I had never noticed that before, and we had her tested for everything and the conclusion was that it was nothing organic, she was overgrooming. That's like normal cleaning (licking) but overdoing it so that she literally was licking away all the fur and was starting to tear the skin. So it's behavioral. When I moved to Florida I grabbed a semi-feral cat named Baby off the street and took her with me and Marlo, Nipsy and Scooter. Apparently Marlo had some problem with Baby (she was definitely chasing Baby around) and the result was some kitty social issue (they're both X-girls and the other two are X-boys). We tried some calming stuff and I was actually going to bring in a behavioral specialist when I had a brilliant idea. My very elderly mother lives nearby, and I figured that she might want a cat. Well, I asked her if she would take Marlo for a while, and she did, and now they're insepearable. It's been six months since Marlo went on vacation, and Mom still calls me up to tell me the latest cute thing Marlo did. Marlo loves being an only cat, and her fur all grew back.I'm over there practically every day so it was pretty easy for Marlo to adjust with me there a lot. She also lost a lot of weight, and that turned out to be hyperthyroid, but that was apparently unrelated to the overgrooming., Anyway, she dropped from obese to a healthy weight and now she's on thyroid medication and leveling off nicely. Happy ending. Maybe you have some behavioral issue at play? |
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