My three and a half year old moggy has some sort of allergy. To me, my immediate reaction was an allergy to fleas, because she was itching all the time and developed a bald spot right where I put the defleaing stuff. I took her to the vets and explained what I thought it was, but the locum said she thought it was ringworm. I was pretty sure it wasn't as she sleeps on our bed and plays with the dog and no one had any symptoms, but I let the vet do a skin scrape etc which cost £££. Lo and behold, tests came back negative and by this time my poor little cat had chewed all the hair off around her tail.
I took her back to the vets and saw the vet who runs the practice. She said, yes, definitely a flea allergy, injected her with steroids and said keep up the flea treatments.
Three months ish down the line and I deflead the cat last night. Recently she has begun to abhorr it and will scratch etc to try and prevent me doing it. She never used to do this in the first, say, two and a half to three years of her life. This morning I wake up and she has two perfectly bald patches between her shoulder blades, where I had squeezed the frontline on. It doesn't appear to hurt her yet, but I feel so sorry for her, it honestly looks like the hair has just fallen out.
Has anyone else heard of this? Do you think she is now allergic to the frontline? I tried her on bob Martin stuff a few years ago and it was rubbish. I don't really know what else to do, and I'm not sure I trust the vet anymore as they have a history of diagnosing my animals with wild and dangerous things when common sense says otherwise, the ringworm being a case in point. Another example was when I knew my cat had worms, asked to buy some tablets but was told I couldn't buy any until she had been weighed - took her in Just for the weighing and the vet told me she had an incurable bowel disease. Tests came back negative.
That was much longer than I anticipated, clearly I needed a bit of a rant, sorry!