GlitterUnicornsAndAllThatJazz ·
23/01/2018 19:05
Exactly one year ago, I adopted two one-year old cats (not littermates). So they are both now two. They don't go outside unsupervised.
One of them is a long haired tabby and she is in perfect condition.
The other is a black cat called Watson.
They get along fine. Watson is super active and playful and the more dominant one.
In July I went away for a week and when I came back Watson had a small patch of hair missing between his shoulder blades. There was no skin irritation whatsoever.
From that point on, he began to lose hair on his lower belly and hind legs. He still has the missing patch between his shoulder blades. The hair at the base of his spine has seemed to turn a greyish brown shade.
Its now January so 7 months on, and he is not losing anymore hair but neither has it seemed to grow back.
I gave him worm and flea medication in July when I got back from holiday. Since then and his hair loss, I wormed and defleaed him last month and again this month.
Initially the vet said she thought he was licking himself bald as a result of some unknown external trigger. Then she said she though he might have a flea allergy.
I've noticed he grooms himself really intensively and much more so than my longhaired cat. Whats weird is that when I first adopted him, its like he had never been taught by his mother to groom himself because he never did it. He learnt it from my longhaired cat and now its like his obsession!
The vet told me to do one last month (month 3) of worming and fleaing which I will do. If nothing has improved I will then take him in to see her, but in the meantime, do you have any idea what the problem could be?
Like I said, my longhaired cat is just dandy. And Watson is in fine form otherwise, really sociable and energetic - its just his fur 😣
Any thoughts welcome, I'll now post some pics