Have you had a cat with a food allergy, causing the cat to over groom (bald patches and broken skin)? If so, when you changed to hyperallergic food, how quickly did their skin improve?
We have had our rescue cat for 7 months, she’s 8 years old. She came to us with no obvious skin issues. Since she’s been with us she has been overgrooming. The vet thinks it’s a food allergy (there is definitely something odd about her background with food - but the rescue weren’t clear - she would only eat wet food and there was mention of her not having been fed enough in the past - I wonder if the previous owners might have known there was an issue and not told the rescue).
On the vets advice, we have changed her to hydrolysed dry food and mono-protein Kangaroo wet food (she won’t eat the hydrolysed wet food). We are a couple of weeks in and we aren’t seeing any improvement. Google suggests it might take much longer to see improvements, but I can’t find any actual accounts from owners about this and I’m not sure it’s accurate. I wondered if anyone had any experience of having been through this?