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I have two cats. Both sisters, 8 mo, and spayed.
I recently transitioned them from a canned wet diet to a frozen/thawed to serve raw diet, complete with powdered vitamin supplements and salmon oil. They are using a walnut shell clumping litter and I clean it daily.
That’s the backstory.
Today I came home after having not been around them for a number of hours and was startled to discover a small bald patch above the eye of one of them. ( cat in question, her name is Bingo ) I picked her up immediately and gave it a closer look. No apparent bump, blood, rash, pimple, bite, or crusties. It has pretty defined edges almost a perfect circle or oval. When I touched it a microscopic tuft of hair came off on my finger attached to maybe a flake of skin. ( again this was very, very little, had to squint to see it. Her appetite has been eager, and energy is extremely normal. The only other thing to report on her might be a little loss in weight. She lost a couple ounces over the course of two weeks or so but has begun to gain it back so that could have just been some fluctuations from diet changes.
I’m distraught. I can’t think what could have caused this and so incredibly fast… literally hours. Could this be the result of a friendly-gone-too-aggressive cat fight with her sis? I’m ready to hit my panic button and rush to the vet tomorrow which will inevitably result in expensive bloodwork and perhaps a biopsy? I have no idea.. help??
I forgot to mention both are indoor cats only.
I recently transitioned them from a canned wet diet to a frozen/thawed to serve raw diet, complete with powdered vitamin supplements and salmon oil. They are using a walnut shell clumping litter and I clean it daily.
That’s the backstory.
Today I came home after having not been around them for a number of hours and was startled to discover a small bald patch above the eye of one of them. ( cat in question, her name is Bingo ) I picked her up immediately and gave it a closer look. No apparent bump, blood, rash, pimple, bite, or crusties. It has pretty defined edges almost a perfect circle or oval. When I touched it a microscopic tuft of hair came off on my finger attached to maybe a flake of skin. ( again this was very, very little, had to squint to see it. Her appetite has been eager, and energy is extremely normal. The only other thing to report on her might be a little loss in weight. She lost a couple ounces over the course of two weeks or so but has begun to gain it back so that could have just been some fluctuations from diet changes.
I’m distraught. I can’t think what could have caused this and so incredibly fast… literally hours. Could this be the result of a friendly-gone-too-aggressive cat fight with her sis? I’m ready to hit my panic button and rush to the vet tomorrow which will inevitably result in expensive bloodwork and perhaps a biopsy? I have no idea.. help??
I forgot to mention both are indoor cats only.
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