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One of my community cats, who is probably about 5-6 years old, suddenly has some hair loss and scabbing under her tail and near her anus and upper legs. I thought maybe it’s an anal sac issue but the anus itself, though inflamed from licking, doesn’t look swollen like the examples I’ve seen in...

If you have amazon prime you can order lime sulfur dip and have it delivered to you quickly. From what I understand it’s safe for kittens. Dip twice weekly (4oz or 8oz/ gallon dilution), don’t rinse. There are how-to videos online on YouTube. I don’t know if OTC antifungals are safe for kittens...

Ouch; I hope the vet was able to give you something soothing to apply and that he feels better soon!

Guess I'm still talking to myself on this page. Heh! So in the end, we never did do any more fungassay cultures for any of our feline or canine furbabies. But I did get a PCR panel done after bringing my malinois to see a veterinary dermatologist last week. The result: NEGATIVE. Vet Derm seems...

Call the clinic and leave a message for the vet, or better yet, see if it's possible to email the vet clinic with a photo attachment (my vet clinic has this option). You could also put in a written description of what you observe (i.e. if you take any measurements of swelling, if there is...

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OK, so yesterday I took Akila to see the veterinary dermatologist. Though the clinic itself was old, dated, and a little stinky, I appreciated that the vet himself did a very thorough dermatology exam and looked at her from head to tail. He did another Woods lamp exam but did not find anything...

Question for all of you that have had to do multiple cultures: Did you bring your pets (affected and asymptomatic) in each time (individually) for the culture, or did the vet have you go over each pet with a toothbrush and you just submit the toothbrush in a ziplock when you brought your...

Also, I'm still waiting for the local TNR agency to get back to me regarding trapping my cat's feral friend (both are males; my cat is neutered). We want to get the feral cat health checked and neutered, but I'm also hoping they'll run a culture on him just in case, since he often presents with...

Thank you. I made an appointment with a veterinary dermatologist for Friday just for my own piece of mind. I hope it will be the last vet visit we will need. By then Akila will have finished 22 consecutive days of oral antifungals. And will have been on over a month of twice daily baths. I just...

Curious: how many of you have used the J-Kat activated chlorine dioxide products on here (I've read one or two mentions)? Most of the reviews have been exceedingly positive, which is motivating, but I kind of want to see if there have been anyone who has tried it and then reverted to a different...

I am pretty sure all my commentary is exacerbated by the fact that I've had such enormous anxiety over the uncertainty of this. The lesions themselves (on myself, the kitten, or my dog) were not intense or widespread (we all had a handful maybe); it's just that I guess I was expecting my skin to...

It's been almost a month now but no new word from the vet that did the culture. I'm not sure if they held onto the culture after having given me the "official" result vs. threw it out. Kitten is not a carrier-- she definitely has had active ringworm as she glowed-- but the kitten has been...

UPDATE now that it's almost OCTOBER. 1. Initial Ringworm Kitten finished round of oral meds; still with temporary foster family but likely to come back to our home in a few weeks if no permanent home is found before then. We're looking to set up a spay for her. 2. My lesions are healing at...

We're going through ringworm now. Since we haven't had a lot of luck with cultures (we started out with false negatives so we can't rely on them for clearance) we're going on vet guidance (based on visual inspection) and treatment timelines to determine when it's ok to bring our affected pet (in...