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My cat has bare spots from allergy. What I did was treat for fleas, changed to unscented litter, reduced stress, stopped antibiotics, clipped his nails, and changed his diet. He is on a novel protein diet with no chicken, no fish, no grains, no dyes, etc. He is on raw meat diet of rabbit...

My poor cat is doing the same (but in other spots, too). It appears related to a food allergy, but there could also be other causes. Considering he has a known allergy, I suspect it may be related to allergies for your moggie. You may also try treating him for fleas and keep brushing him out.

Yes, for medicine or food reaction, it can take several weeks. For medicines, it can possibly take months. This is what vets and online reasearch told me. Plus my cat had hives that took about 8 weeks to start really clearing up after we stopped the medicine and eating chicken.

Sorry to hear about this. Poor kitty. MY cat had similar issues, and I spent a lot of money on medicine, tests, consultations, and food. For my cat, he had a food allergy, then irritable bowels and a kidney infection. I wonder if what they saw in your ultrasound that one time may have been an...

Poor kitty and poor you. That looks bad. From my own experience, I glean: allergies can cause that, antibiotics don't help for allergies (but may help for secondary infection), and if steroids work then it's likely allergy or autoimmune related. My cat had itchy skin including bloody ears so I...

Thanks for the update. That is another symptom. Could possibly be related to allergies or something else. When my cat had issues they checked his mouth, and he ended up with sores all over from what ended up being an allergic reaction. Him not eating could be related to not feeling well.

MY cat had to have teeth removed. I trust the vets knew what they were doing. Afterwards, he ate soft foods like canned food. Sometimes I mixed water with dried food.

you could be right. His avatar was not a dead cat before.

Sorry to hear your cat sounds sick. It could be several things. The vet can help test for the common causes, look for other symptoms, and prescribe fluids and possibly antibiotics. You can monitor your cat's behavior if he is eating weird things, drinking a lot of water, look at his stool, etc...

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My cat had an awful case of miliary dermatitis. What I did was switch his diet, gave him flea medications, stopped the metradonizole, and gave it several weeks. Meanwhile, he got a steroid shot because he was scratching like mad and going crazy. I also trimmed his nails and got a cone collar. He...

Blood with diarrhea could be a few things, and commonly is colititis. My munchkin cat (a rescue) had a myriad of life-long health issues included irritable bowels. Bad teeth, chronic vomiting, chronic diarrhea, chronic kidney disease, etc. He was an expensive cat to treat his teeth and GI...

If it's an infection, there is a test they can check for eye injury/scratch, or otherwise prescribe an antibiotic (more likely if it is both eyes). The antibiotic ointment helped my cat's eyes' swelling go down, but did not resolve the eye boogers. After the swelling went down, I did not...

That's good that you are observant and ruling out possible causes. It's hard to know with cats. Sometimes it feels like I have to keep monitoring for clues to try to figure it out. With a lot of sneezing and squinty eyes, maybe something is irritating his sinus/eyes or he has a minor cold. It...

The vet said something to the effect that the tests may not be that helpful during early kidney disease. The ultrasound can be pricey, even tho I found a vet to do it for half price. But it is better option than spending money on an x-ray IMO. So many treatments did not seem to be working (and...

The bad teeth may deter them from dry food. When my cat had bad teeth, he went to vet for teeth operations every few years. He got wet food to eat. To encourage him to eat, I also tried adding water to dry food but he did not like it. He had irritable bowels, possibly related to the bad teeth...

That is understandable. There could be many causes of these issues. I won't list them out since there are so many online sources, but what I did was try to widdle down the most common causes. We ran the normal tests at the vet office, and observed the cat's behavior, for clues as to the...

Your poor kitty! My cat had something like that. It started out as miliary dermatitis that spread all over starting with the head. He also had other symptoms such as GI upset and weepy eyes. What I did was stabilize the symptoms using a steroid shot from the vet, because he was scratching...

Metronidazole was prescribed for my cats, and did not help the diarrhea. It may have contributed to my cat's allergic reaction as it has side effects. I guess is was a test by that vet to see if it worked. Hills A/D has chicken in it and did not help my cat either. Maybe try a novel protein? I...

I think she is have a reaction to something in the food. I don't know that brand. You could look at a higher quality food with limited ingredients, and doing a slower transition from Friskies. With less byproducts and less ingredients disagreeable to felines, there will be less mess to clean up...