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We saw a new vet one Wednesday. She's at a cat hospital. She went through ringworm at her house a year ago. I feel so much better with her on the case. She was empathetic and didn't rush me through my questions or dismiss my concerns. She said that Butter looks like a cat that is halfway through ringworm treatment. She said something about it being generalized rather than localized which is why his hair is falling out all over. We could knit kittens out of the hair that comes off of him when we dip him. She did bloodwork and it all came back good so he will be taking fluconazole. It will be fish flavored-yum. I pick it up from a compounding pharmacy today.
I noticed that my little chihuahua mix has a couple of places where the hair is missing but one of them has been that way for at least a month. The other two I didn't notice before. I'm thinking that's just how she is but I never really paid attention. She has very sparse hair on her underside and the spots are within a quarter of an inch or less from her belly where she has absolutely no hair at all. She has always been really naked. I'm also hoping that since they are just little bald spots without any crusties or scaling or rash of any kind and the hair around them isn't brittle or broken that this is just her. She came to the rescue we foster for with a nasty skin condition. They determined it to be an allergy. We have had her for 2.5 years now and she has been fine but it's possible that she had permanent hair loss from the condition she was in. They are so small that I had to go searching for them. One is hairless but the other two are kind of more like thin hair than hairless. Also, she was treated with the lime sulfur for three weeks and hasn't had any contact with the cats since we found out about the ringworm. I'm either fooling myself into thinking she's ok or making myself crazy worrying about something that's not real.
So far all of us people are ringworm free. I sure hope it stays that way.
How is Shakti?
I noticed that my little chihuahua mix has a couple of places where the hair is missing but one of them has been that way for at least a month. The other two I didn't notice before. I'm thinking that's just how she is but I never really paid attention. She has very sparse hair on her underside and the spots are within a quarter of an inch or less from her belly where she has absolutely no hair at all. She has always been really naked. I'm also hoping that since they are just little bald spots without any crusties or scaling or rash of any kind and the hair around them isn't brittle or broken that this is just her. She came to the rescue we foster for with a nasty skin condition. They determined it to be an allergy. We have had her for 2.5 years now and she has been fine but it's possible that she had permanent hair loss from the condition she was in. They are so small that I had to go searching for them. One is hairless but the other two are kind of more like thin hair than hairless. Also, she was treated with the lime sulfur for three weeks and hasn't had any contact with the cats since we found out about the ringworm. I'm either fooling myself into thinking she's ok or making myself crazy worrying about something that's not real.
So far all of us people are ringworm free. I sure hope it stays that way.
How is Shakti?