My cat, adult neuhered male ragdoll, has strange balding spots at the base of the tail, left down and right up from it. None of them is particularly itchy, but last two days cat has sensitive skin on the back, do not allowing touching it much, licking and scratching it. Vet checked him two days ago, found nothing identifiable, took some hair for ring worm test, but pattern is unusual for ring worm.
The spots exist for a month already, vet saw them month ago too, but then we had more immediate problem with salivation. Since then they are increasing in size, again, in different way.
Left one started as a quarter-sized spot there the anal gland usually is, some slight redness at the top, all surface of this spot is covered by lying tightly flat relatively short hair (maybe 1 cm - 1/2"), curved in something like Yin and Yang pattern, not standing up. Veterinatian shaved it to see what does under it, nothing special. Now, one month (and two unrelated stressful surgeries, mouth) later, it increased in size and no longer oval, but long, expanded down on the back of the leg, not yet reached the knee. Same hair pattern grow. The cat is long hair, hair on the balding spot (if this is correct term, it is dense, not rare hair, just very short and different) grows in the same pattern as before. Can't make a picture, sorry, cat moves all the time, hiding private areas.
Spot on the right side from the tail is above anal gland position, right next to the tail base. It was maybe 5 cents sized, practically bald, with large skin flakes like dandruff, only larger, maybe 2.5 mm (3/32") in size.
Now (see the photo, reddish hint though, and ignore white reflection) it around 4 cm (<2"), oval, hair is sparce, standing up, some lery little grayish crust, and there were black pieces of something like feces, but not a poo, no smell and soft, I washed them off before going to a vet and had shown them to her.
Cat is stressed, had 2 oral surgeries, one after another, dental and ranula draining, and during last visit to a vet clinic reacted like he was expecting to be killed in a slow and torturous way and lost all hope. So we can't go to a vet anytime soon because of this.
He was also given antibiotic Clavamox, post-surgical for a mouth problem, but it should work as well for some bacterial skin problems, if they were sensitive to this antibiotic.
What else I have done since then: because a suspected autoimmine stomatitis and skin that started itching (not localized itching), anti-fleas, anti-mites Advantage Multi was applied yesterday (now cat feels better and slightly calmer), and I tried to offer him hypoallergenic and limited ingredients canned food, which he flatly refused.
Any thoughts what it could be and what can be done about it?
The spots exist for a month already, vet saw them month ago too, but then we had more immediate problem with salivation. Since then they are increasing in size, again, in different way.
Left one started as a quarter-sized spot there the anal gland usually is, some slight redness at the top, all surface of this spot is covered by lying tightly flat relatively short hair (maybe 1 cm - 1/2"), curved in something like Yin and Yang pattern, not standing up. Veterinatian shaved it to see what does under it, nothing special. Now, one month (and two unrelated stressful surgeries, mouth) later, it increased in size and no longer oval, but long, expanded down on the back of the leg, not yet reached the knee. Same hair pattern grow. The cat is long hair, hair on the balding spot (if this is correct term, it is dense, not rare hair, just very short and different) grows in the same pattern as before. Can't make a picture, sorry, cat moves all the time, hiding private areas.
Spot on the right side from the tail is above anal gland position, right next to the tail base. It was maybe 5 cents sized, practically bald, with large skin flakes like dandruff, only larger, maybe 2.5 mm (3/32") in size.
Now (see the photo, reddish hint though, and ignore white reflection) it around 4 cm (<2"), oval, hair is sparce, standing up, some lery little grayish crust, and there were black pieces of something like feces, but not a poo, no smell and soft, I washed them off before going to a vet and had shown them to her.
Cat is stressed, had 2 oral surgeries, one after another, dental and ranula draining, and during last visit to a vet clinic reacted like he was expecting to be killed in a slow and torturous way and lost all hope. So we can't go to a vet anytime soon because of this.
He was also given antibiotic Clavamox, post-surgical for a mouth problem, but it should work as well for some bacterial skin problems, if they were sensitive to this antibiotic.
What else I have done since then: because a suspected autoimmine stomatitis and skin that started itching (not localized itching), anti-fleas, anti-mites Advantage Multi was applied yesterday (now cat feels better and slightly calmer), and I tried to offer him hypoallergenic and limited ingredients canned food, which he flatly refused.
Any thoughts what it could be and what can be done about it?
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