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I have a 12 week old kitten and she loses hair in these clumps. I just took her to a vet and they said they may have found very VERY little flea dust on her, but 1) she's on flea medicine 2) I have put flea traps out and have gotten nothing on them for the past 6 days and 3) we adopted her from the shelter 4 weeks ago. They think the flea dust could have been letting her from the shelter maybe, since we have no signs of fleas in our own home? Outside of that, they told me to change her diet from blue Buffalo to a high quality brand and to do something other than chicken. That's been insanely hard to find a kitten dry food that isn't chicken. I settled on Nulo, it's Cod flavor. I'm in the process of switching over her food now, but the vets didn't seem too concerned about it. They also gave me a dewormer just in case. They said if nothing changes in a month, to reassess with them.
We don't really ever see her itching while we're home and with her. But while we're at work during the day, I couldn't tell you if she's itching a bunch or not. It's not like she wakes up from a nap and there's a pile of these clumps. I'll just find 3 or 4 around our bedroom, where she spends most of her day, sort of scattered around the room. Any ideas?
Here is a picture of the hair clump and a picture of her so you can see her coat. She doesn't have any balding or spots. She looks and acts normal to us, but we're still a little concerned.
I have a 12 week old kitten and she loses hair in these clumps. I just took her to a vet and they said they may have found very VERY little flea dust on her, but 1) she's on flea medicine 2) I have put flea traps out and have gotten nothing on them for the past 6 days and 3) we adopted her from the shelter 4 weeks ago. They think the flea dust could have been letting her from the shelter maybe, since we have no signs of fleas in our own home? Outside of that, they told me to change her diet from blue Buffalo to a high quality brand and to do something other than chicken. That's been insanely hard to find a kitten dry food that isn't chicken. I settled on Nulo, it's Cod flavor. I'm in the process of switching over her food now, but the vets didn't seem too concerned about it. They also gave me a dewormer just in case. They said if nothing changes in a month, to reassess with them.
We don't really ever see her itching while we're home and with her. But while we're at work during the day, I couldn't tell you if she's itching a bunch or not. It's not like she wakes up from a nap and there's a pile of these clumps. I'll just find 3 or 4 around our bedroom, where she spends most of her day, sort of scattered around the room. Any ideas?
Here is a picture of the hair clump and a picture of her so you can see her coat. She doesn't have any balding or spots. She looks and acts normal to us, but we're still a little concerned.
