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ive taken Lily to the vet at least 8 times over this is the past 3 years and they literally don't have any idea why she does what she does and you guys seem like a knowledgeable lot so thought I'd ask your opinions.
Sadly I don't have pictures :-/
Anyway she's a long hair domestic cat and whenever she has the flea treatment (pipettes type into scruff of neck) she almost immediately starts over ghrooming which results in yanking her fur out and causing nasty sores which she then has to have antibiotics for but the vet doesn't know why she does it! When the treatment wears off (8 ish weeks) the fur starts to grow back but wirey and not soft.
We've tried advantage, frontline and bob Martin over here in the UK.
We were advised to change to an all dry food diet which we did but that's not changed anything (been 6 months)
We go through periods of not flea treating her so that her fur grows back and wounds heal but with 4 cats in total and kittens (not hers) on he way she does need treating again.
We comb through all of them and drown the little biters in a soapy bowl of water and we regularly put the flea powder on the carpet etc so she's not infested but I'd prefer that she could just have a treatment and leave her lovely fur/skin alone.
She's 12 now and a super affectionate cat when she's not got flea treatment and ripping herself apart :-(
Sadly I don't have pictures :-/
Anyway she's a long hair domestic cat and whenever she has the flea treatment (pipettes type into scruff of neck) she almost immediately starts over ghrooming which results in yanking her fur out and causing nasty sores which she then has to have antibiotics for but the vet doesn't know why she does it! When the treatment wears off (8 ish weeks) the fur starts to grow back but wirey and not soft.
We've tried advantage, frontline and bob Martin over here in the UK.
We were advised to change to an all dry food diet which we did but that's not changed anything (been 6 months)
We go through periods of not flea treating her so that her fur grows back and wounds heal but with 4 cats in total and kittens (not hers) on he way she does need treating again.
We comb through all of them and drown the little biters in a soapy bowl of water and we regularly put the flea powder on the carpet etc so she's not infested but I'd prefer that she could just have a treatment and leave her lovely fur/skin alone.
She's 12 now and a super affectionate cat when she's not got flea treatment and ripping herself apart :-(