We have a beautiful little Bengal British short hair cross called Flo. At the moment she is licking herself bald – mainly around the stomach and rear legs. We are at our wits end on what to do as we have tried pretty much everything the vet had to offer.
We live in the country away from other cats with only us and her brother for company. As I work at home, I am around all day so she always has company when she wants it. She is a very chilled out cat and other than the licking has no signs of stress at all. We tried her on a mild sedative anyway, but it did not help.
We have had her tested for pretty much everything disease, fungal and viral. We did an allergy scan and she came back with a few things which have been eliminated from her environment and diet. We have her on a very high quality balanced food diet with no unnatural additives or vegetable matter to ensure it is not diet related.
We have had her in a cone for two weeks to see if we could break the habit but rather than trying to list the affected parts she was content to just lick the inside of the cone instead which is amusing but does not solve the issue.
All that is left is physiological issues but we have not the faintest idea how to try and treat that so we have tried her with Reiki and acupressure but again to no effect.
There are two traumas in her life – first was having her bits removed and the second is when she was in an accident and had to have her leg pinned. Both were about 4 years ago, but she started excessive licking last October.
Any thoughts or ideas on how to resolve this would be most appreciated as we are now at a complete loss as to what to do.
We live in the country away from other cats with only us and her brother for company. As I work at home, I am around all day so she always has company when she wants it. She is a very chilled out cat and other than the licking has no signs of stress at all. We tried her on a mild sedative anyway, but it did not help.
We have had her tested for pretty much everything disease, fungal and viral. We did an allergy scan and she came back with a few things which have been eliminated from her environment and diet. We have her on a very high quality balanced food diet with no unnatural additives or vegetable matter to ensure it is not diet related.
We have had her in a cone for two weeks to see if we could break the habit but rather than trying to list the affected parts she was content to just lick the inside of the cone instead which is amusing but does not solve the issue.
All that is left is physiological issues but we have not the faintest idea how to try and treat that so we have tried her with Reiki and acupressure but again to no effect.
There are two traumas in her life – first was having her bits removed and the second is when she was in an accident and had to have her leg pinned. Both were about 4 years ago, but she started excessive licking last October.
Any thoughts or ideas on how to resolve this would be most appreciated as we are now at a complete loss as to what to do.