Hi everyone,
We adopted a 4 mo male cat almost 2 weeks ago. We named him Bowie due to his different eye colors
The first day we had him, he had slightly hair loss on top of his eyes which we thought some cats had it. We were seperating him from our resident cat so in the morning when I went to check him out, his light spots were bleeding, so I took him to the vet. The vet said it looked like flea or medication allergies so they gave him an anti itching shot and sent us home. After that the nightmare begin... Whenever we put him in the room in the night, the next morning we woke up to a new wound where we ended up taking him to emergency vet. Meanwhile we got in touch with the shelter asked them any information they knew but they said he was a healthy kitten, had all of his shots and probably his immune system went down after traveling (he flew from spain to the netherlands). The emergency vet couldn’t identify his wounds either. She found a couple of earmites and checked for parasites from the wounds but said she was not sure if he had parasites so randomly gave 2 different drops and sent us back home. Of course not being satisfied and having another cat at home, we went to a third vet who again did not know anything!! and took samples from his wounds to check for ringworms or fungal infections after we insisted. The results will be back in 2-4 weeks. We don’t know if me and my husband are infected or have passed anything to our resident cat either. Waiting is making us crazy especially if it turns out now being a fungal infection too. Some of my friends told me it looked like Demodex but he already had parasite drops before and after we adopted him so it’s odd that he still has new spots coming out. Now our little Bowie is sitting in the room alone with an e-cone so he can’t scratch his wounds. Yesterday a woman from the shelter got in touch with me and told me the family that adopted Bowie’s brother was starting to have the same problems but not bad as Bowie’s. Can anyone who had a previous identification from a vet take a look at the pictures and help us out? Bowie has wounds on his paws too by the way. (Fluffy cat is his brother)
We adopted a 4 mo male cat almost 2 weeks ago. We named him Bowie due to his different eye colors
The first day we had him, he had slightly hair loss on top of his eyes which we thought some cats had it. We were seperating him from our resident cat so in the morning when I went to check him out, his light spots were bleeding, so I took him to the vet. The vet said it looked like flea or medication allergies so they gave him an anti itching shot and sent us home. After that the nightmare begin... Whenever we put him in the room in the night, the next morning we woke up to a new wound where we ended up taking him to emergency vet. Meanwhile we got in touch with the shelter asked them any information they knew but they said he was a healthy kitten, had all of his shots and probably his immune system went down after traveling (he flew from spain to the netherlands). The emergency vet couldn’t identify his wounds either. She found a couple of earmites and checked for parasites from the wounds but said she was not sure if he had parasites so randomly gave 2 different drops and sent us back home. Of course not being satisfied and having another cat at home, we went to a third vet who again did not know anything!! and took samples from his wounds to check for ringworms or fungal infections after we insisted. The results will be back in 2-4 weeks. We don’t know if me and my husband are infected or have passed anything to our resident cat either. Waiting is making us crazy especially if it turns out now being a fungal infection too. Some of my friends told me it looked like Demodex but he already had parasite drops before and after we adopted him so it’s odd that he still has new spots coming out. Now our little Bowie is sitting in the room alone with an e-cone so he can’t scratch his wounds. Yesterday a woman from the shelter got in touch with me and told me the family that adopted Bowie’s brother was starting to have the same problems but not bad as Bowie’s. Can anyone who had a previous identification from a vet take a look at the pictures and help us out? Bowie has wounds on his paws too by the way. (Fluffy cat is his brother)
