I am having the most DIFFICULT time treating my diluted calico, Sagwa. It all started with bad ear scratching about 2 years ago. She's 8 now.. I took her to the vet to see if she had ear mites. They put her on a liquid for her ears and then an ointment that for the life of me i cannot remember the name... Anyway, I did that for the 3 weeks they told me to with no response... 4 vets later with the EXACT diagnoses... Nothing helped.. I branched out to the surrounding areas and visited 3 more vets, none told me anything different. "She is acting like she has ear mites but none are detected." Thanks. That helped ALOT. The last vet I decided to go to specializes with cats... he took one look at her and said it was a food allergy. We put her on IVD Duck and Green pea, and Rabbit and Green pea formula. 30 dollars for an 8 pound bag of food better work. Not even close. I've had her on this expensive food for almost a year now and NOTHING is helping! Shes been to the same vet that diagnosed her with food allergies about 4 different times just because he gave me some hope by giving me a different answer and its like shes uncurable! The expenses on this cat are more than I've ever paid for my own doctor bills, but I refuse to give up on her. Another weird thing about her, Since all this scratching has occured... If she goes a few hours without food, she will throw up her food, usually almost whole. If I leave food out all the time I never see her sick... AHH this cat is trying me crazy... I just don't know what to do!
The pictures are a bit gross that I took of her (not to mention on my cell phone!) but I just need some kind of help... If ANYONE knows what might help ease this a bit i'm open to all kinds of suggestions! Honestly, what I saw today was terrible... I have her in one of those collars that go around their whole head to keep them from scratching... and i take it off to let her clean herself (I just thought it was cruel to not let a cat clean themselves!) And she did THAT to her face. It honestly looks like she has a flesh eating virus or something... Her lips and around her chin are so puffy... she just looks terrible and in pain and i'm at the end of the road, i have NO where else to turn... Please please PLEASE help!!
This is on the side of her chin.. it looks SO terrible and puffy and BLOODY. Its horribleeee
I thought she might have cat acne... but I wouldnt even think cat acne would take it to this extreme.
Inside her ear was ALOT bloodier than that... I cleaned it with the Q-tips and put some neospiron on her ears to hopefully cut back the pain a bit
Her eyes are even bleeding around the corners of them!!
These are the nasty Q-Tips that were used to clean out her bloody ear and chin...
Please... Help if you have been through this before... Shes in so much pain and I don't know what to do to help her!!
This is on the side of her chin.. it looks SO terrible and puffy and BLOODY. Its horribleeee
I thought she might have cat acne... but I wouldnt even think cat acne would take it to this extreme.
Inside her ear was ALOT bloodier than that... I cleaned it with the Q-tips and put some neospiron on her ears to hopefully cut back the pain a bit
Her eyes are even bleeding around the corners of them!!
These are the nasty Q-Tips that were used to clean out her bloody ear and chin...
Please... Help if you have been through this before... Shes in so much pain and I don't know what to do to help her!!