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My cat is 14 we got her as a stray outside at age two.
Around this time I remember a huge male cat who was the boss who would roam around and he had a bent left ear and his head was tilted slightly. My guess bad ear mite infestation.
This is when we got our cat and at the time of adoption when you could feel ribs she was 9 pounds already but clearly underweight, after regular feeding she weighed 12 pounds within a few months (about 2) definetly a large female as she was mistaken for a male by vets at first.
She at adoption did have ear mites but they were worse in her left ear, it was cleaned and for a while she was fine.
Remember that male cat, I had seen the female he mated with and one of her babies was an orange male but I saw him over a year and he appeared to also have a bend in the ear but visible ear mites (also in the left)! About 3 years ago he had a son same color who was also born with bent left ear and I see periodically and has ear mites only in that ear!
Why only males with the bent ear and it's only in the left the right are just fine.
This brings me to my cat. That original big male cat I believe to be the father of my female cat, size of her above average and the fact he was the dominant Tom at the time is a good guess he's her dad. She has been having bad ear issues all her life starting a year after we adopted her. No bent ear, but only her left get bad issues! She gets ear infection, bad wax buildup, and that was the ear that had bad ear mites.
Is ear mite infestations genetic, meaning why only one ear gets them bad and not the other? Ever since this only her left ear is bad and that was the same ear all these related males had issues with. I've taken care of and trapped many strays some in a litter get ear mites and some don't and still don't get ear issues, that's why I ask is ear issues and being prone to ear mites genetic?
My cat had such bad wax at one point she was temporarily deaf, she gets those blood filled bubble looking growths from shaking and scratching her ear, wax doesn't come out on its own, and she now has been making her ears bleed from constant scratching. We are unable to clean her ears and give drops even the vets have trouble, at 14 im clueless what to do but our other cat has never had any ear issues, as a matter of fact nobody with cats I know ever has a cat with severe ear issues, and im frustrated what to do at this point it seems everything we try doesn't help anymore!
Plus she has a bad stomach from a c diff infection we have unsuccessfully treated, she is falling apart....
Around this time I remember a huge male cat who was the boss who would roam around and he had a bent left ear and his head was tilted slightly. My guess bad ear mite infestation.
This is when we got our cat and at the time of adoption when you could feel ribs she was 9 pounds already but clearly underweight, after regular feeding she weighed 12 pounds within a few months (about 2) definetly a large female as she was mistaken for a male by vets at first.
She at adoption did have ear mites but they were worse in her left ear, it was cleaned and for a while she was fine.
Remember that male cat, I had seen the female he mated with and one of her babies was an orange male but I saw him over a year and he appeared to also have a bend in the ear but visible ear mites (also in the left)! About 3 years ago he had a son same color who was also born with bent left ear and I see periodically and has ear mites only in that ear!
Why only males with the bent ear and it's only in the left the right are just fine.
This brings me to my cat. That original big male cat I believe to be the father of my female cat, size of her above average and the fact he was the dominant Tom at the time is a good guess he's her dad. She has been having bad ear issues all her life starting a year after we adopted her. No bent ear, but only her left get bad issues! She gets ear infection, bad wax buildup, and that was the ear that had bad ear mites.
Is ear mite infestations genetic, meaning why only one ear gets them bad and not the other? Ever since this only her left ear is bad and that was the same ear all these related males had issues with. I've taken care of and trapped many strays some in a litter get ear mites and some don't and still don't get ear issues, that's why I ask is ear issues and being prone to ear mites genetic?
My cat had such bad wax at one point she was temporarily deaf, she gets those blood filled bubble looking growths from shaking and scratching her ear, wax doesn't come out on its own, and she now has been making her ears bleed from constant scratching. We are unable to clean her ears and give drops even the vets have trouble, at 14 im clueless what to do but our other cat has never had any ear issues, as a matter of fact nobody with cats I know ever has a cat with severe ear issues, and im frustrated what to do at this point it seems everything we try doesn't help anymore!
Plus she has a bad stomach from a c diff infection we have unsuccessfully treated, she is falling apart....
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