Hello everyone
It's our first post here, and we sincerely hope that you can help us. Our Nemo has been with us for4 years now. We adopted her at the age of 4 months from a family friend whose cat had given birth. She's an indoor cat. We feed her a mixed diet of wet and dry food (Whiskas brand). About 4 months ago she started severely losing hair on her neck area and above her eyes. She additionally developed sores and crusts in these areas. She also started scratching much more severely in these areas, which only served to worsen her condition. We took her to a local vet and he said that it was a case of fungal infection. We started a local ointment treatment for about 4 weeks, which did absolutely nothing. Then we started giving her systemic anti-fungal bills and periodic injections. Unfortunately that didn't work and the vet came to the conclusion that it wasn't a fungal infection. He then said that we should take a biopsy to determine her condition. As a matter of fact, after that excruciating two month treatment period, we don't want to subject her to any unnecessary procedures, and frankly, we don't trust the local vet here since there aren't that many cat owners in our country, and his main experience is with dogs and cattle. We hope someone can spare our cat any unnecessary treatments and identify the condition.
It's our first post here, and we sincerely hope that you can help us. Our Nemo has been with us for4 years now. We adopted her at the age of 4 months from a family friend whose cat had given birth. She's an indoor cat. We feed her a mixed diet of wet and dry food (Whiskas brand). About 4 months ago she started severely losing hair on her neck area and above her eyes. She additionally developed sores and crusts in these areas. She also started scratching much more severely in these areas, which only served to worsen her condition. We took her to a local vet and he said that it was a case of fungal infection. We started a local ointment treatment for about 4 weeks, which did absolutely nothing. Then we started giving her systemic anti-fungal bills and periodic injections. Unfortunately that didn't work and the vet came to the conclusion that it wasn't a fungal infection. He then said that we should take a biopsy to determine her condition. As a matter of fact, after that excruciating two month treatment period, we don't want to subject her to any unnecessary procedures, and frankly, we don't trust the local vet here since there aren't that many cat owners in our country, and his main experience is with dogs and cattle. We hope someone can spare our cat any unnecessary treatments and identify the condition.
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