New cat in the neighborhood has ringworm.

savethekitty · Jul 21, 2016

There is a sweet male that I can tell has ringworm. He has bald patches on the back of his head and he looks crusty.

I have been feeding him and can probably put whatever medicine in his food, but I am not so sure about grabbing him and taking him to a vet.

Can you get ringworm oral medicine without a prescription?

Do you know how much does a typical vet charge to do the ringworm tests?

thanks

savethekitty · Jul 21, 2016

Here is a picture. Am I correct? This is ringworm?

After reading a bit here, it seems so contagious that I now am thinking of not feeding this cat here since I feed other cats who don't have this. Should I scare him off? It seems that treating this is a problem.

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stephanietx · Jul 21, 2016

The best thing is to get him to the vet for a proper diagnosis. I have no experience with ringworm, but there is a lengthy thread on it here on the board. Ideally, he would need to be confined and treated.

savethekitty · Jul 22, 2016

I am a little hesitant in handling this cat after reading how contagious it is. The bad thing is that he is hanging out now with the other outdoor healthy cats, especially the black female I am trying to tame to find her a home and she sometimes comes inside. I have been thinking of scaring him away but it breaks my heart to do that, but at the same time I don't want the other cats or my inside cat now infected with this.

stephanietx · Jul 22, 2016

If you don't treat it, there will be an outbreak. It may not even be ringworm, but without a diagnosis, you won't know. It could be something like flea allergy.

Willowy · Jul 22, 2016

It doesn't really look like ringworm to me. It looks like he got into a typical tomcat fight and is generally unhealthy. Could also be fleas. I'm not guaranteeing anything, just saying that ringworm is usually redder than that, and more circular.

He should go to the vet if at all possible (for neutering, de-worming, etc., even if it's not ringworm). I doubt scaring him away would work; he'd probably just come back at night to eat.

savethekitty · Jul 22, 2016

thanks

Willowy said:
It doesn't really look like ringworm to me. It looks like he got into a typical tomcat fight and is generally unhealthy. Could also be fleas. I'm not guaranteeing anything, just saying that ringworm is usually redder than that, and more circular.

He should go to the vet if at all possible (for neutering, de-worming, etc., even if it's not ringworm). I doubt scaring him away would work; he'd probably just come back at night to eat.

hi, he has his left ear nipped so someone took him to TNR. I am going to post more pictures soon so you can see more of him. I've read that ringworm does not need to be circular on cats (on humans it is).

He is really sweet and wants to get close and cuddly and it breaks my heart scaring him away, but I might have to in order to protect the other cats.

ringwormhelp · Jul 23, 2016

My cat has had ringworm for one year. It looks more balding than this. Like perfect circular bald spots. To me, this looks like more of an infection but I am no doc!! Good luck!!

Norachan · Jul 23, 2016

It could also be scabies, that causes bald patches. It looks as if he has been scratching at it.

The sooner you get him to the vet the better. I've treated scabies in feral cats before and if you are able to get them to the vet for regular injections it soon clears up. Are you able to handle him?

savethekitty · Jul 24, 2016

Norachan said:
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Norachan · Jul 24, 2016

That looks self inflicted. I've seen similar bald patches on two cats who had allergies and on the one I treated for scabies.

The treatment for scabies involves weekly injections over a 4 week period, so if you have to trap the cat the best thing to do would be to keep him crated for the four weeks. That would prevent him spreading the mites to other cats as well.

If you aren't able to do this yourself could you ask a local rescue to help you?

It's very difficult to drive cats away once they've realised there is free food available. I think this cat will keep coming back and mingling with your other cats even if you do chase him off.

Sorry, there isn't really an easy way to deal with this.

savethekitty · Jul 24, 2016

Norachan said:
That looks self inflicted. I've seen similar bald patches on two cats who had allergies and on the one I treated for scabies.

The treatment for scabies involves weekly injections over a 4 week period, so if you have to trap the cat the best thing to do would be to keep him crated for the four weeks. That would prevent him spreading the mites to other cats as well.

If you aren't able to do this yourself could you ask a local rescue to help you?

It's very difficult to drive cats away once they've realised there is free food available. I think this cat will keep coming back and mingling with your other cats even if you do chase him off.

Sorry, there isn't really an easy way to deal with this.

There is an option of having a vet to come here. He charges more, but I don't have to deal with carrying the cat.

The drawback is that I don't know how the vet would be able to give an accurate diagnosis without any tests or if the cat needs an injection and he does not carry the medicine.

Today I saw pus coming out of his left ear and his right eye is watery. He is a mess, the poor thing.

Norachan · Jul 24, 2016

I think he's going to need to go to the clinic for the initial diagnoses at least. Getting the vet to come to you for follow-up treatment might work, but wouldn't you still need to keep him crated anyway? I think it would be difficult to trap him on schedule every time you're expecting a visit from the vet.

Poor guy, he really does sound like he's in a bad way.

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