Itching.....

One of my cats is going through the same thing as well. She lost the majority of her hair on her lower back. My vet put her on antibiotics and a steroid medication (prednisone) and gave her Frontline. She does have fleas so this more than likely is a flea allergy. You may want to consider giving your cat flea medication (advantage) every 30 days to see if it helps/or takes care of the problem. I know it can be bothersome to see our kitties constantly licking and scratching themselves.

Tyson is an indoor cat now, but I rescued him about 6 months ago so who knows where he was living before I got him????

I found kittens in my backyard and some friends from an animal rescue group came over last night to do some trapping and the leader of the group (who has been trapping cats for over 15 years) gave me some good advice. She said that when cats live outdoors they are lucky just to be eating and their nutrition is not that great. She said sometimes when you bring them indoors and feed them good food (Natural Choice) then they can develop itchy skin from so many nutrients being introduced into their body. This theory makes sense to me. So she said to go back to feeding them some lower quality food for a couple weeks and see if the itching goes away! I am desperate now and can not afford any more vet bills so I am going to try that!!! I really hope it works as it is sooooo hard to see my baby scratching all the time and getting NO relief......

I will keep you updated on his progress!!! Good luck to you all

thanks for the update and I will keep that theroy in mind..

Originally Posted by hannahgirl

My cat was eating Science Diet when her symptoms first appeared. I changed her diet to Natural Balance afterwards. She is currently on prednisone, only because we tried other things like anthistimine and she was still suffering. I hope Tyson gets better soon. Man, what a mystery these things can be.

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Is the baby getting the venison and green pea formula??? If so add an oil supplement it is lower than SD in fatty acids by a long shot...

Have you heard of Lipiderm? It's made for dogs and cats and has fatty acids. You drop it into their food. Is it any good? I got some recently. If you think an oil supplement would be better, can you please tell me which one and where I can find it? And, do I get one that is 100% oil, without other ingredients? I'm not sure if there are ever things added to these oils that really aren't good for cats to intake.

skip the lipoderm... you can get canola , olive , flaxseed oil much cheaper and it has only one ingrediant

still get the oil.. flaxseed meal or flaxseed on the label would need a lb i think to get a tablespoon of oil... plus being reduced cal the fat is lower thus the omega are lower..

What a mystery indeed. Thinking of Tyson.

I read an article that says flaxseed oil has omega 3. Is there a need to also give cats some oil high in omega 6?

flaxseed contain all thre omega 3 6 and 9 just it is highest in the 3 ... that is why i like olive oil it is balanced in the acid profile

Negs, how is Tyson doing? I hope the steps you have taken have helped him!

Tyson is still itching but it seems to be getting better. Less scabs and some fur seems to be growing back. I think the change in food is going to work. Thanks and I'll keep you updated....

glad he is starting to get better... what food did you put them on???

It seemed as if he was getting better and now I'm not so sure. Another big scab showed up yesterday on his skin, which means he has been itching again.

Right now he is eating cat chow dry food and I have cut out the wet food for now, as per the advice of someone with lots of experience with ferals. I'm not sure if this is truely going to work but it's worth giving it a try. I'm not sure what else to try

I guess my next step will be special food from the vet

do you have a petco ???

Yes, we have Petco and PetSmart here....

go looks at the Natural balence venison and pea formula .. it will help figure out any allergies( possible) and help with more fatty acids than cat chow...

What makes the Natural Balance venison and pea formula helpful with allergies? I noticed Petco offers it online if you aren't able to find it at the store.

the allegy thing is that most cats havent had venison so they cent be allergic since it takes exposure to build an allergy .. just holler if this is clear as mud as it is bedtime/....

Thanks... I think I will check that out, because it does not seem to be getting any better.

Sharky - I totally understand what your talking about! Thanks