Hi,
This is quite a lengthy post, my 6 year old cat Pandora has been biting the bottom of her back near the base of her tail since around the 20th December last year.
She has been wormed and flead and her anal glands expressed incase this was what was causing it. And her diet hasn't changed.
Now I am worried it may be nerve damage or something. hopefully someone can shed some light on it.
On October 20th last year Pandora was hit by a car. She had to stay in the vets for a week, she had no use of her bladder so she had to get it manually expressed, her tail was broken near the base, her kidney levels were very low as was her blood count, she had some internal hemorrhaging and she had to be fed through a syringe cause she was refusing to eat.
Finally about 2 weeks before Christmas her blood count and kidney levels were normal enough for her tail to be amputated. It was around 6/7 days after the operation she started biting at her back, at first I thought she was just trying to get at her stitches (she had a cone on) but her stump healed fine and shes still biting her back.
The vet done a blood test, her kidneys were slightly elevated and her urine test came back with a small amount of protein in it but the vet said its nothing to be cconcerned about. Shes due another blood test.
Pandora is slowly being weaned of her steroids at the moment shes getting 0.5mg every 4 days.
Does anyone have any ideas on why she is biting herself so much? She had bitten it raw that she had to wear the cone again and they gave her an antibiotic injection.
It seems when she is finally on the mend something else crops up
This is quite a lengthy post, my 6 year old cat Pandora has been biting the bottom of her back near the base of her tail since around the 20th December last year.
She has been wormed and flead and her anal glands expressed incase this was what was causing it. And her diet hasn't changed.
Now I am worried it may be nerve damage or something. hopefully someone can shed some light on it.
On October 20th last year Pandora was hit by a car. She had to stay in the vets for a week, she had no use of her bladder so she had to get it manually expressed, her tail was broken near the base, her kidney levels were very low as was her blood count, she had some internal hemorrhaging and she had to be fed through a syringe cause she was refusing to eat.
Finally about 2 weeks before Christmas her blood count and kidney levels were normal enough for her tail to be amputated. It was around 6/7 days after the operation she started biting at her back, at first I thought she was just trying to get at her stitches (she had a cone on) but her stump healed fine and shes still biting her back.
The vet done a blood test, her kidneys were slightly elevated and her urine test came back with a small amount of protein in it but the vet said its nothing to be cconcerned about. Shes due another blood test.
Pandora is slowly being weaned of her steroids at the moment shes getting 0.5mg every 4 days.
Does anyone have any ideas on why she is biting herself so much? She had bitten it raw that she had to wear the cone again and they gave her an antibiotic injection.
It seems when she is finally on the mend something else crops up