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Very non-urgent question, more of a curiosity.
My cat, Maisie, was spayed in late January at a shelter. She is an older cat--anywhere from 4-10 depending on the vet you ask, but I'm inclined to believe she's closer to 5/6--and had at least one litter while abandoned on the streets.
I adopted her on March 5, a little over a month after her spay. Her stomach looked like this:
I took her to the vet in late March, and she was a bit concerned about how slowly the fur was growing back. However, there is some ambiguity in her vet records about her spay; she was transferred to the local SPCA from the original shelter and they did not receive her spay paperwork, so the SPCA may have also shaved her a bit to check for a scar in mid-February. So I am unsure if the picture above is one month after a shave or one week after a shave.
It is now April 28th, and her stomach looks like this:
I see some regrowth, but it also appears to be thinning along the center line of her body.
She doesn't seem to be overgrooming that area at all from what I've observed. She and my other cat do play a lot, but he seems to be intentionally avoiding her belly when they play. She doesn't seem itchy or uncomfortable at all. She's a very happy cat.
I've seen other posts on this forum where people say it can take anywhere from one month to 'never' for fur to grow back, so I'm mostly just curious as to what you more experienced folk see in the photos above. She's my first lady cat, and while my current boy and my previous boy both had to have parts of their fur shaved for surgeries in the past, it was never more than an inch or two, usually on their legs.
I don't mind either way, but I just want to know if this is something out of the norm, and, if so, if it COULD be indicative of something medical (or a sign of her true age, whatever it is!). My poor vet fields so many questions from me as it is that I hesitate to bother them over this if it's actually normal.
Thank you!
My cat, Maisie, was spayed in late January at a shelter. She is an older cat--anywhere from 4-10 depending on the vet you ask, but I'm inclined to believe she's closer to 5/6--and had at least one litter while abandoned on the streets.
I adopted her on March 5, a little over a month after her spay. Her stomach looked like this:
I took her to the vet in late March, and she was a bit concerned about how slowly the fur was growing back. However, there is some ambiguity in her vet records about her spay; she was transferred to the local SPCA from the original shelter and they did not receive her spay paperwork, so the SPCA may have also shaved her a bit to check for a scar in mid-February. So I am unsure if the picture above is one month after a shave or one week after a shave.
It is now April 28th, and her stomach looks like this:
I see some regrowth, but it also appears to be thinning along the center line of her body.
She doesn't seem to be overgrooming that area at all from what I've observed. She and my other cat do play a lot, but he seems to be intentionally avoiding her belly when they play. She doesn't seem itchy or uncomfortable at all. She's a very happy cat.
I've seen other posts on this forum where people say it can take anywhere from one month to 'never' for fur to grow back, so I'm mostly just curious as to what you more experienced folk see in the photos above. She's my first lady cat, and while my current boy and my previous boy both had to have parts of their fur shaved for surgeries in the past, it was never more than an inch or two, usually on their legs.
I don't mind either way, but I just want to know if this is something out of the norm, and, if so, if it COULD be indicative of something medical (or a sign of her true age, whatever it is!). My poor vet fields so many questions from me as it is that I hesitate to bother them over this if it's actually normal.
Thank you!
