On 7/14/2016 4:05 PM, dgk wrote:
Not really good news on the overgrooming. She's alreadly licked the
middle of her abdomen bare, all the way to her butt, and she even has
fairly well denudded the inside of her rear legs. The cone is supposed
to prevent that but I noticed yesterday that she's managing to lick
the very lower abdomen and legs even with the cone on. Of course,
that's the only area that che can lick since the cone blocks all lf
the rest of her.

She's now on some kind of behavioral drug - one capsule per day
sprinkled on her food. Luckily she seems to like her new Hills I/D
diet food and doesn't seem to object to the medicine, but of course it
means that I can't let the other cats eat her food.

She goes back to the vet for a check next week but I'm not really
hopeful that anything is helping. The drug won't start working for six
weeks. I just got and plugged in a felliway diffuser, but that also
won't work for weeks.

Well, maybe the felliway willl at least make Baby more comfortable
(she's the feral). And, the ver said that I'll probably have to call
in a specialist who comes to your house and evaluates the environment
to try to identify what is causing the overgrooming. Sure, that's
likely to work. Not. But it is likely to be costly.

Eh. Well, she's 12 1/2. If she keeps this up, she won't make 13
because I just can't keep paying for this stuff and if she keeps
overgrooming she'll start getting sores and infections. It's very
depressing.

I'm working on getting a fence installed so I can let the cats go out.
Maybe Marlo will be happy if she can prowl around outside. I don't
know what else to try.


Some years ago, my sister had a cat with behavioral issues that seemed
to be related to anxiety. She and her vet tried everything they could
think of, with no solution. She finally contacted Tufts Veterinary
College. They have a PetFax program where she could communicate with
them via phone and fax/email. The results were remarkable. In her
case, they recommended Prozac. Working in coordination with Tufts and
her vet, she received very detailed instructions from Tufts and a
prescription for Prozac from her vet. The results were remarkable. She
used this in combination with Feliway, and a cat that had suffered for
several years became stress-free in a fairly short period of time. I
don't remember what the Tufts program cost (it was a number of years
ago), but it was reasonable--and certainly far less than what you have
been paying. This is something that you might consider.

MaryL