On Sep 2, 12:04 pm, hopitus wrote:
On Sep 2, 7:03 am, robro wrote:
I have an indoor cat here at the office, he's just over 8 years old.
I've had him since he was 2 weeks old. He's a big, long hair, never
had health issues other than weight. We had to move him out of the
house when he bit my 1 year old. His diet has been purely Innova
reduced fat adult cat food for the past 18 months. It has not helped
his weight, and I measure his food out and provide it over two
servings using the recommended amount on the bag for inactive cats
(0.64 cups/day for 14 lb cat that needs weight loss, this guy is
around 18-19 lbs).
Anyway, he's always had this giant fluffy tail. He did on Friday. I
came into work today and one of my employees asked what was wrong with
his tail. It now looks like it belongs on a short hair cat. It's
thin. There's no fluffy hair. I don't see any hair around the office
that looks like it may have been shed en-masse. It's never done
anything like this before. My first though was nutrition as I realize
it would be better for him to give him a mix of wet/dry. Still, in 3
days that's just strange... and where did the hair go? I'll make a
vet appointment, but figured I'd ask here as well.
If the fur is missing *only* from the tail, and not less fur on his
body,
it would flatten my first theory...there is a fungal-type cat disorder
that
will cause major fur loss...but it takes a helluva lot longer than 3
days
to do so....my suspicion is that *someone* did something to him -
especially since you see no fur around the place - like maybe
molesting him by possibly vacuuming only his tail against his will.
I am not trying to be funny; I don't find this the least amusing.
Hating to sound like a cheap detective novel....could it be the
*cleaning personnel* for the office?
Interesting theory, but extremely unlikely. I was the last person out
of the office Friday and the 2nd here today, nobody was in over
the weekend and I'm the cleaning personnel
.
I stuck a pic he
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3...pboard5zn3.jpg
it may not look 'bad' to someone who doesn't know him, but
he has ALWAYS had a giant bushy tail, so the tail seen here
is clearly just WRONG. i made a vet appointment for friday
just in case. he's overdue for his shots anyway.