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More on Marlo
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. |
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