Cass, is it possible the cat is rubbing its head on something inanimate? If it regular rubs somewhere, kinda obsessively, I suppose that could rub some fur off. (note that I own no pets and no nuzzing about nuzzing)
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'Destiny'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Spidra Webster - Jan 10, 2006 9:39:56 pm PST #3950 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Spidra Webster - Jan 10, 2006 9:42:12 pm PST #3951 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Sorry to hear that Kristin. Maybe Vicodin would be an improvement. I'm not fond of it since what it does is make you not care about being in pain rather than actually getting rid of the pain. But if the muscle relaxants aren't working? Ice isn't fun to nuzzle next to, but it does take care of inflammation and numbs the pain.
Cass - Jan 10, 2006 9:45:38 pm PST #3952 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Ouch, Kristin. Sorry to hear you didn't get the sleepies.
My head is pounding. Still. Drugs are being annoyingly ineffectual, even the ones that generally work.
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Also my laptop's screen hinges just perished. Well the left one. The right one committed suicide a while back. I have a very horizontal computer at the moment.
I swear this thing is going to be up on blocks in the front yard soon. And I will be sitting on the lawn, possibly with a 40, typing away.
Cass - Jan 10, 2006 9:50:11 pm PST #3953 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
is it possible the cat is rubbing its head on something inanimate? If it regular rubs somewhere, kinda obsessively, I suppose that could rub some fur off.Dunno. This time it is Andi's cat we are psychoanalyzing. Or turning into a bat. It isn't clear just yet.
My cats just want to climb on the computer. Which might be for possible future electrolysis, I just don't know.
(note that I own no pets and no nuzzing about nuzzing)Heh.
WindSparrow - Jan 10, 2006 9:56:47 pm PST #3954 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Kristin, is there a 24-hr pharmacy you can call to ask if it would be a bad thing to take ibuprofen with the muscle relaxer? I know that vicodan is not quite the same thing, but I had to take ibuprofen with it in order to get real relief with the abcessed wisdom tooth.
Cass, is it possible the cat is rubbing its head on something inanimate? If it regular rubs somewhere, kinda obsessively, I suppose that could rub some fur off. (note that I own no pets and no nuzzing about nuzzing)
Spidra, that's a very reasonable question, especially since you can't see him or precisely where the hair loss is. My answer is that I have not seen him rubbing anything unusual, and also the pattern of hairloss is not in a spot that cats rub on a lot of stuff. The tips of his ears, say, the upper 60% of the triange-shape, are the bits missing the hair. If he were rubbing a lot, it would be more of the base, I think.
Come to think of it, his coat in general has lost some of the silky lustre it gained when I first started him on the Eukanuba prescription food. I'm still feeding him that, but Daniel says that in the last month or so it has changed color, so maybe they have changed the formula. We compared a label from a can from this summer (label kept near 'puter for research purposes) to one of the new cans, and it reads the same.
WindSparrow - Jan 10, 2006 9:59:13 pm PST #3955 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Offers Cass some Guiness.
Cass - Jan 10, 2006 10:09:29 pm PST #3956 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
is there a 24-hr pharmacy you can call to ask if it would be a bad thing to take ibuprofen with the muscle relaxer?Rite-Aid was really helpful when my stepmom was worried about combining meds, from the same doctor but different pharmacies, for my grandma. Very nice too.
The tips of his ears, say, the upper 60% of the triange-shape, are the bits missing the hair. If he were rubbing a lot, it would be more of the base, I think.Rubbing would be lower, I think. Though the loss of coat lustre makes me wonder about diet or stress being more of a culprit.
Kittenish's coat lost some of its rabbit-like quality when she was sick a while back - but when her spunk and appetite came back, so did the soft.
Offers Cass some Guiness.Whoot!
Pix - Jan 10, 2006 10:15:01 pm PST #3957 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Doc said I could take up to 800 mg of ibuprophin, yes. I took 600 mg just now along with another half of the muscle relaxer. Here's hoping sleep follows.
Thanks everyone.
Volans - Jan 11, 2006 1:53:34 am PST #3958 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Andi, Legion went through a phase where he lost all the fur off his front right leg. Once the fur started disappearing in a major way, he started licking the area a lot, but the hair loss preceded the itch.
I was pretty sure I'd given him mange, as I was volunteering at a dog shelter at the time, but treatments for mange had no effect. Ultimately the loss stopped and the fur grew back. The two leading theories are that it was stress-related or that he was subject to the same health issues that were making my and DH's hair fall out.
Several years later, he got hair loss on his flank. That turned out to be due to him sitting on a heating pad; once we removed the heating pad, it got better.
Thus: Is he pressing his ears into the heater or sleeping on his head a lot? Is he stressed about something?
Stephanie - Jan 11, 2006 2:16:25 am PST #3959 of 10001
Trust my rage
I have nothing to add about cat ears, although I think stress sounds likely. My parents once had a dog that licked part of her paw repeatedly until most of the hair fell out in that spot.
I have to finish taking down Christmas decorations today. The tree is almost empty, but now the boxes for everything are scattered around the house.