Poorly cat , maybe!

[Goodsoulette]

Having a cuddle with the mog and scratching her chin and neck as its her favourite thing, and I have found a patch of fur that has balded, the skin underneath looks sore. I dont think she has been attacked because I would have expected more marks. It looks more like a picked scab/lesion type thing. Any ideas? She doesnt appear to have any fleas either.

[divegirl]

Hi, could it not just be an injury site that's healing? My Dane once 'skinned' himself under the chin....trying to jump over a 5' wall [don't ask!!!] he didn't bleed or anything, just took his fur clean off. Maybe your kitty has done something like that whilst out on her adventures.

Lisa x

[redcrx]

My boyfriends cats get bald patches from where they sleep too close to radiators. Any chance your cat may be cosying up to the heat?

[Miss Inquiry]

My first cat went entirley bald round his neck as he had a reaction to his flea collar, he looked like a little ostrich, it was dead cute, and I was reassured by the vet he was in no pain!
Could it be a reaction to his collar?

[foxyflugel]

Hi - if your cats fur does not start to grow back easily then rub a little coconut oil on the bare patch - when the soreness has gone - and it will make the hair grow back. This applies to all animals/humans ; 0 )

[The Big Gill]

My cat's had a similar thing happen just the other week. He's a semi-longhair, and gets the occasional knot of fur which I have to tease out, but I'd noticed that this had happened three times in the same spot - in his ruff, just under his chin - over a few days. Looking under the fur, there was a small spot of bare, slightly reddened skin about the size of a pea. Around this, the fur had been thinned out.

The vet examined him, and said that he couldn't find any other spots like this so felt it probably wasn't a skin infection. He didn't say what it was but advised me to treat it as a 'one-off', and gave me some gel to apply to the spot for a week and see how the cat got on.

The gel was only to alleviate any irritation - the hair loss was due to the cat scratching himself. It might not have been an explanation of what the cause was, but the cat seems fine now; his skin's calmed down and he hasn't lost any more fur.

The only thing that he gets attacked by is me, and neither of us have any fleas either.