Kerry,
I hope this is all it is:
Last Feb.(yes in the mid of winter) Quintapus did the same thing. Now mind you he's not felv+...but...His royal pampered majesty began scratching his neck..at the base of the skull...then would look at me with "that look" the 'something's not right' look. I checked and found nothing. The dog didn't have fleas...she's on that top spot stuff, I don't do the cats b/c they stay inside...but wasn't finding any fleas either. After about a day or so, he would hide under the bed right after scratching, or howl or moan after scratching.
(Quint is mainly black so it took a while to find...) Eventually after checking him for the umpteenth time, I found a small deer tick, about the size of a ( * ) attached to the base of his skull. He KNEW it was there and it just freaked him out! - ahh...mommy's little trooper...:)
Getting it off was Oh so much Fun! I found if you cut a "V" shape in a plastic 1/4 teaspoon, ...sit on the cat....you can just slide the tick into the narrow part of the V, hold the skin flat and lift the tick out. (That way you aren't pinching him trying to grab it with tweezers.)...then just bandage any open wounds the cat gave you and you're good to go!
As I said, I HOPE this is all that's wrong.
Good luck.
T
Cherie A Gabbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Cherie A Gabbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am sorry to hear the Kerry, I have never heard of anything like this before. I am hopong for the best though.Cherie
"MacKenzie, Kerry N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Thanks Karolyn. I am going to have the housecall vet I've used come and
check Levi. I'm going to ask about having a blood panel done, and
whether she can do it in my house. (I don't want her taking Levi to the
clinic she uses.)
To everyone: I'm worried about Levi, because he's scratching frequently
in the area between his head and his body, plus (which I find more
worrying) he hid last night and this morning, something that's unheard
of for him.
I've been trying to figure out the scratching. I've noticed him doing it
occasionally for about a week, but the intensity has increased as of
last night. None of the others seem to be doing this, so am I right in
thinking it can't be fleas? (Can cats even get fleas if they're
quarantined?) The Frazier book I looked last night (Natural Cat) really
didn't give me any clues.
The other th! ! ink that's really bothering me, is that when he sat on my
blanket on Tuesday evening, I thought I detected the faintest whiff of
the odor that Caramel had before he died. I can't tell if I'm imagining
it or not, but obviously I'm pretty worried about it, ie organ decay.
He did come running when I rattled some 'treat' Wellness dry food on the
metal tray, but didn't get stuck into it with anything near his usual
gusto.
Kerry
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Karolyn Lount
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 5:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: FeLV
The cat that was sick had tested + when I took him into my home. When
one of my cats gets sick and my vet is not sure what is going on he does
a Blood Panel. The Felv was not what he was looking for. Every thing on
the test came back "Normal" He is fine now. We have no idea what was
going on
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