my cat will not stop biting her back the vet have not got a clue have not even given me any cream?

Question

she is biting her back that bad the hair as come out

Answer 1

Have you tried going to a different vet? Not all vets are the same.

Answer 2

I'm wondering if someone has at some point kicked this cat,if so who can blame her for lashing out at peoples feet ! The best way to stop this is for the cat to have lots of catnip toys around and as she approaches people, just throw a toy to distract her. Has she got a scratching post I wonder ? She does need one.Maybe a lot of people around upset her, cats are best put in a quiet room while parties are going on. Lost, the fact is that declawing IS amputation and anyone else also suggesting declawing obviously doesn't know(or maybe doesn't care) how cruel the operation is and the many behavioural problems which can result from declawing.This cat would turn to biting and a cat bite is much worse than a scratch.

Answer 3

my cat used to pull out his hair and we thought it was stress - I was given Fucidin in a small yellow tube which helped temporary, but he kept on, we could not even put a collar on him he was that sensitive, then we moved and I took him to a new vet for his annual injections - showed him the scabby fur as it was growing back and gave him the history. It turns out that even though my cat was protected against fleas (frontline on back of neck) he was still getting bitten whilst out in the garden, they were not living on him just biting him and he had "hot spots" allergy to flea bites - I would look more into it and get a 2nd opinion. He is fine now as I use a spray and the dropper on him each summer as an extra boost - the spray is a silent one (not hissing) available from vets at about €13.00 so bout £8.00 sterling? Best of luck

Answer 4

The only thing I can guess is food allergies. Many dry foods have alot of corn which is an allergen
Hi
Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard, dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. The problems with it are that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Most of the moisture a cat needs is gotten
out of the food and 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Also, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods.Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Please read about cat nutrition.
http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics.html

Answer 5

This sounds very much like a flea allergy.

Despite popular belief flea collars are not good protection for your pet against feals, and whilst the likes of Frontline prevent fleas from breeding they do not stop them from biting your pet and triggering the allergy.

Other possible causes are stress, and if the area she is biting is near her tail it could be blocked anal glands.

I would take your cat to see another vet and see what they say. And good luck.

Answer 6

Sounds like its possibly a flea allergy. Try a spot on treatment like advantage.

If it continues after that then you need to see another vet.

Good Luck

Answer 7

There could be many reasons for your cat doing this and you need to get to the bottom of it. The main problem though is your vet. Change to another one who cares more for animals and knows what he's doing.

Answer 8

Could be an allergy or stress or fleas. If it's sore then you could use baby nappy rash cream, I have used it on my cats before and it clears up sores quite nicely. I use one called Bepanthen.

Answer 9

go to the denes website www.denes.com they do fact sheets on allergies. i am suggesting this as my cats are wheat gluten intolerant and were biting at their skin till i changed their diets.

Answer 10

Sounds like a flea allergy or it could be stress'