2/22 Bella AMPS 357, +2 292, +8 293, PMPS 218, +2 155

She's again lower at +2: 155 tonight. She's eating a little bit now, I will give her a small meal again in an hour or 2. Hopefully she won't bounce again tomorrow! She looked stressed today, she's grooming her belly obsessively, she's pullling hair.
 
I will try to get another one tonight, if I'm awake. I will ask for the reaction, thank you! I don't know! she did it during the stay-home order in 2020, I thought that having the kids home all the time stressed her, it was completely bald, a large pink area. We saw the vet who did not find anything, but she has allergies, fish for example, so maybe! I';m stopping the DM Purina because of that, actually: she's scratching her ears again, as she was doing before. She was on a raw meat diet for the last 2 years and stopped itching, she started again when I started the DM food. The Tiki cat is better.
 
tiffmaxee said:
It sounds like she is having an allergic reaction. Does she have red spots on her ears? Google dermatitis. It often is a reaction to a protein she’s eating. Why did you stop feeding raw?
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Thank you! No, no red spots. She had ear mites in the past, and it looked like it might be that again. I buy only food with no fish, but there was fish oil in the DM, I'm not sure the oil could give her a reaction but I changed it anyway.
I stopped feeding her raw because my vet was worried that since she is diabetic she would be more susceptible to infection, and she thought there was a risk with raw food. I thought I would start again when she would be balanced, but i cannot seem to get there!
I googled dermatitis. It does not look like that. The skin is perfect, it's just that she is licking her belly in the same spot and the hair is falling, or she pulls it. But no bump, no redness. Around her ear I cannot see anything either, her ear was dirty so I washed it with a solution and she is scratching less, but still a little bit. The skin is not red or bumpy there either.
 
Hi Cecile, we switched to raw and we never looked back, even more if you know that she wasn't having this reaction on raw i would not think about it twice. Tell your vet that allergic reaction is a real struggle compared to a possible risk with raw food. We feed Chico raw over a year, he went into remission on raw. If you want to feel "safer" you can put the meat in the over for 10 min just to kill bacteria on the surface, we do that because my husband feels more comfortable with it - the 10 min won't cook the meat, it will barely start cooking the surface - i'll attach a link with instruction for that: https://catinfo.org/making-cat-food/

I'm sure Jessica and Katherine will have much more to add to that :)

Hope you manage to tackle the allergy :bighug:
 
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