Hi,

As you may have gathered from my other posts, I have a number of strays which I feed and water on my porch every day. Lizzie (gorgeous girlie - pitch black with huge emerald eyes) has some strange looking injuries:

Right around her neck she has a "necklace" of sores - sort of where the collar would go - they look like bald patches, about the size of my thumbnail. The weird thing is (from what I can see from 3 ft away) it looks like they go all the way round.

Also above her one eye she has a bald patch about the size of a quarter.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Could it be a disease or (heaven forbid) has someone caught her and done something to her? The marks are really not consistent with a cat fight!

She is hanging around the house more than usual and being very vocal (she normally eats and runs).

I am going to pick up a humane trap from the local shelter tomorrow and try to catch her so we can have her treated, but if it's a disease I need to make sure I dont bring it back into the house, as Ally is an inside cat, and I dont want to expose her to anything!

Any advice is appreciated.