Oooohhh nooooo, that dreaded word - RINGWORM!!!

It's a fungal infection and highly contagious. Your other babies may or may not show the symptoms - they will no doubt be carrying the ringworm spores but some cats build resistance to it.

Our two babies got ringworm as youngsters when we brought them home (from another animal on the plane???) Our regime was vacuum and disfect vacuum cleaner daily, cream on bald patches x 2 daily, wash all bed linen, cushions, cat beds at least once a week (advice was to burn everything the cat uses but that wasn't practical), wash hands whenever we touched our cats, and didn't touch any other animals. Oh yeah, and no visitors who have pets of their own in case they carried spores with them.

Sound fun yet?


One of the anti-flea preparations has been shown to reduce the length and severity of ringworm. I can't remember which one it is - the info is at home so I'll check it out tonight and post again.

It's not as drastic as I make it out to be - but it's a huge pain in the backside. Good luck.