At my WITS END!!!!!!!!! (UPDATE!!! POST #19)

[catfamily]

Oh NO!!! this is terrible.Just what you need right now.AND hopefully it isn't something catchy and it is JUST from fleas...even though that is bad enough.My Goodness...I'll start looking online to see if i find anything.
i hope this all goes away very soon for her and you.
Hang in there Lorraine

[Fuzzybuns]

Poor kitties...and you!

Has the vet done any scrapings for mites?
Could it be pesticides sprayed around the house or food allergies? If not pesticides, I'd look to cleaning products and maybe change the diet (bland diet of chicken, rice and lamb) for at least 6 weeks.

My gut says it's mites as I had a kitty in my past that had patches very much like those.

Maybe this could help, but please consult the vet first! http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...ductId=2754474

[rg_girlca]

I told my oldest son about this and he looked it up on the internet and said that if he didn't know any better, he would swear that I wrote the article because it said almost to a tee what I told him what the vet said. That it's flea related and the treatment is a cortizone shot and antibiotics, BUT, that it could come back in about 6 months time.
What I don't get is how can this can be flea related when they don't have fleas
Apparently is isn't contagious from what the vet said anyway.

Thank you Fuzzybums. I will definitely ask the vet about mites when I bring Poppy & Nugget in. I had asked him if it could be allergies and he said no. Also, my guys don't go outside and we live on the second floor and as far as I know, there is no spraying for pesticides around here.

[jennielynn1970]

Can you try whatever it was that your son saw in the article he found online?? Can you get a 2nd opinion at another vet?? I'd be skeptical if he said fleas, and there are none.

Hope you can figure something out!

[rg_girlca]

Can you try whatever it was that your son saw in the article he found online??

The article didn't say to try anything. Just that it is treated with a Cortizone shot and antibiotics.
I will have to see what my vet says this time with Poppy & Nugget. If i'm not satisfied, I will bring them for a second opinion.

[kuhio98]

Back in the 1970's, my brother had a cat who had similar looking sores. They turned out to be spider bites. I can't remember what kind of spider and how the vet figured it out, though.