So Hallie and I were in a big art store in Seattle today. Another customer came over to pet her and saw her bald patch (which...is NOT growing any hair on it yet!! 2 months 3 days post shave!) and asked if she had back surgery...she said her cat has the same patch and she had taken her cat to the same neuro #2 (the one that I really liked) that I took Hallie to. The cat had gone down in the rear...6 year old health mix breed tabby cat with no history of injury. So she took her in for an MRI and the cat had a ruptured disc!!
New one on me...has anyone heard of a cat with a disc problem before? I was talking to our local vet on the phone tonight and I asked her and she had never. This lady though said her cat was the second one who had disc surgery in that clinic that week, but that the Dr said it is normally very rare.
Bizarre.
I don't know much about cats, but I can only imagine the trials and tribulations of keeping a cat from jumping!
I have never heard of that happening to a cat either! Wow!
The hair DOES grow back, it takes a few months but once its back, you can't even tell there was ever a scar!
I agree Delia, we think it's bad enough to keep the doxies confined, at least they can't get to the top of book cases! (OK...well all doxies other than Gretchen. LOL.)
Glad to hear it does take months Valerie...I had my hair done today and Hallie always sits on my lap at the beauty salon. My beautician was trying oils and things on her patch to see if it would help lol. About 2 weeks ago she started to get flakey there too which she normally isn't so her skin looks dry. I do give her fish oil. We got lucky and she won't have a scar as they did not do surgery after all. They just did the myelogram and didn't see a bad disc, there was just the dilated spinal cord and we thought she had this horrible thing that they can't do anything about so they aborted the surgery. Now after talking to other neuros and the fact that she is doing SO well again we think the first guy was wrong (thank goodness!!!) and that it was a bad disc after all and the myelogram did not go up far enough to see it. And more likely, the herniating disc pinched off the spinal cord which caused a temporary dilation. So I am very relieved about that and also very thankful that the first neuro did not do surgery after all! She didn't need it...so she just has a $2000 hair cut! That is verrrrry slow to grow in.:grin: