Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS
Keymaster
Hello! This is surprisingly common and increasingly investigated. Sometimes a scrape for demodex mites might prove positive. Demodex is a non-itchy mite that lives in cats' hair follicles, and proliferates at times of stress. The question would be, if this turned out to be the case, why the mites would have chosen now to proliferate and whether there's anything else going on a bit deeper. Other causes of alopecia (hair-loss) can include endocrine (hormonal) imbalances. Don't get me wrong, this isn't the first sign of an emergency or anything like that, but it's worth a trip to the vets for a weigh and to get it checked, because it's sometimes a sign that other, more subtle changes are happening.
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