Well that's hideous!

[wednes]

Livejournal has taken it upon themselves to supercede my carefully chosen colors and layout and replaced it with some bullshit that looks like Twitter merged with Wordpress then incorporated Facebook's advertising policy. It's hideous, and I honestly don't know if I'll be able to read my feed there with any sort of regularity. God DAMN it's ugly.

While I'm here, congrats to absinthofheart on the new addition to their family. It will be fun for me to know there's another baby around that I can see for an extremely short time before handing it back to their rightful guardians.

JoJo is still licking himself like mad, and still has bald patches between his legs, and on the backs of his front legs. It upsets me to see it, and upsets me further that there doesn't seem to be anything wrong. It seems like if he had a rash, or (Zod forbid) fleas, that both cats would have them. I plugged in one of those expensive Feliway diffusers. After five weeks though, I'm not seeing an improvement. His demeanor is fine, maybe a little more chill (which I think might be the diffuser). He's eating and eliminating fine, and his nose is chilly and damp. A vet-tech couldn't find anything wrong with him. So I don't know what to do. Fie!

Comments

Kitty business

[absynthe]

Have you had JoJo in for bloodwork recently? Sometimes problems with internal organs can lead to excessive licking and/or hair loss on the belly or legs. Friends of mine lost their boy to a spleic tumor last year, the only odd sign being that he was excessively grooming his belly in the month or so prior.
I had a similar presentation from a ferret some years ago, who also had a splenic tumor.
Not to be alarmist, but it's worth eliminating as a possible cause.

Re: Kitty business

[wednes]

We had a vet tech come to our place and look him over. But I haven't taken him in for bloodwork. I was hoping to not have to spend on it since I haven't paid my taxes yet for this year. But it sounds like I really should.