Can anyone help?
I will try and be as informative as possible so sorry for a long post!
She is between 10 and 12 weeks old.
When she arrived, she was 8 weeks according to the breeder but I thought she was nearer 6 and my vet agreed she looked about 6 also. Despite appearing lively and eating and drinking fine, she had fleas and ear mites and was a little thin. She sneezed a fair few times throughout the day and sometimes black, snotty stuff could be seen around her nose.
I started adding 'CSJ billy no mates' herbal flea powder to her food and she is now flea free. I have wormed her also but until I have a worm count done I do not know if it has been successful. As she had quite a lot of black stuff in her ears and was scratching a lot I used a medicated product - otodex for 4 days. She isn't sneezing anymore but does sometimes still get a tiny amount of black crusty stuff near her nostril.
After just two or three days of being here she bit off and swallowed a latex teat. She had a little diarrhoea followed by normal stool, the vets however were unconcerned. Next she started vomiting. Once a day hours after eating she would be sick, ALWAYS after having eaten either chicken wing or day old chick, worried that she might be allergic to chicken I stopped feeding it and the vomiting stopped.
For food, I wanted to feed her raw, I WAS giving her -
An egg yolk in the morning with her flea herbs A full kitten bowl of chunked meat eg beef, lamb, pork, venison etc with half a 0.5ml scoop of powdered eggshell sometimes a bit of liver also or some lamb kidney A mouse
Then I got scared about taurine and calcium and things so I started giving her -
Meowing heads or Lily's kitchen wet cat food (both brands contain chicken) with her flea supplement and a 500mg capsule of evening primrose oil 1 or 2 mice or 1 or 2 sprat fish Some chunked meat (no eggshell) sometimes including organs like heart, kidney or liver.
As the sickness stopped despite eating food with chicken in, I gave her a chicken drumstick yesterday. Today, she has only eaten a little and was licking her lips a bit earlier so I am worried she is going to be sick later :(
About a week after having her, I noticed she was losing hair on one of her ears and above one of her eyes, the skin was completely smooth, no crustiness. Then the hair grew back. Gradually, I have noticed that the hair inbetween her shoulders/back of her neck and on her elbows is getting thinner. You can't notice any thinning usually, but when she is crouched down eating it is very obvious! Her ears are getting patchy also and when I looked today, they look smooth, but feel a little rough/thickened.
I am unsure what to do?
Is it a nutritional problem? What should I be feeding her?
Is it ringworm? A hormonal problem?
Please help me.
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