Question by Hazel C: My cat is losing weight & I can’t get him to eat. I’ve tried canned foods even.?
He just recently became an outside cat again after living inside for about two years. I’m pretty sure he suffers from allergies because he’s always sneezing and has runny eyes. He does have a tendency to throw up his food every once and awhile. But now he just isn’t eating. I’ve left canned food out, different types of dry food and dog food. I even left out a piece of lunch meat which was gone in the morning but we’ll never know if he actually ate it… help!
He was a stray that came to us. He was always an outside cat. Then two years ago one of my neighbors trapped my other cat and took him to the pound. Since then, my cats have lived indoors but this cat is not meant for the indoors. My two cats do not get along and the outside guy has a thing for peeing on the furniture. If anything he was less comfortable living indoors.
TOOK HIM TO THE VET. HE HAS FELINE AIDS :’(

THANKS FOR THE HELP ALL

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Answer by Bill L
Maybe he wants back inside where it’s safer..

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Question by TearraHrt: Could cat food be killing my dogs? Thought it was poison mushrooms in the yard. I’ve lost 3 now in 2 years.
I lost a 5 year old that was hardly sick a day in her life after a rain and the mushrooms came up. Then the puppy we got to replace her suddenly within a few hours got sick and died just like the first one. We moved and go 2 more puppies…i just lost one of them 2 days ago and now the other one looks like he might be getting sick. It just rained here again and the mushrooms came up. But they have all eaten cat food too. I was told by a lady one time that cat food can kill a dog because of the ash content in it the dogs digestive system can’t handle that. But the vet said it might make them have diahrra (not sure if i spelled that right, lol) but it wouldn’t kill them. But something is killing them and I can’t figure out what’s going on. Please somebody help me before I lose another puppy. Been giving him penicillin today. Was giving them Benedril for some kind of skin allergy they seems to have. Help me save my puppy please somebody. Thank you..
As I mentioned their deaths occurred after we had a rainy spell and (it was too dry before the rain for anything to grow) the mushrooms shot up. I try to get rid of them by digging them up because I had kicked them and smashed them up right before the first one died and the same thing right before the next one died. I have been digging them up thinking the kicking them over and smashing them only made it easier for them to eat. So I’m heading to the pet ER asap. Thank you for you responses. I was thinking it was the mushrooms but had my doubts about the catfood. They all ate their dogfood but you know how dogs are they want their cake and the cats too. So my cats were eating dogfood and vica versa so started feeding cats up high so the dogs couldn’t reach them. My dogs have all been wormed and vaccinated too and are very well taken care of that’s why it was so shocking that they died so suddenly. Too many identical incidents about the rain and the mushrooms for it not to be that. Thanx

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Answer by Beta
No. If it did, it would kill the cat too.

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Question by Thorn: I’ve been to a vet and will go again – but please offer your advice (allergies?? maybe – skin condition)?
So I have a shih tzu – about four months ago she went to from having some minor skin irritation to full out losing most of her coat and getting a massive infection all over her skin (staph, I believe).

We medicated her with a course of prednisone and cephexalin antibiotics, and also until it cleared up I bathed her every other day with Keto-Chlor antimicrobial shampoo (from the vet).

Anyway, we thought she was done, but now I have noticed some reddening on her skin around her neck, and scabs appearing behind her ears and on her chest, mostly on her chest.

The only thing I can think of that might have changed is that we rotate flavors of dog food from Taste of the Wild. I think she was eating both the Pacific Stream formula and the Wetlands formula when she got her skin issues, and we just recently bought a fresh bag of of the Pacific Stream formula again.

What do you think is going on? I am really freaking out and very upset about this and will be getting her to the vet asap before she relapses and all her hair falls out again (this is making me nervous also because she is in heat and blowing her coat anyway and it’s hard to tell what is what).

Oh, by the way she is only almost four years old, so she is not an old dog either.

I just bathed her with the Keto-Chlor again today.

*sigh*
She sleeps on a hard plastic kennel floor. :’(

We recently-ish exibited at the fair, maybe she has a sudden allergy to fleas? She didn’t have fleas during her last flare up though, and she doesn’t have fleas from what I can tell right now. We used a new flea medication (just as a precaution… uh, Frontline as opposed to our usual Advantage, but that was more than a month ago).
The vet did a tape test on her skin, and said it wasn’t yeast in the skin (although she got yeast deeeep in her ears, kind of a covert, un-scented infection, the staph infection was kind of a secondary thing to the yeast)

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Answer by MissPriss
many skin conditions can be exacerbated by diet. If you have noticed a correlation between the food and the timing of the flare-ups I would stop feeding that food and see what happens.

dogs can develop strong reactions to fleas and even the flea-removing products as well.

Does she sleep in the same place every night? Is her bedding washed in detergent? Have you changed detergents? Stop using fabric softeners (if you wash her bedding and use them)

you are going to have to become a bit of a detective to narrow down the possibilities.

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Question by G: itchy red bumps on my skin, not poison ivy, oak or sumac. had it since i’ve moved into this new house.?
ok, back at the beginning of august my family and i moved into this house in a small city, and we havent stopped itching since. everyone is itching, even our dogs. my brother isn’t allergic to poison ivy, oak or sumac, so it cant be that. we don’t drink the water here because it’s very bad and has a color to it, and it’s slimy. when i get out of the shower my skin feels slimy, the people here before we moved in, werent clean but we scrubbed the place down, took out the carpet because of a mold problem and we don’t know where the itchiness can be coming from. at first i thought chiggars, then bedbugs, scabies, fungi, mold allergy, dog allergy, could be the slimy water we bathe in.. we’ve tried washing everything (clothes and bedsheets, floors, walls) and i’m still miserably itchy. i’ve tried just waiting it out, tried oatmeal soap, tried bathing in epsom salt, tried homemade soaps, tried soaking in viniger but this rash isn’t going away. we’re taking some otc antihistimines that help a little but i’d just like to find out what this is and get rid of it. it started as pimple looking bumbs on my arm, (i didn’t notice them till i had scratched one, which then spread to wherever else i scratched as a rash of bumbs.. at one point i even had it on my scalp. it’s gone down but even when i don’t scratch it flares up all over the place, mostly on my arms and legs. it’s weird cuz if someone else (or just something) scratches my then the rash pops up there too. i don’t know what to do, going to the doc would be ideal but i cant afford it. any help would be appreciated.

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Answer by Catch 22
There are literally SO many possibilities that it is impossible (and dangerous) to even suggest anything online. Without physical examination it is impossible to come up with any potential culprits. I would have it checked out by your primary care physician.

-Pre-med student

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I lost a 5 year old that was hardly sick a day in her life after a rain and the mushrooms came up. Then the puppy we got to replace her suddenly within a few hours got sick and died just like the first one. We moved and go 2 more puppies…i just lost one of them 2 days ago and now the other one looks like he might be getting sick. It just rained here again and the mushrooms came up. But they have all eaten cat food too. I was told by a lady one time that cat food can kill a dog because of the ash content in it the dogs digestive system can’t handle that. But the vet said it might make them have diahrra (not sure if i spelled that right, lol) but it wouldn’t kill them. But something is killing them and I can’t figure out what’s going on. Please somebody help me before I lose another puppy. Been giving him penicillin today. Was giving them Benedril for some kind of skin allergy they seems to have. Help me save my puppy please somebody. Thank you..
As I mentioned their deaths occurred after we had a rainy spell and (it was too dry before the rain for anything to grow) the mushrooms shot up. I try to get rid of them by digging them up because I had kicked them and smashed them up right before the first one died and the same thing right before the next one died. I have been digging them up thinking the kicking them over and smashing them only made it easier for them to eat. So I’m heading to the pet ER asap. Thank you for you responses. I was thinking it was the mushrooms but had my doubts about the catfood. They all ate their dogfood but you know how dogs are they want their cake and the cats too. So my cats were eating dogfood and vica versa so started feeding cats up high so the dogs couldn’t reach them. My dogs have all been wormed and vaccinated too and are very well taken care of that’s why it was so shocking that they died so suddenly. Too many identical incidents about the rain and the mushrooms for it not to be that. Thanx