My cats licking all her fur off!

gettingready

I too had this issue with Tiger, my old boy sadly on RB now

It was put down to stress, he was given prozac by the vet at some point but was terrible on it.

Apart from licking his fur off he was perfectly fine - eating drinking etc but it started when we moved and never really stopped for 3 years before we had him PTS due to kidney cancer - but that was totally unrelated to him licking his fur off of course.

Talk to the vet, if it is not food allergy - probably stress, poor kitty, give her/him a belly rub from me and my 5 furies, hope it gets better.

KiKi

One of mine did this after being bullied by her sister. Licked all the fur off her tummy. I got a feliway plug-in, changed my behaviour with the other cat, and stopped this one licking herself by putting my hand on her tummy in a kind way to stroke her to stop her licking. She eventually got out of the habit she'd gotten into.

If it's not food, it's probably stress - watch for behaviour and reactions to things in the house, too. A move is very stressful for a cat, territorial things that they are.

KiKi

Mayflower10cat

A friends cat started overgrooming and pulled out fur from her tummy and sides - after much veterinary probing and investigating, she made the link with the new puppy they'd recently acquired. The poor cat was terrified of the lively, barking young dog. The stress of living with the dog caused her 'stress cystitis' and the constant pain from her bladder & urinary tract made her pull her fur out in an attempt to distract herself from how awful she was feeling. The house has now been made more cat-friendly, with babygates around the house that give the cat 'dog-free' areas to retire to in safety. She's on a prescription diet (c/d) wet and dry which she eats reluctantly, but she has now stopped pulling her fur out, so that's good. It's such a sad story, I feel very sorry for this little cat living in constant anxiety.