I wonder if anyone can offer some suggestions on how to help our rather scruffy bunny!
The fur is tightly matted & clumpy, & feels like dreadlocks or back-combed hair would be on a human – really tight & squished together knotted hair, impossible to brush out (we have tried!). It is clean – there is certainly no dirt or mess clumped into it – and the rest of her fur is fine, its just from the top of her tail around the back to about 2 or 3 inches up its clumpy. She is a Giant, bigger than the average cat already, so proportionally, its not a large amount of her fur overall.
We noticed it right from a few months after we first had her, and the vet checked it out when she was spayed (she is about 9 months approx, and was spayed in Feb) and said it was nothing to worry about. I don’t think its got much worse, but she has grown, and the scruffy patch has grown with her proportionally. It doesn’t seem to bother her, so we haven’t been worrying, however, I noticed yesterday she had little bits of megazorb fluff clinging into it (she’d been lying in a litter tray sleeping!). Her siblings wash her, and she washes herself fine, but she probably hadn’t noticed the fluff, and I’m worried that & worse could start getting mangled in.
Any suggestions? Brushing (what she will stand) has little effect. I’d consider getting the patch shaved, but I don’t want to cause her unnecessary stress, neither do I want her to end up in a mess!
Any suggestions as to what might be causing it, or how to resolve it?
I wondered if one of her siblings has been over-washing it perhaps – it occasionally has loose tufts sticking up, but she’s the only one out of 3 with this. They sleep snuggled, but I've never noticed one of the others washing her back like that. She’s the smallest of the three, and we think the dominant one. (My partner thinks she might have been the runt though by her size). Other than the fur, she seems fine – I’ve had a look at her teeth whilst shes chewing wood, and she eats, binkys, nibbles me etc fine.
The fur is tightly matted & clumpy, & feels like dreadlocks or back-combed hair would be on a human – really tight & squished together knotted hair, impossible to brush out (we have tried!). It is clean – there is certainly no dirt or mess clumped into it – and the rest of her fur is fine, its just from the top of her tail around the back to about 2 or 3 inches up its clumpy. She is a Giant, bigger than the average cat already, so proportionally, its not a large amount of her fur overall.
We noticed it right from a few months after we first had her, and the vet checked it out when she was spayed (she is about 9 months approx, and was spayed in Feb) and said it was nothing to worry about. I don’t think its got much worse, but she has grown, and the scruffy patch has grown with her proportionally. It doesn’t seem to bother her, so we haven’t been worrying, however, I noticed yesterday she had little bits of megazorb fluff clinging into it (she’d been lying in a litter tray sleeping!). Her siblings wash her, and she washes herself fine, but she probably hadn’t noticed the fluff, and I’m worried that & worse could start getting mangled in.
Any suggestions? Brushing (what she will stand) has little effect. I’d consider getting the patch shaved, but I don’t want to cause her unnecessary stress, neither do I want her to end up in a mess!
Any suggestions as to what might be causing it, or how to resolve it?
I wondered if one of her siblings has been over-washing it perhaps – it occasionally has loose tufts sticking up, but she’s the only one out of 3 with this. They sleep snuggled, but I've never noticed one of the others washing her back like that. She’s the smallest of the three, and we think the dominant one. (My partner thinks she might have been the runt though by her size). Other than the fur, she seems fine – I’ve had a look at her teeth whilst shes chewing wood, and she eats, binkys, nibbles me etc fine.
