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Question about scars and fur growth...

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Alan - 31 Jul 2003 15:37 GMT
A stray kitten turned up last week, and I've been caring for her.

She's becoming very friendly, and I was trying to clean her up...  She had a
spot of crusty matted fur between her eyes, so I moistened a tissue and
touched it to the spot for a few minutes to soften it up.

I was horrified when several minutes later the whole mess just sloughed
right off and left an angry red wound about 1cm across.  Turns out it was a
scab.  Now I feel awful.  She'd apparently had some sort of scuffle or
injury, and I just set her back.  I'm keeping it covered with Neosporin now
and it's coming along nicely.  It's not serious, and I'm sure it'll be
completely healed in a week or so.

What I was wondering, and I was hoping someone could provide some insight,
is whether she's likely to have a bald scar on her face for the rest of her
life, or if will will grow fur again...  She's young, so I'm hoping it will
grow back...

Any thoughts?
Bill - 31 Jul 2003 16:08 GMT
>"Alan" <nospam@nospam.not> wrote in message
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> A stray kitten turned up last week, and I've been caring for her.
>
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> Any thoughts?

It depends on whether the wound is superficial or not.

I'm fostering a kitten that had a superficial wound on her tail, and the fur
grew back after a few weeks.

Time will tell.

I wouldn't put Neosporin on the cat unless advised by a vet because cats
will ingest whatever you put on their fur when they groom themselves.
That's why vets often put Elizabethan collars (E-collars) on cats to keep
them from doing this.

Bill

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