Hallo all!!

Since whatever this is it's going to kill me before it kills the cat, I
decided to wait until the only vet I trust returns from the holidays (next
week). But I'm curious, so... what do you think it is?

a) The cat (spayed, female, inside-only, exotic shorthair) is perfectly
lively, eats normally etc.

b) her hair is extraordinarily dull, compareded to other cats who live in
the same place & eat the same stuff. Not like a newly found stray, but
in-between.

c) something brownish and greasy keeps building around her back claws. We
already checked and it's not a yeast infection but it really looks like one.

d) The same thing, or something similar, builds up under her tail, in the
vaginal area. As for the other hole, there we have the perianal glands,
constantly working.

e) My cats have always eaten first-quality catfood, and we even tried those
fish-only/skin-problems foods... with no results. As I mentioned, the other
two cats are in perfect shape and have wonderful hair/skin conditions.

All these things work together so that:

- you can't pick the cat up without soiling your t-shirt with greasy brown
pawprints
- the same pawprints are all over the floor and since they are _very_ greasy
cleaning them is a huge, huge work, and it must be done everyday.
- after the cat sleeps on a piece of furniture, there is a greasy brownish
cat-print, made to look even filthier by the obvious layer of cat hair that
sticks to it.
- the stench (of the cat) is really terrible.

If you find this all disgusting, imagine that I live inside there, and also
that my whole house is white!!!!!!!!!

OK let's be serious. I adore my cat and I'd clean after her the rest of my
life. But this is absolutely not normal. It may not be painful but the cat
must certainly suffer for it, at least because she can't be picked up as
often as one would. And her feelings will be hurt by her new names
(smellycat, filthycat... it's not kind, oh no!).

I really hope the vet will help us, but in the meantime.... have you got any
idea?

Thanks!

Laura & the clean cats & the filthycat