Hi everyone,

My female cat - "Pepe" - has been with me for approx 15years (since sh
was a few months old).

She has always been, to my eyes, a happy cat with her own way of doin
things.
She will always purr madly at the slightest stroke along her back, wil
treat everyone (of the human kind) as a friend, but is simply hopeles
at scaring away strange cats.

One thing has bothered me about her though, I have always put a fle
collar onto her. She does like to go outside quite a lot (but prefer
to be indoors at night in her own bed) so I have always assumed that
flea collar was a must.

For a very long time now she has had a bald patch, which matches th
exact width of a flea collar, running along the back of her neck, bu
not on the underside. The hair is only missing from the back of th
neck.
There is no hair growing there at all.

I have tried using different makes of flea collar, I even tried no
using a flea collar to see if it would grow back, but nothing worked.

So, to this day, she still has this bald patch on the back of her nec
that is only visible when I brush her hair around.

I do wonder if I caused her pain because of this but she never seem
bothered about it, and because of that I have never taken her to see
vet (which I know is bad but she has always been in the best of health
with never any problems at all. A very robust Scottish moggie :-)

Have any of you encountered a similar problem?

Kind regards

--
Hobbes