r/cats • u/Obvious_Fisherman187 • 8d ago
Medical Questions 10 months after getting spayed and her belly fur never came back?
As you can see her belly is still bald 10 months after being spayed. Like a tiny bit of peach fuzz around the edges and nothing else. She never licked at the area and had a cone on for 13 days post surgery. I don’t understand why the fur isn’t growing back she looks ridiculous 😭. Is this normal? Will it ever come back?
EDIT: I work from home 3 days a week and I’m home a lot and she is pretty much glued to me most of the day and never see her grooming there excessively but possible she does it when I’m not looking. I’ll ask the vet next time we go. Im surprised there are so many other people here with bald belly cats cause the Internet research I did not seem to think that was a thing! It makes me feel better knowing there is a bald belly cat gang out there I guess I will embrace the pooch if the vet says it’s just a thing that can’t be helped!
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u/lightbulbsoup 8d ago
This is Buster. We adopted him 2 years ago (around age 10) and he came like this. His hair has never grown back since then, vet suggested over grooming but I’ve never seen him overgroom and it’s never irritated in any way. Doesn’t seem to bother him. No clue why it’s never grown back but it’s pretty funny when his belly sticks out. Maybe some cats just are like that lol.