I fully admit that this is one of the ugliest photos I have posted here in recent years. But getting a decent picture of a balder patch of dark fur among all the other dark fur, on a cat that has no desire to sit still in decent light, is hard.

I discovered a bald patch at the base of Nysse’s tail a few days ago, and took him to the vet today. The vet shaved off some more fur around it so the bald spot is even larger now. Could be this, could be that – hard to know when the patient can’t say anything about whether it itches or hurts. But after much hemming and hawing and palpating, the conclusion was that he may have hurt himself somehow, so we went home with a prescription for a painkiller & anti-inflammatory thing.

Just like with visits to doctors for humans, there was a lot of waiting. Unlike visits to doctors for humans, this was expensive.