hannahandbaxter
Lairian
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Hi everyone! My hairless cat is 3 years old, and has playfully bitten at his tail since he was a baby. It appears from the outside that he does not realize it is his tail, and will swat and bite at it. The past few months, he has started to be more aggressive with his tail, attacking it to the point that it would sometimes bleed. There was a particular incident about 2 months ago where he would not stop biting it, it was bleeding a ton and I had to take him to the emergency vet where he got stitches. When I took him to his regular vet, they told me that they believed this behavior to be anxiety related, and once he got his stitches out and his cone off, he started prozac. He has been on prozac for 7 weeks now and it really does not seem to be helping (and also seems to have made his feet extremely fuzzy). If he catches sight of his tail, he will swat at it and bite it until it bleeds, and sometimes even still after that. The vet told me it could take between 4-8 weeks for the prozac to fully start working in his brain, but I am just wondering if anyone else has had this issue and has any suggestions. I know he doesn't realize that his tail is part of his body, but it is so stressful to watch him self-harm this way. I will just all of a sudden hear him crying out in pain from biting his tail so hard.... Has anyone experienced this with their cats???