Me & my vet guess that my cat 'Baby' has allergies. We have an appointment this Saturday with a specialist to find out what she may be allergic to. I am a little concerned on the tests that they may perform on her, yet if they dont, the poor girl will probably rip the rest of her fur out. Does anyone have any experience with the testing process, what to expect??

Leighann,

I thankfully never had to seriously address this issue with our girl, but I've heard from others, and even from humans who had to undergo testing, that it's sometimes not very pleasant. I just wanted to let you know though, that if either this route is not what you'd like, or it doesn't work as well as hoped for (as I've heard it often doesn't, both with animals and humans), another avenue you might explore is NAET, which is an energy form of allergy removal that apparently has had great success and with no aggravation, aside from having to go back a few times for retesting. One of our vets had the animal kit for this method and although Nissa tested positive, or at least sensitive, to a couple of things (plastic and grass), her symptoms weren't big enough for us to bother going through the entire process for her...since you have to have zero contact with any offending substance for a minimum of, I believe, 24 hours, in order to cure it. Since there are plastic substances all around the home, we didn't see how we could realistically keep her away from everything for that long. Even if you know of no vets who offer this, it might be possible to find a human practioner who would be willing to use it for your furbaby, even if they don't have the specific animal kit, since many offending allergens are the same for them as for us. (The animal kit also contained things such as typical animal vaccines, etc. that humans wouldn't be exposed to.) If you're interested, there's a main website for this method that you could look at and where they might even, by now, have practi*tioners listed by area.