Misty Grey

This was an attempt to get another close-up of where her scar is. Not much left to see… It really does look like just a ripple in the fur.  The muscles above and in front of the scar seem to be… I don’t know… kinda bulging a little bit? and I am wondering if that is normal – did they shift around, or maybe bulk up because she is using them differently?  She still seems to want to scratch the area around the top of the scar, I am wondering if that is still bugging her or something.  Or maybe where it’s sewn together she has some ingrown fur or something?  Can that happen?  It’s too furry now for me to look and see what if anything is actually going on there. When i first noticed it seemed bulgy I got scared, but when I put her collar on her I found that her neck doesn’t seem any bigger and in the past few weeks it hasn’t gotten more bulgy, so I don’t think it’s a return of cancer or anything like that.

And here’s her purrty mug, can’t resist!

As I type this she is draped over my lap, sound asleep, her paws are even twitching now and then.  In this photo you can see the brownish patches of fur on her shoulder.  My old vet theorized that the brown was due to the fur getting dried out from the sunshine when she goes outside.  It seems like the brown patches were getting larger as the years went by, and nothing I did seemed to change or fix it.  But what is growing back seems mostly not to be brown.  So I think it will be interesting when her fur is all grown back – will she end up with a line where the brown ends and the newly-grown fur begins?  Maybe if I gave her a whole body shave the rest would grow back in not-brown too?  I would miss her fluffiness if I did that though, and I am betting she wouldn’t find that haircut dignifed.