Hi All, My 5 year old male, CJ has been scratching so much that he has lost hair on his neck and shoulders. Back in July we had a flea problem here which was odd because they barely leave the house unless it's to go to the vet s, and they don't have contact with other animals. Anyways, CJ seem to have the worse reaction to the fleas and that's when he started losing his hair. I know it's not adrenal related because he had a successful adrenalectomy about a year ago. The flea problem is long gone but he is still scratching. I brought him to the vet and she has had me give him prednizone (sp?). He has been on that for awhile now and so far nothing has changed. I brought him out yesterday morning to play and in the middle of the night he had scratched so bad that his now bare skin was covered with awful scratches and scabs. The vet did a skin scrape a few weeks ago and it turned up nothing. His two cage mates don't seem to be having this problem. Could it be allergies? Any ideas? Someone mentioned to me that an Aveeno bath might help. Is this safe? He is going back to the vet this week but I wanted to run it by you all first and see if anyone else has had this happen. On a lighter note, my little girl Cindy had a successful adrenalectomy this morning. Our vet removed a big ugly tumor from her left adrenal gland and it is being sent for a biopsy. There was also one in her pancreas. She is recovering quite nicely and I get to pick her up this evening. I want to thank Anastasia Kidd for her kind words in her email to me. I felt a lot better this morning after dropping Cindy off. I'm so grateful this list exists. I think I'd be lost without all of you and this list!!! Thanks! Jennifer (the puzzled one), CJ (the itchy one), Cindy (the adrenal free one), and Petey, (the healthy one) [Posted in FML issue 3524]