An Allergy of a different kind

01/12/2007 by Arielle.

I just felt so sorry for Inca when she stepped out of her basket today (or rather skulked out as Siamese cats do). Inca has suffered with an allergic skin all her life and is on a permanent dose of steroids to stop her from licking and scratching herself raw.

Her owner felt awful as she had been away and left Inca in the care of her brother. He was cooking a stir fry and had left a bowl of raw prawns on the side ready to fry. Inca spotted them and apparently ate through ¾ of the bowl before he realised what had happened.

She returned a few days later to find that Inca’s skin which is normally kept under control with the steroids, had erupted and she really looked terribly moth-eaten and so sorry for herself. The owner at least now knew what she was severely allergic to and she was determined that not another prawn would pass Inca’s fangs.

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