Worried about my cats

[laura_seabrook]

Regardless of any general contentment in my life, I'm worried about two of my pets.

This summer has been a bad one for fleas. The house was flea bombed in October, and again last month after K & M moved out. But that seems to have been ineffective. A week after it seemed the fleas were back again. I vacuum and do what I can, but seems like a battle I can't win (in fact, the booms seemed to have killed more cockroaches than anything else). But I am worried about gabby and Ebony.

Here's Gabby about this time last month:

She has a good thick coat, and there's a shine to it. Here's Gabby a few days ago:

Her fur is uneven and patching, and the shine's gone. Worse, there seem to be bare patches like this:

Ebony has something similar. Here she is a week ago:

Ebs has always had bare-ish patches but not so bad. Today however, she looked like this!

What is this? Is it fleas, mange, what?!

Bobby and Xena seem unaffected. Here's Xena a few days ago:

Mind you, Xena stays outside, and mostly in next door's yard. Bobby likewise is fine:

I trimmed his coat about a month ago, and while he huhs and puffs in the heat, all dogs I've ever known do. He is starting to sit down like Pegasus did in the last year of his life, but Bobby's 14-17 years old - he can do if you wants to.

So, any suggestions about what this is for Gabby and Ebony? Due to bills I'm short until Wednesday otherwise I would have taken Gabby off to the vets already. Ebony doesn't seem to be concerned about her white patches. What gives?