Psychogenic Alopecia

Sounds terrible, doesn't it. Betsy the cat suffers from it. It is an OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). When she is nervous or upset, she pulls her hair out. She was doing quite well for a while and almost all of the fur she was missing had grown back in. Now she is pulling it out again. She won't sit still long enough to get a picture, but she looks really sad with a nearly bare bottom and a ring of missing fur around her tail. Otherwise, she is a really pretty calico cat.