Help! I Think There’s Something Wrong With My Cat? Her Chin Is Weird….?
Posted by: Alan in Cat Health Problem, tags: Chin, Help, Something, There's, Think, Weird, With, Wrong
I’ve had my cat Sugarbaby for almost 8 years. And I think she is a brown mackerel tabby.
I’ve noticed for about a week now, maybe less, that her chin is kind of pink. So I thought maybe she’s just itching herself too hard.
But today when I came home from work I noticed her chin looked kind of swollen, it didn’t look quite right. So then I noticed there’s a small area on her chin where she scratches an inch or something and it looks like she’s losing fur in that area and there are these bumps that kind of look like acne, but it’s black… Or are those black things her whiskers?
Usually I rub my finger on her chin gently because she loves that and when I tried it today her mouth kind of opened in a discomfort type of way. She doesn’t seem to shut her mouth all the way like she used to.
Is this something serious, should I be worried? Because I am very worried. I want to take her to the vet but I don’t have any money at this time.
She’s never had any health problems either.
A couple months ago I let two stray kittens live with us (they live with someone else now)…. Could those kittens be the cause of this?
Help!
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October 31st, 2009 at 5:46 am
She reallly should be seen by a vet. In the meantime, change her food to completely grain free. Wellness Core Grain Free Feline is a really good food. Make sure you also feed her high quality (not from the grocery store or WalMart) canned food. They need the extra moisture from the wet food. Grains of all types will cause all kinds of problems with our dogs and cats, skin allergies topping that list. Seriously research grain free, byproduct free, artificial preservative free foods. Get her off of grains and never feed her low quality food again. If you do that, you’re kitty should be with you till she’s into her 20’s.
Get some Colloidal Silver from the health food store and swab her chin with it and it will clear up any infection.
October 31st, 2009 at 10:53 am
it sounds like feline acne to me. All my cats developed this in their “teenage” stage. Here is some info http://cats.about.com/cs/healthissues/a/…
also google pictures of feline acne and tons of pics come up. You can compare them to what your cat looks like