Re: Kitty zits
- From: "Christina Websell" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:13:46 +0100
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:42:33 -0700, Bobcat wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I noticed a lump on our little black Sophie's
chin, and I was concerned about it. The next morning it had
disappeared,
so I cancelled my planned trip to the vet. But yesterday the lump
returned, and I became doubly concerned, so today I took Sophie to the
vets. Dr. Beck's verdict? Feline acne! Sophie had a zit! I was very
relieved, and asked what had caused it, other than Sophie's a teenager.
Dr. Beck said it's very important that her feed bowls- preferably
stainless steel - be clean at all times. Good news all round.
It's amazing the number of kitties that do develop zits due to plastic
bowls.
So much so that when I read about how many do, I made sure my two only
eat of out of stainless steel bowls and occasionally enamel saucers,
clean for every meal. It may be that plastic gets scratched through
being cleaned over time and bacteria can enter the scratches. I haven't
heard about the same problem in dogs, though. My whippets used to
eat/drink out of heavy porcelain bowls, to stop them pushing them around
to get out the last microscopic piece of edible substance out, so whether
the bowls were as impervious as stainless steel would be or whether
whipppets just don't get acne, I'm not too sure ;-)
Perhaps plastic bowls are more likely to get contaminated by bacteria
because of cats habits of leaving food to go back to. D*gs (or at least
mine) normally *never* do this. If they did I knew they were ill.
It was a big learning curve for me when my d*gs had all gone to RB and
the cats moved in. I was worried when they didn't gobble up all their
food the instant it was presented. It concerned me that they didn't seem
to understand despite repeated warnings that there were some things I
didn't want them to do and they ignored it. I began to think I'd got a
couple of cats with learning disabilities ;-)
ROTFLMAO! Nope, *you* were the one with learning disabilities (at least
in their eyes)!
I'm learning, truly I am. It's a difficult shift from being a d*g person
all your life to having two cats move in without permission ;-)
And then finding you don't understand how their minds work because they are
*so* different. I used to think they were deliberately being "naughty" by
insisting on behaviour my d*gs would never have dreamed of, like jumping up
on the worktops to steal food, sneaking upstairs to get on the beds (no d*g
was allowed upstairs except to be nursed during illness, or end of life
comfort in bed with me) Oh, except for Minnie, my heart dog who slept with
me always, tucked up like spoons until morning. Ask anyone who has a
whippet - those dogs gravitate towards the bed at night. Legend has it that
oldtime miners used to pop a whippet in bed with their children to keep them
warm at night.
It would certainly suit the whippets who have short hair, little flesh and
easily get cold. How nice to have a canine hot water bottle that never gets
cold.
I can recommend it.
Tweed
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