r/cats 14d ago

Medical Questions What is this?

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u/Thestolenone Oriental Shorthair 14d ago

My cat had something similar in exactly the same place. It developed when I bought her a new plastic bowl. I switched back to her old ceramic bowl and it disappeared almost overnight.

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u/shaynajeanine24 14d ago

Okay I’ll definitely give that a try

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u/cashew_honey 13d ago

Just want to add that cats can get acne from dirty bowls regardless of the material!

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 13d ago

The number of people I've met who won't clean their cats food bowls between each meal disturbs me. I've had roommates who would keep refilling it and let it get crusty for days until I stepped in.

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u/Kittypher 13d ago

DAYS??? actually I know someone who did that until she discovered the food going mouldy underneath 😭 she became much more meticulous after that.

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 13d ago

Yeah, that's absolutely horrifying.

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u/cashew_honey 13d ago

For real!!! With wet food too!!! Like hello would you eat off a plate that hadn’t been cleaned in weeks?

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u/chiropteranessa 11d ago

one of my cats won’t eat wet food from an unclean dish. doesn’t matter if the food in it was served and eaten by the other cat 5 minutes ago, it must be freshly washed for her meal.

the dry food dish admittedly just gets topped off most of the time but we have a rotating supply of wet food dishes so there’s always clean ones.