My 11 month old cat has been having skin issues for the past 6 months. She gets these huge scabs around her mouth, chin, above her eyes and behind her ears and occasionally on the back of her neck.

When it started out, we were told it was cat acne and treated it with wipes, cleanings, new bowls, new food that was less greasy and new water bowls.

Then it got worse so we took her to a new vet. The vet treated her for mites as he was concerned it was demodex. So he gave her nexguard and tresaderm drops for her ears and scabs. We did the drops for a week, then stopped for a week and then resumed for another week. When using the drops, they go away. But they came back so we took her back and he treated her for demodex mites again. And told us to do another round of tresaderm.

The scabs and hair loss came back AGAIN so we started her in a food elimination diet using HA purina. She is on week 2 out of a 8-12 week trial.

Her scabs and patches of fur loss is overwhelming. Poor baby has such bad scabs that she’s picking them off and having bleeding wounds on her face. He told us to continue the tresaderm for now. But I’m just so concerned. He said he does not think it is FIV at all and is almost certain it’s a food allergy. She was tested for ring worm and it was negative. No blood test done yet.

Does anyone have any advice or insight they can offer? We’ve been to the vet 3 times in the last 1 1/2 months and we will continue to take her back until we have answers but I’m wondering if anyone can think of anything that maybe we’re missing.

My cat was recently in a fight with another cat and got his eyelid scratched, he couldn't open his eye fully and now after a few days it looks like this.

UPDATE: Got back from the vet, they said his eye was directly scratched and is infected. They gave my antibiotic drops and some sort of vitamin drops for regeneration that I need to apply 2 times a day. The cat is fine, thank you everyone.

i have no clue how to explain, i just noticed this on my cat's eye,,, should this warrant a vet visit? my mom's out of town until the middle of next week so i don't know what i can even do. if this is an emergency situation i can probably figure it out , if there's a better sub for this to go in then please point me in that direction. i can't ask the askvet sub because they don't allow pictures.

I just had my cat neutered. he seems to be struggling - he pooped in his carrier when I was brining him back. I put him in the bathroom so he’s contained and he puked a little. He’s been like quite stressed. I don’t know what to do for him.

the fluffy smaller cat is 2mo, while the shorter haired bigger cat is 4mo. is this fighting or playing? their tails kind of flick around and the 2mo makes small meows and occasionally hisses but seems to also engage. their ears aren't usually flat and they chase each other around the room. my older cat backs off sometimes at the 2mo's cries but not always. pls lmk if i should keep them separate more!!

I have two cats both 5 years old, both boys both without balls. They're not related. One of them keeps trying to intensely push his nose into my other cat's behind to smell it like a dog. The other cat never does this and also doesn't seem to enjoy it. His butt is clean, I checked. It's just weird and I've never seen cats do this.

Is my cat just a freak or was he a dog in his past life? Or is there something up here?

I have one cat, and currently use a stainless still litter box, Litter Genie, and clay unscented litter. I go out of town often and pay a lot of money for cat sitters. When I’m gone, my roommate says the house starts to smell like litter. When im home it gets deep cleaned weekly (obvi scooped 2-3 times a day). I’m not sure if there’s a better system to use, but it’s so not fair to my roommate so I’m looking to fix this ASAP. Not sure if something like the Litter Robot would help, or make it worse. Or maybe I just need to cat sitters to do full litter changes. Advice desired!

i have a 6 year old male cat that just recently in the past few months has started peeing in random spots around the house. it started with our dog’s bed (who has been around for 2 years), and now he peed on the kitchen mat. he has never had this problem before, always keeping to his litter box and being an all around calm cat. he’s neutered and has never had a spraying issue. could this be a urinary issue or a territory issue? he does not seem to be in pain when he goes, and has not shown any signs of being lethargic or withdrawn. he doesn’t hide while he does it and even does it in front of us.

Today I took my 11 year old female cat to the vet for routine bloodwork and a refill of her asthma inhaler. They wanted to do bloodwork before giving her the steroid. She is a very chill cat and her physical exam was unremarkable, they said she looked healthy and lungs and heart sounded great. They even said she was so chill during the exam.

They take her back to do bloodwork, and I noticed it was taking quite a while. Finally after about 45 minutes a nurse comes back and tells me that my cat “had an episode” and was in the oxygen chamber because she was open mouth breathing. They said they wanted her to calm down before bringing her back to me. I was of course anxious but they acted like this was not an uncommon reaction and that it was okay. My cat is 11 years old and has bloodwork and dental cleanings done every year, and this has never happened to my knowledge.

When they finally brought her back to me after an hour, she seemed a bit off. She was scared in the back of her carrier but otherwise normal. However when I walked her to the car, she started open mouth breathing and drooling. She also urinated on herself. I turned around and went back in to talk to the vet. In hindsight I should have done this before I even walked out but the nurses felt like things were normal.

The vet told me that she had reacted while they were drawing blood and started panting as a side effect of her asthma. The vet was knowledgeable and kind and I trust her. But I’ve just never seen this reaction from my cat before. She has had asthma for 8 years. The vet said she was just stressed from the vet environment and needed to go home to calm down.

We are back home now and she hasn’t panted or open mouth breathed for about four hours now. However she’s acting very lethargic. She ate a little bit of dinner but not much. I understand things happen at the vet office and not every animal reacts well. I don’t fault the vet or the nurses but I’m still just confused and wondering what could have happened. My cat is usually very chill and vet visits don’t phase her. She’s behaving so pitifully now and I’m worried something more serious is wrong. My gut feeling is that this is all just very abnormal and wrong and that they didn’t tell me the full story but I also have OCD and might be overthinking.

TLDR: So I've had my cat for about 15 years now. From New York. She's only developed this bad habit of smacking her lips, and when I noticed, she had lost a good amount of fur around her lips. And can't eat properly. She started doing it more frequently ever since she couldn't use the litter box properly.

Can't eat the same, and has become more lethargic. I don't know what to do.

my roommates and I are in the process of beginning to introduce our respective cats (two in total). last night, my roommate let her cat out of her room (after about a month of staying in her room, I did the same) to explore the house on her own, and I, admittedly, forgot to put a towel down in front of my bedroom door.

she didn't go near the door at first and stayed downstairs but when I moved to my room, I noticed my cat was sitting by the door. after a minute he started trilling like crazy and meowing like "maOOW" and then it went into a trill. he trills ALL the time, it's probably his favorite form of communication. at first, I was confused and then I heard my roomies cat growling between his sets of trills, I promptly made sure to put a barrier between the cracks so her cat wouldn't be too distressed.

he's generally very friendly but I've never really had him officially meet another cat. his only other exposure (to my knowledge, I adopted him at 2yrs old) to cats is when I kept a friend's cat in my bedroom for a few hours while they had to handle some personal stuff at their place. he had an exp with a dog but it was an untrained chihuahua (toothless, harmless) who scared with him with his barking. but afterwards, he just rubbed up against me and purred and wanted me to pet him.

my question is basically the title, is it good that he was trilling and meowing?

We rescued three male kittens. They are very healthy, happy, and probably due for their snippings soon. The vet advised us to feed them Purina one/science diet. We feed them four times a day, one half pate can to each kitten. But it's breaking our bank a little.

Is this too much? Not enough? They're very active and healthy and I know dry food has more calories- we have tried slowly introducing them to dry food but they turn their nose up at it. Money doesn't matter as long as they're healthy- i expected three kittens to be a bit of work- but I want to know if there's any way I can keep them happy while maybe getting more chomps for my buck.

We also got them a water fountain.

Their names are Stoat(marble), Edwin(black), and Ramses(gray.)

What could this mean is she in immediate danger? She started acting normal again and is napping and breathing normally but i dont know what to do if anything?