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So if a cat has mammary hyperplasia and the skin splits and ulcerates, how serious is it? I mean what do you mean by "it can be serious"?Sounds like you are dealing with Mammary Hyperplasia. Hormones cause the breasts to swell like they have milk in them and the symptoms mimic mastitis even though the cat isn't nursing kittens. I dealt with this in one of my girls. It can be serious if the skin splits and ulcerates. Best solution is spaying. She will likely be coming into heat soon since this is happening. I would speak with the vet now about spaying her, before it gets worse and is a much more involved (and expensive) surgery. My girl was fine,even though I did not spay her - she was pregnant with her first litter of kittens (I am a breeder) when she developed it. Poor baby looked like Dolly Parton on steriods! The swelling went down after she had the kittens and we were lucky there was no tearing or ulceration. This sometimes happens to young cats around their first heat, although from what I have read is fairly uncommon.