I noticed my cat suddenly broke out on his chin, I've seen pictures of how bad it can get from scratching at it and he's been scratching pretty badly at it and his fur seems "dirty" and stained from it. I'd take him to the vet but they'd just do a bunch of biopsy tests and skin scrapings just to tell me what I already know. I noticed they sell cat wipes at petsmart but not sure if any have the chemical ingredients that apparently help with acne. (benzol peroxide, chlorhexidine, or providone-iodine.)
My ideas for possible causes are:
Recently he decided that he only wants to eat limited ingredient fish. I buy him the nice stuff, real pieces of fish with all essential vitamins, nice, expensive food. However, he DOES sneak my roommate's cat's food which is horrible because she feeds her absurdly unhealthy cat nothing but dry meowmix food out of a plastic bowl.
He might have allergies to her plastic bowl or the dyes on the bowl or the dyes in the food. It might also have an allergy to grain because he seems to vomit when he eats bad quality food. I don't know if that would cause acne though.
I personally believe it is the wet food getting on his chin. Especially an oily food such as fish. I am very willing to clean his chin after every meal, I just need a good/safe product to use that is also effective.
My ideas for possible causes are:
Recently he decided that he only wants to eat limited ingredient fish. I buy him the nice stuff, real pieces of fish with all essential vitamins, nice, expensive food. However, he DOES sneak my roommate's cat's food which is horrible because she feeds her absurdly unhealthy cat nothing but dry meowmix food out of a plastic bowl.
He might have allergies to her plastic bowl or the dyes on the bowl or the dyes in the food. It might also have an allergy to grain because he seems to vomit when he eats bad quality food. I don't know if that would cause acne though.
I personally believe it is the wet food getting on his chin. Especially an oily food such as fish. I am very willing to clean his chin after every meal, I just need a good/safe product to use that is also effective.