Looks like chin acne, the black is it and the red is the irritation. It's mostly attributed to plastic feeding bowls/bins and/or not cleaning them enough. Not a vet or work at a vet's office, just have one (Kikki) that gets it sometimes.
\nAgreed, looks like chin acne. OP, check your bowls... if they're plastic you may wish to replace with stainless steel or ceramic, especially since this looks like it might be caused by the bowl being too deep. Alternatively, making sure you wash the bowls once a day also helps prevent this.
\n\nTo deal with the acne, you can get soft silicon tooth brushes for pets and use one to help comb out the acne using room temp water. I found doing this helped it to clear up faster than if it's left unattended as the acne will continue to cause irritation (at least, it did for my kitties).
\nAnd if all of that doesn\u2019t work go to the vet, our guy got it BAD despite us doing all of the things mentioned. They gave him an antibiotic and ointment and it completely cleared it
\nAlso wash them often. We have a chocolate lab who gets this on his chin and our vet told us first thing is to keep his bowls clean and dry
\nAgreed, we switched to stainless steel bowls and noticed a difference.
\nI like to call them chinples or catne. I just take a flea comb and gently let my cat brush her chin with it and that usually works to get them out.
\nThank you everyone for your replies. I\u2019ll check. I hope it doesn\u2019t hurt her at the moment.
\nYour little cow will be fine :) Switching to stainless steel completely cleared it up for mine.
\nI hope this is true! I'm dealing with this with my kitten rn. :(
\nOf course your kitty will be okay! If it doesn't clear up maybe 2 weeks after switching to stainless, give your vet a visit and they'll give you an ointment to clear it up. :)
\nGet a stainless steel water fountain. They're like $30. The fresh flowing water encourages drinking = prevents kidney problems
\nLooks like cat acne. Replace any plastic bowls you have (go stainless steel).
\n\nI brush my cow\u2019s chin with a silicone toothbrush thingie and put vetricyn on it. If it gets scabby or puffy, vets have more options for treatment.
\nMy cow gets chin acne. Switched to stainless bowls and wash his chin now. Cleared up mostly but he still gets small ones sometimes.
\nCat acne. Switch to stainless steel bowls and don't pop it.
\nHappened with my little guy too. Switched from plastic pretty much cleared it up.
\nSeconding it might be ringworm 1. but I wouldn\u2019t put anything for humans on a cat and 2. I think it\u2019s more likely cat acne. If you can get to the vet they can confirm. They gave me some antimicrobial wipes for my orange cat when he had cat acne which seemed to help
\nI had a female cat get these sores on her chin. She was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Once on meds they stopped happening.
\nPoor baby
\nSeems like cat acne to me, which isn\u2019t unusual if your cat has fleas, or has had them at some point. My previous cat used to get it on her chin any time she had a few straggler fleas on her.
\nHave you introduced a new food? Mine got it once when I gave her a new food.
\nI agree with the comments that it's acne, switching to ceramic dishes and wiping daily with chlorhexidine wipes to clean it cleared it up for my cat in a couple weeks
\nPics of my cat\u2019s chin (cat acne) before and after treatment: https://imgur.com/gallery/KByfVcL.
\n\nI emailed the before picture to my vet, who told me to clean the chin with chlorhexidine twice daily.
\nI would definitely get a vet to take a look to make sure but it looks like kitty acne to me. I would get it treated right away -- Addie used to have really bad acne too, and she started getting these weird fleshy lumps growing on her chin after the acne cleared up. They were removed during dentals and turned out to just be skin tags I think the vet said? Thing is, when I was watching old videos of Addie I noticed she had extremely bad acne right where the enormous fleshy tab grew a few years later. It could be a coincidence of course, but it seems like a suspiciously big one to me. She has a few new bumps now, but at 18 1/2 she probably won't be having any more dentals so we'll just have to deal with them.
\nMy cat had something similar a while back but it was more on his lip. Turned out to be what the vet called "rodent ulcer." They gave him a steroid shot and it quickly cleared up. I don't know if this is the same thing. I'd try the suggestions above and if those don't work you should take your kitty to the vet.
\nMy friend is a vet tech and recommended this for my cat, cleared it up with daily applications and some gentle brushing to the area, https://www.chewy.com/vetericyn-plus-antimicrobial-feline/dp/231509
\nCat acne caused by edge of dirty food bowl use a stainless or glass food bowl. Wash chin every day put a coating of neosporine on the chin . If it disnt go away in 2 weeks go to the vet.
\nAlso dirty door on the cat door too will do it. I have multiple kitties
\nI agree with everyone that it's cat acne but the way you're holding her is hilarious
\nI use glass bowls and my cat got this. I wasn't washing the cats dishes frequently enough. Now I do and it hasn't come back
\nOne of my kitties gets this, and it looks like just a pimple. My best recommendation is to clean their bowls daily, gently wipe down his chin with some warm water to clean up the area, and then apply some antibiotic ointment to prevent infection. Give it a day or two, and if it gets any worse at all, call your vet, and send them a photo of the affected area f possible. My orange chubster gets these despite clean Steele bowls, and he usually scratches them open, so make sure your kitty doesn\u2019t developed that habit now, and treat it while it\u2019s not too big. \ud83d\ude23
\nMy vet said it\u2019s the equivalent of cat acne. Clean the food bowls and dab a little peroxide on it from time to time. They can also get them from drooling when they are nervous, but the placement of that one looks more like from a dish.
\nI have to agree! It does look like chin acne. My cat Jack had the same issue but didn't get to the point of irritation. The vet told me to try switching his bowls to ceramic bowls and it slowly went away. Hope this helps!\u263a\ufe0f
\nMy cow cat and my orange cat have both gotten acne on their chins. I hold a warm washcloth against it and then wipe VERY gently. Ymmv depending on how much your cat tolerates being groomed\u2014 mine weirdly love having \u201cspa day\u201d \ud83d\ude39
\nOur lil lady has a bad bout of acne covering her entire lil chin. I notice her scratching the acne on things with edges (the laptop, drywall corners) which prob feels nice for her but it opens the acne and leaves her with open sores. Might be helpful to try and monitor her scratchies.
\nYou'll need to have your vet check it out to make sure you're treating the right thing. Looks like acne from here, but if it happens to be ringworm, that's a whole 'nother thing.
\nMany ppl saying cat acne and I agree. What i don't see prevalent in comments to DO NOT pop it. Cat acne is different from human. Our acne is clogged pores. Cat acne is actually infected hair roots. Popping is extremely painful for the cat and can spread the infection.
\nI can't tell if it's a perfect circle, because I have a migraine right now and can't see very well. If it's a perfect circle, look into getting some over the counter athletes foot cream and putting it on it, because it could be ringworm. Ringworm doesn't look anything like most people expect it to. Especially on cats. On cats, it looks like a perfect circle of bald spot and it's a little rough to the touch. In some areas, ringworm is extremely easy to get.
\n\nRingworm is not a worm or parasite or anything, it's a fungal infection. That's why you get athletes foot cream and put it on there. If it helps, then it's ringworm. If it doesn't help, it won't hurt.
\nI just noticed this on our house cat\u2019s chin. She had fleas a while ago for which she got her treatment. Any idea what this could be
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I just noticed this on our house cat’s chin. She had fleas a while ago for which she got her treatment. Any idea what this could be
