Hi cat lovers
As per one of my previous posts here we adopted a small kitty, Sorellina last Nov. , to keep company for our other cat who has been left without her sister last year.
The small one...well, not that small by now is a super-powered,turbo-action, non-stop, trouble making bundle of joy , finally growing up a bit
We've noticed from the time we took her in she had a bit of a stinky breath, although not something to be very worrisome, assumed it has to do with being fed mostly wet food and probably of lower quality at the overcrowded shelter she was in.
Now, many months later, we only feed her top-quality food, not raw or homemade, but they pretty much get the best there is on the market, a combination of mostly wet and also some dry food. Our other cat, Corleone is her name, has the shiniest, dangerous looking set of white death I've come across in a cat, and she's not afraid to use it when she needs to make a point Our small kitty though, the one I'm opening the thread about, she still has pretty much quite an unpleasant breath/smell in her mouth, and I examined her teeth on few occasions, besides some slightly reddish gums during the eruption of back teeth, nothing seems to be out of place. The only difference I can think of is that she definitely eats more wet/sticky food, whereas Corleone kind of favors dry food,she likes to lap up cat soups or homemade brothy chicken my wife makes ofr them, but she's very fussy otherwise, she hardly touches any wet food from pouches such as Cosma, Hill's or Royal Canin.
One side-effect of the smell is that Corleone, our other cat, does NOT allow Sorellina to lick her after all this time, sometimes she licks her, but not the other way around, and I'm pretty sure its because of the smell, because she actually makes faces and sometimes she even smacks/pushes aside Sorellina if she tries, which means its sort of preventing their bonding time together (they do sometimes snuggle or sleep or just sunbathe on the windowsill beside each other.
We are considering taking her to the vet as well soon now that most are open here but just asking here as well in case some of you also faced this situation and maybe have some advice which would be much appreciated.
Thanks and Happy 4th for those of you that might be reading this from the US of A.
As per one of my previous posts here we adopted a small kitty, Sorellina last Nov. , to keep company for our other cat who has been left without her sister last year.
The small one...well, not that small by now is a super-powered,turbo-action, non-stop, trouble making bundle of joy , finally growing up a bit
We've noticed from the time we took her in she had a bit of a stinky breath, although not something to be very worrisome, assumed it has to do with being fed mostly wet food and probably of lower quality at the overcrowded shelter she was in.
Now, many months later, we only feed her top-quality food, not raw or homemade, but they pretty much get the best there is on the market, a combination of mostly wet and also some dry food. Our other cat, Corleone is her name, has the shiniest, dangerous looking set of white death I've come across in a cat, and she's not afraid to use it when she needs to make a point Our small kitty though, the one I'm opening the thread about, she still has pretty much quite an unpleasant breath/smell in her mouth, and I examined her teeth on few occasions, besides some slightly reddish gums during the eruption of back teeth, nothing seems to be out of place. The only difference I can think of is that she definitely eats more wet/sticky food, whereas Corleone kind of favors dry food,she likes to lap up cat soups or homemade brothy chicken my wife makes ofr them, but she's very fussy otherwise, she hardly touches any wet food from pouches such as Cosma, Hill's or Royal Canin.
One side-effect of the smell is that Corleone, our other cat, does NOT allow Sorellina to lick her after all this time, sometimes she licks her, but not the other way around, and I'm pretty sure its because of the smell, because she actually makes faces and sometimes she even smacks/pushes aside Sorellina if she tries, which means its sort of preventing their bonding time together (they do sometimes snuggle or sleep or just sunbathe on the windowsill beside each other.
We are considering taking her to the vet as well soon now that most are open here but just asking here as well in case some of you also faced this situation and maybe have some advice which would be much appreciated.
Thanks and Happy 4th for those of you that might be reading this from the US of A.
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