Here is a picture of Charlie with what I have referred to as a cat pimple. It is not really that. It is a sore spot about 3 mm across in the area of his whisker pad. It seems to be a slight lump too.
My feeling is that it is like a human spot on a teenager’s face. I am watching it. He is not scratching it as far as I can tell. There is no discomfort. If it is not a cat pimple or spot it could be caused by Charlie scratching his face. However, it is round and this does not look like it was caused by scratching. I could be wrong of course. There is nothing else like it on other parts of him, at the moment and I don’t think it is quite bad enough to see a vet about it, as it may resolve itself.
Maybe, since you said there was a slight bump, it is a bee sting? It certainly has no markings, as far as I can tell. No stinger. His whisker was pulled out, most likely. infected follicle.
This leads me, inspired, to ask you All (i am shy), Do You Worry that You’re Feline is not well-enough protected from the Great Outdoors?
Michael, I don’t know; it might be from a plant or animal sp. that hurt him? so he scratched or bit and removed the source? I’ don’t know. It is making me itchy just thinking about this.
Watch it closely…It could be a spider bite. Do you have poisonous spiders in your area?…There is also a species of fly that lays it’s egg under the skin of it’s host…Here in the USA, we have a common pest called a chigger, and it lays an egg under the host’s skin…I would go to the vet just to be sure it’s not a burrowing parasite or potentially dangerous spider bite…Or, God forbid, the beginning of a cancer.
Thanks Dan for helping.
I am pretty sure it’s not feline acne, but it is most certainly some sort of sore. It could be from the lack of or too much of one thing or another. It might be from a scratch or cut, but probably not. I have a feeling that if it isn’t an inratatated pimple it is a reaction to something or the other. Differently not a worm or tick I’d think.