sun cream on cats

[steve]

On one of my regular dog walks I come back up to Algar Seco via the turning past O Cantinho and I pass a house where the white cat has had parts of its ears amputated. When I asked the Portuguese owner about it she said that cancer had been discovered in the cat´s ears but surgery had removed the infected parts. I did not think much more about it until I saw an item on the news today where a vet was advising people to put strong factor suncream on the ears and nose of cats with white fur because they suffer from a pigment deficiency which can leave them prone to sunburn and possible skin cancers. You live and learn!

[cereza]

We had this with one of our cats about 20 years ago. Our 2 year old ginger and white cat loved to sunbathe but his white nose was turning black - the vet said it was cancer and told us to put sun block on his nose an ears whenever he went out. The nose gradually turned white again and he lived to 17 years of age

[blue]

I had a beautiful pure white cat in the eighties & I was told then by my vet to put suncream on her ears & nose, she didn't seem to mind & she never had any problems.

[maccasa]

its a very comon problem no matter where you live and the vets are always telling us about it. The problem we have is finding a sun blok that they dont lick off!

[blue]

We used to put the sun block on just before she had her food in the mornings, by the time she had eaten she'd forgotten about the cream.

[Lesley Jean]

Not just cats either, any animal which has pale or white skin should be protected from the sun with a very high factor block, we have put it on horses, pigs, dogs and cats who are all susceptible to sunburn and therefore skin cancer.