Pet tips: what is feline acne?
Humans, especially teenage ones, are familiar with the battle against skin acne. And, believe it or not, your cat might end up with the same glandular problem. But in cats, it’s known as feline acne. How can your cat get acne? Because like humans your cat has glands in their skin. The two main glands are called the sweat glands and the sebaceous glands. The purpose of the sweat glands is self explanatory. The purpose of the sebaceous glands is to produce sebum. Sebum is an oil that aids in keeping your cat’s skin soft and smooth. It also helps to waterproof your cat’s fur coat. Have you ever seen your cat rubbing its face, especially its chin and jaws, against you or an inanimate object? It’s doing this in order to mark its territory with its scent. It uses its chin and jaws because those parts of their body contain a great number of sebaceous glands. As a whole, the glands around the facial area are known as the submental organs. The sebum oil that is released from these organs has a
