Inspect your cat s mouth if you see sores appearing on the upper lip there will be a loss of tissue with the area appearing red or orange yellow.
Rodent ulcer cat lip.
Rodent ulcer which also goes by many clinical names including eosinophilic granulomas is a complex highly unpleasant skin condition that my poor cat murphy developed.
They seem to cause no pain.
The sores may be covered in scabs or they may bleed and give off a foul odor.
A rodent ulcer starts as a pinkish spot usually around the cat s mouth and develops into an open sore.
The disease presents itself as a hard lesion that appears on the inside of a cat s lip.
An ulcer may recur if the cat has had them before.
They most commonly present on the upper lip but can also occur on the bottom lip tongue or behind a molar.
Indolent ulcers occur on the upper lip of cats at almost any age.
At six month follow up the cat had gained a total of 3 pounds.
The cat will often not give any notice to the presence of a rodent ulcer.
It usually occurs on the upper lip although that is not always the case.
The upper lip area is the most common place for sores to develop.
The cat rodent ulcer has been called by several names.
While it looks painful the ulcer seems to pose no discomfort to an infected cat.
The cat readily adapted to the canned formula and was weaned off of the a d.