My cat has scin cancer & has had her ear tips removed. Does any one have pictures of an earless cat?
My poor little 3 year old pure white cat had her ear tips removed yesterday due to SCC (Skin cancer) She looks quite shocking at the moment as her head is shaved, the vet said she will look fine when the fur grows back; but i have never seen an earless cat before so does anyone else have experience of this; and maybe a photo i could look at. It would help me get through this.
Thanks
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1. I volunteer at our local Animal Services and we had a white cat in there that got skin cancer and had it's ears completely removed, so her face looked like a round snowball! If I hadn't been at the limit of cats i could have, I would have adopted her, she was so beautiful and her hair did grow back. It turns out her owners (that initially turned her in), came back to get her, so that was a blessing.For anyone who doesn't know, white cats should never be kept outdoors because they do develop skin cancer. If they go out at all, or lay in the sunshine a lot, put sunscreen on their ears. This is an absolute fact.
2. Some cats may have bits of their ears removed or even more.
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I hope your cat feels better soon. The vets are right, as soon as the fur grows back, she will look much better and healthier, although her ears will never look quite the same again, the main thing is she is healthy and recovering from her ordeal.
Cats that go out a lot, especially white cats, have a good chance of getting skin cancer. I'd look online and type it in and I think your bound to find more stories on people who have been through the same situation as you.
3. i dont have a cat with tip less ears but i do have a cat just remember that the cat might diffrent on the out side but the same on the in side
4. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_0_SBjSYWpWY/Rrey99c3H0I/AAAAAAAACoE/GxA88Oe7f0Q/IMG_2132.jpg
feeel betterrr.
5. If you put, 'Cat with ear cancer', into Google Images you will be able to see pictures of cats who have had this sort of surgery.
White cats are prone to getting this and it is advisable always to use a high factor sunscreen on cats with white ears.
I don't know if just the tips of her ears were removed, but if they were then make sure that once she's healed up, make sure to use a high factor sun screen on the rest of her ears each day. It is the sun that causes these problems in white cats.
This can recur again unless you protect her in some way and she could end up losing the whole of her ears and not just the tips.
I'm sure she will look fine when her fur grows back.
