Navaho Gunleg

Indeed: cat acne (sometimes called ‘chin acne’ or ‘cruddy chin’). Symptoms: weird black spots start appearing on the cats chin.

Although rarely heard of (Google search — at the time of this writing 606 hits) it’s not an entirely uncommon condition though. Iterating through these results I hit this guys experience with the disease which linked to more detailed information on the condition right here.

I also found some more information on this page.

It’s yet unclear what exactly causes it, but it seems to be either because of stress, or because of an allergic reaction and the condition is potentially chronic. (No, not that chronic.)

It could be stress — she had a pretty rough procedure earlier this year (although that’s more than 9 months ago ago).

Anyways, we noticed it a few months ago and, of course, went to the vet. We were told to try to keep it clean (with some alcohol, for instance) and it should go away over time.

Well, it disappears allright — but meanwhile it appears again on the other side of her chin, kinda like ping-pong. Also, it is pretty tought trying to clean a cats chin with something ’smelly’ as alcohol — cats don’t like that and start to struggle a bit so we couldn’t really ‘get at it’ so I guess that’s why it keeps re-appearing.

A couple of days ago my girl incidentally found something when she was in a pet store; something natural. Well, two things actually: a spray to clean her chin from the outside, and some drops to put in her food, to work on it from the inside.

We’ve been given her both for 2 days now and, well, the one thing I immediately noticed is that the cleaning spray (which is better used if you spray it on a cloth or something, to rub it on her chin — our cats hate spraying cans) doesn’t smell as strong as other stuff so you can actually rub her chin without her trying to get away from the stinky stuff. It seems like it’s actually healing better, though I won’t get my hopes up too much, it could be my imagination and 2 days really is too soon to say anything about it.

We’ll see…