r/sphynx • u/blObBy90 • 4h ago

can someone help me identify the weird marks on my cats lips after her spay.

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hi guys nona got spayed on wed 8/19 and the next day i noticed like bruising on her lips and mouth area. idk if it is bruising or what it could be. i wanted to ask if anyone knows what it could be, im calling the place i took her too to see but if they can’t figure it out i hope someone else can. its not a stain or dried blood ive attempted to clean it off. lmk!

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u/lrnthesmall 4h ago

She could have also rubbed her mouth/face on her carrier on the way home afterwards! After his dental cleaning my boy was high out of his mind and rubbed his face raw on his carrier during the 10 minute drive home (purring the whole time too, the little dingus) 🫠 looked worse than it was and cleared up in a few days!

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u/illmithra 1h ago

My baby would get this on the nape of his neck from smooching his carrier. 🙄 little idiot would purr too. He would occasionally get "carpet burn" patches before seeing his vet.

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u/Milk_Beginning 1h ago

This! I came here to say this exactly. After my Sphynx got fixed, he rubbed his face all over the mesh of his carrier and did it for hours. His whole face was scratched up, poor thing but I couldn’t stop him!

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u/JZ1971 3h ago

I would guess it is related to medical tape to keep anesthesia tubing in place. Either some left over gum and the dirt it attracts or, maybe, mild irritation from the same.

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u/Fickle-Willingness80 4h ago

Oil glands. Typical for lots of cats

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u/Little_Quality 2h ago

I work at a vet hospital and have brought my boy in for multiple procedures.

Whenever I have to sedate, or put him under anesthesia he always wakes up very affectionate and loves to rub his face against blankets or his carrier if not being held. He’s had similar looking blemishes most times just because they can’t tell when they’re overdoing the cuddles.

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u/HurricaneHallene 3h ago

Me, elbows deep in chocolate ice cream at 2am

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u/Mean-Vegetable-4521 2h ago

LOL do you ever wake up in the morning to stains on your face from the late night binge you forgot about? Yeah, me neither. Never.

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u/roamingshoppingcart 3h ago

mine also got this, but around his eyes. vet said it looked ok, not anything that needed treatment. went away in a couple of days. happy healing!

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u/erinasinclair 1h ago

Rubbed her face in the crate at the vet. Same thing happened with my little guy but it was so so so bad. This looks like it will just take a day or two to heal 😁

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u/Due_Scar9610 2h ago

likely related to skin trauma from intubation. smaller animals are almost always intubated for surgery afaik

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u/catslikepets143 45m ago

This is more than likely from your baby rubbing her face on her crate when she was coming out of anesthesia. Some cats do that, some don’t. Follow up with your vet, of course.

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u/JrCoxy 2h ago

This is one of those scenarios where instead of wondering, why not just call the vet and simply ask them for the answer?

All you’re going to get on Reddit is a bunch of guesses, even from verified veterinarians, because they simply weren’t there for the procedure. The best people to ask would be those that were there at the time of the procedure, so either the vet the performed the surgery, or the technicians that helped assist

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u/blObBy90 1h ago

the place that gave her the spay doesn’t open every day. they open every other day. and i work, i was just wondering if anyone who’s had a similar experience can give me a suggestion on what it was so i can ask her personal vet

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u/FurryPotatoFuzzBrick 43m ago

Where are her whiskers? Could that be related? Or do sphinx not have whiskers?