Show us your Freckled noses! Is it only orangies that have them?

[sirrahbed]

How interesting!! The only freckles here are on orangie Dylan's nose.

[Blue_Frog]

kimlovescats wrote:
Right off hand, the only PT kitties I can think of with freckled noses are orangies. Is this something that is more prominent in orange kitties like it is in humans with red hair? Of course I am brunette, and I had some freckles as a child, but you know how redheads tend to have more? Let's see your freckle-faced kitties! Here is my Rusty:

So, I got to thinking - I can't remember any other colour of cats with freckles or pepper-nose, so did a little research --

From http://www.cat-world.com.au/Glossary...tigo%20Simplex

Lentigo Simplex - In orange cats it causes multifocal pigmentation on the lips, nose, gingiva, and/or eyelids. Small black spots that appear often appear on red cats lips or nose that can be up to 9 mm in diameter. They cause the cats no harm; Freckling on orange cats.

From http://www.vetlearn.com/images/SA%20...t%20lentigo%22

PIGMENTARY DISORDERS
Lentigo Simplex in Orange Cats Lentigo simplex in orange cats is an idiopathic, asymptomatic, multifocal pigmentation of the lips, nose, gingiva, and eyelids. Early lesions of small, black spots on the lips are observed in the young cat (less than 1 year). These gradually increase in size and may coalesce to form areas of macular melanosis up to 9 mm in diameter.
Diagnosis is made on the basis of history and clinical signs. Biopsy findings confirm the presence of hypermelanosis. No treatment is indicated since the lesions are asymptomatic and do not transform to melanomas.

Soo... its a completely harmless (and cute!) pigmentation -- or freckles -- just like a lot of other red-heads get!

And it even has its' own 'medical' or clinical term -- Lentigo Simplex in Orange Cats

... and more pepper-nose pictures of Hobbes

[catmandu]

The Young and The Senior Freckled Orange Cats.
Michael and Miquelito.

[jazzcat]

The only freckles here are on Scout - the orangie. She just started getting them recently. She has more on her lips.

[kimlovescats]

So, I got to thinking - I can't remember any other colour of cats with freckles or pepper-nose, so did a little research --

From http://www.cat-world.com.au/Glossary...tigo%20Simplex


From http://www.vetlearn.com/images/SA%20...t%20lentigo%22


Soo... its a completely harmless (and cute!) pigmentation -- or freckles -- just like a lot of other red-heads get!

And it even has its' own 'medical' or clinical term -- Lentigo Simplex in Orange Cats

... and more pepper-nose pictures of Hobbes

How cool! Thanks for finding this info. See the 2 non-orangies who have them, have SOME orange in them too! So it wasn't my imagination!

[krazyaboutkatz]

Great pictures everyone. Sunny has some freckles on his lips and nose and my Sky has big freckles on his nose.


Sunny's freckles on his nose a very light so they're hard to see but he has blacks ones on his lips.


Sky when he was quite fluffy. He has two large freckles on his nose.

[Uabassoon]

Corkscrew doesn't have and nose freckles, but he does have lip freckles.

[critters]

Blue Frog, I just LOVE that pic of him with the little calico baby!!

[mrspunkysmom]

So that explains the pigmentations I have seen on my cat's gums. now I know.

Thanks

[jenluckenbach]

Not a freckle in sight here. Even orangie Amber has a perfectly pink nose.

[momcat]

What a gorgeous gallery of freckled faces!

[ramanth]

Logan has a single freckle.


His brother Eli, has lots of nose freckles.


They seem to break the only orange or some orange rule. Since their momma is Zam, they must of inheirited the freckle trait from her.