Thread: PINK?!
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Old April 4th 16, 01:45 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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Default No More Pink! (WAS: PINK?!)

For some reason this morning Buffy is very vocal. When giving her
scritches I noticed her ears and her paw pads seem exceptionally
brighter pink. (She's an orange tabby.) She isn't usually this
chatty, either.

The slightly alarming bright pink Buffy's ears and paw pads faded
back to normal. What an odd occurence!


Had she been eating fish?

I'm thinking of a reaction to histamine and other neuroactive amines
in food - a.k.a. scombrotoxin poisoning. Not very dangerous despite
the scary name. The symptoms are like an allergy but it isn't one.
Whether a particular batch of fish contains enough amines to cause
the syndrome is not really predictable.

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