Cat dandruff can be a little alarming. After all, cat’s usually take care of themselves and don’t “need” a lot of attention. However, you may find that when you pet your cat that they do in fact have dandruff. Cat dandruff will cause white flaky skin on their coats and lots of itching. The cause most often is a lack of Omega 3 Fatty Acids in their diet. If their body can not properly keep their skin moist and oiled, your cat will almost certainly develop dandruff. With out a doubt the very first thing you should try doing, is something you shouldn’t be doing if you are.

If you bathe your cat, please stop. Human soaps, or even those that claim to be for a cat, have a tendency to not rinse completely out of their undercoat. The soap dries out their skin, and bingo, you’ve got a cat with dandruff. So if you are bathing your kitty, see what happens when you stop bathing them. That alone may eliminate the dandruff problem all by itself. Try adding a little canned tuna fish to their food every day. Tuna is high in Omega 3 so this is a good place to begin. Feed your cat some tuna every day for a couple of weeks and see if the dandruff clears up. If it does, then all you have to do is once a week or so give your kitty a decent helping of tuna and the dandruff should go away for good. Unless you’re bathing your cat, this is the first thing to do with regards to treating cat dandruff. I would venture to say that this one item can cure cat dandruff in probably 80% of the cases, and that’s a conservative estimate.

Next on the list to treat the stupid dead skin in your cat’s fur is to consider things that may have changed recently, such as the carpeting. If your cat is having an allergic reaction to something, the only way to effectively and permanently get rid of the dandruff is to eliminate the source of the allergy. You may have to experiment a little to find out what it is, but once you eliminate the cause, the dandruff will clear up usually within three or four days.