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Why is my cat's skin flaking? Is it like human dry skin or dandruff?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | American Shorthair | Female | spayed | 1 year and 1 month old | 12 lbs

You know how a human can get skin that comes off their hands, do cats also get that?

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Answered By Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS

Veterinarian

Published on April 17th, 2017

I'm wondering if you mean when humans get dry skin and it flakes off. If that is what you mean, then yes cats can get dry skin as well. You can try adding some Vitamin E supplements to her food to see if that helps with it :-)

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