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Bad breath comes to the best of us, including our feline pets. While many cases of morning breath may be resolved with a morning brushing regimen, cat foul breath frequently suggests a more serious medical condition, which can have both oral and systemic origins. Give your sleeping cat a loving smell when you're nose-to-nose with her. Something isn't right if the stink isn't pleasant feline breath that you know and love, but a stench that makes you cringe. Just as the eyes may reveal the soul, a cat's breath can reveal her health. "The breath of a healthy cat should not be foul," says Eric Davis, DVM, head of Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine's Dental Referral Service and fellow of the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry. Cats with foul breath are a typical problem for their owners. Consider what would happen if you didn't clean your teeth for months or perhaps years. Poor dental health causes unpleasant breath in many cats, known as halitosis. There are home cures for foul breath in cats, which is excellent news. Before we get into how to fix cat foul breath at home, let's take a look at why your cat can have halitosis in the first place.