[Ruphus]

Interesting, Tim, thanks a lot.
Sounds plausible. Less dirt on the skin needing less oil to move it away. For the breath odor ... Can it possibly be that you feed her with decent food that you prepair yourself? Like fresh meat etc.?

I´m asking, because bad breath often has to do with tartar. And tartar knowingly encreases a lot by consumption of industrial food which again consists of useless waste like bones, skins, hair and connective tissue that otherwise would have to be thrown away. That crap get´s pre-dissolved with hydrochloric acid to make it somewhat digestible at all and the result makes trash that ain´t good for much more than immitating sustenance while sticking to the teeth pretty well. ( In the same time the saying that dry food would help removing / preventing tartar is an industrial myth. It actually only worsens the case.)

I learned this just weeks ago. The vet anesthetized my cat to remove all the tartar thoroughly and adviced me to give him raw meat instead and just put the meat into the freezer before to prevent worms.

Now, I can´t afford to feed exclusively meat, but started to give him about 1/3 of fine raw meat to replace some of the can food. And it seems to do him so good that I feel bad to have given him that useless waste exclusively for so many years before.

As I can see on the pic Tasha has one thing in common with my Main Coon cat. Both have hair under the palms to achieve more surface when running on snow like with snow shoes.

These fellas wouldn´t care much about - 15° or something.

Ruphus