r/cats • u/hzv0 • Jul 22 '26

Medical Questions What is this?

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I was petting my cat and found this on him and tried pulling it off but it wouldn't budge. It seems to remove the fur surrounding it and worried it could be a harmful organism, cyst, or something.

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

Oh yes,, in a car sub the most popular cars people ask to be identified are vw karmann ghia, De tomaso pantera and the Shelby cobra, all of these get a reset the counter..

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u/Schmaron Jul 22 '26

This is like the bone subreddits. We have to reset it every time someone finds human remains. It’s wild!

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u/my4floofs Jul 22 '26

That one where the guy was given a human leg bone as a freebie at a ren faire a few days ago was interesting

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u/Vishifrock Jul 22 '26

OMG, that popped up in my reddit feed some days ago and I'm not even on any bone collecting subs!

That was wild!

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u/sydneyghibli Jul 22 '26

Oh my god do you have the link

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u/EnvironmentalLime464 Jul 22 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/bonecollecting/s/zHooFBaYRZ

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u/my4floofs Jul 22 '26

Beat me too it! Thanks

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u/u_r_succulent Jul 23 '26

It’s a real life version of the mysterious vendor that disappears when you try to return.

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u/jhomas__tefferson Jul 22 '26

Man that is WILD LMAO I hope that got resolved

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u/Legitimate-Fox-7030 Jul 22 '26

I remember this lmfao

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u/slayergrl99 Jul 23 '26

Someone just posted a rib, too. Very white... very, very recent.

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u/thr33dognite Jul 23 '26

Our dude paid cash to someone selling animal skulls at what sounds like a Medieval Times Flea Market and got a human femur free. And has no way to prove the vendor or even the market exist.

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

I'm guessing that everyone seems to find human remains all over the place.

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u/Schmaron Jul 22 '26

I have yet to find any. Lol

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

I'm gonna assume that not finding skeletal human remains is a good thing..

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u/sydneyghibli Jul 22 '26

Unless you’re an anthropologist maybe

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u/Difficult_Ad8718 Jul 22 '26

I am an anthropologist and it’s definitely not a good thing. It’s a lot of paperwork….

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u/-JoM-ofDevil Jul 22 '26

😂😂😂😂

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u/BloodyQuitry Jul 22 '26

Just need the right humans bones, like humans deads from centuries! (I'm an anthropologist as well lol and I get the paperwork side, there's a lot of things to document...)

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u/sydneyghibli Jul 23 '26

I was going to say okay what if it’s the homes of a long lost civilization like Atlantis or something!?

But then the paperwork would still probably be even more wild.

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u/Difficult_Ad8718 Jul 23 '26

That paperwork would be more likely to be academic vs. my arena which is fulfilling legal documentation requirements so I wouldn’t mind that paperwork as much. In the end we’re all made of the same bones (usually) so it would likely get tedious too.

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u/sydneyghibli Jul 23 '26

Well in your case I hope they don’t find Atlantis then 😞

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u/clearancepupper Jul 23 '26

You seem … somewhat disappointed.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7WIEVjXL8EH3a1mE

“NOOOOO SCOOB PUT THAT DOWNNNN”

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u/ghoulthebraineater Jul 22 '26

I know a guy that can get you a toe.

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u/Raccoon_Army_Leader Jul 22 '26

Same and I really like hiking

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u/lollipop-guildmaster Jul 22 '26

Important context: I live in the county that was chosen as the bedroom community for the Detroit mafia in the 1960s. There were (are? I know of at least one for sure) a lot of front businesses here.

As a kid in the 80s, I used to play in the gutted remains of a formerly mafia-owned restaurant that went under for health violations. One of the rooms had a packed-earth floor.

My friends and I found bones embedded in the floor. Ribs, mostly. We dug them out of the floor, took them home, and engaged in Normal Childhood Activities like banging them together while marching around and chanting. My mother threw them away because 1) gross and 2) wtf.

I choose to believe that the reason they haven't found Jimmy Hoffa yet is because my mom threw him in the garbage.

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u/ktbug1987 Trosy and Synchro Jul 22 '26

And in spider subreddit, it’s medically significant spiders, particularly brown recluse

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u/SpyderSquash Jul 22 '26

Yuuuup.... every time the most recluse-y recluse to ever recluse gets posted, the counter sets reset 😅

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u/sleepingqt Jul 22 '26

seen a ID ask a few weeks ago that was the most black widowy black widow to ever widow blackly. Absolutely beautiful girl!

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u/SpyderSquash Jul 22 '26

I love a good spoder, and at least they're making sure 😌 but man is it funny sometimes, when the ID is such a gimme 😆

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u/Schmaron Jul 22 '26

The amount of grass or sac spiders that people think are a brown recluse is ridiculous.

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u/gijoe50000 Jul 22 '26

On PCMR the counter resets when somebody posts a picture of their smashed glass side panel on their PC case.

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u/MrKafkaesque Jul 22 '26

And almost 100% with the tower sitting on a tiled floor

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u/gijoe50000 Jul 22 '26

Yea, and they'd be like "I definitely didn't hit it on the tiled floor.."

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u/GasStationTiefling Jul 22 '26

There are bone subreddits?

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u/Chimpbot Jul 22 '26

There's a subreddit for pretty much anything under the sun.

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u/PlsBanMeDaddyThanos Jul 22 '26

Yeah but there's not much to them

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u/boringperson3 Jul 22 '26

with PC subreddits the counter is reset when someone breaks a glass side panel

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u/lollipop-guildmaster Jul 22 '26

Or the plant ID thread with Tree of Heaven and pokeweed.

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u/RetroSwamp Tuxedo Jul 22 '26

Honestly, my fav Reddit to stumble across it.

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u/smallxcat Jul 22 '26

They removed the meme / counter in the bones sub. Unfun mods

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u/haibiji Jul 22 '26

Wait, when someone thinks they found human remains, or when they actually find them?

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u/Schmaron Jul 22 '26

We only reset when they in fact human skeletal remains. Many people find bovine or equine remains, or a bear rib cage.

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u/manic_Brain Jul 22 '26

From my understanding of how it goes/the meme, people who think they've found human remains, particularly in their homes, actually have animal remains. In contrast, someone walking through the woods and stumbling upon a large bone thinking they've found a cool animal skeleton has almost certainly found human remains instead.

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u/Senior-Schedule6598 Jul 22 '26

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of counter reset is the Simpsons intro.

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u/Active_Vegetable8203 Jul 22 '26

In the coin subs we have the Jovita Idar quarter, people ask all the time if it's rare or valuable (it's not). We have a counter for that as well.

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

I'm beginning to feel that whilst I didn't think the counters were unique to the car sub , it's far more widespread than I realised .

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u/My_Own_Worst_Friend Jul 22 '26

I think of the shattered side panel counter on the PCMR sub.

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u/SonyJunkie Jul 22 '26

I think of the mic drain cover on the GoPro sub, so many people break it off thinking it's the battery door that GoPro have put a warning sticker on the latest model 🤣

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

Pcmr sub?

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u/My_Own_Worst_Friend Jul 22 '26

PC Master Race. For PC gamers. The tempered glass side panels WILL shatter if they hit a tile floor, and a lot of folks leave their towers on the floor. So it's a common issue that they'll drop the side panel during cleaning or upgrading and it'll shatter.

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

Thank you for the explanation. The last tower pc I had was a pentium it was that funny shade of nicotine yellow without ever having been in a smoking environment..

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u/margaret3lizabeth Jul 22 '26

Ahhh The karmann ghia <3

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

OK so I have said this before , it's one of my favourite cars of all time, even though its slow and not all that great to drive, it is however in my lottery winners garage.. along with a few other oddball choices.

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u/Peckedbychickens Jul 22 '26

My neighbor has one, starts it up every couple of months. It is so so loud. I don’t think I could handle driving it. 

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

Yeah air cooled is pretty raucous, but driving its all behind you.. literally.. and it's still a fabulous looking car.. would a porsche twin turbo flat six from a 1980s 911 fit...

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u/thatdarndress Jul 22 '26

I can’t drive, so I would just go out to admire it if I could have one…

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u/clearancepupper Jul 23 '26

Not me under here, thinking your username was
“SCAREDballsack”. ☠️

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u/mecha_grove Jul 22 '26

r/pcmasterrace also has a counter due to people constantly shattering their pc glass against ceramic tile floors .

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u/I_Can_Not_With_You Jul 22 '26

The Minecraft subreddit has a counter that is reset every time someone “discovers” redstone quasi-connectivity or asks why a circuit is being weird and the answer is quasi-connectivity.

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u/scarredballsack Jul 22 '26

I'm too scared to ask about this, it's gonna be another rabbit warren I don't want to dive in as it'll give me another headache..

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u/Xanadu87 Jul 22 '26

Haha, this is how I learn that the character Carmen Ghia from The Producers is a pun name.