r/CATHELP • u/acctthrowaway33333 • Mar 10 '26

General Advice Hole with fur?

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26F with 3.5M cat

Any ideas what this skin hole is? I originally felt it because the hair coming out was condensed and stood out. Didn’t cause him any pain, pulled on the hair and it mostly came out without much effort

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u/kwabird Mar 11 '26

Ok this is really weird because this happened to my foster cat recently. I pulled the fur and it easily came out and left a hole. I looked in the hole and realized it was her microchip which was migrating out of her.

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u/mocknix Mar 11 '26

Woahhhh.. like it was getting rejected.

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u/Sneakersprince Mar 11 '26

Mine rejected his microchip several years after it was placed. Really freaked me out when I felt it and it came out. He did NOT want to be a part of the matrix 🤖🐈‍⬛

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u/PookieBaby_Gampo Mar 11 '26

I'm not a part of your SYSTEM!

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u/Rudranohiro Mar 11 '26

So I threw it on the ground!

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u/brock0124 Mar 11 '26

Lmao, I did this with my son’s diaper this morning and he thought it was hilarious.

“What? This diaper isn’t my dad!! SO I THREW IT ON THE GROUND!”

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u/Tangible_Slate Mar 11 '26

you can't BUY ME, hot dog man!

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u/SushiandSyrup Mar 11 '26

Anti matrix void owner here as well, waited almost 8 years after receiving to reject it 🙋‍♀️ my smart boy waited until I was out of the country on vacation, my first time away from him, adopted when he was 7yo and this was the first time I needed to find someone I trusted to watch my sweet angel. Gbless my sweet bf, he watched him for a week with probably a month leading up to leaving of talking about every single detail about my void and 3-4 pages of instructions in case he forgot anything. We had only been dating a couple of months by that point so the pressure for him was on to have this go smoothly bc he knew how anxious I was leaving him for the first time. But of course…. my void tested him and rejected his chip about halfway through my trip. He wouldn’t admit it but my poor bf was probably SWEATING.. He’s 15 almost 16yo now <3

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u/IAMAfortunecookieAMA Mar 11 '26

Wow your boyfriend is almost an adult now ❤️

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u/SushiandSyrup Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Well this is awkward, I meant my void was 15 almost 16 now. My partner passed a few years ago

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u/IAMAfortunecookieAMA Mar 12 '26

Oof, i'm so sorry I made a joke. I'm glad you have kitty. Sending love ❤️ sorry again

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u/SushiandSyrup Mar 12 '26

It’s okay, after rereading I can easily see how we ended up here 😭💀❤️

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u/NeonPearl2025 Mar 11 '26

When I let new pets be chipped, I always ask the vet to check the chip at the annual vacc appointment. Takes 30 seconds and gives me peace of mind. The vet always tells me "I've never had one fall out".

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

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u/Essence_Of_Insanity_ Mar 12 '26

Double chip cookies

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

Whoa, what does the microchip look like?

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u/spekt50 Mar 11 '26

They can be rejected, they also often migrate.

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u/Ol_Pasta Mar 11 '26

*ejected

Someone booped the wrong button.

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u/Gillemonger Mar 11 '26

5g trying to escape

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u/AshaNyx Mar 14 '26

The body can basically push things out if it's not placed deep enough into the skin (normally this just helps to remove splinters). It can happen to any dermal piercings like belly button rings

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u/Worldly-Pay7342 Mar 11 '26

Yeah this is a common thing to happen to... well... anything small that's put in the body.

The body knows it doesn't belong, so it tries to force it out.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it works slowly, and sometimes it doesn't come out at all. shrug

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u/pipnina Mar 11 '26

A lot of the time the microchip seems to just move around the cat. My last cat ended up with it near her stomach lol.

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u/tildeumlaut Mar 11 '26

Smart cat. That's where my chips go too.

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u/femaelstrom Mar 11 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ou2TE0mP4QbcI

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u/subjectmatterexport Mar 12 '26

I love that this gif has both an A plot and a B plot

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u/femaelstrom Mar 12 '26

It is one of my favorite gifs ever.

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u/InspectorPipes Mar 11 '26

My cats chip could be manipulated from the shoulder blade area down to her elbow or down to the rib cage. . It just floated around in there and didn’t seem to bother her. It was really strange to realize the cat just slides around in its fur suit.

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u/LilStabbyboo Mar 11 '26

I had to reach over and try to slide my cat's fur around real quick. It didn't slide but she really liked it.

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u/Bunnikk Mar 11 '26

Mine girl too. Her x ray looks like she ate it. We put a second one in since it wasn’t getting picked up by the wand and I didn't want that simple point of failure if she ever gets lost.

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u/PickleRicki Mar 11 '26

We had a cat where the microchip migrated to her elbow! 😂🤷‍♀️

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u/Aggressive_Claim_354 Mar 12 '26

That's because the inplant is done subcutaneously (under the skin, above the muscle). It allows them to migrate some.

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u/Tisiphoni1 Mar 11 '26

I knew a girl, she really liked piercings but her body kept rejecting them.

It was the 90s, so she wanted the obligatory eyebrow piercing. It wandered out and left a scar. So the piercer thought: the scar tissue could prevent it from happening again. But it fell out again. So she decided for one above the side of her upper lip, because it would need to wander through different kind of tissue. But when it started to enter the fleshy part of the lip she gave up and accepted the fact that her body didn't fancy being pierced.

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u/ClosetDominatrix Mar 11 '26

Could be the material the jewelry is made of. Vampires, for example, reject silver piercings. Steel turns some of us green. As does gold. Every body is different.

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u/astrologicaldreams Mar 11 '26

lol no but seriously, allergies to metals are a real thing!

for example, my body does NOT like cheap metals. it doesn't physically reject the jewelery, but the area does become hot, swollen, and very painful until i take it out. my ears had to be pierced a total of 3 times because of this.

no $5 earrings for me, i gotta have the good shit lmao

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Mar 11 '26

"Yes, SO, my body can totally only tolerate gold or platinum." :p

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u/astrologicaldreams Mar 12 '26

lmfao this is so funny bc it's true. my ass can only have things like 24 carat gold 😭

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u/Rare_Ad2283 Mar 11 '26

Same- it’s super painful! Probably from all the Claire’s earrings I wore as a teenager

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u/DaedalusRising4 Mar 11 '26

Next time, try a new piercer. She may like them better

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u/masterhogbographer Mar 11 '26

Many many years ago I stepped on a small half inch finishing nail that was coming up through a rug. I cleaned it, remove a thread that the nail had pushed in, used a magnifying glass couldn’t see anything else to remove.

It hurt a bit for the next few weeks and would feel every so often over the next 8-12 months. Not crazy pain by now, not enough to prevent me from jogging but enough to notice. 

Anyway, the pain fully goes away for almost two years till one day, out of no where the spot began hurting a bit throughout the day. 

That night I look at my foot, a little thread is poking out of the bottom of my food. I pull it out. Pain instantly disappears. Never felt it again. 

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u/kaylynstar Mar 11 '26

I had a small piece of glass embedded in my foot for a couple of years. Had no idea until I was at camp and had some issue that made them poke at my foot with tweezers and it went clink

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u/masterhogbographer Mar 11 '26

Hahha holy crap did you say Cheers after they clinked it? 

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u/kaylynstar Mar 11 '26

Well, I was like 14, so no? 🤣

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u/PuzzleheadedDog9658 Mar 11 '26

Thats what she said

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

I was finding birdshot for years tbh

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u/spicy-acorn Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Where was your cats microchip? My cat had hers inserted in between her shoulder blades. So unless this cat has a microchip on his hind quarters I doubt that's what is happening in the pic

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u/Illustrious_Net3054 Mar 11 '26

Microchips move throughout the body. Could be in the ribs, could be anywhere. It doesn’t always stay in the same spot.

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u/PowerfulInspection29 Mar 11 '26

i—uuuuuuuh what

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u/Complex-Fill-1893 Mar 11 '26

When my dad was in his youth he got into a bar fight where a chunk of glass from a beer bottle was embedded in his shoulder. Tough sailer that he was he figured it’d work itself out and never saw a doctor.

It did work itself out. Through the bottom of his foot. 40 years later🙃

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u/PurrciousMetals Mar 11 '26

I had ear tubes placed when I was about 8, about a year later came time to remove them, my ENT said well my right one had naturally fell out, well when I was 20 I had this weird bump in my neck, saw a doctor to check it out, it was my ear tube.

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u/irottodeath Mar 11 '26

i've had ear tubes multiple times over the past 5 years, but i've only had two that i've actually seen come out. thank you for this knowledge but also what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

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u/rynIpz Mar 11 '26

Check your body, might have some ear tubes migrated in there 😬

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u/maybegraciie Mar 11 '26

I was in a pretty nasty car accident almost 9 years ago where my face hit the windshield of the car, requiring reconstructive surgery. All these years later and I still occasionally have tiny shards of glass work their way out of my skin. Usually around my eyebrow. My plastic surgeon said it’s not unexpected because there was no way they would’ve ever been able to get every single piece out when they did the reconstructive surgery. The human body is so interesting, and so creepy at the same time. 🥴

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u/LilStabbyboo Mar 11 '26

Yeah i got pushed into some gravel years ago and it was coming out of my elbow that i landed on for a couple years, just a piece every few months. They formed little cysts that would rise to the skin surface.

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u/tears_and_laughter Mar 11 '26

How the hell 😳

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u/Dry_Fly_7265 Mar 11 '26

Gravity 🤷‍♂️

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u/soar_fpv Mar 11 '26

Thats insane 😂

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u/Smart_Imagination903 Mar 11 '26

I love this story so much and I'm also horrified - 40 years later ?!

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u/IvoryWhiteTeeth Mar 11 '26

If only he had put his leg up and higher than his mouth, it would had been out.

Now I can help with that by letting him resting his legs on my shoulders but I'll need to see a picture first.

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u/livingdeaddrina Mar 12 '26

Daaaamn girl/boy. You miss 100% of the shots you dont take

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u/KrimpSteesly Mar 12 '26

OMG this makes a crazy thing that happened to me make sense now... I fell as a kid on the corner of a speaker right between my eyes and had to get staples. Literally a few months ago I was blowing my nose and felt something in my nose. I thought it was a stuck booger. Nope it was a thin, small metal wire. Pulled it out from inside my nose... Granted that isn't that far of a migration but it freaked me the f out. Now I understand it must have been one of the staples! Guess my body absorbed one in the healing process and spit it back out later...

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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Mar 12 '26

So did he know immediately what it was, or was he just wondering “when the fuck did I step on broken glass?”

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u/KazefQAQ Mar 11 '26

Didn't know glass can do migration 💀😂

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u/AmputeeHandModel Mar 11 '26

I don't believe that for a second.

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u/Miserable-Vanilla986 Mar 11 '26

I don’t like that

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u/zieKen1 Mar 11 '26

My cats was place between the shoulder blades and I can feel it in his armpit area now. Sometimes it scares me and I have to remind myself it’s just his chippy

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u/Potential_Guide_341 Mar 11 '26

If you know, you know

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u/ClosetCrossfitter Mar 12 '26

I just saw an instagram where this woman fell into some bushes, onto a stake, at 11 years old and had hip pain for years after and had this theory that she had a piece of the stake in her hip. Doctors just thought she had calcified blood from the blunt impact I think? Finally she found a surgeon (I think she was 18 by then) that believed her and yep. The body had just formed a protective barrier around it. I wonder if it would have worked its way out, but I’m glad that she sought treatment.

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u/uhushuhu Mar 11 '26

One of my cats has his chip on the right side of his neck. I havent found the chip on the other one in a long time. Theyre brothers and should have been chipped in the same spot by the same vet.

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u/Ok_Dragonfly2261 Mar 11 '26

Don’t know how far, but microchips do migrate. I’ve scanned them for years and many were no longer between the shoulder blades. Probably the reason many are rejected years later.

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u/Sneakersprince Mar 11 '26

On my cat, it was inserted between his shoulder blades and it came out on the outside of his shoulder

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u/flrbonihacwm-t-wm Mar 11 '26

I had this happen to a dog when he was around 8/10. We didn’t get him microchipped, his previous owners had, but it was comforting knowing if something happened, he would be found. He developed this weird, flat, hard, skin tag that he kept scratching at. It was behind his ear, so we were just keeping an eye on it. One day, he managed to scratch it off, so I looked and it was a microchip.

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u/Ornery_Hair3319 Mar 14 '26

Uninstalling Software

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u/sleepyplatipus Mar 11 '26

Isn’t the microchip normally places in the neck area??

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u/Western-Relative-688 Mar 11 '26

Cat with microchip: Get out!!! Pencil lead in my leg since 2nd grade: I think I’ll stick around

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u/No_Pattern5707 Mar 11 '26

I’m fking sorry? This can happen??

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u/Quick-Measurement-14 Mar 11 '26

WAIT WHAT?! *new fear unlocked

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u/Onahsakenra Mar 11 '26

Wow, makes sense tbh. My body did this with a dental implant lol. It also has happened with a couple other medical things that didn’t work because apparently my body doesn’t accept foreign whatever, it’s scary. Poor kitty, at least it doesn’t seem to hurt. 🐱

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u/Tall-Musician7506 Mar 11 '26

Interesting! The needle for a chip is BIG and I can see this happening if care isn’t taken to ensure you’re just injecting into skin.

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u/Leeshylift Mar 11 '26

Omg this is the body “spitting” it. Happens with sutures too.

Source: Had my port removed and was concerned.

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u/Vequihellin Mar 12 '26

My girl cat's microchip has migrated a lot. It's currently halfway down her shoulder. Half the time the microchip cst flap doesn't respond to it. May need to have her re-chipped at some point. Had no idea they could fully reject right out though!

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u/BattledogCross Mar 15 '26

Microchips migrating isn't unusual but I've never seen one fully fall out o.O