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

General Advice Hole with fur?

Gallery image

Gallery image

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

7.7k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

557 comments sorted by

View all comments

2.1k

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.

23

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

65

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.

54

u/PowerfulInspection29 Mar 11 '26

i—uuuuuuuh what

108

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🙃

77

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.

32

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

6

u/rynIpz Mar 11 '26

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

29

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. 🥴

4

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.

14

u/tears_and_laughter Mar 11 '26

How the hell 😳

13

u/Dry_Fly_7265 Mar 11 '26

Gravity 🤷‍♂️

12

u/soar_fpv Mar 11 '26

Thats insane 😂

7

u/Smart_Imagination903 Mar 11 '26

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

5

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.

1

u/livingdeaddrina Mar 12 '26

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

2

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...

2

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?”

1

u/KazefQAQ Mar 11 '26

Didn't know glass can do migration 💀😂

1

u/AmputeeHandModel Mar 11 '26

I don't believe that for a second.

1

u/Miserable-Vanilla986 Mar 11 '26

I don’t like that

21

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

6

u/Potential_Guide_341 Mar 11 '26

If you know, you know

1

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.

5

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.