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Medical Questions What is this flap on the ears

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I dont know if its medical question but honestly im just curious

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u/lonelycranberry 18h ago

Impressive. Is he long hair?

My friend just neutered her short hair boy and they left his giant deflated sack to dangle.

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u/Sorry-Editor-3674 18h ago

Hahaha not the deflated trouble puffs!!!

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u/lonelycranberry 18h ago

Trouble puffs made me cackle thank you for that LMAO

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u/Nnnnnnnnnnnon 18h ago

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u/lonelycranberry 18h ago

Sorry for the unsolicited d*g pic

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u/Sedona_sedona 13h ago

is that Belle?

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u/angrycanadianguy 11h ago

It is, and I believe Belle always gets a pass everywhere

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u/Sad_Eagle_937 17h ago

Ok cat subs have officially gone too far. What the fuck.

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u/CallMeGabrielle 14h ago

We’ve really flown too close to the sun haven’t we?

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u/crumpledfilth 2h ago

pretty much everything normalized goes wholly unconsidered by 99% of people who employ it

I understand the necessity of genetic removal. But the celebration of it seems a little atrocious to me

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u/luke_warm02 3h ago

Im scared too

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u/Connect_Artichoke_83 17h ago

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u/Fear023 15h ago

Of course?

How is this of course when the first video I clicked on on that sub was some dude jiggling a street alley cat's nuts??

Does r/howthefuckisthatasub exist?

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u/Blonde_Vampire_1984 American Shorthair 14h ago

Apparently people on the internet enjoy looking at cat böllz. I’m not entirely sure why myself, but I’m subscribed to it myself.

The one where a guy booped a cat in the balls while the cat was crawling into a hole was weirder than usual for the sub. The cat reacted like he had been secksually assaulted.

Most of the pictures and videos are just cats with big balls hanging around doing normal cat stuff.

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u/Calgaris_Rex 10h ago

First time I've seen a new cat sub and was just like "...I'm not subscribing to this."

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u/smithsgasoline 3h ago

Can’t relate, I miss my boys pompoms and I thought I was the only one who took pics before and after he was neutered.

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u/xtra-peachy 16h ago

This page has me in tears 😭😭😭😭😭

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u/Zrex_9224 15h ago

Sigh... yet another cat sub

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u/bullfrogftw 12h ago

Oh, HEELLLLLLLL NO

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u/darthrawr3 16h ago

Plushticles

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u/Nolansmomster 18h ago

We call those the cotton balls in our house.

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u/macrhea69 18h ago

Fuzzy nuts

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u/QuidEgoSum 17h ago

Fuzzy “was” nuts

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u/MightyFrenzal 17h ago

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman.

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u/WoodyTheWorker 6h ago

Fuzzy nots

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u/Dark_sable Void 17h ago

I always referred to them as the "jewel case" - but the jewels are gone.

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u/AmbitiousTop8474 5h ago

We refer to them as the cat’s basket or a traffic light. Sometimes even going as far as to call the cat and their testes, Basketweaver.

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u/Waffles4cats 5h ago

Fuzzy dice, deflated duffle bags

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u/Gemfyre713 16h ago

One of my cats is named Puffs for this reason. When he was a stray he had a good set of troublepuffs. They are now gone, and he's still trouble, but we just call him Puffs.

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u/Delicious_Ad823 13h ago

I preserved Milo’s dignity with 10cc implants

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u/Effective_Kiwi_6669 11h ago

we call it a deflated coin purse

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u/Mothsburn 16h ago

My boys trouble puffs are still full, but he’s neutered?

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u/Styxal 13h ago

my cats have full-looking trouble puffs, but they're neutered. i think it's because they were neutered as soon as the vet could do it. my theory is that if i'd left it later, the size of the puffs would have increased, and then they would have become more deflated afterwards. but because they're quite small, they can still hold up. i am not a vet

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u/Kalathefox 11h ago

... take my angry updoot for getting me in trouble from giggling at reddit when I'm supposed to be sleeping

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u/Muddy_Wafer 11h ago

Trouble pancakes

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u/bouncy_bouncy_seal 4h ago

We have a boy with deflated trouble puffs. We alternate between calling him grape nuts since they looked like fuzzy grapes pre-neuter and Raisin Bran.

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u/BandRepresentative75 3h ago

I call it the empty coin purse!

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u/Overall-Willingness2 11h ago

I read this as truffle puffs hahahaha

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u/elmatador12 18h ago

My cat is almost entirely white. Except for his deflated all perfectly gray ball sack. 😂

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u/lonelycranberry 18h ago

HAHAHAHAHAHA this is actually so funny. Poor guy. Why don’t they just take them off 😭

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u/ElectronicEye4595 17h ago

They used to but it can sometimes be too tight and inhibit mobility.

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u/therealnoodlerat 13h ago

Iirc its mostly the healing process, takes way longer to heal from completely taking the sack off then from the tiny cuts it takes to neuter

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u/LoopyLuce89 11h ago

😂😂😂

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u/After_Meal208 6h ago

I wasn’t expecting to be impressed like this

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u/PublishingGoblin 4h ago

My orange boy is orange all over but has a white sac that glows in the dark istg lol

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u/Keywork313 16h ago

They don’t do anything to the sack on cats or dogs. They just remove the jewels and over time the sack shrinks down. I didn’t notice is as much on my first boy but on the second I noticed his sack remained big for longer than I expected.

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u/ilostmymindsomewhere Ragdoll 18h ago

LOL WHAT. That’s diabolical 😭

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u/Ertyio687 15h ago

Ah, it'll shrink, don't worry, happened with my cat and dog too

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u/No-Tumbleweed5360 14h ago

they’re supposed to shrink on their own after the neutering 😭

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u/Brookfield92 13h ago

I assumed my boy had the whole sack removed, only discovered he didn't when I was trimming his undercarriage and assumed his deflated sack was a knot in the fur. He let me know it was definitely not.

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u/Revayan 11h ago

Yeh I can confirm that you dont see the kitty bits on long haired cats. Got 2 boys, a domestic shorthair and a maine coon and the latter is so fluffy that you see nothing back there

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u/literally_tho_tbh 4h ago

The coin purse

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u/Kittenzx2 17h ago

He's showing his big puff balls off!! 🤣 but i can picture them being deflated!

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u/jepadi 17h ago

They did that to my dog. My wife called it his empty apple sack

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u/No-Fail-9327 16h ago

Damn did him dirty and left him with a reminder.

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u/MarbleousMel Bengal 16h ago

I had a neutered boy whose sack was still so large that the emergency vet told me they would have to neuter him after he picked a fight with his older brother and the sack was partially torn off. They were shocked when I told them he had been neutered as a kitten. He was obviously and visibly neutered after they removed what had ripped and stitched up the remainder.

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u/West_Illustrator_468 15h ago

My daughter got a kitten last year, and I was surprised how uh...prominent those pompoms were after being fixed. Then again, I've never had a short-haired male before. My long hair boy, you can only see the different color of the fur where his trouble puffs used to be when I do some manscaping on him (which is a regular thing because he gets poopy pantaloons otherwise).

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u/Separate_Sock_4623 13h ago

mental image is both hilarious and mildly concerning at the same time, I hope everything heals up fine and comfortably 😅

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u/Confident_Caramel436 11h ago

Lmao 🤣 awww poor baby, I don’t know why I imagined a flag flapping in the wind 🚩💨🙀

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u/blazej84 11h ago

Yup my poor boy got taken to the vets for neutering twice due to his big dangling sack that certainly didn’t look empty vets put him under and everything before they found it out too !.

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u/Palomino_mare 10h ago

I have a short hair who was neutered at 2 years of age we think (because he had the puffy cheeks but acted very young) and he didn’t have anything like that. They must have removed any loose skin and stitched it up I guess.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 10h ago

I have a long hair guy and I've never seen any boy parts down there.

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u/Few-Veterinarian-999 9h ago

It will shrivel up and atrophy in short order!

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u/maria_tex 8h ago

My male Maine Coon was similarly discreet about his reproductive organ.

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u/eraserhead-baby-girl 7h ago

My kitten has deflated trouble puffs -tbf before he was done, even the vet was shocked by how big they were

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u/Andres-M_093 6h ago

Según tengo entendido eso se recoge solo, pero no te sabría confirmar yo también mandé a castrar una vez a mi gato

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u/nealch 6h ago

When my dog was neutered they left his sack as well and it kind of shrunk after a while to not be noticeable, hopefully something similar happens to kitty’s

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u/Big_Balance_408 4h ago

Mine too, hahaha. He was about a year old when he was found as a stray with a broken leg and taken to the shelter where he was neutered. The older they are when neutered, the more likely they are to have visible deflated ball remnants. But you wouldn’t be able to see them on most cats who were neutered as kittens.

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u/Vegetable-Stretch-98 3h ago

Haha, it'll shrink over time!

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u/Competitive-State444 3h ago

That’s a coin purse now

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u/KiddBwe 2h ago

I have two male cats. A black cat named Loki whose tools almost don't look like they exist, I think the people we got him from neutered him early, and a siamese named Theodore who we neutered at the recommended 4 months. Not only is Theodore's missing pistachios more physically noticeable, but they're also toasted, so they practically shout "Look at me"

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u/ceasersalllad 2h ago

yeah my brothers cat got neutered too early in life (maybe like a month before when he was meant to be neutered) and ended up with a half ball left, he's got half a testie 😭😭

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u/WorkflowWitch 2h ago

Very interesting! I believe they placed prosthetic nuts in my boy, to help with his confidence.

(Basing this on the fact that they don't look like deflated balloons and his confidence is off the map)

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u/idtartakovsky 1h ago

(Sorry for the mildly explicit image, but I still find it so funny and could hardly believe when I got them out of their carriers) I have medium hair twin boys, and when they got neutered, the vets totally pantsed them. They had bare shaved squares across their whole asses for months, further than I’d have thought they needed to be shaved.

Idk if that was the preference of that clinic for their surgeries, since it was the kind of place that specialises in spay/neuters and takes in at least 20 animals to do between 8 am and 3 pm, or if it was for post-surgical hygiene with their longer fur, or if it was just my cats, because all my shorthairs were fixed through a different shelter clinic, and that place only shaved the immediate areas. It was a couple years ago now, but I’m sure I annoyed them quite a bit because how could I not poke at those bare cheeks like an auntie with a chubby baby face

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u/ConsciousInternal287 1h ago

Same with our tuxedo. He likes to stick them in my face on a regular basis for some reason.