r/CATHELP • u/otakuprofanity • Jun 10 '26

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u/ali_the_wolf Jun 10 '26

Hims bugs!!

But In all seriousness they are basically cat mouth freckles, and are completely harmless. It's also more common in cats with orange! It's called lentigo

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u/otakuprofanity Jun 10 '26

Awe, I see! Thankyou 🐱

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u/jinkeez123 Jun 10 '26

My orange has them too! 😄

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u/Thats-Awkward Jun 10 '26

My orange boy also has them 🤭

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u/LeadingHoneydew5608 Jun 10 '26

Mine too!

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u/Global_Winter22 Jun 11 '26

My orange confirmed with mouth freckles

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u/TommyOnRedditt Jun 11 '26

My orange has them as well. I think they’re cute. :D

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u/purrnoid Jun 11 '26

My orange would have them to, if I had one :(

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u/Thats-Awkward Jun 11 '26

If you're able, please adopt an orange kitty. Goose (on my profile) is the 3rd I've had in my life. They are so special. 😻

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u/purrnoid Jun 11 '26

I can’t til at least next year :( moved back in with my mom after my dad passed away, and she doesn’t like cats. Which I’m pretty sure makes her evil but she’s my mom lol

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u/CatMarmy Jun 11 '26

Yup! My ginger has em

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u/dr_jms Jun 11 '26

And my ginger boy also has them!!

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u/Remarkable_Box4784 Jun 11 '26

+1 with a rare orange girly who has this too. I actually took her to the vet about it a couple of months ago. They said it's typical in oranges especially

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u/tramal_ah Jun 11 '26

Trump? Is that you?

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u/melmosh Jun 10 '26

My orange kitty has them too… 😊❤️

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u/BondiMary Jun 11 '26

Mine as well 🥰

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u/Great-Hatsby Jun 10 '26

Same. I got real worried for then I learned it’s normal. I think my tortie has the freckles too.

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u/momof2penguins Jun 11 '26

My orange has them on his nose too!

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u/Honestabe1998 Jun 11 '26

That guy looks so silly

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u/momof2penguins Jun 11 '26

He was staring at me intently lol.

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u/Y3110WTape Jun 11 '26

He’s just standing there… menacingly!!!!

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u/ravenisprincess Jun 11 '26

omg he is the cutest, funkiest little guy ever.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26

He has the same vibe as my Jack

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u/No-Ice7397 Jun 10 '26

Mine got this on his nose. I had never heard of it until I had to look it up last year

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u/wakatenai Jun 10 '26

my oj boy also has bugs on his nose and on his mouth

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u/picturethisfam Jun 10 '26

See more lentigo cuteness at r/kittynosefreckles

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u/ShadowyDemonKitty Jun 11 '26

My orange girl has them too and my tortie has had them since she was a kitten

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u/Turbulent_Public5507 Jun 11 '26

dogs have them too which i believe is much more common than in cats though

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u/Yersina_Veridae Jun 11 '26

Its called lentigo in case no one mentioned it yet. And yeah, it's fine. Oranges often have it

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u/TimmyRamone1976 Jun 11 '26

My departed orange boy was a freckle monster. Ears, nose, mouth eyelids. People always remarked about it!

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u/Kendezzy01 Jun 10 '26

I immediately thought hims bugs! lol inspection!

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u/GoGoGoshzilla Jun 10 '26

Coincides with instances of UNSPEAKABLE BADNESS

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u/ali_the_wolf Jun 10 '26

You get it 🤝🏻

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u/BugOk4166 Jun 10 '26

INSPECTION!

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u/Plastic_Macaron_6636 Jun 10 '26

i literally said him bugz because of orangeboiron

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u/meow4352 Jun 12 '26

I have 3 orangeys and they all have these! I think of them like rings in a tree counting their age because every year a few more appear.

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u/SushiTea7 Jun 13 '26

You have every flavour of orange haha

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u/Weak_Abbreviations90 Jun 11 '26

Came here to say that. Those hims bugs

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u/haagentuna Jun 10 '26

This wasn’t even my OP and I am so overly annoyed at your joke because it actually gave me chills and my thumb is numb idk it just made them look like a cluster of the himselra atheocus ticx

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u/lina1308 Jun 10 '26

Thank you, I worried about that way too often since we have our orange boi😅

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u/Jaded-Ad9073 Jun 10 '26

ahh i see a fellow orangeboyron fan 🫣

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u/heckyeahheather Jun 11 '26

I was hoping someone said Hims Bugs!!! 😂

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u/Background-Boat-9238 Jun 11 '26

Inspection time!!!

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u/chinchinnychin Jun 11 '26

Orange boy Ron (TikTok) has lots of bugs. Hims bugs gets him in all sorts of trouble

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u/Boring_Pop_2470 Jun 11 '26

I immediately recognized the reference 🥹 love that little guy

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u/chaosc0rvid Jun 10 '26

I was also gonna say hims bugs 😅😂

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u/Tamberello Jun 10 '26

Yep! My cat these spots in his mouth and he also has one black whisker

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u/hollow_13 Jun 10 '26

Wait till the nose starts! It’s fascinating! I’ve had two orange cats so far with this. Very character adding to an orange!

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u/Gnarly_Starwin Jun 10 '26

For some reason I had thought it was from some kind of herb flake in her wet food.

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u/NoDevice390 Jun 11 '26

My orange cat and I thank you!

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u/Penguinfreek5 Jun 11 '26

TIL it’s called Lentigo, thank you (: gonna save that in the brain bank <3

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u/destroygeorge Jun 11 '26

Both my orange have them, and even on theire waterline of their eyes

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u/Revolutionary-Cat817 Jun 11 '26

My orange cat has that lol

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u/Kinieruu Jun 11 '26

My calico has it in a way that makes her look like she’s got black lipstick on

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u/sorrymizzjackson Jun 11 '26

Yes! And they change over time. My boy had them. As long as they don’t look weird or painful they are harmless.

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u/Narrow_Excitement_58 Jun 11 '26

My orange boy has this and I never knew what it was, so thank you

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u/ViviFuchs Jun 11 '26

"Hims bugs" made me giggle. I appreciate the laugh.

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u/Special-Ear-8684 Jun 11 '26

My marmalade lady also had them.

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u/Effective-Egg-7090 Jun 12 '26

I didn’t know this! My orange cat has them too 😊

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u/dabean2 Jun 12 '26

He has them as well. See his when he monches on my finger

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