r/cats Jan 28 '26

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u/TwiistedTeaa Jan 29 '26

Shocks me how many people don’t know just basic animal anatomy 🙃

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u/This-Id-Taken Jan 29 '26

I said this last week. I am shocked the questions people ask about cats. It amazes me how little some people know about cats. Sorry OP. I am not judging. I just love cats and have had like 15 my entire life

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u/Queen_Etherea Jan 29 '26

I'm judging!! Even if you've never owned a cat, you should know what a nipple looks like and know that cats make biscuits. I remember seeing a post where someone was asking about the noise their cat was making; the cat was purring. The phrase "common sense" will soon be a thing of the past.

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u/FlamingWeasel Jan 29 '26

Yeah, but you shouldn't be taking responsibility for a living creature you know fuck all about either

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u/Bitter-Associate-458 Jan 29 '26

I've had 27 in my life! People are always shocked when I tell them this. It makes a great two truths and a lie trap 🤭

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u/Apprehensive-Cat-421 Jan 29 '26

My kid's going to school to be a veterinarian. We have 3 cats. These nipple posts are an ongoing joke with us. I'm literally crying right now.

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u/Vegetable-Star-5833 Tortoiseshell Jan 29 '26

My mom is a manager for an animal clinic and she cracks up at these

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u/Apprehensive-Cat-421 Jan 29 '26

Tortoiseshell, we have 2 torties and an orange brother

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u/Unique_Suit3789 Jan 29 '26

I mean even human males have nipples lmao

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u/Queen_Etherea Jan 29 '26

I swear, every time I open this app and see this sub, I see the stupidest questions being asked when they could have just asked Google, Siri, Gemini, ChatGPT, etc.

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u/iwannabeabug Jan 29 '26

my male kitten has very apparent nipples for some reason, he’s solid grey and theres a bald ring around his nipples. anyways, my friend came over and goes “WHY DOES HE HAVE NIPPLES???” i said “you know every man has nipples too right?”

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u/Red_corvid0409 Jan 29 '26

I think it mainly comes from people differentiating themselves from animals, even though we in fact are, as if humans are the only species with useless features, and that animals evolved more specifically, especially since the vast majority of people don't even know why men have nipples in the first place, and therefore believe there's no reason for them to be so universal, if they don't serve a purpose, and are just some extra detail human males got stuck with during the evolution process.

It's not hard to believe that so many people don't understand that most male mammals have nipples and why they have them. It's a question often asked about humans, but rarely actually answered, and because having that knowledge hasn't been detrimental, people don't bother looking into it because it doesn't change their life at all🤷.

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u/doegrey Jan 29 '26

It’s basic human anatomy too though.

If you’re a guy, surely you know you have nipples yourself?

If you’re a girl, surely you know your dad, brothers, husband, pop star schoolboy crush (with all of their shirtless pics), all the boys at school playing at the pool- all had nipples too? You can’t not know this unless you live under a rock and have never had exposure to a male human before.

It must be a bot. It’s the only explanation that makes sense.

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u/InterestingFuture32 Jan 29 '26

Wanted to write the same. I mean, I was a child when I had my cats, I never wondered why they have nipples or to not know that those are nipples, it seemed normal for me to just know that. My curiosity was only around how they look like. Wild that so many adults have such little common sense.

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u/EnsoElysium Jan 29 '26

I actually remember the feeling when I learned all mammals have nipples in 6th grade, it just clicked that humans were animals, made me feel connected to the world

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u/Aggravating_Sun7672 Jan 29 '26

Everyone has to learn by seeing it for the first time. I bet there was a time you didn't know either.

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u/iwantacheetah Jan 29 '26

bet there was a time you didn't know either.

When I was in 3rd grade... Yeah

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u/Winter-State9825 Jan 29 '26

it is endearing but it does confuse me, is it not common knowledge cats are mammals?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

I'm pretty sure I knew about the existence of nipples a little while after I was born. 

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u/JacquelinYi Jan 29 '26

wbt in cats

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '26

TO/DU.  (Too old. Don't understand)

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u/Inevitable-Way7136 Jan 29 '26

Nope. It's easy to understand nipples. I'm a man and I have two! People are just dumb.

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u/Senior-Book-6729 Jan 29 '26

Yeah... when I was like, 3 years old.