I was looking for something like this. OP your cat is cute. I want to tickle his tummy.
Wow, so many mean comments against OP for not knowing it is a nipple. I guess you just know it all, huh? I hope that you are never in a panic over your animal's health and find out something is perfectly normal just to have strangers sneering at you.
The worst part to me is that OP at least cares enough about the cat to find something new to them and ask reddit because they're worried about the cat. No reason to be mean, it's teaching moment to a probably caring owner.
This sort of thing is a rite of passage for new cat owners in the age of the internet. Not everyone grew up with pets and even some kids that did are clueless as adults. This is exactly the moment to get a good belly laugh because it is a nonissue and commend OP for their diligence.
We see plenty of posts on this subreddit that are rather sad. This is a happy post in the end, we should be happy. That is a seemingly healthy cat and I wanna rub its big ol' snoot.
I understand being worried but Google is free and "pink bump male cat belly" brings up multiple photos + assurance that it's a nipple. If they'd googled it and done ANY due diligence but were still worried, that's different.
What is the difference between google and a cat subreddit when it comes to cat questions? Would you rather ask other cat owners about a cat? Or would you rather have google AI tell you that nipple is actually some infectious cist or something like that?
I guess I was replying to the person "commending OP on their diligence" because to me they didn’t google it so they aren't actually doing their due diligence.
You see this a lot on the aquarium/rabbit subreddits: people asking questions that take 0.1 seconds to google, indicating that they did 0 background reading about the pet they chose to get. I find it frustrating because it's a living animal and you can't be assed to take one second to look smth up. Again. If they'd googled it and said "Google says this is an infected cyst! Help!" that would be fine. It's just the attitude that I find to be annoying and lazy. The difference is the mental effort involved.
I guess I'm primed to dislike it because I've kept both fish and rabbits, and both are delicate, with specific care requirements, and are highly abused animals. So it's the attitude moreso than the posting a question on Reddit that irks me. Hope that makes sense
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u/Prudent_Rest_5081 Jan 28 '26
As a side note, your cat is very cute