Post #3520556
2026-07-01 22:03 UTC
I worked at an office, think call center full of 20 somethings. We had one kid who was nice and all but he always smelled like cat piss. To the point where he got the nickname catpiss. It turned out later that he was stuck living with his mother, who was a hoarder of things and cats, and there was nowhere for him to escape the smell. He moved out as soon as he could and stopped smelling like cat piss. We all rightfully felt like assholes.
Anyway here’s your friendly reminder to be kind.
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@senseamidmadness@lemmygrad.ml 2026-07-03 07:51
Not so fun fact: there’s a bacterium transmissible to humans through cat waste, toxoplasma gondii. One of the symptoms of a toxoplasmosis infection is a complete inability to smell cat urine. That’s what I first thought of when reading your story, because cat hoarders often get toxoplasmosis and thus have no idea that they smell bad. The disease can cause all kinds of neurological symptoms and also cause birth defects when pregnant women get infected.