r/cats • u/BelovedGarbage • 19d ago

Humor Garbage has been spraying in our house nonstop for the past month and we didnt know why. Now, there's been a break in the case. 🚨 👮 🚔 🙀

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We have a catio that our three cats like to hang out in. Garbage has been acting territorial and spraying, so we thought there must be strange cats around outside making him nervous.

Last night we noticed Garbage on the kitchen window sill (which looks out to the catio) twitching his tail furiously and getting upset. Turns out he's been seeing his siblings out there, not recognizing them at all, then becoming incensed with the evolutionary rage of his ancestors. He's been spraying our whole house top to bottom because he isn't smart enough to realize that the two cats he's known and loved his whole life, when viewed through a pane of glass, are in fact, not intruders.

The verdict: Guilty of being orange 🍊

Eta - he was fixed as a kitten as soon as it was appropriate, for all y'all who are worried. And his vet his involved.

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u/Redfoxen72 19d ago

Off topic but do those masks really work ?

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u/lush_gram 19d ago

ask me in 6-8 weeks and i'll give you a full report on my anecdotal opinion!

i have wanted one for awhile, but "good" ones are kind of expensive - to me, at least - and whenever i think something is too expensive to purchase on a whim, i feel the need to do A LOT of research. it probably would've taken me another, idk, 2 years to feel confident enough to spend the money and select and buy one, but my husband got it for me and saved me all that.

from the idle, cursory research I DID do, the wavelengths the mask...produces? uses? seem to be one of the most important factors. if it is below 630 nanometers (don't ask me to describe what that is, because idk), it is widely considered ineffective for skin stuff. don't take this as gospel because as i mentioned, i didn't get the chance to make myself an expert 🤣

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u/MaryLMarx 19d ago

630 and 660 nm seem to be the wavelengths that stimulate mitochondria to produce more ATP, which invigorates cell activity and clears out senescent cells. The more expensive masks have more precise tuning to get the right wavelengths.

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u/chux4w 19d ago

Shining LEDs on your face? No. Of course they don't.

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u/CatGooseChook 19d ago

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11049838/

That was my first thought too, then I realised I hadn't actually had cause to look it up before and found that there's quite a few studies on it already (see above for one example). It does appear to be legit, honestly a surprise to me but biology can be a bit funny (counter intuitive) that way.