Odd, but definitely plausible. I’m glad they knew he was a pet and didn’t cut his ear.
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Nope, Mystery is Mystery because he just appeared. I was feeding outside cats one morning, and there he was. In fact, I did a double take to count solid black cats. Wait a minute, I don’t have that many blacks. Where did that come from?
He was obviously street and outside wise but was moved inside ultimately because of the coat. It’s Velcro and acquires sticks, burrs, leaves, etc, and while Mystery would not mind at all getting combed ten times a day, I really have other things to do with life than comb the cat.
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Lol!
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A friend inherited an adult cat from his daughter (a neighbor had literally dumped the cat on her, and daughter’s dog didn’t like strange cats). They knew nothing about the animal’s medical history, so they took her in for a spay. However, when they opened her up for the surgey, they found that she had been spayed so long ago you couldn’t find a scar. My friend jokingly called her “Free, for Free to Good Home”, and said he was changing her name to “all ready, for already been spayed”. They kept her however.
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It looks like a tattoo to me. My local spay/neuter clinic tattoos all the cats they alter.
Hope it was uneventful and he’s feeling good.
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@moonlitoaksranch My new Siamese kitten (well, he’s not a kitten anymore) was a cryptorchid. He had an abdominal incision when I first got him, but it wasn’t right on the midline the way that is. His was more toward the haunch.
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That’s interesting. Do they have stitches where the tattoo is?
Ah, so that isn’t it. Thank you.
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You’re welcome. When I first got him, I wondered what the scar was. I was so puzzled! I thought maybe I got a girl! But the scar was in such an odd place, not to mention his other “accessory”…
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No, but it felt like it for many years. It was very thick and rough.
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Apparently I’m brain dead, I thought it just appeared to have stitches, not that he did. I would call tomorrow and ask. My boy just got the tattoo. I did think it was stitches until I studied it up close
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Are there really stitches there?
I can not see them in the photo.
I too (like @rubygirl1968) have some male pets (even a dog) that when they were neutered at the shelter they made a tiny, not very deep incision and put ink in it to make a tattoo line. It is the universal symbol for ‘yes this animal has been spayed/neutered’.
When it is new the tattoo spot can look very 3-d.
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Does he have stitches? I see the blue line, but I don’t the typical redness and swelling of an incision.
That said, my Tiny (who I thought was a girl for nearly 6 months) WAS spayed . . . his neutering turned into a scavenger hunt for the missing testicle, which was eventually found floating in space near his kidneys.
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I also had one fellow that required a full-on body cavity search for a missing testicle! Though I can’t say for sure where exactly it was run to ground… 
As my vet commented when I picked him up after the surgery, “I can always count on your animals to do something weird.”
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My vet’s quote was “I hate spaying male cats!”
Poor Tiny came home with 21 stitches and a cone of shame.
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It looks like stitches. I’ll ask our regular vet to remove them in two weeks and make sure they got the right parts.
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When I was a wee young ‘un, we had a longer-haired type Siamese cat named Daisy. I don’t remember all the details, but one day my mom had taken the cat in to see the vet. At the end of the visit, the vet said something to the effect “and would you like me to castrate him as well?” My mother looked surprised as she had thought the cat was female. Now, what makes this humorous is my mother was teaching college level Anatomy & Physiology at the time……
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Oops.
All these posts about missing, floating testicles is really making me glad my last tomcat had a simple, straightforward* castration.
*Although the upstairs neighbors swore their female cat was being impregnated by him. …
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When I was a child we had a pair of kittens, one male, one female. My father was the one that dropped them off for spay / neuter. He mixed them up at drop off. The male cat ended up shaved and opened before anyone realized the mistake. Everyone was embarrassed. Except my dad who defended himself by noting that “they look exactly the same.” FTR, the male was black and white and the female was a gray tabby. Totally same same… 
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Poor Miggy. It’s bad enough for the little boy cat to go to the vet. Worse if they think you’re a girl kitty.
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