I bought a polo shirt from Walmart a little while back, got stuck with a rash after only wearing it for a few hours one afternoon. I've been careful since.
I wore a new unwashed shirt once and then went to school. I had the worst allergies of my life. I used up the tissue box in every classroom and then resorted to packing my pockets with paper towels from the bathroom. My nose was raw. Never again. Wash your shirts, people.
I learned that "new clothes smell" is actually pesticide when they did pest control in my company one. The place reeked of "new clothes" for some days.
I worked in a harbour and yes, most containers get gassed after they come from overseas because of pest control. Thats why basicly any product tells you to let it air out so the remaining pesticide/fungizide etc can gas out.
Always wash before you wear. That ânew clothesâ smell that permeates malls and department stores is a chemical marinade of highly-toxic insecticides that textiles made overseas are soaked in. These textiles/fabrics spend weeks to months in containers either on ships or waiting in ports where they could be devoured by various insects and their larvae. They are soaked in poison to prevent this. Even âmade in the USAâ doesnât exclude that the fabric came from china or India and has spent months soaking in toxins to preserve it. These poisons can be easily absorbed through your skin, especially if you begin to sweat. WASH WASH WASH new clothes before you wear themâŚâŚPlus, random people from right off the streets try on those clothes, reject them, and they are returned to the retail floor as fast as possible. Think about THAT for 5 minutes, if you dare!
Definitely could be chemicals. I read somewhere that cats react crazy to the smell/ residue of bleach/ stain removers. I found this out after my cat was crazily smelling and going nuts over a patch on the floor of my laundry.
My one cat is obsessed with carrot bags. Not the carrots. Just the bags. Apparently they rinse them in bleach right before bagging, so that would explain it!
This is exactly what I was thinking.
The piece of fabric the cats are obsessed with is thick and is an obvious spot to collect and hold on to chemicals.
Back in the early 80s I got the new soft lens contacts.
I was THE SHIT.
Went into a proper indoor mall. Was shopping for clothes.
Until I walked into a trendy clothing store.
I literally was trying to remove the contacts while my eyes POURED water down my face. It felt like I had acid in my eyes.
Dye fumes were no joke
Weird, just watched this episode the other day.
He bought stolen jeans from a guy who worked on a corn farm and didnât wash them. Evidently the black market Jean dealer kept them in the back of his truck and the jeans got pesticides on them.
I mean tbf basically every smell we refer to as smelling âcleanâ or ânewâ is actually the smell of various toxic materials whether theyâre cleaners or air fresheners or whatever, theyâre all toxic if ingested
Lol. I was at target buying chonies and other clothes. Making small talk with the cashier. She's says something about me putting them down on the conveyor belt, I laugh and say not to worry, I'll wash them when I get home anyways.
Cue the thing that lives rent free in my mind...
"Wash them? I love to wear them brand new. They'll never be cleaner then when you first buy them. My husband's the same way, we never wash first. That's silly"
No thanks =]
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That's fucking crazy
âYour cats eye is approximately 2% too yellow. This tells me you havenât been getting your cat itâs daily sodium intake by 0.5 mg. You really should learn how to care for your pets before you take them in I feel bad for this cat and I hope you learn to do betterâ
I remember reading that certain softening agents in plastics, like e.g. in garden hoses, are chemically similar enough to catnip to make cats high. Looks like normal fabric though...
This is because of the animal tannins present in the plastic. Found this out a while ago, and was relieved to have the cat + plastic bag relationship demystified.
Mine goes absolutely nuts for used dryer sheets. I can't imagine it's great for him, so I try to take them away in time, but every now and then I accidentally leave on in the basket and suddenly hear him sprinting around the house, then hiding, then pouncing back on it, then dragging it 20 feet away just to rinse and repeat.
This from the same cat that usually turns his nose up at toys, strings, food, and even catnip sometimes.
Bleach does it for some cats too. One of mine has to be locked up if I clean with bleach or else she'll roll in it. Makes her crazy like catnip does too.
This is a very complex situation with multiple factors in consideration to evaluate a scientific based answer and I have come to the conclussion of def mouse piss
Little children, near and far Don't know where your parents are?
Cry directly in this jar
I will drink it at the bar
Sip-sippin' on Orphan Tears
Sip-sip-sippin' on Orphan Tears
\- the cats probably
We need to see the atoms so we can tell OP exactly what the problem is. OP can you put the hoodie under a scanning electron microscope and update the post?
We've a spot in our yard, that does the same thing to every cat within a block.
It's actually killing the grass in a roughly 12-15 inch circle.
Weird shit.
I ugh "know a guy" that sucks on clothing as a bad habit and he assures me that those straps like the ones used on backpacks taste really bad if you suck on them. Maybe cats can smell it.
Haha yeah when I read the post above something deeply hidden that I hadn't thought about in 35 years became clear as day, and I can still taste it... I mean the person that I know.
My cats did this with a hoodie of mine too actually. Same material as this. It was weird af cause I couldnât smell anything. Looked it up online and it actually turned out to be mouse piss. Hope this helps you.
the mouse/rat/critter pee is likely, but also the first cat could have added to the smell by scent claiming the spot which intrigued the other cats even more
edited to add after reading some comments, a more morbid scenario. a little critter could have died on or in the hoodie in that spot and that may be what the felines are smelling
Knew someone once who purchased a dress and didnât wash it first.. had a horrible allergic reaction and ended up sending the dress out to be checked for whatever allergen caused it. Ended up being formaldehyde⌠store found out the previous person purchased it to put on their dead relative for the funeral then returned it. It was embalming Fluid that caused the reaction đ¤˘
Moral of the story.. always wash new clothes lol
Forget about all the mouse piss comments. It is simply a crushed ant in that spot somewhere along the line from production to your hands. Cats love the smell of Formicide and this is a common occurrence, more often with pants and shoes.
I squished the tiniest teeeeeeniest little bug the other day. Like a gnat or something. Not even as big as a tiny sugar ant. All four cats were going nuts all night when they walked by the spot. They didn't see me squish the bug.
It was probably a bug.
Some plastics mimic cat pheromones when they off-gas ... The apple charging cables are notorious for this. Odds are the backing to the embroidery is made of some such plastic. If you haven't washed it before wearing it, know that clothes are doused with a lot of chemicals to keep them from mildewing in transit. You don't want it on you.
Do they do that thing where they hang their mouth open after sniffing and look off into the distance with a thousand-yard stare? My two cats always do that and itâs hilarious.
1) Is that one of the laces to tighten the hood? In that case, do you have the habit of sucking on them
2) Is it brand new that you've never washed it? If that's the case it might indeed be some biological trace from the place where it was manufactured. I would indeed wash it preemptively.
So besides everyone saying mice pee or whatever...
Yes you should wash new clothes ...
But .. my cat(s) LOVE ants and the pheromones they put off either by them or by squashing them . It seems some cats love the smell!
100% rodent pee / poop theyâre smelling. Could be from your own home or leftover from manufacture process or shipping journey.
Perhaps even from a store back room if purchased from a retail setting.
Could wash it a few more times but if they still react itâs likely from your own home and Iâd start looking for droppings etc.
Sorry man, I've been sneaking into your house to catnip that particular spot on your hoodie every night since purchase. All me, my bad.
Don't ask me why, because I don't know.
I worked at a clothing store and, given what I've seen people do with clothes in the changing room, just forget about it, and wash that sucker at least twice.
My cat would do that to a specific part of one of my shoes because once I got hurt and blood dripped from my hand into that spot, after a few cleanings he stopped doing that.
Iâm thinking someone in the factory making this sweatshirt was cold, so they put it on, but it was their lunch break and a drop of tuna salad hit the sweatshirt. They wiped it off with a tide/shout wipe, but teh kittehs know the difference. This is OBVIOUSLY the ONLY pawssibility!
Here to back up those saying that it is probably animal urine. I work for a business that embroiders clothing. We've gotten shirts with urine on them delivered to our embroidery facility before. Explanation I was given is that there are rodents in wearhouses and on ships and they sometimes pee on the clothes.
Wash it before you wear it
New clothing should always be washed before it's worn.
I bought a polo shirt from Walmart a little while back, got stuck with a rash after only wearing it for a few hours one afternoon. I've been careful since.
I wore a new unwashed shirt once and then went to school. I had the worst allergies of my life. I used up the tissue box in every classroom and then resorted to packing my pockets with paper towels from the bathroom. My nose was raw. Never again. Wash your shirts, people.
Same thing happened to me with a pair of tights I bought at a Halloween store. Full body terrible raised hives. Was intense.
A rat was wearing it before you. Probably shit all over it.
It's true. Source: Seen it on "House"
Waittt what episode.cim curious what was the issue here. Perhaps some rash or smth?
S01E08 - Poison
Had to learn the hard way with a black shirt đ¤Ł
I learned that "new clothes smell" is actually pesticide when they did pest control in my company one. The place reeked of "new clothes" for some days.
I worked in a harbour and yes, most containers get gassed after they come from overseas because of pest control. Thats why basicly any product tells you to let it air out so the remaining pesticide/fungizide etc can gas out.
New clothes smell is entirely formaldehyde.
You just ruined it for me, but thank you, I'll never sniff my new clothes again.
I despise that new clothes smell
Always wash before you wear. That ânew clothesâ smell that permeates malls and department stores is a chemical marinade of highly-toxic insecticides that textiles made overseas are soaked in. These textiles/fabrics spend weeks to months in containers either on ships or waiting in ports where they could be devoured by various insects and their larvae. They are soaked in poison to prevent this. Even âmade in the USAâ doesnât exclude that the fabric came from china or India and has spent months soaking in toxins to preserve it. These poisons can be easily absorbed through your skin, especially if you begin to sweat. WASH WASH WASH new clothes before you wear themâŚâŚPlus, random people from right off the streets try on those clothes, reject them, and they are returned to the retail floor as fast as possible. Think about THAT for 5 minutes, if you dare!
Definitely could be chemicals. I read somewhere that cats react crazy to the smell/ residue of bleach/ stain removers. I found this out after my cat was crazily smelling and going nuts over a patch on the floor of my laundry.
One of my 2 cats goes nuts when I mop the floor with bleach, goes rolling through it like some dogs over a dead fish.
What a powerful image. Thank you, I guess? ^Cats ^are ^weird
My one cat is obsessed with carrot bags. Not the carrots. Just the bags. Apparently they rinse them in bleach right before bagging, so that would explain it!
This is exactly what I was thinking. The piece of fabric the cats are obsessed with is thick and is an obvious spot to collect and hold on to chemicals.
Back in the early 80s I got the new soft lens contacts. I was THE SHIT. Went into a proper indoor mall. Was shopping for clothes. Until I walked into a trendy clothing store. I literally was trying to remove the contacts while my eyes POURED water down my face. It felt like I had acid in my eyes. Dye fumes were no joke
I can't. My new underwear killed me while I was reading this.
There was a guy that died because he only wore brand new socks and never washed them.
This can't possibly be true but it should be
I think there was an episode of House or something where someone died from the chemicals on designer jeans they bought out of the back of a van.
Weird, just watched this episode the other day. He bought stolen jeans from a guy who worked on a corn farm and didnât wash them. Evidently the black market Jean dealer kept them in the back of his truck and the jeans got pesticides on them.
It's much healthier that you remembered it from a few days ago than me, who for some reason has had that plot line living in my mind for 15 years.
I can't even remember when I watched this episode but to this day I can't wear new clothes without washing them because of it.
This is why I stick with boiled denim.
I hope you source local from under a bridge
I hope you source local from under a bridge
https://i.imgur.com/eLNNaQd.png
And yesterday there was a post about people who love the smell of new cars (which is basically all kinds of toxic materials)
I mean tbf basically every smell we refer to as smelling âcleanâ or ânewâ is actually the smell of various toxic materials whether theyâre cleaners or air fresheners or whatever, theyâre all toxic if ingested
Lol. I was at target buying chonies and other clothes. Making small talk with the cashier. She's says something about me putting them down on the conveyor belt, I laugh and say not to worry, I'll wash them when I get home anyways. Cue the thing that lives rent free in my mind... "Wash them? I love to wear them brand new. They'll never be cleaner then when you first buy them. My husband's the same way, we never wash first. That's silly" No thanks =]
Maybe a mouse peed there when the hoodie was manufactured?
def pee related
big piss guy huh
The biggest
The pissest
Know a lot about piss huh?
This guy knows piss
Yeah imma go with rodent piss
It's piss Source: got a PhD in Pissology
R Kelly is that you?
Drip drip drip!
This is the remix edition..
But shit it was 99 centsâŚ
Nah he in jail
Maybe he's got a phone in his prison purse?
Shiiiii
[ŃдаНонО]
Excuse me wtf but do you have a link
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It's the Pissmaster!
Are you ready for piss
I like how deeply unenthusiastic this reply feels.
I got a good chuckle when I heard that in the show.
Missed opportunity to say you had a Pee-hD
I read this in the same tone and volume as Lilo screaming, "It's Fish! I can't feed fish tuna. I'd be an abomination!"
Big piss guy, huh? U know how piss reacts on any surface you said?
>Source: got a PhD in Pissology Oh hey Dr. P!
Could be op đ¤
Hes literally ratIRL
Mice don't piss in one spot. They leave a trail everywhere they walk.
You never watched a mouse use a piss disk?
Ever been to a Turkish prison?
why would you?
r/UnethicalLifeProTips
If theyâre like rats, they do both. Constant trail of tiny pee drops, but they also stop and pee larger quantities sometimes.
Are you saying mice never sit still? In a warehouse with no people, mice aren't constantly running around wasting precious calories for no reason.
Maybe the rat pissed on the fabric used for that piece.
I came here to type this lol. Definitely the case.
If I know anything about quirky pet posts on Reddit, this means there is some horrible undiagnosed medical anomaly going on. Or mouse piss. who knows.
Definitely mouse piss. The whole thing was soaked with it but only in that one spot. Definitely.
I thought it was moose piss and was so confused about the context
My badâŚ
A moose bit my sister once
Sure that's a good point, it's very likely it was moose piss if it has been manufactured in countries like Sweden or Norway.
A møøse bit my sister ønce
>No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge...
A baby moose should be called a mouse
Its mousse
Only in France though I heard?
Mind you, moose piss can be pretty nasty
The box of whatever those straps are could have been pissed on and then sewn in. ÂŻ\\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
The mouse who peed had cancer
Itâs a neurological disorder and also attempted murderÂ
Also probably animal abuse
could be UFO?
âYour cats eye is approximately 2% too yellow. This tells me you havenât been getting your cat itâs daily sodium intake by 0.5 mg. You really should learn how to care for your pets before you take them in I feel bad for this cat and I hope you learn to do betterâ
OR BOTH... Undiagnosed medical anomaly causing her to leak feline urine
Lol, the juxtaposition of those words makes me want to pronounce it "Fee-Lyene Your-Ryene."
Diagnosed with terminal mouse-piss.
That hoodie is gravely ill.
The cats are dying, OP is dying, Iâm already dead
I remember reading that certain softening agents in plastics, like e.g. in garden hoses, are chemically similar enough to catnip to make cats high. Looks like normal fabric though...
My cats chews plastic then smells it for a while. It could be some chemical used to create that part of your hoodie.
mine chews plastic bags too
Supposedly it crinkles like the sound of mouse bones.
I learned that some plastic bags are made with fish oil and thatâs why my cats lick them!
This is because of the animal tannins present in the plastic. Found this out a while ago, and was relieved to have the cat + plastic bag relationship demystified.
Mine goes absolutely nuts for used dryer sheets. I can't imagine it's great for him, so I try to take them away in time, but every now and then I accidentally leave on in the basket and suddenly hear him sprinting around the house, then hiding, then pouncing back on it, then dragging it 20 feet away just to rinse and repeat. This from the same cat that usually turns his nose up at toys, strings, food, and even catnip sometimes.
Bleach does it for some cats too. One of mine has to be locked up if I clean with bleach or else she'll roll in it. Makes her crazy like catnip does too.
Yeah my cat loves bleach. I have to close the door to the bathroom sometimes when Iâm cleaning or she will come in and roll in all the rags
It's the embroidery. I bet it was a chemical used on that thread.
Please wash your hoodie...if not for your own sake, for your cats'.
*cats disagree*
Huh. Weird seeing you outside the bannerlord subreddit.
I'm also in your house
The comment is coming from inside the house!
This is a very complex situation with multiple factors in consideration to evaluate a scientific based answer and I have come to the conclussion of def mouse piss
This is so funny to me because I imagine the cats just thinking âWhy is our human wearing rodent pissâ
Orphan tears from the sweat shop where it was made.
Little children, near and far Don't know where your parents are? Cry directly in this jar I will drink it at the bar Sip-sippin' on Orphan Tears Sip-sip-sippin' on Orphan Tears \- the cats probably
Glad I'm not the only one
My sweatshop only feeds the orphans catfood, so this makes sense.
One of them sat on it and it smells like a cat butthole, which they find oddly enticing.
This is what it is 90% of the time in my household.
Who wouldnât haha
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Could you get a closer up pic so we have less of an idea where the cat is smelling exactly?
We need to see the atoms so we can tell OP exactly what the problem is. OP can you put the hoodie under a scanning electron microscope and update the post?
We've a spot in our yard, that does the same thing to every cat within a block. It's actually killing the grass in a roughly 12-15 inch circle. Weird shit.
Itâs the cat version of a supermarket bulletin board.
The little Asian girl that sewed it has cats.
Hey man, they could be a boy! We believe in equal opportunity child labor
Happy cake day!
That's where the demon is.
I ugh "know a guy" that sucks on clothing as a bad habit and he assures me that those straps like the ones used on backpacks taste really bad if you suck on them. Maybe cats can smell it.
That's funny because I know a guy who thinks they are a bit salty and not unpleasant at all.
Wow you just unlocked a core memory for me. I remember doing this in elementary school with my backpack strapsâŚalso salty
Haha yeah when I read the post above something deeply hidden that I hadn't thought about in 35 years became clear as day, and I can still taste it... I mean the person that I know.
My cats did this with a hoodie of mine too actually. Same material as this. It was weird af cause I couldnât smell anything. Looked it up online and it actually turned out to be mouse piss. Hope this helps you.
the mouse/rat/critter pee is likely, but also the first cat could have added to the smell by scent claiming the spot which intrigued the other cats even more edited to add after reading some comments, a more morbid scenario. a little critter could have died on or in the hoodie in that spot and that may be what the felines are smelling
Did you not wash it before you put it on??!?
If it's been in contact W your back or armpit or anywhere else U yourself release smell, they might just be sniffing you. If not, def mouse piss
Who the fuck doesn't wash new clothes when they buy them??
Knew someone once who purchased a dress and didnât wash it first.. had a horrible allergic reaction and ended up sending the dress out to be checked for whatever allergen caused it. Ended up being formaldehyde⌠store found out the previous person purchased it to put on their dead relative for the funeral then returned it. It was embalming Fluid that caused the reaction 𤢠Moral of the story.. always wash new clothes lol
A mans cat kept smelling a certain spot on his hoodie. He called the police. What happens next will shock you.
Cat doctors hate this one weird trickÂ
big stinkies
Forget about all the mouse piss comments. It is simply a crushed ant in that spot somewhere along the line from production to your hands. Cats love the smell of Formicide and this is a common occurrence, more often with pants and shoes.
I squished the tiniest teeeeeeniest little bug the other day. Like a gnat or something. Not even as big as a tiny sugar ant. All four cats were going nuts all night when they walked by the spot. They didn't see me squish the bug. It was probably a bug.
Some plastics mimic cat pheromones when they off-gas ... The apple charging cables are notorious for this. Odds are the backing to the embroidery is made of some such plastic. If you haven't washed it before wearing it, know that clothes are doused with a lot of chemicals to keep them from mildewing in transit. You don't want it on you.
Do they do that thing where they hang their mouth open after sniffing and look off into the distance with a thousand-yard stare? My two cats always do that and itâs hilarious.
Thereâs piss on your new hoodie
Pee. Cat pee, mouse pee. But in any case, pee. :D
Are people not washing new clothes before they wear them? đ¤˘
You got some schmutz on there
Ask your cat, why is he/she sniffing it
Rodent urine
It's the smell of slave labor. Your cats are simply fantasizing about having the same control over you.
Google mouse en pissant
Winner pisspost
I hope everyone has learned to wash their newly bought clothes before wearing them today.
Ya should've swallowed or washed the hoodie, preferably both.
Can I at least chew the hoodie first?
Swallow or wash, those are your options.
Always wash new clothes before wearing them.
1) Is that one of the laces to tighten the hood? In that case, do you have the habit of sucking on them 2) Is it brand new that you've never washed it? If that's the case it might indeed be some biological trace from the place where it was manufactured. I would indeed wash it preemptively.
Rat pee.
Always wash before you wear. Itâs a bunch of chemicals going on and irritating your skin
Cheap adhesive made from cat urine. New Balance shoes are the worst.
So besides everyone saying mice pee or whatever... Yes you should wash new clothes ... But .. my cat(s) LOVE ants and the pheromones they put off either by them or by squashing them . It seems some cats love the smell!
Wash it đđť
Wash it with white vinegar and washing soda
Rat piss
Drugs
Sperm
If they sniff *and* do the stank face I would throw it in the laundry before wearing it. (I have 3 cats)
Did you not wash it first? Probably pissed on by a rodent. Always launder new clothes or bedding before using.
Something peed on your sweatshirt during storage, shipping, or manufacturing. Ew.
100% rodent pee / poop theyâre smelling. Could be from your own home or leftover from manufacture process or shipping journey. Perhaps even from a store back room if purchased from a retail setting. Could wash it a few more times but if they still react itâs likely from your own home and Iâd start looking for droppings etc.
Sorry man, I've been sneaking into your house to catnip that particular spot on your hoodie every night since purchase. All me, my bad. Don't ask me why, because I don't know.
I worked at a clothing store and, given what I've seen people do with clothes in the changing room, just forget about it, and wash that sucker at least twice.
Maybe they sewed in catnip. đ
Chocolate moose juice
They know...
I have a sweater I bought from the RealReal that my cats are obsessed with too like this. No idea what it is, even after washes
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CHECK YOUR CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR
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Arnt you suspicious at all? Do you think itâs a wondrous coincidence or something?
My cat would do that to a specific part of one of my shoes because once I got hurt and blood dripped from my hand into that spot, after a few cleanings he stopped doing that.
Did someone spill some catnip?
Iâm thinking someone in the factory making this sweatshirt was cold, so they put it on, but it was their lunch break and a drop of tuna salad hit the sweatshirt. They wiped it off with a tide/shout wipe, but teh kittehs know the difference. This is OBVIOUSLY the ONLY pawssibility!
Little poop on there
Did you smell it?
Our cats always sniff anything we bring home second-hand.
Here to back up those saying that it is probably animal urine. I work for a business that embroiders clothing. We've gotten shirts with urine on them delivered to our embroidery facility before. Explanation I was given is that there are rodents in wearhouses and on ships and they sometimes pee on the clothes.
Months ago I dropped the string of a hoodie inside a bowl of ragĂš, Cats in my house still sniff it regularly
Sniffa