That sounds about Reddit

It's not baseless. He based his conclusions on visual observation.

I don't know, a lot of people are aware that a cat's whiskers are very sensitive and sometimes they won't even eat out of narrow cat bowls because of something called whisker fatigue.

Clearly you didn't know this and instead of researching, decided to call out that guy's plausible explanation for no good reason.

Not at all baseless.

Cats and dogs have other sensor hairs and whiskers, beside the ones on their muzzles. They use them to gauge the space around them, particularly their heads. That mesh screen dragging across all those hairs probably doesn't feel good. Though we obviously can't ask the cat, we can try to imagine what it's like, by thinking of what a similar fabric would feel like, rubbing against a highly sensitive part of our bodies.

The dog is a dog, and might be enjoying the sensation, or is a little slower putting the two things together.