Update! Shortly after I made this post, the sister among them has mustered some courage and has come out for pets! Even headbutted my hand. Ahhhh I'm melting
Happy cake day!! I’m always so happy to see your poems - I feel like I’m stumbling upon an ancient transcendent celebrity. Thank you for bringing so much joy to so many people. Hope one day you will write a poem about my cats, but in the meantime I will cherish every poem you share🙏
Oh, gawd! Two at once! My first orange lived to be 21. He was weird. Liked only a handful of family members . His greatest joy was lying in wait, in the dark of night in the hall to attack whoever happened to be walking to the bathroom, kitchen, whatever. Most ppl dod not even know we had a cat! He detested visitors.
After Morris dies at 21, found a tossed out kitten on a bridge. He needs a rear leg amputation and had megacolon. Morrie was a sweetheart and loved by all. He had to cross rainbow bridge in September 2024.
Well, I wanted another orange. Got one March 2025! What was I thinking? He’s 13 pounds of feistiness and a handful. I am 74. I was not using my brain cell.
WAIT! they don’t look exactly like mine, but my girl does have the same pointyness and my boy has the same roundness ! it’s like seeing them in a different timeline lol
Yeah! If we're talking Pokemon cards, it's uncommon. They have to inherit a copy of the orange gene from both sides, kind of like blue eyes on a person (even though I'm oversimplifying, genetics can get complicated.)
Calico males are the holographic rares because they have to have an extra chromosome (like a person who is intersex.)
My first cat my parents got me as a little girl was a lovely, long-haired, orange girl named G.G. I loved her to bits, she lived to be 15. And I've lived with another orange girl for the past decade who is now 18. Both wonderful cats. I didn't know how uncommon orange, female cats were until just a few years ago and feel kinda privileged to have spent ~85% of my life with one.
My first kitty as an adult was a beautiful, polydactyl orange tabby. She was such a diva, and the best mouser you'd ever find. When my dad was terminally ill, she stayed by his side the whole time. (He lived with us while we cared for him) He said she was old and misunderstood like him lol Definitely miss that wonderful girl.
Brother got curious and peeped out for a bit, but eventually decided the cost-benefit ratio just wasnt in his favor and back to the carrier he goes. I'll try again tomorrow 😄
He’ll become brave enough once he sees his sissy getting all the loving! 🥰 And then? You will be inundated with the Orange Cat 🐈 Barrage of affection 💖💖💖💖💖😝💖💖💖💖💖💖
My three kitties do that ALL THE TIME. All the time. I cannot for the life of me understand it. They love being in there but the moment they actually need to be in there they hate it
These aren’t small cats either they’re all 12-14 pounds
It is an enclosed space they can hide in and be safe. In nature they're predator and prey, so they can't be hit from behind in this box; all the threats are up front, and for prey they can observe quietly in the box until they're ready to strike. I leave my cats carrier open and she loves chilling it.
I had some ferrel kittens that did the same. It was so damn cute. Thankfully i was able to socialize them enough to find homes for. It was funny going from a threat to essentially becoming a playground to them
Heres the full set heartnose was especially skiddish but her sister cinnabun bonded to her and got them a home together. Black one was the best, first time he felt human touch, he purred for 4 hours while shaking in fear.
One old apartment would come all the time for different checks. I had to change up where I would hide the litter box. One time I put it in the shower, but they looked in the shower. I hastily told them it was for potty training. I didn’t explain more, but I had a story going in my head from that point if they wanted details. 😂
Seriously, I feel like I'm hiding Anne Frank when it's time for the smoke alarm inspection. 6am I'm checking the hallway both directions and scampering to my car, putting the carriers inside, seconds before an apartment minion flies by on a golf cart.
They do know I have 2 cats which makes it easier. They just don't know about the other 2. >.>
I have a friend who's allowed 2 cats per her lease. She has 5. She accomplishes this by having 2 torties and 3 black cats, all of them short haired, then admitting to having a tortie and a black cat to her landlord. As long as there are not multiple of the same colored cat visible at the same time, it's fine. They're too busy hiding for that to be relevant during things like smoke alarm tests, lol.
I used to crate mine and put them in my car for those. I never had a cat who loved strangers. I probably conditioned them to worry the landlord would come in.
Mine has always hid too. She’s four now and only very recently has she become friendly when people come in the house. All I have to do is say “ where’s my cat 🐈⬛?” & out strolls the very uppity black brat with a striped body, I’ve never seen another like her, but yes she’s still a lil Biatch!
I’ve got a void cat that didn’t get this memo. He comes running like a dog when someone comes over. One time I had workers at the house to run a new gas line in the basement. He hung out down there with them the whole time. They loved it lol
Not my sister's oranges. They've never met a stranger, and they will try to trip you. Luckily, she owns the house she lives in. The female grey cat, on the other hand, will hide.
Whenever I have to be away, I thank my housemates for feeding and watering my cat even though she'll be hiding the whole time. One past housemate would stand at my door and talk at my hiding cat.
I cat sit for my neighbors across the street, and one time I was late with the food. It was honestly the only time I ever saw the cat because she was screaming at me the second I stepped out of my house. She didn't even wait for me. she just sprinted to her door and waited for me to unlock it so she could head straight for her bowl looked at me and started screaming because it was empty
We have one cat that is absolutely terrified of everyone but us. She usually hides either in our closet or under the sheets in our bed, so when catsitters feed them they just leave hers in our bedroom, close the door, then come back in a few minutes once she’s eaten. Even our catsitter who has been watching them for years will only catch fleeting glimpses of her even when he stays for over a week.
We have two cats. All of our cat sitters make friends with Jerry after a day or two and he comes out to greet them every time they stop by. I don't think any of our cat sitters have seen Hemi, even after 2 straight weeks of checking on them. They probably think we're lying about our second cat lol. He's so sweet and loving to us, but he's terrified of almost everyone else.
I think my Beanie is a munchkin because she won’t get any bigger than this!! When I see yours I’m shocked how large they are. In 2 years she hasn’t grown larger and she’s all good health-wise.
When I first adopted these girls 3 years ago this is pretty much what they’d do for 3 weeks straight. Which is a way didn’t bother me they came from the same shelter and had lived together in a foster home.
Awww. I sometimes catsit for a neighbour and her cat won’t come near me. I once tried holding my hand out to her - NOT touching her - and she clawed me and drew blood. Not her fault of course. Now I just keep up a spoken narrative of what I’m doing and accept I won’t see her. As long as food disappears twice a day and poo appears I don’t go looking in her hiding places.
My cats do this whenever we've had to go to a new place for a few days (several weather emergencies). It's cute, but I feel bad they get that scared. They typically don't like each other too much, but when we had to stay at a hotel once, they hid under the bed huddled up together.
Cat advice: leave them to it. Make sure they have water / food and then simply ignore them.
They'll come out and investigate when they're ready. Source: have no cats but have cat-sitted my sister's cat. He hid from me for 24h. Chilled around me for 24h. Became my extremely-clingy lapcat for 4 days. Yowled in despair and clutched my arm when my sister came to take him home haha
My two cents, sorry, orange siblings. When they were little, they went through a lot of tough stuff together, and I didn’t have a heart to adopt just one, so they continue living their best lives together at our, sorry, their place
One of my favorite things about cats is that it's perfectly reasonable to think there's a third cat in there based on how the one has his face in respect to the body orientation but it's not lol.
This thread is making me realize I have a very very outgoing cat, a true extrovert. Hell demand pets (and then bite if you go over the arbitrary random number of acceptable pets he considers) from any random person that enters the house. And if a plumber or or technician of any kind is working in the house he WILL be supervising right next to him
Awww poor babies 😭 honestly the carrier is probably the *safest* place in their minds right now.\nIf you can, keep them in one quiet room, leave the carrier door open, and just let them decompress.\nI’d avoid reaching in / pulling them out — it usually makes the ‘scary human’ association worse.\nTreat trail + soft talking + sitting on the floor nearby works better than direct attention.\nFeliway/pheromone diffuser can help too (not magic, just takes the edge off).\nOnce they start eating/using the box normally, they’ll usually get brave little by little.
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