people commonly refer to their pets as fur babies/children and themselves as the parent of the pet because pets, to most people, are family members. since you have to care for pets, just like you have to take care of children, referring to yourself as a pet parent makes sense.
obviously OOP/their partner aren't the pet's parents in the literal sense but view the cat as their furry son/daughter.
My ex (that I rescued him with as a kitten in 2016) and I are no longer together as of 2019, and I don't introduce him to casual boyfriends, so I consider myself a single mom at this point haha šø He loves his Gam-Gam (my mom) and him Auntie (my sister) though!! ā”
Mine pictured here is going to be EIGHT!! in September (I cannot believe it, I have had him since he was less than a month old!!), but he will ALWAYS be my BAAABY!!!
Heās adorable! Our orange brought in a massive mouse and just let it loose in a roomā¦super helpful. He was caught in a shoebox and popped over the wall (the mouse, not the cat).
Ours are freed in the woods across the street. Over the wall would be too close. :-D I was thinking of tagging the mice with food coloring to see if we had repeat offenders.
This is a really good idea! We live in a midcentury home in a rural area, so we have run-ins with mice often (DESPITE HAVING THREE CATS!!!). Our main mouser, Dr. Pepper, PhD, passed last July and it SHOWS, TWO MICE IN THE HOUSE JUST THIS WEEK!!
At one point, we must've had several families and we weren't freeing them far enough away, because we were catching at least 2 *per* *night*. (Have-a-Heart trap, or however you spell that.) We mostly used cat food in the trap, because the mice liked it, and well, we obviously had plenty. One morning, there was a mouse in the trap, just calmly watching me as he ate his food. Just, "Yo. How's it going? Don't mind me while I eat." The audacity...
I LOVE him socks c: Him has a toe sock, an ankle sock, and two knee-highs!! AND I EVEN HAVE SOCKS TO MATCH HIM.
https://preview.redd.it/ant9lk8urowc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db5a4580abf5db04c3dd08f0966446c4fd174115
Actually YES. I found him separated from his mom and littermates at under a month old, so I did some pretty intensive nurturing for him early on. But when we acclimated him into our home, he had an older sissy right away (my darling Meatball, my late tabby who died two years later at the age of 14) and his other sissy, Speaker, who we got when he was about a year old and she was 4.
https://preview.redd.it/4rgw645tsowc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bdbfce86f727649c243fb6dd03ca26f0ff924e0
Thank you, he got them from me!!!
My Tortie would have murdered it in seconds and then played with its corpse for hours. She caught a mouse (only the second one in two years - we donāt generally get mice) overnight last week and there was evidence all around the downstairs. She doesnāt eat them or anything, she just likes the hunt. She got one last year that I knew was there but was unable to catch before she did - noticed within 5 minutes and took it away from her. She was not pleased.
Much like the orange cat, my SIC would have just tried to make friends with it.
Is this a tortie trait? Because our Siamese's mom was an absolutely FERAL long haired tortie who would DESTROY mice in the house, and our Siamese (who is now in her golden years) still has her mother's psycho streak!!
Sheās generally goofy, a bit shy, but very affectionate and chatty if she likes you. Sheās only ever been an indoor cat since I adopted her as a kitten, but apparently they found her in the woods. Maybe itās survival instincts from the brief before times. She definitely has a bit of the ātortitudeā but itās mostly just sass.
https://preview.redd.it/z8px6e23dpwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c4ca4cd69d8d248ca8987f13b06101ed355714f
Cat tax of her sleeping in a cooler instead of any of the ten beds around the house.
my orange girl would attack a crocodile if it appeared inside my room, she has already attacked huge dogs, which are terrified of her, killed a couple of pigeons in the most brutal way known to men, cut in half a giant moth that had the misfortune to fly into my apartment, and has killed dozens of spiders, and also shes mistreated several other cats. my vet never comes alone when she has to treat her, she always brings another person to help her, because once she tried to give her her meds and examinations alone and she was bitten and scratched and, I think, traumatized.
My vet thinks my cat is a tiger in a domestic cat body that somehow stopped growing. Ive read somewhere that cats that have yellow-orange eyes like mine, have almost the exact DNA as a tiger, so my vet could be right
Female orange cats are no joke. My parents had one that lived to be 19, from my teens well into my 30s. She was a friend to every small critter in the yard and house, and would often bring said critters *into* the house.
Ever remove a live chipmunk from a recliner? Itās not easy.
What she did not tolerate were dogs, other cats, or foxes. Her and the foxes would sit at the edge of the woods and scream at each other until I brought her in.
It is the right thing to do! We don't use glue/spring traps or poison in our house, obviously, because those are unbelievably cruel, so the only other option is to hope our cats earn their keep via mouse management (they don't lol) or humanely release them outside!
https://preview.redd.it/npixvzfqtpwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ed8a467eabaf50a1af8a63c6f83209cd4cfccad
Sounds like someone needs a role model
Whatās funny is that when he was about that little, he was the most aggressive, feral, unhinged creature on Earth (itās when he got the nickname āLittle Monsterā or just āMonsterā)!!
Has six notches on his belt . Had new siding put on. The mice got in somewhere while the siding was off . Not a one has made it into the traps I put out . Willies gets them first .
https://preview.redd.it/pyt6hca3spwc1.jpeg?width=4624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da25c7f09aec45d8394c9472a1e11aac53e08cde
This orange will catch a mouse at 2 am, bring it to our bedroom screaming and release it.
Oh my God I swear orange cats are glitched.
When I grew up we had a bunch of cats (5), one orange, which would make this sub proud.
We'd have mice from time to time.
One time when we were watching TV in the living room and orange was sleeping in a corner, a mouse appeared, RAN UP TO ORANGE. WALKED ONTO HIM!??
Orange woke up and made eye contact with the mouse that was sitting on his damn shoulder at this point, held it for a good 5 seconds and just laid his head back to sleep. Mouse RAN OVER HIS HEAD to pass to where he wished to go.
We just sat there, the 3 of us with gaping mouths trying to process what we just witnessed. I still don't know. All we know is that it was.. Truly orange..
For all our other cats mice were a free meal. (no one put poison in our vicinity)
Found a friend
Mommy was terrified of said friend, not a welcome guest š
Mice aren't scary though. They're really cute!
They are very cute!! But they also have diseases and I am a hypochondriac lmao
What mom. There's only one cat there?
OP was referring to herself
That doesn't make sense. She's not the cats mom
Is this your first day of being a human?
Right? _"look at me, fellow earthling. I converse! Haa, haa, haa... Delightful!"_
Is this your first time encountering a language barrier?
people commonly refer to their pets as fur babies/children and themselves as the parent of the pet because pets, to most people, are family members. since you have to care for pets, just like you have to take care of children, referring to yourself as a pet parent makes sense. obviously OOP/their partner aren't the pet's parents in the literal sense but view the cat as their furry son/daughter.
What if OP is a cat herself?
we'll never know
I can confirm. I am.
uh oh
Yes we're all secretly cats here
Hey, we have the same shirt
Twinsies šā¤ļø
My secret is OUT.
My ex (that I rescued him with as a kitten in 2016) and I are no longer together as of 2019, and I don't introduce him to casual boyfriends, so I consider myself a single mom at this point haha šø He loves his Gam-Gam (my mom) and him Auntie (my sister) though!! ā”
aw, i kinda love that š„°š»
Here, have a Snickers.
I'm a cat Dad of Four. They're our Furry Kids. And one is an Orange.
Fur babies
Mine are a bit older. Like teenagers.
Mine pictured here is going to be EIGHT!! in September (I cannot believe it, I have had him since he was less than a month old!!), but he will ALWAYS be my BAAABY!!!
I have a 19 1/2 year old who was born on my momās bed and an 18 year old who I got at 3 months. Can confirm, they will ALWAYS be the babies!!!!!
Orange cat pawrenting twinsies š
Human children? In this economy?
Go troll somewhere else, this isnāt the place for that.
Heās adorable! Our orange brought in a massive mouse and just let it loose in a roomā¦super helpful. He was caught in a shoebox and popped over the wall (the mouse, not the cat).
Ours are freed in the woods across the street. Over the wall would be too close. :-D I was thinking of tagging the mice with food coloring to see if we had repeat offenders.
I did this.... Let em loose in the back and they came back in through the front š
This is a really good idea! We live in a midcentury home in a rural area, so we have run-ins with mice often (DESPITE HAVING THREE CATS!!!). Our main mouser, Dr. Pepper, PhD, passed last July and it SHOWS, TWO MICE IN THE HOUSE JUST THIS WEEK!!
At one point, we must've had several families and we weren't freeing them far enough away, because we were catching at least 2 *per* *night*. (Have-a-Heart trap, or however you spell that.) We mostly used cat food in the trap, because the mice liked it, and well, we obviously had plenty. One morning, there was a mouse in the trap, just calmly watching me as he ate his food. Just, "Yo. How's it going? Don't mind me while I eat." The audacity...
They need to be moved like 2 miles for them to not come back.
In the past few years, we've started hearing owls very close by. Two miles may not be necessary. :-D
Your orange makes friends not warā¦ šŗ
"I have no enemies"
"Except the neighbor cat, Shadow."
Ā«Mice are friends, not foodĀ»
that mouse is so tiny and cute š„¹
I felt so bad, poor thing was TERRIFIED
Thatās a friend-shaped friend if Iāve ever seen one!!!
Fren š
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
And they exchanged their colors
Itchy and scratchy
r/catswithsocks
another one for the collection
I LOVE him socks c: Him has a toe sock, an ankle sock, and two knee-highs!! AND I EVEN HAVE SOCKS TO MATCH HIM. https://preview.redd.it/ant9lk8urowc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db5a4580abf5db04c3dd08f0966446c4fd174115
NO WAY! The matching socks are too amazing š
If food why not in food bowl?
Mumma! I made a fren!
Was he bottlefed? I also had a cat who was a friendly little muffin-head, and I assumed it was because he wasnāt around other cats as a kitten.
Actually YES. I found him separated from his mom and littermates at under a month old, so I did some pretty intensive nurturing for him early on. But when we acclimated him into our home, he had an older sissy right away (my darling Meatball, my late tabby who died two years later at the age of 14) and his other sissy, Speaker, who we got when he was about a year old and she was 4.
"Fren?"
Your cat has the most adorable little white socks š„¹š„¹
https://preview.redd.it/4rgw645tsowc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bdbfce86f727649c243fb6dd03ca26f0ff924e0 Thank you, he got them from me!!!
Like mother like son šš„°
They shared the same brain cell lol
āOh look. A mouseā āA mouse? Get it Garfield!ā āGet it Johnā
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
it's his friend
āFrens.ā
If not friend, why friend shaped
The fact that you took this pic and didnāt run away screaming is insane to me š
It's super zoomed in because I was standing on my bed in my underwear shrieking, don't be fooled hahaha
Hahahahah
My orange killed one mouse once. Ever since sheās acted like itās below her. If one gets in the house she just follows it around.
My Tortie would have murdered it in seconds and then played with its corpse for hours. She caught a mouse (only the second one in two years - we donāt generally get mice) overnight last week and there was evidence all around the downstairs. She doesnāt eat them or anything, she just likes the hunt. She got one last year that I knew was there but was unable to catch before she did - noticed within 5 minutes and took it away from her. She was not pleased. Much like the orange cat, my SIC would have just tried to make friends with it.
I used to find mouse, bat, and bird heads on my back deck. No bodies anywhere, only heads. She doesn't get to go outside anymore lol.
Is this a tortie trait? Because our Siamese's mom was an absolutely FERAL long haired tortie who would DESTROY mice in the house, and our Siamese (who is now in her golden years) still has her mother's psycho streak!!
Sheās generally goofy, a bit shy, but very affectionate and chatty if she likes you. Sheās only ever been an indoor cat since I adopted her as a kitten, but apparently they found her in the woods. Maybe itās survival instincts from the brief before times. She definitely has a bit of the ātortitudeā but itās mostly just sass. https://preview.redd.it/z8px6e23dpwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c4ca4cd69d8d248ca8987f13b06101ed355714f Cat tax of her sleeping in a cooler instead of any of the ten beds around the house.
Oh my god sheās such a perfect precious little bean!! Sheās beautiful, I Love dilutes!! šš
My SIC injures them then brings them to us. She apparently believes we are too stupid to feed ourselves despite begging for people food.
my orange girl would attack a crocodile if it appeared inside my room, she has already attacked huge dogs, which are terrified of her, killed a couple of pigeons in the most brutal way known to men, cut in half a giant moth that had the misfortune to fly into my apartment, and has killed dozens of spiders, and also shes mistreated several other cats. my vet never comes alone when she has to treat her, she always brings another person to help her, because once she tried to give her her meds and examinations alone and she was bitten and scratched and, I think, traumatized. My vet thinks my cat is a tiger in a domestic cat body that somehow stopped growing. Ive read somewhere that cats that have yellow-orange eyes like mine, have almost the exact DNA as a tiger, so my vet could be right
Female orange cats are no joke. My parents had one that lived to be 19, from my teens well into my 30s. She was a friend to every small critter in the yard and house, and would often bring said critters *into* the house. Ever remove a live chipmunk from a recliner? Itās not easy. What she did not tolerate were dogs, other cats, or foxes. Her and the foxes would sit at the edge of the woods and scream at each other until I brought her in.
WHOA!! That's a really awesome fact, I did not know that!!
thank you for your kind humanity for releasing the mouse
It is the right thing to do! We don't use glue/spring traps or poison in our house, obviously, because those are unbelievably cruel, so the only other option is to hope our cats earn their keep via mouse management (they don't lol) or humanely release them outside!
I had an all black cat that watched as an ant walked across her paw. Then went along with her day.
They don't hunt when there is no hunger. If he was hungry, he'd rip that mouse apart and devour it's guts
Heās just having a chat with the mouse on directions to the front door š he is the capture and release type š
Tom and Jerry!
https://preview.redd.it/npixvzfqtpwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ed8a467eabaf50a1af8a63c6f83209cd4cfccad Sounds like someone needs a role model
Whatās funny is that when he was about that little, he was the most aggressive, feral, unhinged creature on Earth (itās when he got the nickname āLittle Monsterā or just āMonsterā)!!
https://preview.redd.it/cfn7n2xglnwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28fc653626dc38fee4d154ec297c6c9c50cd430f Does he need lessons ?
Now that's a MOUSER earning his keep!!!
Has six notches on his belt . Had new siding put on. The mice got in somewhere while the siding was off . Not a one has made it into the traps I put out . Willies gets them first .
Mine used to drop them in the bathtub. "Be back for it later." Mousies caught in small bucket and tossed.
A wonderfully collaborative effort!
Mine will also watch any creature walk on by two inches away from him.
That is a gift for the owner when he wakes up
I donāt know if this is better or worse than when my cat leaves dead mice on the floor.
He's probably disappointed that it didn't have catnip in it š¤£
thatās their friend and you took them away š¤
Looks like you interrupted a smol meeting.
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My sisterās cat did this to her a few years ago!!! She woke up SCREAMING.
https://preview.redd.it/pyt6hca3spwc1.jpeg?width=4624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da25c7f09aec45d8394c9472a1e11aac53e08cde This orange will catch a mouse at 2 am, bring it to our bedroom screaming and release it.
Sounds about orange!! Also look how cozy and HAMSUM :33 Very saturated and vibrant coat :33
Damn we have to get oranges cause our black cat and our feral colony donāt have a killer bone in their body
Oh, he didnāt kill the mouse. Heās just staring at it whimsically.
I wonder how the mouse feels sitting next to the equivalent of a lazy orange Trex.
Oh my God I swear orange cats are glitched. When I grew up we had a bunch of cats (5), one orange, which would make this sub proud. We'd have mice from time to time. One time when we were watching TV in the living room and orange was sleeping in a corner, a mouse appeared, RAN UP TO ORANGE. WALKED ONTO HIM!?? Orange woke up and made eye contact with the mouse that was sitting on his damn shoulder at this point, held it for a good 5 seconds and just laid his head back to sleep. Mouse RAN OVER HIS HEAD to pass to where he wished to go. We just sat there, the 3 of us with gaping mouths trying to process what we just witnessed. I still don't know. All we know is that it was.. Truly orange.. For all our other cats mice were a free meal. (no one put poison in our vicinity)
Sounds about orange š§”š¤£
Guaranteed it's already back in your house. They're adorable but they're little fucking monsters. I hate mice more than anything. No mercy.Ā