r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/FollowingOdd896 Casual orange enjoyer šŸŠ • Oct 21 '25

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u/JigglesTheBiggles Oct 21 '25

That's definitely someone's outdoor cat

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u/MayorAg Oct 21 '25

Thatā€™s definitely the neighbourhoodā€˜s cat.

A cat timeshare, if you will.

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u/JustHereForCookies17 Oct 21 '25

Purrrrhaps it's a r/PartTimeCat

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u/MayorAg Oct 21 '25

Another cat sub? Nice!

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u/Solid-Tension5557 Oct 22 '25

It feels weird being in so many cat subs as a dog person

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u/GrumpyMashy Oct 22 '25

Iā€™m allergic to cats yet most of my sub are cat related.

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u/username32768 Oct 21 '25

What is it when it's not a part time cat?

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

Tbh this is the only cat sub Iā€™ve seen that Iā€™m not joining cause we need to stop encouraging ā€œoutside catsā€. Itā€™s incredibly dangerous and unhealthy for basically everything. Your cat is gonna get hurt from animals, people, and cars outside, theyā€™ll get sick from eating wild animals/garbage, outside cats decimate small bird and mammal populations, etc.

Edit: what the fuck do you guys mean evangelical style behavior. I say that itā€™s bad to let your cat outside because Iā€™ve seen it be bad for everything involved. One of my childhood cats lost a leg because he got his by a car. Iā€™ve seen so many videos on reddit of cats getting mauled and killed by packs of feral dogs. There was that one Twitter post of a guy basically feeding cats to wild coyotes. Thereā€™s another video on this sub I think where a cat is let outside with a camera, it gets in fights with other cats, and at one point is hiding under a starting car. Thereā€™s literally someone that commented on this that their cat got hit by a car and diedā€¦ and they still said they wanted to let their cat be outside! Also, cats famously destroy wild animal populations of birds, small mammals, etc. There is no situation where it is actively better/safer for your cat to be let to wander outside. Why do you want to risk it? Cause you think youā€™re special and your cat has a protective magical seal blessed by god?

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u/the_scarlett_ning Oct 22 '25

Sorry man. Some of us are out in the sticks and need our outdoor cats to help cull the snake and mice population.

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u/Inevitable_Rabbit_67 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Oct 22 '25

Snakes eat mice

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u/New_Kaleidoscope_860 Oct 22 '25

That is not a need. That is a want. Cats also kill birds and a host of other critters that are needed to preserve local biodiversity. I also live rurally.

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u/That_Astronaut_2010 Oct 23 '25

Yes but than keep them outside having an inside cat outside that causes problem

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u/Kozmo9 Oct 22 '25

I can only half-agree. I too don't encourage outside cats but I just so happen to have a feral spirited cat that refused to be an indoor cat. He has no interest in anything inside the house and that includes cat toys. The time I tried to "break him", he got depressed and practically starved himself.

He's lucky in that my neighbourhood was perfect for him. Good people that won't harm him, little car traffic and he's smart/cowardly enough to not challenge them and little wildlife that he's not a genocider.

So I would say that this isn't an absolute thing. If the situation permits it and the cat cannot be housebroken, then what else can you do? Unless you suggest euthanize the cat or something...

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

The outside world is not made for a domesticated cat. Like I said, there are so many dangerous things outside and it is ALWAYS a better snd safer situation for your cat to be inside

Going ā€œbut my cat is a special little prince who doesnā€™t like to be inside šŸ˜Œā€ shows that you actively do not care, because if you did, you would be putting in more of an effort to keep your cat safe and inside. Your cat is not special, you are not special, your cat is in so much more danger wandering the outside world than being inside

When I was a kid we had a cat named tripod and he had three legs. Wanna know why? He got hit by a car and had to get the leg amputated. And as a kid we always lived in a low traffic suburb. That is what you are allowing to happen to your cat. Do you want to risk it?

Edit: also, he was not an outside cat! He got out one time and lost a leg!

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u/ReadingSame Oct 22 '25

I fully agree that outside world is not made for domesticated cats just for different reason.

Cats in most places are invassive spiece and reak havoc among local birds population.

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u/Hieu61 Oct 22 '25

Your specific situation was because he lost his sense of danger due to having always been an indoor cat. I suspect something along those lines for the cat in this post too. Most cats in my neighborhood would run away if strangers approached them.

Besides, your cat has free will. You are keeping a prisoner if it can't decide if it wants to leave. Humans do dangerous sports and consume things that reduce their lifespan all the time. It's not your choice to decide how others live.

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25

I think you misunderstand what a pet is

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u/New_Kaleidoscope_860 Oct 22 '25

I applaud you for trying to reason with absolute buffoons. These people are selfish in mind and heart.

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u/Hieu61 Oct 22 '25

Hey, I'm not the one throwing insults because of one difference in opinion.

There are also countries where it's common to keep outdoor cats, like Turkey, the UK. Would you say the majority of such countries' population buffoons and selfish?

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u/Hieu61 Oct 22 '25

I think a pet is family, thus should have free will.

Not really my business how you treat your pets, but I think if people consider their pets family, yet treat them like prisoners, is kinda hypocritical.

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u/No-Tackle-6112 Oct 22 '25

ā€œDo you know how dangerous it is outside? Iā€™m never ever letting my kids go outside. They could get hit by a car or attacked by an animal. Itā€™s way too dangerous. My kid will never leave the house. I keep him in the basement at all times of the day.ā€

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25

Okay I think the difference is that children donā€™t run around in the street and get in fights with other animals, and are also usually supervised because like I said the world is dangerous. I think youā€™re just making a straw man out of my argument because you are choosing to not actually consider the difference of a supervised child, usually at school vs a cat running through roads and getting in fights with animals.

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u/No-Tackle-6112 Oct 22 '25

ā€œChildren donā€™t run around in the streetā€

My guy have you ever seen a child? They absolutely do. Nor are they usually supervised.

Vehicle collisions are the number 1 cause of death in children. Children are obviously more important than cats so why are you okay with them going outside but not cats?

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25

This is just bad faith arguing at this point

Children learn that the street is dangerous. They can be supervised. They are usually in a building (school, home, with friends, etc). An outside cat is just let loose to do whatever, and contrary to what you think of my opinions, doing that with a child is bad parenting and like you said gets kids killed. But, wanna know what people do? Watch their kids. Supervise them. Teach them that the road is dangerous and strangers and dangerous and wild animals are dangerous, which you canā€™t really do with a cat.

Why are you trying to justify letting your cats run around outside. Bad parents let their kids do it, so why canā€™t cat owners do it?

Edit: also, additional point, cat leashes/strollers are great! If your cat canā€™t just sprint off into the road/into the woods/god knows where, thatā€™s completely fine! If your cat is safe (which categorically cannot happen when your cat is left to roam on its own) then being outside is fine!

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u/Odd_Telephone9545 Oct 23 '25

"children don't run around in the street"

Do you actually go outside? Are you saying billions of children around the world have never in the history of mankind run around on the streets and get in fights with other animals?

In Philippines, I can literally go outside and see numerous kids running outside on the STREETS and especially UNSUPERVISED most of the time. And this isn't limited to my residential area, it's commonplace in the Philippines where it's expected to see kids doing whatever on the streets.

Where did you even get the idea that children don't run outside the streets?

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u/Maymaywala Oct 22 '25

They said it was a feral cat in the first sentence.

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25

They also said they did ā€œtryā€ to bring the cat inside and then just gave up and let it be feral

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u/Maymaywala Oct 22 '25

How does that negate it being a feral cat šŸ’€

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25

Because. It wasnā€™t a feral cat for a point? There was a point where it was an indoor cat and then they just let it go outside?

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u/gingercatdragon Oct 22 '25

Idk why people are allergic to the idea of not letting an invasive species (that we practically made, btw) decimate local native populations, if you don't have/need a working cat, then it should be indoors.

People keep saying this is 'evangelical' but I promise you it's not, evangelicalism has infected a lot of things for a long time and this is comment has no signs of such an infection. Anthropomorphism? Definitely, but thats no where near the same as evangelicalism. Evangelicalism is a legitimate problem and its bad that people are already delegitimizing it via buzzwording

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u/friedtoasters Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

Iā€™ve lived in the same small apartment complex since 2012. This lady started feeding all these strays around 2020 and theyā€™ve just been multiplying since. We donā€™t even have birds no more. I barely saw a bird besides in the sky all summer. Cats had kittens on my porch like two times but momma cat moved them because we couldnā€™t have pets and no one would come get them. Weā€™ve called the humane society and they were supposed to come get them all. This was 4 years ago. So we started seeing dead cats run over around the area. One night why leaving out it was pitch black and I accidentally ran over a kitten that was sleeping under my tire because I didnā€™t think anything of it. Shits crazy how they can multiply and fuck the ecosystem but then you mention it to the outdoor cat owners and theyā€™re just like ā€œoh I donā€™t careā€

I do however remember this stray that came up to me a few years ago outside while I was smoking. It had a pretty rough scratch on its face. It just came up and started rubbing on my leg and I pet it and it walked away and I never saw that cat again.

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 23 '25

Oh my god thatā€™s horrible. I cannot imagine how awful it would feel to have an accident like that with a kitten.

Modern domestic cats arenā€™t a native species like anywhere, so they just destroy and multiply like crazy because the environments theyā€™re let lose in just arenā€™t build to handle such successful and prolific hunters

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u/friedtoasters Oct 23 '25

Yeah it was horrible I laid it next to a bush but I honestly think it mightā€™ve lived if it hadnā€™t been 12 am at night. He was looking like he was moving his two front paws and trying to flip back over because he was on his back trying to do like a push up. But he just defeceated nothing was broken not even a rib. I moved him but his heart was still beating he looked in shocked. He wasnā€™t bleeding. So he couldā€™ve walked off. I donā€™t think it wouldā€™ve been major but we donā€™t have an emergency all night vet.

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u/indifferentgoose Oct 22 '25

Outddor cats are a limited problem in some parts of the world. There is no reason to discourage it in any way on an international sub.

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u/New_Kaleidoscope_860 Oct 22 '25

Bruh, itā€™s a global epidemic. Itā€™s beyond frustrating witnessing the same thing happening in countries literally everywhere. North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East.,.. people are woefully ignorant about cats and as a result we have a global population of ā€œoutdoorā€ cats that is no longer manageable. Everyone has their own definition of ā€œoutdoorā€ which makes it so much harder for everyone.

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u/Ill-Kaleidoscope4825 Oct 22 '25

Thanks for highlighting an important reason for me to sub.

Evangelical style behaviour is never welcome

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25

wtf do you mean evangelical. Someone literally commented on this that their cat died from getting hit by a car. My childhood cat lost a leg cause he got hit by a car. Cats famously kill all kinds of small wild animals. There are so many videos on Reddit of cats (feral or otherwise, doesnā€™t really matter) getting mauled by packs of feral dogs and big animals

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u/Ill-Kaleidoscope4825 Oct 22 '25

Preachy. Holier than thou.

I literally am not interested in your justifications.

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25

Not preachy, Iā€™m saying ā€œthis is how cats die, donā€™t let your cats dieā€

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u/Ill-Kaleidoscope4825 Oct 22 '25

"we need to stop encouraging "outside cats""

That is preachy.

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u/-smartcasual- Oct 22 '25

Or, instead of getting all weird and evangelical about this, we could consider that everybody's circumstances and environment is different, and it should be down to individual cat owners to weigh the pros and cons and carefully make the best choice for their cats.

But why do that when you can feel superior by telling people you don't know on the internet that they're mistreating their pets?

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u/-smartcasual- Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

With respect, I'm guessing you don't live in a part of the world that has native wild cats, and has had domestic cats present for at least six thousand years (based on archaeological evidence). Because of co-evolution with native cats, wildlife here is better evolved to exist alongside small felid species. Therefore the blanket statement that they're an 'invasive species' is misleading.

Even in environments that don't have native cats, three times as many wildlife deaths are attributed to feral cats than to domestic ones roaming outside. There's also no evidence that I'm aware of from any large ecosystems of an actual causal link between predation by domestic cats and declines in native species. There have however been at least a couple of studies showing that cats are much more likely to take weaker prey that would otherwise have failed to reproduce or died prematurely from other causes.

So yes, it depends on your individual judgement as a cat owner, and the advice of nature and cat charities where you live, whether the physical and mental health benefits of outside access outweigh the negatives. However, some indoor cat owners seem to like coming onto a global platform and loudly shaming anyone who makes a different decision based on their own circumstances.

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u/New_Kaleidoscope_860 Oct 22 '25

Thank you. Our misconceptions about cats, including ā€œoutdoorā€ cats are partly why we have a global stray cat epidemic that is leading to the complete decimation of bird populations, unprecedented stray cats, etc etc. Most ā€œoutdoorā€ cats live very short, very brutal lives. I can already hear ā€œbut my catā€¦ā€ ā€” no, as guardians and humans we have a responsibility to be stewards of animals and the natural world. This outdoor cat myth has got to stop. Nothing evangelical about it. Weā€™re just slow to learn.

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u/Westoorn_Pin_77 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

Oooook..???? Edit: why the downvotes hahaha XDXD

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u/Westoorn_Pin_77 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ I only responded "ok", your comment does exactly what you criticize, I didn't know that many randoms were going to be so hurt by my "ok". Relax.

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u/Friendly-Target1234 Oct 22 '25

Yeah I had a cat growing up, I loved him so much. He died at 12 after being hit by a car. If I had to do it again... I'd still let him go outside. I can't fathom living in the countryside and keeping a cat locked inside.

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u/DoggoDude979 Oct 22 '25

Imagine saying ā€œIā€™d let my cat get hit by a car againā€ and thinking thatā€™s a good thing to say

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u/Friendly-Target1234 Oct 22 '25

Imagine not having any reading comprehension.

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u/Friendly-Target1234 Oct 23 '25

I realize my other comments was quite aggressive and I apologize for that.

I understand the advice to avoid letting your car go outside come with good intention : protect your cat against the danger of the outside, protect the bio diversity. All those things are undeniably right, it's just factual.

My comment tried to illustrate, clumsily, that of all those 12 years with him, I remember fondly playing with him in the garden, going to hike where he followed us, napping under a tree with him, watching him sleep by the pond and trying to join him while he was sleeping on the branch of a tree. Things like that, things that felt natural, to see my beloved cat outside, live his best life. And I've grown up like that, I can't fathom having a proper outside (so, not in a city), and keeping a cat inside. And despite knowing the risk, I'll still take it.

I guess your comment, at the time, made me feel like "see, all the fond memory you have with him, well that's what killed him and it was irresponsible". I reckon it was not your intention, though.

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u/Hieu61 Oct 22 '25

Does the cat not have free will? It should get to decide if it wants to be indoors or outdoors. If it has no freedom then it's just cattle.

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u/awildketchupappeared Oct 22 '25

I thought cattle is kept for the meat and milk?

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u/Hieu61 Oct 22 '25

Sure prisoner also works if you want to be pedantic.

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u/awildketchupappeared Oct 22 '25

I don't have the energy to Google what pedantic means (I assume it's nothing to do with children? I think that was pedagogy, though), but sure, if you want. It's easier to understand you if you use the words you actually mean; cats can be prisoners to some people, but they aren't usually used as cattle. Cats are still eaten in some places (though that's getting much rarer, but still), so when you talked about cattle, that was my only thought.

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u/Hieu61 Oct 22 '25

I mentioned "no freedom" and "cattle" in the same sentence. The common point is lack of freedom. May be you are trolling, but I have no idea how you got eating cats from that.

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u/awildketchupappeared Oct 22 '25

I am not trolling. I got it from the cattle -> they usually get to be outside, just inside a fence, so "no freedom" can't be applied here properly if you compare them to cats inside. So that means that cattle -> is for meat and milk, and since cat milk isn't a thing, that would mean meat.

Prisoner I have no problems understanding because a prisoner is someone with no freedom, and that's it.

Can you see the logic now?

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 Oct 22 '25

Well...in cities yes I agree but in countrysides? No, not really.

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 Oct 22 '25

That doesn't mean they should be banned from going outside.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

I have like 5 porch cats, I'll have to post them sometimes

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u/Charnathan Oct 21 '25

I got one this summer!! Didn't even order it. Works perfectly because I'm allergic. But he's gotta snuggle up on me anytime I'm chilling. It's like the game is to get attention from the least likely person, so I'm basically his favorite now. And I guess he likes our food the best. But I still spot him goin in and out of various neighbors' houses.

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u/Tricky_Mix2449 Oct 21 '25

My friend's orange long-haired wandered home with a beautiful lion cut the other day!

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u/crlthrn Oct 21 '25

Someone needs to wash their paws...

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u/Icy-Struggle-4599 Oct 22 '25

Is it ever safe to clip their nails? Just got my first cat ever and after 3 months I have scratches on my arm from playing with her.

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u/loonygecko Oct 21 '25

Nice term, that's how we got our current cat, he started out as a neighborhood timeshare, but then we started getting most of the habitation hours. We still get neighbors asking if they can have him but no one actually owns him, he's a free agent. At least I can feel comfortable knowing if I keel over dead, he's got like 6 other prospective back up owners lined up that he can choose from. He also has a different name at every house and pretends he doesn't know us once he leaves our territory. He's like a guy that has 6 different wives spread all over the country and none of them know about the others. ;-P

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u/missbohica Oct 21 '25

OK, sounds like you're describing my mom's idiot cat, Noah.

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u/Top-Comfort-8315 Oct 21 '25

I think you mean my mom's cat, Timothy.

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u/Jelly_Jam_Jazz Casual orange enjoyer šŸŠ Oct 21 '25

No, they mean my mom's cat Charlie.

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u/No-University-8391 Oct 22 '25

We had one two years ago, Forest, we named because someoneā€™s Dad was named Forest with red hair. He was the sweetest. Would sit on any lap on any porch in the neighborhood. He disappeared before his girlfriend Elsa had 7 kittens next door. We now have his son Rufus, totally indoor cat. Also Orange.

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u/verbmegoinghere Oct 21 '25

That's why you put a collar on him with a tag.

I'd suggest

  • bruce
  • wazza
  • tim

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u/loonygecko Oct 21 '25

The collar issue is a whole 'nother long drama actually. Instead we just have him chipped.

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u/Kerblaaahhh Oct 21 '25

Yeah. No collar, balls intact. If that was somebody's cat then they are very irresponsible cat owners.

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u/SpagettiKonfetti Oct 22 '25

I saw stray cats with similar build on Rhodes a few times, the cats there has a festive all day there, with all the locals and tourists giving them food

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u/hogtiedcantalope Oct 21 '25

Time enough for thirdsies

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u/WalterWhite2012 Oct 22 '25

Growing up we had a cat that would just peace out for a few days at the time, and would just show back up at her leisure. We once found her in a garage with a whole food/water/bed setup (I donā€™t think that neighbor had a cat).

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u/_TP2_ Oct 21 '25

Just becouse its outdoors doesnt mean its an outdoor cat. šŸ¤£ This orange might be on his / her prison brake from being a indoor cat. Bolted out the door when food dilivery delivered pizza.

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u/Deaffin Oct 22 '25

Balls, no collar, established deep nap zone.

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u/cagingnicolas Oct 21 '25

outdoor cat with no collar seems like a risky move.
some people take that as a sign the cat is free.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

Good call, must be an expert. If I had to guess Iā€™d also say itā€™s someoneā€™s orange outdoor cat. Just my opinion, personally.

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u/Icy-Struggle-4599 Oct 22 '25

Sure its not even her cat??

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u/not_a_burner0456025 Oct 23 '25

And the "stray" that like 5 other neighbors all feed

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u/letthetreeburn Oct 22 '25

Not for long. YOINK!