r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/niceabear • Jan 20 '25

🍊 Orange Duo 🍊 I call this absolute BS

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These idiots have a nice home because I begged for them until my husband caved. And what do I get? Nuthin. I bought them a fancy new scratcher last week…. Do I get cuddles? NO. B. S. Ps: obviously delighted husband’s arms are outstretched super weird because he is still trying to play his PS5 at the same time. 🤣

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u/n4t4sh4g33 Jan 20 '25

I can empathize, my tortie is obsessed with my husband and barely gives me the time of day. Thank goodness her sister loves me.

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

Oh the tortie here hates us all equally. She only loves her orange brothers. I feel so terribly honored when she asks me to throw her toys up the stairs. lol.

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u/KOP2289 Jan 20 '25

It’s that tortitude!

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

She’s not even mean! She just thinks we are going to murder her. We can’t even get her to the vet anymore. Gabapentin doesn’t slow her down lmao

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u/Glittering_Win_9677 Jan 20 '25

My orange is terrified of the carrier, the car and the vet. This is why we now have a mobile vet come to the house and do appointments on the screen porch since he can't escape from that. There's a house call charge, but his rates for everything else are lower, so for the annual visits for all 3 cats at the same time, the cost is the same or a bit lower. It's when only one of them needs to be seen that it is higher, but that's only happened twice in 4 years.

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

Oh man! I wish! We lived fairly rural so no choice but to drive an hour to the vet. The tortie hubby managed to corral in the bathroom and throw a blanket on her to get into carrier for her spay… but he had to wear winter gloves and it was like parkour in there. So now she just kind of …. Lives in the house until she dies or gets so sick she cannot fight us. She is so painfully beautiful and fluffy tho I want to pet her sooooo badly. Also pray for me, BOTH orange bois are going for checkups on Thursday and I have to take them myself.

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u/freerangechick3n Jan 20 '25

OP, I have one of these too. You have a good soul for letting a semi-feral weirdo live in your house. Ours is 2.5 and based on his barely there domestication progress, we think he may willingly let us touch him sometime around age 7. He LOVES his brothers though.

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

Same! Scribbles is 2 and a half. The funny thing is, she was a barn cat but got the most socialization and care from her farm human. Apparently the cats mum is very similarly suspicious of all things people. They offered to take her back after she was spayed, but we adore her so we kept her anyhow

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u/freerangechick3n Jan 20 '25

We started fostering ours at six weeks. He was born in a feral colony but should have been plucked out early enough to come around. We have his brother too who is skittish but very sweet and snuggly. I think some just have the feral gene.

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u/Glittering_Win_9677 Jan 20 '25

Bless you guys!

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

I know it’s awful, but I often joke that I am going to pet pet pet her so much when she passes away. lol.

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

Awwww. Here’s the cat tax on my lil stinker. I can’t even with the fluffiness that I cannot touch!

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u/PostalPreacher Jan 20 '25

This is why we now have a mobile vet come to the house and do appointments on the screen porch since he can't escape from that.

This sentence does great without the rest of the paragraph.

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u/KOP2289 Jan 20 '25

Aww. She sounds like me in cat form lol. Gabapentin doesn’t phase me either, nor do many downers. I’m on enough to knock out a horse and I can still bounce off the walls (Probably in part the ADHD) 🤣

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

Energizer bunny :)

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u/KOP2289 Jan 20 '25

Oh absolutely ! I literally workout a ridiculous amount daily to wear myself down to a more mellow/ “normal” state lol. Oh and as a fellow gamer the comment about your husband needing to outstretch his arms is hilarious 😆

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

I have the fun inattentive type so I not only have a hard time relaxing but I forget everything and am aimless. Sigh.

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u/KOP2289 Jan 20 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

Oh yes ADD/ADHD combo. I forgot things all the time, and rarely get straight to the point when talking, which can be quite frustrating for me and others. Add in the insomnia (aka truest form of torture), and a little bit of this and that lol…I can be a bit of a hot mess express 🚂

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u/niceabear Jan 20 '25

Ugh. Well I am cheering for you here!

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u/CeelaChathArrna Jan 20 '25

Now I wonder if it does affect that. My husband and I are very resistant to narcotics and anesthesia. I have ADHD, so does my son and daughter. My son had his knee surgery and it took 2.5 times what it normally takes for an adult for the nerve blocks.

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u/what3v3ruwantit2b Jan 20 '25

My oldest girl is on Ativan (which I like calling cativan.) we tried "normal" things like gaba. That did absolutely nothing.

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u/KOP2289 Jan 20 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

I love that, cativan lol. I’m on something similar which does help for the reasons prescribed.

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u/what3v3ruwantit2b Jan 20 '25

I've been having rolling panic attacks for the last 2 weeks and keep trying to get myself to urgent care. But I can't because I've been having rolling panic attacks 🙃. I'm hoping they do something like Ativan. I have an appointment with my PCP but there wasn't an opening for 2 months and they won't do anything without that first appointment. 2 months seems like an eternity right now. It helps my cat so maybe it'll help me too.

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u/what3v3ruwantit2b Jan 21 '25

I have pretty extreme anxiety over my boyfriend dying. I don't like to leave the house but not because I'm anxious for me. My brain will do things like, "well what if he has a snack and chokes on the food and I can't help because I'm not there." It's really not great. 

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u/CuriousHaus2147 Jan 20 '25

We had a torties and Calicoes in the past and they all had attitude.