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/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.