r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/ScreamSmart • Sep 10 '26
Orange Cat 🅱️ehavior™ Getting some excercise
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u/Hot-Satisfaction-409 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Sep 10 '26
Weeeee weeee
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u/TREXIBALL Sep 10 '26
High jacking second top comment to say; this video is a fucking ad. Look near the bottom at 0:06. A white near-transparent text appears.
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u/DynamicImperfectn454 Sep 15 '26
Just like all ads that leave me asking wtf they selling? 🤷🏾🤷🏽♀️🤷🏻♂️
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u/Automatic-Evidence26 Sep 10 '26
don't buy toys, just put out a box or a bag
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u/M2_SLAM_I_Am Sep 10 '26
As soon as I come home from the grocery store, I pull the receipt from my pocket, crumple it in a ball, and proceed to keep my orange idiot busy for at least an hour
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u/Theodarius Sep 10 '26
This was my cat also!! Entertained for hours with a balled up receipt but only play for 2 seconds with toys. Her little cat tree had a net towards the button and she loved putting it the net and smacking it upwards from the bottom. I could watch her for hours doing that. I miss my baby
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u/screw_ball69 Sep 11 '26
I throw my grocery bag on the floor for the void, I don't need to give him the receipts because he will just pull the paperballs out of the trash under my desk when he wants them
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u/Annie_Yong Sep 10 '26
My ones are obsessed with toy fishing rods (the types designed for you to attach feather teasers and similar on the end).
But it don't if there's no toy on the end. Put feathers or other fake animals on it and they'llaybe bat at it once. But take it off so theyr just chasing the metal clip that the teaser fixes to? Best game ever in their minds!
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u/neg_ersson Sep 10 '26
Cats need proof you suffered financially first. A free box or bag just doesn’t count.
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u/quantumwoes Sep 10 '26
I bought $70 worth of toys at Petsmart. I told my friend my cat wasn't interested in any of them, he told me to put a plastic grocery bag through an empty toilet paper roll and wah-la. I returned everything.
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u/BuckyGoldman Sep 10 '26
For 24 years I have had a brown, 52" shoe lace that has been the absolute favorite toy of all three cats I've had over that time. Their second favorite toy is a tennis ball knotted into the end of a white tube sock.
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u/navissima Sep 10 '26
Just a ball in a sock? They play themselves or do you drag it in front of them?
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u/BuckyGoldman Sep 10 '26
With a bit more explanation, I undo the knot a few times a year (not often at all) and put a few pinches of catnip in with the tennis ball. That's enough to keep them interested in playing with it by themselves all the time. So yeah, just a ball in a sock.
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u/honeybadgercantcare Sep 10 '26
My last cat it was a 3 foot long scrap of waste material that I had cut when cutting out a pattern, they found it and thought it was amazing so I couldn't throw it out obviously.
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u/Lucki_girl Sep 10 '26
Kids are the same: get them toys, or just give them a cardboard box. They always choose the cardboard box first lol
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u/Lets-B-Lets-B-Jolly Sep 10 '26
My human child has a small trampoline with a bar across the top so she can hold it while jumping.
My youngest cat is about 2 years old and she LOVES to hang from it and use it to do flips like this. I thought she was the only cat gymnast :P
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u/teekha_crispyaloo Sep 10 '26
I wish the video was longer
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u/Evieveevee Sep 10 '26
It was the way she grabbed her legs as she went over. So so freaking cute.
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u/One_Tip1928 Sep 10 '26
I know! That’s what got me too - that‘s an olympic level pike position right there!
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u/Embarrassed_Park2212 Sep 10 '26
If I was smol enough to be playing like that, I would too seems like a lot of fun.
I too made the mistake of buying my cat a lot of toys that he's not interested in. He just likes these handmade catnip ones I buy from Etsy. So I donated his other toys to the local cat shelters.
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u/SnooJokes915 Sep 10 '26
I bought quite a few cat toys and lasers..
Mine loves social play like fight the house duster, fight the broom when someone is sweeping, being chased by a human holding a plastic bag.
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u/stella_ella26 Sep 10 '26
My cat likes to play with a bottle cap, some piece of carrot or a bubble wrap 🤣 he has a ton of cat toys tho
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u/landodger Sep 10 '26
Cats are funny the one toy on our house that always gets attention is the one they’ve have since we adopted them as kittens.
The one skittish cats favorite toy is a plastic straw, she doesn’t chew on it nothing dangerous but she loves to carrry it around and meow you it in her mouth so we all know she has it. Goes everywhere with her.
The ginger menace loves the one toy we use to play fetch and nothing else.
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u/UltraNeoTako Proud owner of an orange brain cell Sep 10 '26
Mine likes to play with stress balls, bottle caps, shoe laces and strings.
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u/exzyle2k Sep 10 '26
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u/CloudStrife1985 Sep 10 '26
I've bought quite a few toys for my cat (and dog) in the 8 months I've had them. They play with something for about five minutes and then lose interest.
For my cat, nothing compares to dangling a ribbon near him to paw at it or putting a cardboard box/paperbag nearby so he can explore it. He's fascinated by shoeboxes and has worked out how to open ones I keep my good trainers in. He's also got a thing for my robot hoover. The dog is terrified of it and will leave the room as soon as he sees it moving, the cat stalks it around the flat and tries pouncing on it once it goes back to charge. I've had to put something around the docking station so it can't be attacked. Gone are the days of activating the hoover whilst I'm at work :(
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u/Blankasbiscuits Sep 10 '26
I got so much flak for not buying my cat toys. He refuses to play with them. We will only play with boxs or paper grocery bags. He is such a simple creature and I love him (pic is him at my mother's)
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u/belonii Sep 10 '26
i work in a cat hotel (hotel for cats) and currently have kittens ranging from 5 months to a year as the majority on my floor, and some of the older kittens who didnt grow up socialized end up doing this as a form of play, a lot do find that with other cats around, play is a lot more fun! some it becomes a neuro divergent tick, as soon as they are behind a closed door they chase their tail or legs habitually. So what im saying socializing your cat is good and the best way to raise kittens is in pairs if bonded and not very brave.
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u/PuzzledTwo7630 Sep 10 '26
Best toy our lovely cat Ivalo had, was the the straws from McDonalds, the new ones that are crap, she had entertainment for days <3
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u/SuckerForNoirRobots Proud owner of an orange brain cell Sep 10 '26
That's so cute though, she knows what she likes!
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u/AgentClockworkOrange Casual orange enjoyer 🍊 Sep 10 '26
I too liked to do flips on the bars on the school playground when I was a child.
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u/nooneyouknow_youknow Sep 10 '26
Your fault: your expectations for an orange were misaligned with reality. She’s in fact doing exactly what an orange should be doing.
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u/Puzzled_Awareness_22 Sep 10 '26
She’s got a good tight somersault going there. How is her backbend?
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u/sassy_cheese564 Sep 11 '26
She doesn’t have custody of the brain cell currently so she has to make do. Clearly. Gosh.
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u/my_dystopia Sep 12 '26
Just watched again. How is she holding her legs when she swings through like a hooman 😂😂
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u/PascalsPixels Sep 14 '26
Awww, she's just connecting with her inner Trapèze artist from a former life. 🤔 If reincarnation is a thing, could Ginger cats have been humans with natural Reddish-blonde hair?
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u/DynamicImperfectn454 Sep 15 '26
🙉🙈🙊Part monkey for sure on those monkey bars🎪Maybe the ancestors were circus cats🐈Now you know they are definitely 🍊
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u/Grand-Fun-206 Sep 10 '26
Its like a kid who gets a swing set and only wants to climb the frame. You can't pick how they will use it, and they will always find a way you didn't expect.