After saving 4 kittens and mama cat, rescuer falls head over heels for one kitten and learns how chaotic pawrenting an orange cat truly is: ‘Orange cats are adorably insane!’

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
May 10, 2026 1:30 PM EDT

Orange cats are a special kind of crazy. But we love them. 

Every fluffy feline has their own unique purrsonality, every cat owner can tell you that. But orange cats… well, orange cats are a unique breed. They come with a hunger for both food and chaos. They are some of the most loving, snuggly cats we've ever had the pleasure of meeting, and they are also the craziest. One minute, they'll be purring like a race car on your chest, and the next, they'll be bouncing off the walls and trying to eat their food bowl. Not the food inside the food bowl, but the food bowl itself. It's a wonder how these blissfully brain-cell-less babies ever survived in the wild.

And where there is one orange, there are usually more. One rescuer and their friend found a mama cat and her four kittens outside, and immediately brought them to safety indoors. Like most feline fans, they fell head over heels for the cute kitties, with a special connection to the purely orange one. His adorably silly shenanigans made the rescuer fall deeper and deeper in love, until they decided that they were going to keep him, and name him 'Dibbles'. A purrfectly derpy name for a purrfectly derpy cat.

These kittens are still very young, so we're not sure this rescuer knows exactly what he's getting into, but who are we to stand in the way of true love? Don't tell him that it's going to get worse before it gets better… it's all part of the fun of being owned by a clementine-colored cat.

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    Meet Dibbles! He's 6 weeks old, my friend and I found him, along with his 2 brothers and 2 sisters and their (ORANGE) mom in my friends shed a few weeks ago! I included a photo of his mom as well
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  • Oh, Dibbles. Buddy, you're doing great. Just keep on trying, and you'll get there eventually. Nothing can come between an orange cat and their food, not even themselves. This is only the first of many derpy cat pictures to come. Our rescuer should prepurr themselves for lots of brainless stares at nothing, bleps aplenty, and lots of zoomies. Dibbles will probably be the most entertaining cat they will ever own, but they should also set aside some money for all the things he will eventually break. Orange cats are not known for being the most coordinated.

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    WhenIntegralsAttack2 Looks like a joyful bundle of chaos! Give them all treats on our behalf
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    penguin7199 I currently have 5 cats, a mama and her 4 babies that I rescued back in August last year and I kept everyone together. She actually gave birth 2 days after I had my third baby in fact! That being said, I'm keeping his tabico sister, Zelda. I now will own 7 cats and 3 kids
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  • The good thing about finding stray kittens is that they usually have very few problems getting adopted quickly. Older cats, on the other hand, are hit or miss. You have to find someone who really loves cats to adopt a stray that's not from a shelter or a breeder. Luckily, there are lots of people who really love cats out there, so if you're looking for a female orange cat (which happen to be quite rare!), you know where to find one.

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    coyote_den You'll want the calico too. That way someone will always have a brain cell.
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    EvilFlyingSquirrel A great fear I have is finding a bunch of kittens....because I would want to keep them all.
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    reddfawks Pic #7... of COURSE it's the calico who has to bite the basket.
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    baydestdrug verified, just one brain cell
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    I have an 8-year-old calico and she insists on chomping whatever she pleases. My phone case is littered with her teethmarks. My sketchbooks have cat-fang "staple marks". She especially loves chomping and rubbing her face on my crochet hook. (One time I tried to shoo her off and she stood on my forearm and gave me a Kubrick stare)
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    pacmaster102 Welcome. They are often powerfully dumb. But in an endearing way. Sometimes.
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    meijer TRIPLE POWER GO240,
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    CounterEmergency4100 Congratulations! You will never know boredom, morning or night! They are funny and nosey as heck. Forget 'your stuff', it no longer belongs to you kiddo!
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    Beerasaurwithwine Did you have to do any ritual chant or offering to be accepted? I've been wanting on for years, but haven't been able to find one. Just tabbies, greys, and calicos, and black.
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    lady_starkarian I fostered two 3-week old orange brothers and they were sooooo cute! Tiny little floofs of energy with their tiny little ears wee triangles on the sides of their precious faces.
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    Of course they were foster fails and are now 10 months old and enormous balls of energy that traumatize my 19 year old super senior (and non-ginger) tabby on the daily
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    Wouldn't trade them for ANYTHING. Also would decline to take another pair cats are adorably insane! Orange
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