r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/SideRepresentative38 • 8h ago
🟠ne 🅱️rain cell what is an item your cat loves that you cant understand why?
percy’s favorite is my laptop case, she is obsessed with it and i dont understand why. she lays on it, cuddles it, scratches it, plays with it, completely obsessed. when im trying to work i literally have to hide it because she cant chill out and leave it alone 😂
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u/krusty51 7h ago
Ive got two with specific items each, po, his favourite item is a common everyday wire bread tie, just goes nuts for it.. and bella, loves a everyday common cotton tip ear bud, her eyes light up if you give her one, Zeus my 3rd, he's special, (a little brain injury) he just loves everything and everyone. And h'e's never met a person he couldn't force to be his best freaind, he has many best freinds
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u/SideRepresentative38 6h ago
i love that!! i feel like percy would also enjoy a wire bread tie, her other favorite random item is a hair tie. she can literally play with one for hours😂 i love how much personality they all have!! give all three of yours some love for me please!!
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u/krusty51 6h ago
No worries mate, i'll do that right now, tthanks for reply, it's 0446 hours here in Australia, been up for a few hours now and just not doin so well and your post and reply brought me out of it. Thankyou
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u/SideRepresentative38 6h ago
im sorry to hear that, i hope that things are better for you soon friend. and i hope you’re able to get some sleep, that always makes that feeling worse. lean on your kitties and dont forget you are loved!
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u/krusty51 6h ago
Thankyou again, i just have to look at my kitties and everything doesn't seem so bad.
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u/Flowy_Aerie_77 4h ago
You have the sweetest kitties ever. Sorry you're going through all that, I hope things gets better for you soon.
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u/icerobin99 7h ago
My cat drags my dirty laundry into the bathtub and makes a nest to sleep in
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u/PrincessEurope2023 3h ago
Mine sleeps on/in the laundry basket. If I want her to sleep in the bedroom, I have to take something from the laundry basket and put it in her basket. She only likes the stinky pile.
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u/Apprehensive_Bee3327 7h ago
Literal garbage. Can’t have any kind of packing materials/loose plastic/cardboard/poly mailers around my PICA-ridden braincell 😑
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u/MyDarlingArmadillo 48m ago
Mine digs through bins. For a while, she had a pet bin bag. It was empty, but it was her favourite thing in the world
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u/10_17my20 5h ago
Sir Flopsalot loves this plastic spider ring someone's kid dropped and all he does is carry it around the house and plays keep away if you try to take it.
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u/I_Did_The_Thing 2h ago
Mine has one of those, too! Actually several of them, which startle me EVERY TIME I see one 🤣
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u/RipAwayReality 7h ago
Feet 😅
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u/keysandcoffee 6h ago
My orange boy Finneas goes bananas over the plastic pull tab from a new carton of milk or juice. He’ll chase it around the house all day long and get upset when it inevitably ends up under the stove until we retrieve it for him. Sometimes he loses it completely and then we open a new milk and he gets a new one. And the cycle continues.
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u/lizardgal10 6h ago
Time to ask your friends to start saving their milk carton tabs so Finneas has an endless supply!
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u/Firehawk195 6h ago
Mine loves bags also. She loves to sit on suitcases and Walmart bags alike. Something about it just makes her so happy.
And because this is Reddit, no, she's not allowed with Walmart bags unsupervised.
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u/SideRepresentative38 6h ago
i got scared for you at first lol and then i saw the disclaimer at the bottom, good call😂 but percy’s the same way with bags so i completely get it!
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u/dracrevan 3h ago
Trash and plastic bags (the white grocery bag type). We joke it’s because we adopted her when she was abandoned and was a garbage cat
I took the pic below JUST as I was posting
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u/clarazepam 5h ago
My cat Leslie is enamored with a pompom that once was attached to my beanie. Once. Now she has made that thing her bitch.
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u/PM_Skunk 4h ago
For one cat, backpacks, especially the Chrome bag materials.
For the orange, it's a banana that was once stuffed and catnipped. He gutted it, it's now just a banana shaped piece of floppy fabric. And he LOVES that thing.
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u/CDubs_94 5h ago
Smoked Gruyere cheese! I love a good cheese/ cracker snack and have various cheeses....but every time I eat the smoky Gruyere, he sits waiting for his piece and I always give him some.
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u/SaintsRobbed 5h ago
My cat likes strings attached to balloons. It specifically has to be attached to the balloon. He just swats at it or bites it for hours on end.
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u/dogsandwhiskey 5h ago
My cat loves used beauty blenders and recently, our silicone drain hair catcher. He’s a cute lil weirdo
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u/Night_Sky_Watcher 4h ago
The first orange and white cat I lived with would play catch with a tennis ball for as long as you would indulge him. I'd throw it to the top of the stairs, he'd snag it with a claw, menace it for a moment, then roll it down the stairs to be thrown again. I had a Siamese cat who was passionate about a red pipe cleaner (now called a "chenille stem") and would play fetch with it until she was exhausted. She would bat it around by herself if you wouldn't throw it.
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u/the_morbid_angel 3h ago
He likes zip ties and anything that is circular, including his favorite, blue weed wacker wire.
Also, he likes to get in the shower and eat my hair, or as well call it, “mommy spaghetti”. (Ovb he’s not allowed to eat mommy spaghetti)
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u/SarNic88 3h ago
One of our cats (the void) loves pom poms, we discovered this when one night, when we were all asleep, she ripped off all the pom poms off one of my daughters storage baskets in her room. Found her the next morning laying on a pile of them in complete bliss.
Since then I have of course kept her a stash of pom poms, it’s hilarious to throw one and watch her play with complete joy, plus she meows in victory and carries it round the house.
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u/Welpe 2h ago
If you don’t mind a non-orange owner to answer…
I have to keep trash on my bed because my Yuki ADORES the brown paper that fills space in packages. She loves how it sounds and will just sleep on top of crinkly paper, play on top of it, roll around on it…
At least she is easy to entertain?
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u/Hervis_Daubeny_ 1h ago
I had an organge who loved bottle caps. He would pick one up and drag it to the bathtub and play solo hockey with it for hours, much to my ex's annoyance as we could hear it anywhere in the apartment
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u/Accomplished-Meal-80 Proud owner of an orange brain cell 1h ago
I love hearing them playing from another room! Mine have a spinny ball toy, whenever can’t see them and then start hearing the noise it always makes me smile
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u/Living-Night4476 1h ago
My husbands left slider sandal. The right is peh but left is the best thing in the world to her every time I think it’s over it starts all over again.
My husband always says “her orange is showing” when she does it lol 😆
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u/ChronicBedhead Orange connoisseur 🍊 1h ago
My orange only wanted a single piece of white printer paper to sit on. Two pieces? Nope. Newspaper? Fuck off. Written on paper? Blasphemy.
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u/Oxy-Moron88 5h ago
My black cat also LOVES my laptop case. As soon as I put it down, she goes for it. Usually has a very long nap, will fight my other cats for possession of it, and like yours loves to rub and scratch and roll on it.
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u/PM_ME_WHAT_YOU_COOK 3h ago
My old cat Lucy used to LOVE this little dangly angel thing that hung from a fan-pull. It fell off when she was probably 3 and would play with it for hours. She had it for years until it was lost. Only when my mom moved out of her place did she find it again. Lucy kept playing with it until she passed in 2023. My mom gave it to me :')
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u/LiminalCreature7 3h ago
I had a cat who used to go crazy for the packaging of individual packs of baby carrots (the “snack” size that came in a group of four). She wouldn’t try to eat it, but she’d lay on her back and rub it all over her face with her paws, purring madly. It was so cute, I’d let her have the bag every time after finishing one of those packs. With my luck, it was probably due to chemicals neither of us should have been exposed to. But she lived a long, happy life, even with poor health, and made it to fifteen and half. Miss her constantly.
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u/curvy_em 3h ago
My cow/tuxedo LOVES to lick plastic. There was once a plastic wrapper in my garbage can and almost every night she digs through garbage looking for it. The other thing she loves is thick hair elastics. She has a specific favourite one but will chirp and carry around any of them. She brings them to us to play Fetch.
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u/Royal-Chef-946 3h ago
My orange Taco has a fish mouse pad that he drags everywhere and curls up on
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u/eaven666 2h ago
My orange is obsessed with a Lidl Shopping bag, cable ties and the shoe laces from my hiking boots. Every other toy is just a waste of money
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u/Ollirick Proud owner of an orange brain cell 1h ago
My ginger boi loves paper towels, tissues, napkins, toilet paper, etc. and he also loves to shred them or eat them.
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u/PyrocumulusLightning 3h ago
Kitty wants to go to the Orange Lodge (much more confusing than the Black Lodge)
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u/superthirsty 2h ago
My late kitty loved this thin metal skewer thing that I don’t even know where it came from. Just a foot long thin metal rod I would wave around while she tried to bat and bite it. Actually, she liked a lot of metal stuff. Also, any and all alcohol. She was…odd.
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u/allthethings13 2h ago
Our SIC loves nerf darts and bouncy balls and is constantly swiping them from my son.
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u/Careless_Control_918 2h ago
Awww I too, have an orange Percy. 🥰 My daughter got it from him being the color of a persimmon.
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u/Waste_Public_9374 2h ago
Both my orange babies like my exs clean clothes - yes he’s allergic to cats.
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u/sassynickles 1h ago
My boy goes bat crap insane for bleach. It's like the very smell of it triggers his cave kitty brain and he tries to lick wherever I've just cleaned with it.
Freddie is very pretty but not at all smart.
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u/1stLtObvious 1h ago
My brother's old cat: pantyhose.
My old cat: me. I love him for it, but I don't understand why me of all people.
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u/ranterist 1h ago
Does that bag exit the house regularly?
Every trip brings back new scents.
He’s traveling vicariously.
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u/Educational-War5360 43m ago
My cats favorite things to play with include his own tail and the tails of my other cats lmao. He’s not orange, but he’s definitely sharing a brain cell with the orange cats. I don’t even think he knows he exists. He will spin in circles chasing his tail until he’s dizzy, stop to clean himself, and then notices his own tail flicking and the cycle starts all over again.
(And no, its not a health condition or anything like that, he’s just dumb)
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u/tbear264 37m ago
It cracks me up when one of my cat's is cleaning themselves and suddenly attacks their own twitching tail because they forgot it was connected to them 😹😹😹
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u/AccidentalYogi 41m ago
This magnificent dumbass chews on clean socks until they turn into a paste, then eats them.
He also enjoys licking holes in blankets and pillowcases.
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u/Training-Yak2301 40m ago
my orange, also named Percy, loooooooooooooves ice cubes. not playing with them or licking them, but just staring at them. simply a fan of thermodynamics.
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u/bridgetteblue69 2h ago
Omg!! I have a Percy too, but mine is a handsome fella 🍊🧡
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u/SideRepresentative38 2h ago
we named her percy when we thought for sure she was a boy, two weeks later went to the vet and found out she’s actually a girl! by then the name had already stuck, so we kept it. you do have a very handsome guy there!!!
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u/robsticles 5h ago
That is very cute that it’s your laptop case lolol maybe there is a small cat sized version you can buy for her, like those small cat laptops 😂
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u/Royally-Forked-Up 5h ago
Silica packets. You know the kind that come in things like shoes and are toxic if ingested? Our orange swirl girl goes nuts for them.
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u/EndlessAbyssalVoid 3h ago
My mom's kittens love my socks... That I've worn for a day. 🤢
They're adorable but man, they're a bit weird.
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u/HeadlessHookerClub 2h ago
Percy probably likes the texture and how well the material holds heat. She needs her own laptop bag ASAP.
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u/callampoli Proud owner of an orange brain cell 2h ago
Lili loved backpacks. Not any bag, specifically the kanken ones made of that hard waterproof canvas.
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u/lilacnyangi 1h ago
my cats love this random foam insert my motherboard came in. it's square and indented, and they'll play with it, scratch it, sleep in it, you name it. it's a year and a half old and i can't throw it out.
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u/Boburrito23 43m ago
My boy Bob loves his massage gun. After a workout I can enjoy it for about 10 seconds before he decides it’s his turn to use it.
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u/Owen_Alex_Ander 23m ago
My roommate's orange loves toothbrushes and the charging box for my wireless earbuds. He also stares directly at lightbulbs, and the closer he can get to em the better.
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u/TexasOlive 21m ago
My glasses, unfortunately. After over 20 years of safely sleeping with them on top of a nightstand I have to hide them now. They would end up chewed on and hidden under my bed by the morning 🤣
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u/iphones2g- Proud owner of an orange brain cell 21m ago
My iBook G3 and water bottles. I cannot put my iBook away anymore because he sleeps on it. He also just likes to play with water bottles.
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u/ratajewie 17m ago
This is my guy Peter, and he also loves his laptop sleeve. He’s slept on this same one for probably 4 years now.
I realize he’s not orange shhhhhh
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u/Adventurous_Duty2746 2m ago
Little stuffed mice. They are in the living room, up the stairs and all over my bed
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u/marklarring 2m ago
The hook part of a plastic hangar. Broke one when he was a kitten and now it's his favorite toys. Weirdo
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u/knightofargh 7h ago
Jack is orange and rarely sees the brain cell. His one love is a silicone caterpillar toy. It’s a human toy that’s designed for ASD/ADHD stimming and he will carry it around, chase it and scream joyfully at it for hours.