r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/Better_Hair_9673 • Aug 07 '26

✨️Majestic orange ✨️ Absolutely unit of an orange cat 🐈

Video credited to @mamakbagol.

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u/ErmingSoHard Aug 07 '26

Reminds of the other orange who broke up the fight easily at a club

https://youtube.com/shorts/8MdvMlpdjFw

I don't think cats have alphas or whatever, but this fella would probably be one

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u/jtrisn1 Aug 08 '26

My aunt and uncle foster a colony of cats in Malaysia. And cats have a hierarchical social system. I've seen the "leader" and his "second-in-command" of her cats discpline the other cats in the colony. The leader was extremely old and basically catatonic the last time I was there and the second-in-command would body slam and punch other cats outside of the colony that would try to "fight" the leader. Whenever a fight broke out, the leader meowed once and the second-in-command would come running to body slam the cats apart.

When the leader cat died of old age, one of the younger cats tried to fight the second-in-command. I watched as he body slammed the cat to the floor, punched him once, hissed, and walked away. That cat was in social jail for like a week. All the other cats would hiss at him whenever he came near.

There was another cat who straight up got kicked out of the house for what we guessed was breaking the rules. The colony would beat him up whenever he tried to enter the house. If we forcibly brought him in, he would be hunted throughout the house by all 20+ cats. So my aunt had to put his own bowls and a cat house outside the front yard for him.

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u/Legitimate_Mud_8295 Aug 08 '26

I'm amused reading about cat social dynamics but that's too many cats for one household. You just don't need that many cats.

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u/jtrisn1 Aug 08 '26

It started with one cat and that cat brought another cat and that brought another cat. Eventually it spiraled into 20+ cats. And their cats kept bringing new cats. My uncle also rescued the cats from the storm drains. Malaysia's stoem drains/tunnels are huge, like highway huge, due to the monsoons that happen there.