Pictures of orange boys and girls, with and without the cell.
TLDR: They are mutants just like Jean Grey in the X-people. Their superpower is being able to ignore their name being called from 2 feet away.
Ok now why are they dumb as a box of rocks?
I have six orange girls. Probably the largest collection on the East coast that isn't a shelter or rescue.
Pics or it didn't happen
Clockwise 11:30 Charlie 1:00 Topaz 3:00 Papita 4:00 Tasselhoff 6:00 Lucy 9:00 Ellie
Charlie, Tasselhoff and Papita are also bobtails. So bonus rareness.
You've struck gold!
We foster a lot of cats and and I had had orange girl on my list for a long long time. And then one day someone called me because in an area I was doing tnr my mom dropped off three babies on a porch. All three were girls. I caught the mom who was also orange. And then we picked up two more within a few months.
I went from years without a single orange girl showing up to a flood of them to a flood of them. I was only going to keep two but my wife made me keep all of them.
I guess she's a keeper.
I just started an audio book that I think you might enjoy as it co-star a couple of orange kittys: Starter Villain.
Cool. On a related topic, I picked up a stray light orange cat on my first walk of 2025 and they turned out to be female! Won the cat lottery!
20% is pretty common. I have one, my friend has two.
Marigold the elusive orange female says hello!
Except we already knew this, it's basically genetics.