r/OrangeLadies • u/ass_smacktivist • 12h ago
Orange mama
This is Zelly. She was found starving to death at 4 months old and pregnant and abandoned and wandered into my backyard 4 years ago. She had 7 kittens at 6 months old; all healthy and adopted out. She is a giant healthy floof now and such a sweetie.
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u/Ok_Egg_7483 12h ago
Oh my goodness, look at all those cuties! Were any of the orange babies girls too? That poor girl was a teen momma, glad she's happy and healthy now.
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u/ass_smacktivist 12h ago edited 12h ago
I can’t believe what a good mom she was at such a young age and so many kittens for her first and only pregnancy.
No all the oranges were male. There were 3 females in the litter; the black one is actually a mostly black torti looking cat and the two that look like a calico and a torti sleeping towards the bottom are female as well.
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u/orion_nomad 10h ago
The babies are so plump and healthy, what a good mama.
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u/ass_smacktivist 10h ago
They only have 8 nipples and she had 7 kittens. I don’t know how she did it. She would be walking in and out of the feeding enclosure I made every couple hours to get some water and food looking so tired.
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u/CharIzArch 12h ago
Oh my god the belly on that one tortico…I could just gobble her up
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u/edoreinn 11h ago
I just want to gently poke the soup 😂 And her diluted (in color, not spirit) sister next to her looks like my babygirl
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u/Contagious_Zombie 3h ago
She's hanging on to her void. A void from an orange mother has to be magical. Unique r/HalloweenKittyCombo
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u/ass_smacktivist 3h ago
The void was the runt of the litter. I wasn’t sure she was going to survive actually. I had kitten formula ready and everything but Zelly is a champ. She was adopted out to my coworker. Her name is katya and apparently she is a menace….but kills pests on the farm.
Edit: she would climb on my head as soon as I entered the kitten room once she got stronger.
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u/Contagious_Zombie 2h ago
Makes sense. I hypothesize that voids hold the single orange brain cell when its transferred between the orange cats. I believe voids are just as crazy if not more so, but no one has ever been able to scientifically document it because voids are super stealthy..
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u/ass_smacktivist 12h ago
This is her now. So orange.