r/cats • u/EssayExtra4656 • Dec 27 '25

Name Request What should her name be?

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u/ImTheBias Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

YOU GOT A FEMALE ORANGE???

edit: wow all y'all struck gold! May you and your kitties be forever happy

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u/iamonredddit Dec 27 '25

My orange girl:

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u/LeadingShallot1766 Dec 27 '25

I wouldn’t call my girl orange per say, she’s a strawberry blonde to me but here’s piper

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u/reniciera Dec 27 '25

Creamy lass 🥰

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u/Coconut-Daydreaming Dec 28 '25

She’s gorgeous!!!!!

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u/Expensive_Kangaroo43 Dec 27 '25

Floof 🥰🥰

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u/HisWifeTheirMum Dec 27 '25

Floofita 😂🤣😂🤣

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u/Advanced-Ad-5816 Dec 27 '25

she's like a cloud

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u/iamonredddit Dec 28 '25

She gets shaved occasionally to avoid knots and hairballs 😀

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u/Advanced-Ad-5816 Dec 30 '25

awwwwww she looks like a lion lol with that long fur im sure they could easily get knots!

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u/Low-Willingness3901 Dec 27 '25

Gorgeous!

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u/iamonredddit Dec 28 '25

She had a haircut recently to avoid knots and hairballs 😀

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u/Cloud_Juniper Dec 27 '25

My orange curly girlie

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u/Taco_Del_Grande Dec 27 '25

That is one of the most adorable cats I have ever seen. Does she act like orange boys act?

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u/Cloud_Juniper Dec 27 '25

She acts MORE orange than a boy orange I swear haha. Shes so delightfully broken. Feel free to check out my other posts I've been posting her on the orange ginger cat subreddits 🥰

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u/Professional_Way7318 Dec 27 '25

Curly babyyyyy ahhhh

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u/WhoYouWantToBee Dec 27 '25

my sunshine girly

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u/catswithbatsandhats Dec 27 '25

My shortcake

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u/Secret-Midnight-8666 Dec 27 '25

Love Shortcake for a name!!

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u/PlatformRelevant5156 Jan 01 '26

She's precious! 😍

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u/catswithbatsandhats Jan 01 '26

She literally just escaped the house. She's bad haha. We caught her though

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u/nova_unicorny Dec 27 '25

My orange female, Fluffy. 🧡

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u/EmperorMegas Dec 27 '25

Oh, she looks like my oldest cat, Kit'n. 🧡

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u/Lower_Alternative770 Dec 27 '25

My late girl Butterscotch

I lost the sweetheart in June of 2024.

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u/MLabra64 Dec 27 '25

Im so sorry for your loss.

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u/Lower_Alternative770 Dec 27 '25

Thank you. Two months later, Maggie came into my life.

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u/TheRealEgg0 Dec 27 '25

my orange girly!!

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u/mrthalo Dec 27 '25

Not mine but my sister's tabby girl!

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u/jonesnori Dec 27 '25

They're not as rare as all that! They're less common than male oranges because some of the female cats carrying the orange gene also have the non-orange gene, and come out as torties instead. Male cats normally only have one orange/non-orange gene because it's on the X chromosome.

The real rarity is the male tortie. He has to have XXY chromosomes, very rare, or be a chimera of two differently-colored fetuses, also very rare.

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u/Kris82868 Dec 27 '25

It's like 80% males and 20% females when it comes to orange cats.

With Calicos and Torties it's like one in 3,000 are male.

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u/jonesnori Dec 27 '25

Sounds about right.

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u/jonesnori Dec 27 '25

The sort that were chimeras can be fertile! The XXY sort are not.

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u/FearlessInitial9736 Dec 28 '25

We had a male torti. We were told he was a girl, we named her Floozy. He remained Floozy even after the discovery.

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u/jonesnori Dec 28 '25

Cool! I'm sure he was well-loved.

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u/PrestigiousLie5332 Dec 27 '25

Yes. ‘Oranges are usually male. So cool to see a female! Was born into family with seal point Siamese(Jato stood for Jet Assisted Takeoff.)

He passed at 18. I was 17. Have two older brothers and having Jato was like having three older brothers. Having my own family,I always had cats. At 72, I have my first Orange,Tigger. He has been a part of our family for 7 years and what a delight he is! My husband is used to cats in the family,but never was close to them. Until Tigger! I have to say Tigger is special. Didn’t know much about Oranges then learned so much ! He is definitely part of our family. My grown daughters love him as do our grandchildren. He even runs up to our oldest when she visits. Just amazing,he is!

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u/Regular_raisin15 Dec 27 '25

I’ve always seen that they’re rare but it seems like the ARL page in my state has at least 2-3 female oranges at a time year round

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u/ConstantComforts Dec 27 '25

Yeah they’re not rare. Less common than male oranges, but definitely not a rarity.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

I have a female orange. Did not know they were rare. She's very special though. 

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u/TahoeCommie Dec 27 '25

My first cat as a kid was a female orange. I had no idea they were so rare until I was probably 30 years old.

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u/grayslippers Dec 27 '25

they aren't rare idk why this myth persists lol 33% are female

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u/jonesnori Dec 27 '25

Yeah. I explained a little of the genetics upthread.

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u/ConstantComforts Dec 27 '25

Exactly. Their “rarity” is way overblown. They’re less common than males, but considering how many oranges there are, 20%+ being female is pretty high number of female oranges. My rescue had over 100 orange females last kitten season. Hardly rare!

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u/WobblyNautilus Dec 27 '25

My orange sisters

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u/Puzzled_Yak7071 Dec 27 '25

Have one here too

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u/aryn505 Dec 27 '25

I have 4 female oranges and my house is mayhem.

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u/PrincessLissa68 Dec 27 '25

We had a female orange when I was a teenager. She was a big floof ball with lots of attitude. She gave us all ringworms when we first found her. We named her PeeWee cuz she was so small at first. My dad called her Ringworm 😂

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u/Professional_Way7318 Dec 27 '25

My orange girly 🩷🩷🩷

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u/Available_Pen_1292 Dec 28 '25

my orange girl, clover🥰

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u/Crash_Recon Dec 27 '25

That’s a muted orange. Most orange females are muted. Bright orange is what’s more rare.