Ginger Mama Cat With Large Litter Of Orange Kittens Is 'Questioning All Of Her Life Choices'
Every human mother knows that having and caring for one baby is exhausting. Now just imagine that feeling of bone-crushing fatigue times seven. In an adorable TikTok video — which has been viewed more than 7.8 million times and racked up over 1.4 million likes — a ginger mama cat sits with her seven kittens, and the expression on her face speaks volumes about the stress of being a new parent.
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"She's questioning all of her life choices....😂," suggested one viewer, and another wrote, "Yep she already has that disassociated look in her eyes 😅 sweet mama 🥰." One person observed, "There ain't no tired like mama tired." One netizen took the time to catalog the demanding behavior of the seven cute little balls of fluff shown in the video: "4 eating, 2 confused and 1 desperate for attention. Seems about right 🤣👍."
Several commenters chastised the cat's owner for not having the sweet ginger spayed. The owner explained that the wily kitty managed to escape from her own separate space two weeks before her spay appointment and get impregnated by her ginger male roommate, who already had his neutering appointment scheduled, too. Most owners of ginger kitties would agree that such naughty, rule-breaking antics are peak orange cat.
The belief in a ginger cat personality
Several netizens pointed out all the different shades of orange evident in the kittens' fur, with one person joking, "When the printer was running low on ink, that's how the kittens came out — from the darkest to the lightest 😂🥰," and another writing, "Aw different shades of insanity." People who open their homes to ginger kitties usually swear there's a distinct orange cat personality: friendly, bold, playful, loving, loud, goofy, and adept at getting into all sorts of trouble. One viewer shared, "I have 1 orange cat and I'm stressed. I can't imagine all those personalities at one time."
Regardless of what owners believe, there's no scientific evidence suggesting that orange tabby cat behaviors are unlike the behaviors of kitties with other fur colors. Ginger fur is the result of a quirk of genetics that means 80% of orange cats are male, so perhaps some of the traits commonly attributed to gingers can be explained by personality differences between the sexes. Still, one netizen neatly summed up many people's thoughts by commenting, "8 orange cats and 7 are KITTENS!!! lord help you 😭😭🤣🤣."