[Music] welcome back if you notice I am simply joyful today and that is because we are here to
discuss orange cats and orange cat behavior forgive me I I just want to go into a little
back story here I had a little ginger Margie when I was growing up and I was just a little boy and
his name is goblet and he and I were just thick as thieves and we would sleep together and play
together and he was the smartest cat he was one step away from algebra in fact I would
have a guess to say he was my first teacher okay goblet today we are going to be talking
about orange cat behavior what is orange cat behavior let us consult the cat daddy dictionary
opaque cat oblong cat always cat behavior
orange cat behavior it's blank this is the first you know there's always maybe because they're
so inexplicable it is blank what am I going to do uh I I don't know I'm struggling here
um Google it what is Google what do I do just type it in yeah okay then
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nothing what oh Google oh I was like let's try out this orange cat thing like let's see what
this is all about he'll run laughs at full speed around the house and just run into the
wall head first like be real this this can't be normal oh what is orange cat behavior what
is wrong with the world Urban Dictionary I don't know what the Urban Dictionary
says pardon my French only orange cats do because they are literally an insane breed
you set me up one orange brain cell what is meme meme what is this meme
you're the only one standing between you and freedom all you have to do is push it open
all right [Music] all orange cats there one single brain cell
I need to breathe so in the name of all things orange holy and goblet
I now abdicate my throne take it away
you got to feel for Nigel I mean I feel for Nigel and while he decompresses and cries about goblet
I gotta say I'm right there with him man I had no idea this was a thing I guess I must be alone
because the entire social mediosphere is a light with orange cat behavior I mean whether it's the
one orange brain cell subreddit with over 390 000 people on it all dedicated to the world
that believes that all orange cats share one orange brain cell and whether it's the story
of shorts the cat a very famous uh office cat famous for being dumb I guess locking himself
in closets and being compared to the other office cat Gene who is a torty interesting that leads me
to my next Point stereotypes how did the orange cat get stereotyped and where do stereotypes come
from and so in the interest of us over here at teamcat Mojo feeling like we're scientists
we put up a poll in our social media's Instagram and YouTube and asked you to describe orange cats
in one or apparently two words and over twenty thousand of you responded and overwhelmingly the
winner at 42 percent was friendly slash social orange CAD coming in second at 36 percent funny
slash Derpy or you know dumb and then way back in the pack we had feisty and fearless but all
of these words are the words that you think about when we're talking about that orange cat behavior
meme the single brain cell the shared brain cell the Jorts it's right here stereotype or fact now
another thing that I think plays into the fact that the orange cat is so ripe for stereotypes
in the same way there's rampant stereotypes of the torti if you haven't watched this video about
tortitude maybe you want to watch that but the reason why I think the stereotype can flourish is
that we have tortoise 99.79 something percent are female and orange cats over 80 percent are male
think about it the tortitude we're talking spicy and particular and okay I'm not going
to go any further than that and with the orange cat we have dumb and friendly you got male and
female right there in terms of stereotypes you know projection that gender in the back of our
Collective unconscious informs the orange cat behavior who would have thought well apparently
I did you know one of the stories about Jorts is that he climbed up on a computer and went oh
Jackson Galaxy subscribe and then he just did a little comment about like please tell the world
I'm not stupid that Gene is anyway you should subscribe you should maybe give us a little thumbs
up and don't forget interact with this community if you haven't checked out the comments in all of
these videos what an amazing Community you guys are be a part of it science like Galileo dropped
the orange in terms of scientific empirical data there isn't much that points to orange cats being
a certain type of personality the closest that that we got is a 1995 study showed that orange
cats are less common in areas with a higher mortality rate which it can be concluded is
because they engage in riskier Behavior orange males are significantly larger than non-orange
males so then you think that might explain their forward nature and maybe a little bit
more aggressive and feisty Behavior then you've got the fact that they are more common in rural
areas than urban areas in fact they are less likely to be seen in areas with higher mortality
rates which would be cities and that's because the last point they engage in riskier Behavior so
that could be fighting with other males and that could be jumping from place to place because they
are you know that kind of friendly maybe a little dumb not thinking about the risks and feisty you
see how all these words play into those facts but folks that's as far as we get when it comes
to science supporting any of the stereotypes but you know what it's enough it works even if it's
a little bitty orange thread it works science [Music] thank you good job boy and speaking of
that orange thread now we get into the stereotypes that I've brought into over time and that is The
Stereotype of the orange cat male as being like Dennis the Menace this is all your fault
this is all your fault running around town with a slingshot in his pocket trying to see
what kind of a cool sound it would make if you hit you know Mr Wilson in the back of the head
with a rock and then ran away that's orange cats to me that's the experience that I've had over
time for the most part that plays into that study in a way and now we're creating this huge little
cluster of stereotype and science for science that we think supports this into George foreign
but wherever there's a stereotype there is a hole in a theory and whenever I think of Dennis
the Menace the next thing I think about are the cats orange cats that my wife Mino and I have
shared our lives with in a very big way I mean the first one is Barry who's the big presence but in
a completely different way not in a shorty way he was like Soulful he was like a Zen Buddhist we've
caught him you know with a cricket in the corner making friends with the cricket like he had no
idea how to hunt or no no not in a dumb way in an optimistic way that's who Barry was and what
a lovely boy very Barry and his sister that both were bottle babies that that Mimi brought up uh
was also orange her name was Lily was she this you know gregarious no she was a little fearful
At first she she would come out of her shell but I'm telling you man that she had nothing to do
with that stereotype and then there's Gabby Lily and Barry's mom who after she was trapped because
she was very very feral eventually found her way into our house as well eventually became very much
a house cat and was very much the tortiest orange cat that you ever did need and and loud and none
of these guys fell into the stereotype so just if I had to say it I'm gonna say it because I'm
sure there's a thousand and fifty of you guys out there going Myron's cat is nothing like
Dennis the Menace or shorts he's not dumb he didn't have one brain cell that he shares with
a million other orange cats that's not my cat I'm just saying me too I fell into the stereo
type I dug myself out of The Stereotype hole and there we are orange cat behavior
foreign so at the end of this you know gently loving stereotypical science-based orange fluff
ball what do we have you know one of the things that I think you know in the midst of all this
fun and it really is uh even though me and Nigel both were initially greatly offended by the orange
cat behavior meme life is that no matter what it is there's always the individual so the one thing
I want you to remember is if you you know heard the polls and you were like oh funny and feisty
and Derpy and friendly and I want an orange cat individuals my friends individuals nature
nurture life experiences feelings interactions all create an individual so you know maybe you
don't want to just focus on an orange cat what you want to do without focusing on color or you
know what certain breeds do oh I want to get me a Bengal because they'll act all wild or I want
to get me an Abyssinian because she'll act like a spider monkey why don't you just go to a shelter
or rescue or get on Petfinder or something like that and you will just boom connect something's
going to happen they will pick you when you walk by them you will sit in a chair and somebody will
hop in your lap that's the cue you want to take not the color or the derpiness or the Jorts of it
all like I said it's it's fun but at the end of the day just make a connection with the cat and
rescue a cat save a cat because cats need savings so go to your local shelter or rescue get online
and get yourself a cat or two all right everybody until next time I'm going to go comfort for Nigel
who's still sobbing over there and you take care of each other your orange cats your tordie cats
your cats your dogs everybody and I'll see you next time all light all love on Mojo [Music]
thank you
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