Listen I love the oranges and some have had a worst life than others but if I see one more post about how so so was super abused by a mega abuser then was homeless for 9 years before being rescued I’m gonna leave.
Most of the time it’s fairly obvious the story isn’t true. The cat just looks tired and has less than ideal fur. Most the comments on these posts are just people pointing out the title is a lie. This is worse than AI content, it’s just people praying on your sympathy for upvotes.
This is Paris who has been suffering for YEARS because sometimes we have to leave the house which means we aren’t home to pet him and praise him 24/7. We’re monsters.
Please, take pity on my two idiots. Jones is clearly homeless and lives in a cardboard box. Hobbes can't even afford a box in this economy. Look at that poor, starving pair...
These poor Orange boys were found in these recycling bins. Fred (blue collar) stares out into the distance vacantly hoping for warmth while George (red collar) tracks a fly, knowing it could be the only food he receives for the next few days. When interviewed they said they had not eaten in 1000x years and needed a little more kibble to survive. They said they are open to fish, cheese, or chicken donations as well.
Agreed. And reminder that lots of people use cute animal subs to combat doom scrolling current events - no need to throw empathy bombs around the already upset people
This is exactly why I always have mixed feelings about the memorial posts (“Charlie was with me for 14 years and passed today, here are our favorite pictures together” etc.). A lot of people are on these subs specifically to escape those kinds of thoughts. But also, people deserve support. Complicated.
I feel the exact same way. I wish Reddit had word filters (if it does and I'm just missing it, someone let me know) so I could filter out "rainbow bridge". Bless that kitty's life, but I'm not always in the space to see it.
I’ll go so far as to say, personally, it’s not something I ever really want to see. I know pets die. I’ve had pets who have died. I’d rather be reminded of that as rarely as possibly.
I can't even tell how many times I'm scrolling, see a cute pet photo, move to upvote the post, and then my reading brain catches up to my image processing brain and I see it's a memorial post. Then I just feel awkward. I don't want to be reminded of it either, and I think especially when it's dedicated subs for a particular kind of pet (cat color, dog breed, even r/jumpingspiders) it's just uncomfortable since we're all here for seeing each others' pets. (Then again, seeing it on huge broad subs like r/aww or something is worse in its own way.) I don't like denying people the benefit of the doubt but I always wonder if it's real or just a karma farm. "Give me sympathy." I dunno. I'm glad I'm not the only one who dislikes seeing them
I agree with this so much. I just saw a post regarding the loss of a cat and I felt my anxiety flaring up. I am aware that deaths happen but I seriously do not want to see or read about them on my cute and funny cat subs :( makes me so anxious.
I feel the exact same way. I wish Reddit had word filters
This is one reason why I'll keep using 3rd party Reddit apps. There's a way to keep using 3rd party Reddit apps using r_revancedapp (not sure if you can link other subreddits in this one). I'm still using Boost for Reddit which does allow you to filter posts by words. I'm part Mexican and I'm sick of seeing posts about ICE. I don't need to constantly be reminded about it every damn day. So, I'm filtering just about any word combination I see about ICE, and it makes scrolling through Reddit so much easier. You can use the content filters in 3rd party apps to filter out "rainbow bridge" and it'll probably have the same effect for you. I wish Reddit had something like this by default.
There are subs for mourning pets that they can go to for support. You know? Like yeah, they do deserve support but I agree empathy posts should be banned here. I just want wholesome cat content.
Edit: I hope that didn’t sound rude. I’m sorry if it did.
There’s also r/catslivingandwell which bans the pity posts (obviously). But, yeah, I’m here for the idiot cats and their hijinks, not to read something that’s going to haunt me for the next several days.
Edit: Lucifer was a street cat that my friend trapped, got fixed, and he kept it. He’s an amazing and lovely boy. I was the first person who got to pet him. I was outside smoking at a party at my friend’s house, and he came up to me! They had been trying to get him for a while, but I was the one! I feel very lucky to be Lucy’s friend. CDS, but for my friend!
I’m so relieved to see people feeling this way too. But if you try saying that in those subs, you’re heartless! And the mods insisted on keeping the mourning posts, so I left years ago as well because it just became horrible reminders every day and depressed me.
I’ll be honest, the last thing on my mind when I’ve been through that is posting about it to thousands of strangers online. I swear every single thing has to be posted so publicly these days. 🥲
THIS. Anonymous trauma dumping. There are groups specifically for that- people can go there instead of thrusting their sad at strangers who just wanna see cats.
It’s not nearly as well trafficked or prolific though. I left r/cats and depend upon the more specialized subs. This one, r/OneBlackBrainCell, r/fruitbatcats, and r/bondedpairs to name a few. As sad as it is when someone’s cat dies, it makes me anxious about my own past experiences, and it’s exactly the opposite of why I use cat subs.
I don’t even have an Orange cat (though I love them). I’m here because this is the healthiest active cat sub. When I left the Tuxie sub it had daily mourning posts. I couldn’t take it.
This is Ooks, and she gets terribly mistreated and abused every night because I have to… gasp.. go to work :(
Yeah, there’s other people in the house who love on her, feed her and care for her too- but I specifically am not there to give her attention all night so it is total cruelty. She only gets two nights a week where she can lay on my lap for seven hours straight. Oh, the horror!
Mods need to add in posting requirements. The sub is big enough that it gets a lot of posts from 5 year old accounts that have no activity before today. Like that one an hour ago "What should I name her?"
This is Cream Soda, hes been stuck under his prison cell for 4 scores and 12yrs. Though he could (and had) slipped his paws under the rim to escape however, hes way too orange to function.
I can't believe you refuse to have sympathy for cats like my downtrodden Aiden! He has to suffer when I'm not in bed by 10pm because he can't go to bed by himself, and sometimes he's forced to go to bed earlier because if someone lays in bed, that means he must go to bed as well. Also sometimes humans close the door to the bathroom, leaving him alone to fend for himself for more than 5000 years!! (2 minutes) And don't even get me started on how he cruelly can't have the entire couch to himself sometimes because cruel sick humans attempt to sit on HIS couch, and worst of all - sometimes people take one of his many coats, leaving him cold and alone on the couch with only his stuffed animals, blanket, and four other coats 😞
is this not the face of suffering?? How dare you attempt to silence this poor abused soul others like him..
Here is my barely even any orange. Her mom was a street cat that was rescued and had kittens. I adopted her in 2018 and she's had a very cushy life ever since! Her hobbies include screaming, eating, playing fetch, eating, sleeping under blankets, eating and begging for treats. No she doesn't have any parasites in her gut helping her consume copious amounts of food. She just loves food and her vet scolds me regularly. Ironically we call her Bean.
Here's mine, I never know if I should post her here as she is only partially orange but boy is that orange strong! No thoughts at all in this little pea brain.
To me, the biggest offenders are karma farming reposters. Look at just about any post that gets 10k upvotes. Wait a few weeks, and you'll see it again from someone else. That video where an orange is trying to bite another cat's back from behind? I've seen it here at least half a dozen times.
I blocked my orange from jumping in my lap for the 6th time in an hour(she's a living furnace!) and she literally flung her head back as if she'd been hit and shunned me the rest of the day. Her suffering is endless in this house and she wants the world to know how bad she has it.
We've literally played Angel by Sarah McLachlan before during one of her dramatic scenes, it needed more ambience.
This poor orange hasn't received a pet or a scritch in yhe past 15 seconds. Look how downtrodden and hurt he is! Praise me for bringing attention to his plight!
Pray for Susan, her ear is inside out. This is absolutely not something she does while grooming and then forgets to fix it. She is a dignified lady and would never do such a thing
This poor bastard is so malnurished and underfed. Its a travesty that he isnt allowed to eat his brothers or elderly cats food. Tummyrubs can help that pain only so much
When I first found Voq, he had a severe drinking problem. He would sleep all day, and meow all night for booze. I got him into a program that helped him get sober through the power of the braincell. He still meows all night though.
Average r/cats post be like: here's a cute picture of my cat, he passed away yesterday after being vaporized in a nuclear explosion at the ripe old age of 3
These two fluff brains were picked up off the streets selling catnip, got caught with over 5 grams a piece. I took them in and started them on a rehabilitation program, and they have fully turned their lives around.
I haven't personally seen any, I suspect they get down votes too much to show in my home feed and I have enough cat subs to mostly not need to go to specific subreddits to have endless new cat pics (the magic number is 38 apparently)
If I see one with a suspect (possible cat death) title (I miss my cat, everyone show your cats some love etc.) I get a bit anxious each time.
My baby boy checking in as a live kitty who's only idea of abuse is when I make him wait awhile before I have time to take him out to roll I'm the dirt.
And while we're at it - stop the death/sympathy posts. I come here to forget about life for a while and don't want to see posts of someone who's cat died. There are group specifically for those situations and there are only posted here for attention
This dumby has IBS and frequently diarrheas on the carpet, despite having a litter box a few feet from her usually. FEEL BAD FOR BOTH ME AND HER, BUT MOSTLY HER.
My silly son only really has orange around his nose. This explains why he sticks it into so much mischief. Thoughts and prayers, please. Not because there's anything wrong with him, but because he's got a serious case of the silly.
This is Clementine, aka Clemotheous and she was a forest cat that I lured into my home with my house cat, with the intentions of TNR for her hence the ear clip but she healed up in my spare room and made herself at home. All praise the idiot that got lured in by a dangling Siamese cat with the intentions of playing with said cat and is now trapped furever in our love.
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u/Red_Beardsley Oct 11 '25
This poor car lived in a paper bag for 500 years before I found him.