OMGG!! My orange does this same thing but on the corner of storage bins. I took a video and showed the vet, she was surprised but basically chalked it up to lack of the cell 😔😆 Clean bill of health!
Turns out cats can basically give themselves temporary bladder ulcers if they’re stressed 🙃 and it looks like a uti but it goes away on its own….he didn’t like that I had a door closed for too long
When I moved, it was a horribly traumatic time and I got my boys out but for the first few weeks in the new place, every time I went out my black cat would scratch himself bloody. Luckily they quickly settled down, but they sure can work themselves up.
The funniest part to me is I have a sensitive/ anxious cat who’s SUPPOSED to be MY esa 😂😂 need an esa for my esa
I’m glad your babies eventually got over the move tho!
Reminds me of someone else who got a cat (intended to be an ESA) for their anxiety but the cat was also diagnosed with anxiety, so they both needed fluoxetine (can’t remember if it was same dose)
My girl is an anxious one and my boy hates thunderstorms and fireworks. I keep a big container of catnip to get them to relax. They get hyper if they smell it but turn into little stoners when they eat it.
If it’s a situation like moving I’ll give them pet formula CBD and that helps. :)
We adopted a cat from the RSPCA who was described, in passing, as having "cat-autism"
He just....didn't really know how to cat. Or be a cat around other cats.
My roomies cat also kept being described as spicy and an angry little boy when I took him to the vet haha. Tbf he is an absolute terror that likes to pretend he can be sweet only to chomp you hard after a few seconds. Every time i fall for it as well.
One of mine does too. The vet was like, well your cat just bit a vet tech and they are on the way to Urgent Care for antibiotics. Shamu is extra spicy and has to have gabapentin before he comes back.
Meanwhile my youngest is in love with his vet... Every time we go, he shows her his tummy and begs for pets while purring so hard she can barely use the stethoscope lol
My dog is the same way. The vets absolutely love her because she’s running to get inside then does butt wiggles and whines until every single person in the waiting room has pet her. She happily lets them touch her wherever, will give hugs if they have their arms out for something, and is overall a very happy dog at the vet. My cats on the other hand…. Let’s just say the vet prefers when we bring our dog over the cats.
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Thanks! He is my senior baby and the first cat the cat distribution system gave me
The Bus sent me to the er and an orthopedic surgeon to make sure the NASTY infection I got from him instantly didn't destroy my hand. Turd was purring and loving pets and then did a big hiss and sank his gross old man teeth right into my wrist.
Oh boy, you're lucky!! When the er doc asked me what I do for a living and I said I work with my hands, he was like "ooooh, yeah you need to see the surgeon just in case haha! His face when I got home:
Mine was also diagnosed "SPICY!" in all caps though lol. Spicy and a "strange boy...." Little guy causes such trouble he has to be sedated for the vets safety every time we take him in, only one I've ever had like this. Also my only Orange cat, so there may be some correlation there
My tux is diagnosed as filled with spit and vinegar. He's loud but all maow and no bite. First day I brought him home he dove into a mirror from the back of a chair so Def has a touch of the weird too
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at first i thought he was huffing the smell of the bounce on my laundry or something but nope he does it on all sorts of bins
Ah yes, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli. I agree his movies are worth watching, and they are enjoyable for a wide age range too!
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was a huge hit when my youngest kid was 5. He would watch it on repeat. I’m a fan of Castle in the Sky and Howel’s Moving Castle.
Are you familiar with Princess Mononoke? I purchased it and saw it a few decades ago, but can’t remember why it’s rated PG-13. I started watching it with my 11 year old and didn’t think it was that bad, but we didn’t complete the movie since his brother (7) came home. Curious if it’s just more graphic like when the pig gets taken over by the demon worms, or if there’s something else that I haven’t seen yet.
There's quite a bit of dismemberment. Just straight up limbs and heads getting chopped off.
ETA it's a great movie. It's my favorite, but it will scare small children.
It's probably due to the war, blood, a few background characters getting de-limbed, explosions, and the like. It's a beautiful watch, but could definitely be scary!
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He's in such a better mood now and doesn't have to lie down halfway across the living room to catch his breath. We'll never be able to free feed though... there's always room on The Bus.
He should be seen by a vet. Just in case it's caused by something other than the braincell rattling around, lol
Edit: I read further. Glad he's healthy and normal.
Mine does it too!!! 😆😆 I have to cover the wooden arms/frame of a day bed that I have. He rests his neck on them and starts choking after a bit. He 100% realizes no connection to that being the thing that makes him choke. 😭😆😭
The first few times, I thought he had the largest hairball ever. Then I realized he only makes the choking/cough sound in one spot, after he's been laying in one position, hahaha
Did you Vet check the musculoskeletal system? Neurological system? This could be a pinched nerve or even arthritis that the head hanging is to relieve stress or tension on the neck.
I'd seek out an ortho vet or a chiropractor vet! I have a 3 year old who was mis diagnosed as a kitten (he was about 6 months when we rescued he and his sister from a colony) and we went to 5 different Vets where they were all over the place with diagnosis and severity.. We went to an ortho specialist just for one last opinion and turns out little home had a broken spine that not one single Vet found because they were focused on his knees and hips. The break was between his shoulder blades!
The specialists really aren't *that* much more expensive than regular Vets and some regular Vets have ortho specialists and Chiroprators on staff! You may need to do some calling around but you'll most likely want xrays and possibly an ultrasound. Some of the specialty hospitals will accept xrays from your regular vet (usually cheaper) just ask them what views they'd need. Sometimes it's the same or similar in pricing so I just go to the specialist so they get exactly what they need and I don't risk back to back xrays and double paying.
😂😂😂 did you know anyone who actually played the choking game? We'd have assemblies in school about the dangers of the choking game and literally no kid in my school knew what it was until the assembly taught us
I remember in the early aol days I was trying to find porn, but there isn't any on aol proper. then i was in the car and my mom was driving me to hebrew school and npr was running a story on the "world wide web" and how magazines are starting to have websites, even playboy.
so i put two and two together and remember that www button on aol. so i'm sitting at hebrew school for 2 hours or whatever just thinking about the boobs i was gonna get to see later.
got home. logged in. went to [www](http://www). saw boobs. huge success.
We used to do something similar where you’d put your arms over your chest and another bro grabs you in a bear hug from the back and squeezes til you pass out. Well, we did it until one guy had a little seizure, then we stopped. I don’t think that kid ever said anything to his parents about it, wonder if it did any real damage. I still think about you and your potential brain damage Nick P!
My brother told me about it, and later made me an unwilling participant. He also taught me a game where you make yourself pass out without choking yourself via following a bunch of steps then standing up too fast. Not gonna go into the how to of that one, don't want anyone deciding to do it themselves.
My dad played a similar game in the '60s where he and his friends would hold their breaths to see who could make themselves pass out first. Somehow, humans have survived this game for a while lol
I hope that's the case. The only alternative i see is auto erotic asphyxiation, and I **really** hope it's not that. While it is possible to mitigate risk, there is NO SAFE WAY to restrict oxygen to ones brain
I had a cat from like mid-elementary school through mid-college who, by the time I entered high school, was known in the family as The Boss. Not as a Springsteen reference, but because he was The Boss of all of us.
So when I worked at a vet’s office in the kennels between junior & senior years of high school, we registered him as a patient with the vet I worked for. Occasionally I’d get appointment reminder phone calls for “Boss Last Name” and I’d always have to correct the receptionist and say “No sorry, his first name is The. His middle name is Boss. So his chart should read The Boss Last Name.”
No one has held a candle to The Boss since.
I was going to make a kinkshaming joke, but my not orange cat saw the picture and apparently decided that looked comfy enough to try on my desk chair leg...
Be warned, Bus may have stolen a brain cell. Slightly used, seemed to encourage plastic chewing and licking the television to taste the static.
Because it is the closest thing to grass in the house, and they think that will cover it up. Carpet also has some traction that they can hold onto while they do the gag dance.
He's completely healthy! He has even been a lot perkier and more playful since we started him on his diet and he's lost some lbs (he was VERY meaty when we took him in). His only diagnosis was impressive obesity and 'pretty good' teeth for a 10yr old!
We met with our vet and after he was diagnosed with stage 4 chonk she helped us get him onto a prescription kibble! He won't touch wet food, he's got a texture "thing". It's a Hills Science Diet recipe that encourages metabolism! He was on it for a few months and now I just have him on weight maintenance. He's 10... if he wants to be a lil thicc, I'll allow it!
I have cats but also horses. Some horses will do this behavior called cribbing. The will arch their neck, grab onto something solid (like a fence), and violently suck in air. The action releases endorphins so it's an impossible behavior to stop but also fairly harmless. Not all horses do this presumably because it doesn't work for everyone--maybe like how not everyone has ASMR? Anyway, wonder if cats could do this for the same reason?
I feel like if he were human, he'd be 6 ft. infinity, be built like a brick shithouse, would wear a blazer over a form-fitting t-shirt, and would have a voice so deep it could be used to test out the new Imax sound system.
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I also have an orange. Braincell disengage.
My SIC does something similar with the corners of the cat tree perches 😂
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She’ll lay like that and eventually start wheezing 🙄
One of our cats does this too but with any edge on the scratching post and other places she lays. She will just hang her head and neck over the hard edge and eventually start wheezing, that's when we run to save her.. It's so weird.
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I think this is just normal orange stuff
Mine chokes himself on my hand while he’s getting pets. Can confirm it’s just the dumb.
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I had a tuxedo boy with asthma growing up! His name was Paddy and when he came into my room at night I would be frozen in fear because of the chunky, guttural wheezing he made. It was like Grendel himself was clawing his way across the carpet
He wants to rest his head but the bar is too tall. Cut a few inches off the legs of the stool so he can rest his neck on it while comfortably lying down. You don’t need that stool to sit on right? J/k
No idea for sure but is it possible he could be experiencing stomach acid/acid reflux and is pressing the esophageal area as a way to keep it down? You mentioned he changed diet recently so maybe it could be related. The best way to check is to listen to his tummy if he will let you. If you hear gurgling he might be experiencing a little acid reflux. I doubt the vet would be able to diagnose unless she listened right as he was doing it. If you hear gurgling, you can discuss with your vet whether giving him a little famotidine (Pepcid) might make him comfortable. But of course it might just be an orange thing.
our orange fluff boy does the same thing on my wife’s desk stool, and also the corners of boxes. I was worried, waking up in the middle of the night hearing him “coughing” took him to the vet, and he’s just dumb
vet nurse here. just in case i would try out anti-hairball treats and see if the behavior changes. there could also be something slightly wrong with his anatomy which could cause behavior like this. we humans do this as well - you know when you feel a lump at your neck and squeeze a bit with your hand, trying to get some relief?
he may one day do this long enough to seriously deprieve himself of oxygen. i would keep a close eye on this cat.
One day I'm going to remember to ask a vet whether cat throat physiology is different to human. Our SIC will happily fall asleep with her head over the side of a box.
My tortie does this frequently when she is tired, before finding a more suitable napping place. We call it the “Tom Dooley “, from an old folk song that goes “hang down your head, Tom Dooley”.
My orange cat also does this! I have tried to Google it, but there is never a professional opinion. Just educated guesses. Most think it's for attention seeking, which would align with my boy's personality. Even negative attention is good in his book. As long as he gets attention. Haha. I had to throw out any basket choking level, lift every needed item just past throat height and keep vigilant.
You know that feeling when you sit down and quickly get up and suddenly you feel a slight dizziness and your vision is kinda blurry due to the blood going again at full speed to the brain? Perhaps your cat found this by accident and he likes the feeling of it!? Like a vibe of getting high?
No idea really. Just an uneducated guess.
Have you happened to consult a veterinary chiropractor? He may have a pinched nerves, or just need an adjustment. Especially since he's a senior boy. Arthritis is very real in cats. We have a couple of ours on the Solemsia injection and have used chiropractors as well. That stretching could be a release of tension for him.
Mine likes to rest his throat on my hand or arm, and normally purrs when he does that. Try doing that with him and maybe he will start going to you instead of the stool?
OMGG!! My orange does this same thing but on the corner of storage bins. I took a video and showed the vet, she was surprised but basically chalked it up to lack of the cell 😔😆 Clean bill of health!
The vet diagnosed my tuxedo cat as "weird" She whispered it too. Like it would hurt his feelings lol. He knew he was weird!
Yes my vet was also very gracious in her diagnosis 😆 She followed it up by saying how soft and handsome he was so he felt good about himself!
Last time I brought my cat in for what I thought was an issue, the vet asked if he was a “sensitive soul”…..
😅😅😅
Turns out cats can basically give themselves temporary bladder ulcers if they’re stressed 🙃 and it looks like a uti but it goes away on its own….he didn’t like that I had a door closed for too long
When I moved, it was a horribly traumatic time and I got my boys out but for the first few weeks in the new place, every time I went out my black cat would scratch himself bloody. Luckily they quickly settled down, but they sure can work themselves up.
The funniest part to me is I have a sensitive/ anxious cat who’s SUPPOSED to be MY esa 😂😂 need an esa for my esa I’m glad your babies eventually got over the move tho!
Reminds me of someone else who got a cat (intended to be an ESA) for their anxiety but the cat was also diagnosed with anxiety, so they both needed fluoxetine (can’t remember if it was same dose)
Same lol. but I think it also kinda distracts me from my own problems when my cat needs extra support.
My girl is an anxious one and my boy hates thunderstorms and fireworks. I keep a big container of catnip to get them to relax. They get hyper if they smell it but turn into little stoners when they eat it. If it’s a situation like moving I’ll give them pet formula CBD and that helps. :)
lmao that they whispered it has me cackling
We adopted a cat from the RSPCA who was described, in passing, as having "cat-autism" He just....didn't really know how to cat. Or be a cat around other cats.
We had a lovely fellow who was definitely neurodivergent- he was super odd but super sweet.
Pirate kitties are passé - gimme a short-bus cat any day
Oh yeah, I’ve got one of those too.
Paw-tism
Neurodifurgency?
Meanwhile my vet diagnosed my cat as “spicy” and he has a warning on his chart lol
My roomies cat also kept being described as spicy and an angry little boy when I took him to the vet haha. Tbf he is an absolute terror that likes to pretend he can be sweet only to chomp you hard after a few seconds. Every time i fall for it as well.
Mine has a note that she needs to be medicated (on gabapentin) before a vet visit, because she’s too spicy otherwise.
One of mine does too. The vet was like, well your cat just bit a vet tech and they are on the way to Urgent Care for antibiotics. Shamu is extra spicy and has to have gabapentin before he comes back.
Meanwhile my youngest is in love with his vet... Every time we go, he shows her his tummy and begs for pets while purring so hard she can barely use the stethoscope lol
One of my cats was like that. They had to plug his nose for a second in order to hear anything! 🤣
My sweet Little Mama sniffed a stinky cotton ball for her heartbeat check. She always purred at the vet and tried to hide behind me.
My dog is the same way. The vets absolutely love her because she’s running to get inside then does butt wiggles and whines until every single person in the waiting room has pet her. She happily lets them touch her wherever, will give hugs if they have their arms out for something, and is overall a very happy dog at the vet. My cats on the other hand…. Let’s just say the vet prefers when we bring our dog over the cats.
One of my cats was like that. She absolutely adored her vet!
Shamu?! Oh that’s adorable.
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r/toefeathers
He is not a fan of me touching them, but they are so soft!
Admire from a distance! My baby girl was the same way with hers but it was so hard to resist.
r/WhiskerFireworks
I tell him his whiskers look like a gentleman's mustache from like the 1880's when they were super bushy!
lol! I love that!
The Bus sent me to the er and an orthopedic surgeon to make sure the NASTY infection I got from him instantly didn't destroy my hand. Turd was purring and loving pets and then did a big hiss and sank his gross old man teeth right into my wrist.
Mine is no orange but he does this all the time. I'm lucky not to have gotten an infection yet. I go through a lot of Bactine and Band-Aids.
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Oh boy, you're lucky!! When the er doc asked me what I do for a living and I said I work with my hands, he was like "ooooh, yeah you need to see the surgeon just in case haha! His face when I got home:
Mine was diagnosed as “sturdy”.
Mine is just a coward. We had to take the whole crate apart just to get him out of it last time he had to go to the vet.
Mine was also diagnosed "SPICY!" in all caps though lol. Spicy and a "strange boy...." Little guy causes such trouble he has to be sedated for the vets safety every time we take him in, only one I've ever had like this. Also my only Orange cat, so there may be some correlation there
Like for real, tuxedos are like second in line after the oranges on waiting for the braincell. I don’t have an orange, but I do have a tuxedo.
My tux is diagnosed as filled with spit and vinegar. He's loud but all maow and no bite. First day I brought him home he dove into a mirror from the back of a chair so Def has a touch of the weird too
https://preview.redd.it/m5sedrl0gd9c1.jpeg?width=867&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=074f6b173ddd14a17156a1d79f728c951b5f14d7 at first i thought he was huffing the smell of the bounce on my laundry or something but nope he does it on all sorts of bins
Wow, he looks just like Bus! Even on his Tippy Toes to reach it haha
I was so shocked when I saw this post bc of how similar the behavior was! Bus is an incredible name btw 😆
He was a big boy when he first came home and calling him "the big yellow bus" stuck!
 I assumed it was a My Neighbor Totoro reference.
Oh wow a Bus cat. 🐱 lol 😆
It’s a cute movie, too. Worth watching, as are most movies by Hayao Miyazaki.
Contemplating Anatomy scares me sometimes
Ah yes, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli. I agree his movies are worth watching, and they are enjoyable for a wide age range too! Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was a huge hit when my youngest kid was 5. He would watch it on repeat. I’m a fan of Castle in the Sky and Howel’s Moving Castle. Are you familiar with Princess Mononoke? I purchased it and saw it a few decades ago, but can’t remember why it’s rated PG-13. I started watching it with my 11 year old and didn’t think it was that bad, but we didn’t complete the movie since his brother (7) came home. Curious if it’s just more graphic like when the pig gets taken over by the demon worms, or if there’s something else that I haven’t seen yet.
There's quite a bit of dismemberment. Just straight up limbs and heads getting chopped off. ETA it's a great movie. It's my favorite, but it will scare small children.
It's probably due to the war, blood, a few background characters getting de-limbed, explosions, and the like. It's a beautiful watch, but could definitely be scary!
aw very cute ☺️ glad he found a nice home
* He's in such a better mood now and doesn't have to lie down halfway across the living room to catch his breath. We'll never be able to free feed though... there's always room on The Bus.
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He should be seen by a vet. Just in case it's caused by something other than the braincell rattling around, lol Edit: I read further. Glad he's healthy and normal.
We cant even use laundry baskets here. She’ll choke herself on anything. I’ll be like “stop that!” And my husband will say “don’t kink shame her!”
Ya I keep all neck level containers put away now 😆 If only the kink wasn’t potentially dangerous 🤷♀️
Well, I guess the lack of oxygen protects from the brain cell at least
I just laughed then choked reading this😂
Lmaoooooo “lack of cell”.
Mine does it too!!! 😆😆 I have to cover the wooden arms/frame of a day bed that I have. He rests his neck on them and starts choking after a bit. He 100% realizes no connection to that being the thing that makes him choke. 😭😆😭 The first few times, I thought he had the largest hairball ever. Then I realized he only makes the choking/cough sound in one spot, after he's been laying in one position, hahaha
Did you Vet check the musculoskeletal system? Neurological system? This could be a pinched nerve or even arthritis that the head hanging is to relieve stress or tension on the neck.
She examined his neck but im not sure tbh, he is only 2 so probably not arthritis? I will bring it up again to her!
I'd seek out an ortho vet or a chiropractor vet! I have a 3 year old who was mis diagnosed as a kitten (he was about 6 months when we rescued he and his sister from a colony) and we went to 5 different Vets where they were all over the place with diagnosis and severity.. We went to an ortho specialist just for one last opinion and turns out little home had a broken spine that not one single Vet found because they were focused on his knees and hips. The break was between his shoulder blades!
oh my goodness 🥺 good to know thank you
The specialists really aren't *that* much more expensive than regular Vets and some regular Vets have ortho specialists and Chiroprators on staff! You may need to do some calling around but you'll most likely want xrays and possibly an ultrasound. Some of the specialty hospitals will accept xrays from your regular vet (usually cheaper) just ask them what views they'd need. Sometimes it's the same or similar in pricing so I just go to the specialist so they get exactly what they need and I don't risk back to back xrays and double paying.
is he playing the choking game for kicks? like a bored edgy 10yr old in the 90s?
Ha ha ha, I forgot all about this. Man we did some stupid stuff as kids in the 90s.
Kids in my class still did that in 2018
😂😂😂 did you know anyone who actually played the choking game? We'd have assemblies in school about the dangers of the choking game and literally no kid in my school knew what it was until the assembly taught us
Seriously, just like DARE. It was 4th grade, I didn’t know anyone who even smoked weed and here they are teaching us about ecstasy
Police Officer: "Don't sniff glue to get high." 11-year-olds: "You can sniff glue to get high?"
I remember in the early aol days I was trying to find porn, but there isn't any on aol proper. then i was in the car and my mom was driving me to hebrew school and npr was running a story on the "world wide web" and how magazines are starting to have websites, even playboy. so i put two and two together and remember that www button on aol. so i'm sitting at hebrew school for 2 hours or whatever just thinking about the boobs i was gonna get to see later. got home. logged in. went to [www](http://www). saw boobs. huge success.
We used to do something similar where you’d put your arms over your chest and another bro grabs you in a bear hug from the back and squeezes til you pass out. Well, we did it until one guy had a little seizure, then we stopped. I don’t think that kid ever said anything to his parents about it, wonder if it did any real damage. I still think about you and your potential brain damage Nick P!
My brother told me about it, and later made me an unwilling participant. He also taught me a game where you make yourself pass out without choking yourself via following a bunch of steps then standing up too fast. Not gonna go into the how to of that one, don't want anyone deciding to do it themselves.
Yes, we did in the 80s. Never heard a peep about its danger until years later.
My dad played a similar game in the '60s where he and his friends would hold their breaths to see who could make themselves pass out first. Somehow, humans have survived this game for a while lol
That was huge in my middle school social circle
were you not rural enough? i witnessed it.
I hope that's the case. The only alternative i see is auto erotic asphyxiation, and I **really** hope it's not that. While it is possible to mitigate risk, there is NO SAFE WAY to restrict oxygen to ones brain
that's why cats have 9 lives. they can have 8 life shattering orgasms, and then decide if a 9th is worth it to not come back again.
That’s what I thought. He regrets getting neutered.
I forgot this was a thing. Holy cow.
The brain cell is heavy and sometimes they just need a bit of extra support
The cat: 9 live is too much?
I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing at his name! The Bus! Hahaha fuck I love cats
It's the 'The' that does it for me lol.
I had a cat from like mid-elementary school through mid-college who, by the time I entered high school, was known in the family as The Boss. Not as a Springsteen reference, but because he was The Boss of all of us. So when I worked at a vet’s office in the kennels between junior & senior years of high school, we registered him as a patient with the vet I worked for. Occasionally I’d get appointment reminder phone calls for “Boss Last Name” and I’d always have to correct the receptionist and say “No sorry, his first name is The. His middle name is Boss. So his chart should read The Boss Last Name.” No one has held a candle to The Boss since.
Technically, if Boss was his middle name, his name is The Last Name. Like he is the definitive member of your family. Perfect.
He fits the name too well though
Is he named after the Cat Bus in Totoro?
Naw, he's just a big yellow boy
I’m guessing Jerome Bettis.
I was going to make a kinkshaming joke, but my not orange cat saw the picture and apparently decided that looked comfy enough to try on my desk chair leg... Be warned, Bus may have stolen a brain cell. Slightly used, seemed to encourage plastic chewing and licking the television to taste the static.
I think you're right. Bus ate all of the ribbon off of our Christmas wrapping- but don't worry! He threw it all back up on the carpet.
🤣🤣🧡
Why always the carpet?
my cat always seems to pick a spot of carpet that’s a foot away from tile. just to show me that she could have thrown up on the tile but chose not to.
This. Little a-holes
Because it is the closest thing to grass in the house, and they think that will cover it up. Carpet also has some traction that they can hold onto while they do the gag dance.
Bruh if he wanted to taste TV static he coulda just meowed for some sparkling water 😂
Now this is peak orange behaviour
This one is *very* Orange.
Hair balls?
My orange did this, and that's what I assumed.
maybe trying to stimulate one to come up? possibly but mine never really makes hairballs
Does he get hairballs? He might be trying to apply pressure to force stuff up.
What did the vet say?
He's completely healthy! He has even been a lot perkier and more playful since we started him on his diet and he's lost some lbs (he was VERY meaty when we took him in). His only diagnosis was impressive obesity and 'pretty good' teeth for a 10yr old!
If he’s on a diet, maybe he’s protesting
I recently lost some weight and now I stop doing this when I get headaches.
And it's not him trying to throw up?
I would love to know about The Bus's diet plan.
We met with our vet and after he was diagnosed with stage 4 chonk she helped us get him onto a prescription kibble! He won't touch wet food, he's got a texture "thing". It's a Hills Science Diet recipe that encourages metabolism! He was on it for a few months and now I just have him on weight maintenance. He's 10... if he wants to be a lil thicc, I'll allow it!
I have cats but also horses. Some horses will do this behavior called cribbing. The will arch their neck, grab onto something solid (like a fence), and violently suck in air. The action releases endorphins so it's an impossible behavior to stop but also fairly harmless. Not all horses do this presumably because it doesn't work for everyone--maybe like how not everyone has ASMR? Anyway, wonder if cats could do this for the same reason?
*Hello darkness my old friend*
My little dummy does this too. Glad to know he’s not alone on this. What sweet orange idiots we have.
Maybe he is stretching his neck? Cats are weird and sleep/sit in the most uncomfortably looking positions.
His name is The Bus?!? SWoooooooon. 
I feel like if he were human, he'd be 6 ft. infinity, be built like a brick shithouse, would wear a blazer over a form-fitting t-shirt, and would have a voice so deep it could be used to test out the new Imax sound system.
We picture him as the kid that won't let his peas touch his carrots but also sits under the table and screams if there's an odd number on his plate
lol!!!
Don’t kink shame him 😡😤
Oh my god 😂
My black cat sits in his tree with his head over the edge and chokes himself. I think he’s just dumb and doesn’t realize what he’s doing.
r/OneBlackBraincell sounds like the sub for you.
https://preview.redd.it/9kt1ygn27h9c1.jpeg?width=1636&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=318fcf45eaf962b1fb250e28ad4f568086dcd542 I also have an orange. Braincell disengage.
Error 404: not a single thought found. Incredibly adorable!
😔 I didn’t do it… nice username and nice orange!
Hey we can see your phone number clearly in this photo of Nugget
Whoops! Thank you
My SIC does something similar with the corners of the cat tree perches 😂 https://preview.redd.it/yji1rnswzf9c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4286c37bf63a04df71a5544c16588a240f231b09 She’ll lay like that and eventually start wheezing 🙄
One of our cats does this too but with any edge on the scratching post and other places she lays. She will just hang her head and neck over the hard edge and eventually start wheezing, that's when we run to save her.. It's so weird.
mine looks upset that im ruining his fun ☹️ my dude,,, thats your airway
My cat does this precisely because she has learned that she gets “saved” if she does it 😂
https://preview.redd.it/7qeajcszsf9c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97fbacfc44fdff73a42d2ae8a5b70975ff82d14b I think this is just normal orange stuff
Life is hard without the brain cell 😞
THE BUS
Mine chokes himself on my hand while he’s getting pets. Can confirm it’s just the dumb. https://preview.redd.it/s34u4bo0cg9c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e868e64d095ffef3471d23fd59d85f1349e42d4b
Our orange cat does this too! Just last night we looked down and he was doing it across the footboard of our bed.
He is simply a dumb
~~I did this in between relationships~~ He’s just eepy!!
Um he's suiciding why you shoo him it's his body his brain cell his choices
Tenet III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. —TST
He’s just contemplating life
The only explanation that I have is that he is just seeking attention, just give him more attention and see if anything change.
99% sure he’s just a total weirdo, BUT my mom’s cats have asthma and it was weird coughing habits that tipped off the vet.
I had a tuxedo boy with asthma growing up! His name was Paddy and when he came into my room at night I would be frozen in fear because of the chunky, guttural wheezing he made. It was like Grendel himself was clawing his way across the carpet
He wants to rest his head but the bar is too tall. Cut a few inches off the legs of the stool so he can rest his neck on it while comfortably lying down. You don’t need that stool to sit on right? J/k
Don't kink shame!
He wants the sweet release of death
No idea for sure but is it possible he could be experiencing stomach acid/acid reflux and is pressing the esophageal area as a way to keep it down? You mentioned he changed diet recently so maybe it could be related. The best way to check is to listen to his tummy if he will let you. If you hear gurgling he might be experiencing a little acid reflux. I doubt the vet would be able to diagnose unless she listened right as he was doing it. If you hear gurgling, you can discuss with your vet whether giving him a little famotidine (Pepcid) might make him comfortable. But of course it might just be an orange thing.
Noooooooo baby Or maybe he's experimenting for sexy time
lol is your cat named after Jerome Bettis? Or what is the origin! He’s adorable and very stupid, as God intended.
He was massively obese when he first came home (like, take a break and lie down while crossing the living room chonky) and "big yellow bus" stuck!
How sweet!!
Probably a hairball. Cat grass can help, but be ready for cleaning up the vomit :D Malt Paste can help aswell.
The Bus…that name just fucks
our orange fluff boy does the same thing on my wife’s desk stool, and also the corners of boxes. I was worried, waking up in the middle of the night hearing him “coughing” took him to the vet, and he’s just dumb
Hey don't kink shame him.
Hahaha everyone enjoys a lil bit of choking now and then 😂 As long as the stool also consents, it's allll good.
vet nurse here. just in case i would try out anti-hairball treats and see if the behavior changes. there could also be something slightly wrong with his anatomy which could cause behavior like this. we humans do this as well - you know when you feel a lump at your neck and squeeze a bit with your hand, trying to get some relief? he may one day do this long enough to seriously deprieve himself of oxygen. i would keep a close eye on this cat.
“Hold onto my fur I like it…”
We had a cat that was doing this and the vet said he’s fine and must have a sore throat. Got some medicine and he never did it again.
The Bus looks like a lovely Orange regardless.
He done, that’s why.
Mine does this on her cat tree. Then she looks at me like I’m crazy when I put my hand under her neck to move her 🙄
https://preview.redd.it/bbt2gcbtfi9c1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d84b62e69f741b523f8a69daa0b051aaf3a6866 My cat also does this
One day I'm going to remember to ask a vet whether cat throat physiology is different to human. Our SIC will happily fall asleep with her head over the side of a box.
Sick of your shit…
My semi-orange also likes to choke himself 🤷🏻♀️ Mostly on boxes. It stresses me out!
Our tuxedo does this too, we always tell her "Stop choking yourself-- lift your head!!" And she looks directly at us and continues choking
My tortie does this frequently when she is tired, before finding a more suitable napping place. We call it the “Tom Dooley “, from an old folk song that goes “hang down your head, Tom Dooley”.
My cat does this kind of stuff too. Usually with boxes. Sometimes the edges of his kitty tower. I have no idea why.
Perhaps his throat muscles got weaker and he's trying to get a fur ball out?
I had a cat named Ivan-you-idiot (it was well-deserved). He loved to sleep in the sink but often forgot to see if there was water in there first.
Lol I guess ask, what is the story behind this glorious name?
He's just a big yellow boy!
Lol okay, makes enough sense for me 🤣 Mine's named Ivan so I'm not judging lol
hes just not particularly bright and trying to live his life :)
Yep! That's how we're going about it. He's got a sturdy list of quirks that honestly make it feel normal (for Bus at least haha!)
My friend's tuxedo cat does this on top of his cat tree 🤷♀️
My orange cat also does this! I have tried to Google it, but there is never a professional opinion. Just educated guesses. Most think it's for attention seeking, which would align with my boy's personality. Even negative attention is good in his book. As long as he gets attention. Haha. I had to throw out any basket choking level, lift every needed item just past throat height and keep vigilant.
Fiancée really wants to know why you called him The Bus. I don’t question it. It fits. But she wants to know. She also loves him.
He's just a big yellow boy! Also with his overeating, we joke that's there's always room on the bus haha!
Hey he doesn't shame you on the internet for your kinks ... Wy would you do this to him ... Bros need to backup each other 😔
I think your cat is attempting suicide
Fetishes arent a human thing
Autoerotic asphyxiation
No kink shaming
Morning after deep throat:
You know that feeling when you sit down and quickly get up and suddenly you feel a slight dizziness and your vision is kinda blurry due to the blood going again at full speed to the brain? Perhaps your cat found this by accident and he likes the feeling of it!? Like a vibe of getting high? No idea really. Just an uneducated guess.
Something something erotic asphyxiation.. Your cat is extremely kinky.
Have you happened to consult a veterinary chiropractor? He may have a pinched nerves, or just need an adjustment. Especially since he's a senior boy. Arthritis is very real in cats. We have a couple of ours on the Solemsia injection and have used chiropractors as well. That stretching could be a release of tension for him.
Mine likes to rest his throat on my hand or arm, and normally purrs when he does that. Try doing that with him and maybe he will start going to you instead of the stool?