The Orange Menace!

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Marissa R., A star is born

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  1. Lyds says:

    Orange menace is right!!!

    Little thing’s a holy terror!!!

    /grin. They are all so cute at that age thought….

  2. Lyds says:

    and…first!

  3. HRH says:

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    fluff-tocks …

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  4. Lil says:

    aah yes. I had one of those when my kitty was small. A whirlwind like the tasmanian devil in the looney tunes. exhausting for all the other animals in the house. They grow out it though, just like toddlers. phew.

  5. TAJ says:

    Momma cat is all, “Oh no, who gave the kids caffeine? I said NO caffeine!”

  6. Rafael says:

    Big kitty is very, very patient. Gawd bless her….

  7. Kimberlin of Doom says:

    Props to the oh-so-patient tabby cat. I can so relate to him. I teach middle school, and my students are at Level Orange Kitten all the frickin’ time.

    I am not as patient as tabby cat.

  8. Tarlia says:

    I love that bit where the bigger cat swipes the orange’s back leg from under it. XD

  9. Jen Barnett says:

    The look on the tabby’s face on the sofa:

    “Oh ba-rother”

  10. Sarah Mc says:

    Oh yes. That brings back some memories, especially since the big tabby is the image of my Minsky.

    Minsky acted, with a pretty good grace, as adopted uncle to a couple of equally insane ginger kittens. One of them was a bit hazy about biology, so you could just *hear* Minsky saying, “Listen very carefully. I. Do. Not. Do. Milk!”

  11. Sarah Mc says:

    Oh yes. That brings back some memories, especially since the big tabby is the image of my Minsky.

    Minsky acted, with a pretty good grace, as adopted uncle to a couple of equally insane ginger kittens. One of them was a bit hazy about biology, so you could just *hear* Minsky saying, “Listen very carefully. I. Do. Not. Do. Milk!”

  12. Kelly Mc says:

    The soundtrack is the best!!!!

  13. Skielar says:

    Isn’t anybody else worried about what happened to the camera crew? For all we know, the person might not have survived and that Marissa might indeed be The Orange Terror trying to send us a message.

  14. Kat says:

    I’ve never actually posted on here before, but I think it’s definitely necessary here.. so so cute!! :D

  15. April says:

    Perfect thing to have running through my mind on the way to bed. Brings back fond memories of when my monsters were little and hyper.
    Will share the link with friends in the morning.

  16. Riikka says:

    AAAAAAAHHH!!1 It’s so cute I can’t breathe!
    Looks so familiar, too, with the kitteh endlessly pestering the elder cat, who just patiently starts washing the bebeh. <3

  17. Pepper_Imp says:

    AAHHH!! Attack of a marmie-vanilla kitteh!!!

  18. Jennifer says:

    Oh, that is wonderfully funny… I remember the hyperactive stage quite well… I used to have a picture of what my home office looked like after the Twin Tuxedo Terrors went on a rampage, and it’s not pretty. ;-)

  19. Akagi_Ryu says:

    Awww <3
    That was probably the cutest Fluffy-Orange-Disasterarea-of-Doom I’ve seen in quite a while <3
    I luf me some cute kittehs ;3

  20. Lillith says:

    I swear I thought creamsickle kitteh was going to climb the leg of the white socked dude at the kitchen counter? Why? Cause its happened to virtually everyone in my family when we had kittens in the house.

    And yes bless that sweet and patient tabby!

  21. Fatcat says:

    Squeeeeeeeee! Such a cutie! And what a patient friend he’s got! That totally made my day, thanks!

  22. Brandi lee says:

    I have 8 of those toddler kittens running around my house right now LOL send help

  23. soxfan says:

    I love the part where the terror is in the middle of the kitchen floor, looking around, considering what sort of mischief he’d like to get into next. Also, the tabby just holding him is wonderful. “Just stop, baby. Baby. Stop. Shh.”

  24. Subhangi says:

    OMG AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! What a sweet fluffy orange kitteh! And the tabbie’s so cute too!!!

  25. Lauri says:

    Brandi lee!!! 8!!!??? Do you have a house left?

    Go Little Menace, GO!

  26. useta hada kitteh says:

    I, too, was certain the baby would climb that blue-jeaned leg. None of the kittehs I had would have missed such an opportunity. When they’re on the couch, the patient tabby looks like it’s thinking “If I close my eyes, maybe it’ll go away…sigh…whatever…”

    Love it!

  27. Jenni says:

    Little bebes gone wild… PERFECT way to start my morning! Thanks!

  28. inktupbbw says:

    *Runs in circles giggling like a dolphin on helium* I love the lil creamsicle kitteh! He looks precisely like the olive monshe-ing Taz (RIP). Taz was more of a lounge-monkey, tho, unless he was startled. That tabby cat is beyond patient, except for that dirty look from the couch: “A new kitten. Oh, how lovely. What the aitch-ee-double hockey sticks were you THINKING!”. Bahaha…

  29. em says:

    that thing is the bouncey-est little kitty i ever did see…

    boing
    boing
    boing

  30. A thinker says:

    I lof it! The floof, eet keels me. I loves da kitters…and what a patient older cat!!

  31. Sissy says:

    What a cutie-patootie! And the teeny orange patootie is such a cutie, too!

  32. Livbert says:

    I’m going to keeel you! Now I’m gonna roll around! Now I’m gonna eat your toes off!
    What an energetic little fuzz-fuzz.

  33. masa says:

    this made me fucking happy first thing in this cold morning!! thanks

  34. Zap says:

    Love Gabe’s “What did I do to deserve this?” expression. Reminds me of a mama tiger at St. Louis zoo years ago. I got a photo of her walking around a bush and one of her two bouncy kids jumping out onto her head, and her “oh, gawwd” expression is priceless– poor woman would have given anything for five minutes’ peace.

    The little bouncemonster looks like our Robin– four years old and his life slogan is still, “What’s under HERE?!” The scary thing is that he HAS slowed down; he used to be like this!

  35. Laura says:

    Awwwwwwwwwwwwww! When the hand picked him up – he’s so -tiny- still :D

    Also, that song is now stuck in my head. *grin*

  36. maria says:

    Good editing, sound track fits well!

    Oh, yeah! Was that momma cat, or a long-suffering former #1 kitty? Poor girl! On the bright side, a spunky kitten can rejuvenate a bored older cat. Great film, all around!

  37. ceebs says:

    OMG that little dewd is hilarious! He’s gonna be huuuuuuge…I picture my former work kitty the 27 lb Big Guy like that as a kitten. Floofy & feisty! Now he’s a big ole grump!

    I love the shot where Gabe has him in a headlock like ho hum…this is the only way I can keep him from bugging the poop out of me!

  38. PuppyMomma says:

    When you sleep Nermal….when you sleep…..

    I think that’s what the big kitteh is thinking.

  39. Pillow says:

    Oh my god……

    FLUFFIEST little kitten EVAR! i LOL’d when he charged the camera XD *sighs happily* I love them when they’re at that age…

  40. Elyse says:
  41. Miss Bear says:

    Man that kitty’s like a lion cub! ‘Cept floofier. And that video was super adorable Elyse. I find it funny that the cat hasn’t changed a bit.

  42. arbed says:

    honest to pete – LOL to the posted one and the link from Elyse – what a cat!

  43. musicchick2 says:

    My favoritest EVAH is the stage where kittens do the poofed-out-sideways-crab-walk-aren’t -I-scaaaaaary routine. Endless free entertainment. I’m so glad the tabby (Momma) is so sweet and patient. That little guy is BUSY!

  44. musicchick2 says:

    Brandi Lee – OMG! You must be giggling your ass off all the time! Well, except when you’re detaching them from the curtains. ;-)

    *Runs in circles giggling like a dolphin on helium*. Inktupbbw = Now THERE’S a visual! LMAO!! Oh yeah, and the soundtrack TOTALLY makes this video.

  45. jaypo says:

    Beside himself with fun! Oh to be happeh as a kitteh. Older friend is so calm and patient.

  46. soooounderstanding says:

    i think that kitty is just lonely,it would not feel so alienated if it had other kitty to play with…

  47. Pillow says:

    LOL I dunno Soooo, that momma cat seemed pretty playful to me. :p

    Besides, kittens are ALWAYS little terrors at that age. Any kitten owner can tell ya.

  48. eowyn_2 says:

    LOL that was exactly like my two cats when Sophie arrived on the scene.

    Sophie: Play with me! Wrestle! Play! Fight! Climb! Plaaaaaaay!!!

    Sebastian: Dude, I am 12 years old. *bodyslams kitten* Stop. Right. Now.

  49. Renee says:

    Awww!!! Kitten Crazies!

  50. CatFreak says:

    Yeah, I can’t believe Creamsicle didn’t climb that leg! She’s going to lose Hyperactive Kitten points for that.

    Xena (whom I sometimes think of calling “Xenu”, instead … let’s see who gets *that* one …) is in this stage, only at 9 weeks, she’s leaner, longer, leggier, and eleven times as crazy.

    Xena would have climbed the leg. Xena might have even bitten the crotch.

    The Xena/Prudence (older shelter cat) relationship has become very friendly, similar to the one in this video, except every now and then, after hours spent tenderly washing Xena and patiently enduring her many raids, ambushes, and assaults, Prudence will absolutely *WAIL* on Xena’s teeny little tuxified ass.

    But Prudence is usually protective of her, and will let us know if Xena is in any perceived danger. When we gave Xena her panleuk injection in the neck skin, and Xena yelped, Prudence ran to put her arm around Xena, licked the injection site, and stared at us balefully, as if to say, “You *monsters*!”

    When we locked Xena in the bedroom briefly, so we could stuff the Thanksgiving turkey without stepping on Xena … again …, Prudence did the “Lassie” thing, running from the closed door back to us, yowling with worry, repeating this process until we finally let Xena out.

    I’m a little concerned that Xena has begun growling at Prudence at the food bowl, and Prudence, four times her size and at least a year older, defers.

    Ah well. I’ll try to get some video of the two of them.

  51. michellemybelle says:

    If all menaces were as cute as that one, bring on the terror!

    CatFreak – Tom Cruise will show up on your doorstep if you rename the kitty – don’t do it! :)

  52. Laurie C says:

    CatFreak, I love the Xena/Prudence stories. Keep ‘em coming anytime.

  53. iloveusame says:

    who would ever want to roofied such a cutie patootie! so sad!

  54. Ashley says:

    So Cute

  55. Ghost cat says:

    Hee hee!

    I don’t know which one I liked better, the charge-pounce of the camera, or the random attacking of human feet.

    And yeah, that older cat deserves a medal of honor for putting up with all that. I especially loved the ‘maybe if I hold her down, she’ll stop’ part.
    Nice try.

  56. Tiffany says:

    I loved it when the bigger cat held the kitten down to lick it. So cute.

  57. Heather Giraldo says:

    HEY!!! I was about to post this!!! O_O

  58. CatFreak says:

    > ‘maybe if I hold her down, she’ll stop’

    Yep. Prudence does this with Xena, sometimes. Just reaches out a paw and kind of staples the little writhing Xena to the floor for a while.

    I don’t think cats can sigh, but … Prudence looks like she’d be doing a lot of heavy sighing, if she could.

  59. lurkertype says:

    I LOL several times at this. I wish things were going this well here — HRT is still grrr hiss at TK. No leeckingk here.

    CatFreak, cats can mos’ def sigh. HRT does it about TK, at exactly the times you’d expect if they were human.

  60. lurkertype says:

    OMG, I just watched the full-grown version and I’m all verklempt. The Orange Menace looks exactly like our previous kitteh. We got him at 7 months, so we have no pix/video of him as a teeny kitten. So this video shows us what he’d have been like. Sigh.

  61. Hobbit says:

    We had a brief interlude when my sister’s kitten came over to play with our two 6 year old cats. They didn’t play, though, they ran and hid while the kitten terrorized the house.

    Even though Squiggy and Gesundtheit out weighed and out muscled the kitten

  62. LB says:

    KOD I think you just invented another CO-ism: Level Orange Kitten.

    My fav is when the little taz rushes the camera.

  63. Darren says:

    That orange fuzzball is a walking disaster hazard! Just imagine the chaos it would let loose if left alone in a supermarket! :D

    Our cat Vodka used to be like that. She’d keep on attacking beercans and whiskey bottles for no reason. Right little menace!

  64. iloveusame says:

    yeah…i dont understand why kittens get so mad at trash sometimes…maybe they want to help you clean up the neighborhood so it can be safe.

  65. OMGp0ni3z! says:

    in the scene where the orange cat was like attacking the other one that was trying to sleep for a moment when it looks up at the camera and shot to possible phrases through my mind:
    “dear god save me”
    and
    “for this, you die tonight”

    it was a perfect moment, the kind where you really wished you hade a really awesome camera.

  66. blair says:

    i bet this little marmazmanian devil plays a professional grade game of toe-mice.

  67. OMGp0ni3z! says:

    sorry peepulz, bad grammer back there… sorry

  68. rixak says:

    Ah, the orange menace looks just as fluffy and cute as my Lint ball did when he was a runt. That little fuzzmuffin grew up to be the longest, sleekest cat I’ve ever seen. Yet, he still has a poofy tail. How odd! And he torments our blind dog whenever she walks by, and any human legs are fair game as well. That kitten is too adorable :)

  69. Nic says:

    that was so freakin cute!!!

    that kitty would drive me crazy though

  70. Shaz says:

    Trooper has a song for everything…even bouncing orange kitties!

  71. CatFreak says:

    Your kitten gets mad at trash?

    Xena gets mad at bath water.

    She loves to jump in the tub when it’s empty, and then “ski” down the sloping back.

    She becomes really annoyed when I have *water* (and myself) in there, ’cause … she likes the tub, so it’s *hers*, right? To play with when she *wants*, right? And I have no right to crud it up by pouring *water* in it!

    When I let the water out to the point where it’s only 1/4 to 1/3 of the way up the tub floor and maybe half an inch deep, she’ll jump into the tub, stalk up to the edge of the receding water, and hiss at it and swat it until she “chases” it all down the drain.

    Then she looks extremely proud of herself. She has kept that horrible Water at bay!

    Mental.

    She’s mental.

  72. Laurie C says:

    CatFreak, she sounds like Nana the hamster on Baruchito’s Homecage, fighting the evil curtains. I guess only our furry pets cat truly see the nefariousness of our household mundanities.

  73. Mitsu says:

    My cat Heidi has dedicated her life to killing rugs – she flings herself sideways at the corner of any rug she can find and does the manic kick and rabid glare until it’s subdued. The bathmat is especially vulnerable. And rolled up rugs are the target of especially violent attacks, as well as a great place for claw-sharpening. I thought I might stop her by getting a bigger rug, but she’s not afraid of it – the rug must die!

  74. CatFreak says:

    Ah, now, see, Prudence, my older cat, is also a great and mighty Rugslayer.

    She likes the rug in the bathroom, ’cause she can run down the length of the hall to pick up momentum, then leap onto that bathroom rug and ski on it, right into the cabinets. Then she flops on her side, grabs the Rug of Evil in her paws, wads it up against her belly, and, with her eviscerating back feet, teaches it a lesson it won’t soon forget!

    We’re lucky we have these excellent protectors of our homes, aren’t we?

    Now … if I could just figure out what the cats know about that poor little African violet that I don’t …

    I checked. African violets are not poisonous to cats, but these two cats are turning out to be poisonous to this African violet. :-(

  75. ceebs says:

    omg, that revenge video was hilarious too!!! He is definitely gonna be as big as my former work kitteh. and FWK used to bite the other cat too, just like that, only the other cat wouldn’t stand for it like Gabe the angel, heheh. a little disappointed the piggeh & bunneh didn’t get credits!

  76. iloveusame says:

    it’s not the little african violet that scared the cat but the torns that are hidden under it…

  77. iloveusame says:

    who would hide torns in a soft african violet…

  78. Theo says:

    Now this reminds me of when we brought Mr. Bounce home. RAISE A LITTLE HELL!!

  79. Patrice says:

    Okay, I just watched the second video…
    That’s not a kitteh, it’s a VAMPIRE!!! Best to sleep with garlic necklaces, people.

  80. iloveusame says:

    Jeremiah(in the revenge of the Orange Menace) is like this mysterious breed between my own two favourites pets…a dream come true!

  81. iloveusame says:

    dont listen to Patrice, he is trying to keep Gabe under his own bite…:)cheers bro!

  82. Rosie says:

    “Like a dolphin on helium” giggle giggle lets see how we can use this in a sentence…. my kitty squeeks like a dolphin on helium??

  83. iloveusame says:

    hahaha!lol!Rosie! she does,she does…

  84. Lauri says:

    Lol, Catfreak! “teaching the bathroom rug a lesson it won’t soon forget”! Hilarious!

  85. Mitsu says:

    Actually I think Heidi may have a bigger, more noble vision. You see, I love hand-knotted rugs and have started collecting them, which could quickly escalate into a very expensive habit, except I always keep in mind that my cat will be attacking it several times daily, so I don’t buy the really nice (expensive) ones. So she’s actually saving me from myself. How very noble. What would I do without her? I’d just be a sad, lonely, shell of a person surrounded by antique chodor chuvals and yomud asmalyks.

  86. Mina says:

    SO CUTE!!!!

  87. Aubrey says:

    I also love it when a kitteh attempts a cam slam: when there’s no defence for the lens.

  88. Elizabeth says:

    Reminds me of when Havok was a baby…. oh wait… he never grew out of that. Aptly named.

    “Must not throw the kitten into the wall – must not throw the kitten into the wall – must not throw the kitten into the….”

    E>

  89. CatFreak says:

    Given the proclivities of my two new cats, I suspect we will *not* be getting a Christmas/Yule tree this year.

    Or maybe we could get one, and leave it bare … or decorate it with feathers, and catnip mice, and those stand-alone blinky battery-operated light toys.

  90. Aubrey says:

    CF: I can’t believe I was able to find this:

    http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp

  91. Christy says:

    Okay, I think some of the “baby photos” from fluffytails belong on this site. ADORABLE.

  92. CatFreak says:

    Ah, God, Aubrey! Fern and Iris *really* did a number on that tree.

    Gorgeous.

    If I put one up, I’ll use nonbreakables, and try for “before” and “after” pics.

  93. Nancy says:

    the orange menace and revenge of the orange menace are two of the best kitten/cat films i have ever seen. when i saw the orange menace i was just imagining how beautiful jeremiah would be grown up. low and behold, revenge was there and he’s just as i imagined and still adorable and lovable and the tabby (sorry, can’t remember his name) was just as patient too. these cats are very well taken care of. thanks!

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  95. shardsie says:

    OMG, kittens: adorable, but not so bright no?

  96. jessica says:

    you are a animal abuser that was a cruel thing to put that small little bundle of fluff on the tunnel and then rool it off! also you probably forced it to do those tricks

  97. Theo says:

    …oh, brava. Brilliant. Whom are you even talking to, anyway? Me? Marissa R? Anybody who reads this? Cute Overload? YouTube? The larger cat? Chuck Norris?

    Eat paper and fart piñatas, Jessica.

  98. Julie Raven says:

    Jessica obviously has never owned a cat, and nor can she recognize CAT TOYS. I think if they were DANGEROUS for kitties, they wouldn’t sell them. Goodness gracious, all of these “animal abuser” posts are ridiculous– animals are more resilient than you think, people, at least on THIS website, are definitely not cruel or else WHY WOULD THESE THINGS BE POSTED, and you would be able to TELL if the animal was upset– this little kitten looks like it’s having a BALL.

    I speak from experience.

    :D gorgeous, precious, little baby <3