It sure smells like catnip in here as we come together to celebrate Ginger Cat Appreciation Day on September 1. Founded by American software developer Chris Roy, this fun holiday honors the gingers of the feline world.
Super clingy, often misunderstood, and always ready to take a petting, these orange furballs are supercelebrities of the cats. The day also calls for establishing a connection with the stray animals and encourages people to provide them with food and shelter. So take this blessed day to pet a stray, stream “Garfield,” and appreciate the gingers in your life.
1492 – Columbus sails to America with cats on the ship to reduce vermin, introducing North America to domesticated cats.
1877 – The American Humane Society is established to promote shelters and animal rescue stations throughout the country.
1977 – The Roy family adopts a stray cat and names it Doobert.
1998 – an orange tabby named Stubbs was elected Mayor of the town of Talkeetna in Alaska. Mayor Stubbs kept office hours for 19 years at Nagley’s General Store, greeting visitors and listening to the news the customers brought in with them. He supervised the young ones at the candy counter, and at the end of every day he was treated with water laced with catnip, served to him in a wine glass.
The Honorable Mayor Stubbs held office until he died in 2017 at the ripe old age of 20.
2014 – Grieving the loss of his 17-year-old ginger cat, Roy develops a worldwide animal rescue app that connects volunteers and animal rescue centers.
Doobert is an online app that connects rescue homes and animal shelters with volunteers throughout the world.
Ginger cats can live up to 15 to 20 years.
Ginger cats get their color due to the ginger gene that is present in the X chromosome.
Ginger cats have five different types of coats: spotted, patched, ticked, mackerel, and swirled.
Ginger cats can put on weight quickly as they have a trait of perpetual snacking.
All ginger cats are actually “tabby” cats, meaning that they have the agouti gene. However, not all tabby cats are orange or ginger in color.
Ginger cats are also often referred to as “tiger” cats which is, of course, because they have a similar-looking coat and color to their larger cousin, the tiger.
Two ginger parent cats will produce all ginger kittens. Ginger tom cats tend to father female kittens who are either ginger or ‘tortoiseshell’
Famous Ginger Cats:
Garfield. This lazy but loveable character was created by Jim Davis back in the late 1970s. He continued on in fame through comic strips, all the way to the big screen when he starred in his own feature film, Garfield: The Movie.
Orangey. While admittedly less memorable than his co-star, Audrey Hepburn, Orangey was the cat who played Holly Golightly’s cat who was, creatively, called “Cat” and was described as a “poor slob without a name”.
Puss in Boots. This fun, swashbuckling, pirate-y cat is an important character in the Shrek franchise. Voiced by Antonio Banderas, this lovable character made appearances in three Shrek films and then starred in his own film Puss in Boots.
The 2017 film, A Street Cat Named Bob, was based on the book and true story of ginger cat Bob who helped heroin addict James Bowen survive on the streets of London and reach for a better life.
Breakfast at Tiffany‘s fans all know and admonish Holly Golightly for not giving her ginger cat a proper name, but Orangey Minerva was a star who won two PATSY awards.
Bi-colored ginger Orion helped the Men in Black stop an alien invasion, while Jones was the only survivor with Ripley in the original Alien movie.
Milo traveled across the country with his Pug pal Milo and Otis,
Harry Potter’s bestie Hermione even has an orange Persian named Crookshanks.
Being the dominant gene in the feline world for fur color means there are a lot more ginger cats running around than red-haired humans.
male cats make up 80% of the ginger color spectrum to the 20% of females, including bi- and tri-colored coats.
Ginger cats have freckles. freckles are most commonly seen in ginger cats, as well as calicos, tortoiseshell and flame point cats with orange colorations.
Anyone who has lived with one of these orange felines can report that they’re very talkative.
President Abraham Lincoln once commented that his feline furiend, “Dixie is smarter than my whole cabinet!”
Later US President Bill Clinton often had his cat Socks on his shoulder in the Oval Office.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II, his favorite orange tabby named Tango sat by his side for strategy discussions, no doubt offering his uniquely feline advice.
Sources:
National Today
Days of the Year
Wagwalking
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