Maine Coon Mom Searches Desperately for Missing Cat and Finds Him in Most Unlikely Spot

One of the things that cat lovers will tell you is that cats can find their ways into the most unlikely of places. One of my friends lost her cat for days and later found him—unharmed, thank goodness!—in the vent connecting her dryer to the great outdoors. When I first got my kitten, she somehow managed to squirm into a heretofore unknown gash in the bottom of my couch. We could barely hear her pitiful cries from the innards of the sofa. And getting her out? That was a whole adventure.

For this mom, her missing Maine Coon cat sent her on a quest all over the neighborhood—but it turned out he was hiding someplace far closer to home.

When this woman lost her orange Maine Coon cat, she dispatched all her neighbors to help search the vicinity for her missing kitty. Turns out she needed to venture no farther than her kitchen, as it turned out the cat was hiding inside her refrigerator.

Related: Orange Cat Crunching Through Cardboard Has People Transfixed

All’s well that ends well for this cat and his mom, but she’s lucky she found him in forty-five minutes, before hypothermia set in.

Keeping Your Cats From Getting Into Places They Shouldn’t

There’s an entire genre of cute cat videos online in the genre of “cats where they should not be.” Cats do have a habit of getting themselves into tight spots, whether it’s tiny boxes, holes in fences, or even the engine blocks of trucks. Cats like to hide, and they have extremely flexible bodies, which facilitate their ability to squeeze into seemingly impossible spots. It’s almost as if they are more liquid than solid.

But this ability, which may have served their ancestors well in the wild when it came to hiding in dens, cracks in trees, and tangled undergrowth, may pose dangers for them in modern households. If your cat has a habit of sneaking into he fridge or the cabinet under the sink, it might be wise to install child proofing locks on doors. Double check your washer and dryer drums, as well as any loads of laundry, before beginning your cycles, and definitely make sure no cat is sneaking inside your luggage before a trip. When my kitty was small, we actually blocked access to areas under the couch and other furniture with cardboard strips.

What is the Deal with Orange Cats?

A lot of people seeing this video are not surprised that it was an orange cat to find its way into the fridge. Orange cats have a reputation of being more stupid and ill-behaved than cats of another color.

But this is just a superstition, same as the traditional idea that black cats are somehow devious or unlucky. Cat colors have very little to do with the personality of the cat itself.

Cat coat genetics is a complicated issue, as the color of a cat’s coat is controlled by several different genes, some which are linked to the sex of the cat and some which are not. Orange cats are usually male, due to the fact that the gene for orange (also called “red” or “ginger”) coloration is on the female sex chromosome, X. Female cats need both X chromosomes to code for orange to have that colorations while males need only one.

So if orange cats have a reputation for being dumb, maybe it has more to say about the male of the species.

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