But who cares, right? I do, for some unfathomable reason.


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people who don't know anything about cat breeds (like me) don't know that orange is not a color. My last cat was a light red tabby wtih white markings. I called him Orange with white markings. He died last month and I joined this forum when I got a new kitten so I could buff up on what I would need to do as I hadn't had a kitten in a while. That's where I read, for the first time, that there is no such thing as Orange cats. So, not everybody is as knowledgeable on the subject. :)
On a side note, "Peeve" would be a great cat name.
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. She called her kitty "orange" all the kitty's life, until she met me
. Even after I gently corrected her, she had trouble, for quite a long while, even thinking of her kitty, or even my Tolly
, as red instead of "orange". But, since I got offended every time she called Tolly an "orange boy", she finally got used to it, and now I am proud to see her use the term red cat whenever the subject comes up. 
Because cats that are orange in colour are orange. Not everyone is a cat breeder and knows the terminology.
. I understand that not everyone knows that red cats are not "orange", that they are red. One doesn't have to be a breeder to learn this fact, but that's not my point. 




To hear a medical word mispronounced grates on my ears, though I never say anything. Then I stop and think that everyone hasn't studied medical terminology...or cares if they get the word exactly right. I guess the orange comes in because most cats in that color family actually look more orange than red. Speck was listed as buff on his adoption paperwork, but I call him orange or red, whichever color pops into my head at the time. The same thing goes with tuxedo cats. I know tuxedo is not a breed, but if the suit fits...
Anyway, I'm sorry if I offend. I don't mean to; it's just the way I talk.



1/2/98, was 14 1/2, Tolly
11/29/11 was only just past 12. ) There may be another red cat in my future, you never know, but not just now. And though you never know what name a cat may choose, I would have a hard time calling ANY cat "Orange"
.
She doesn't live with me and Mazy, Jennie and Queen Eva though, she is the Greeter Cat at the shelter.)
LOL, I get your point, and I don't think you CAN get over them (that's why they're pets!
). Honestly, just grit your teeth and bear it? I have my pet peeves too. My big one is "text-talk". Now, I can understand abbreviating something if you are texting on your phone. But if someone sends me an email, spell out "you", don't use "u". It's not that hard. It's 2 extra letters. It drives me crazy and is like nails on a chalkboard to me (actually, THAT doesn't bother me).








Same with me. I've only heard of Ruddy Abbysinians, not red cats. Most red cats look very orange to me, including my next-door neighbor's cat.
I never knew this fact. I always called them orange. I'm totally going to pass this tidbit onto everyone I hear call them orange.
But I think it's normal to have silly things get on your nerves. I know I certainly have a few, and in my head I know it's silly that it's bothering me, but I've just come to accept it. I'm not sure how to get over this, but I did enjoy the post above with the repetitive orange 
I'm not sure it's possible to not let your pet peeves annoy you.
I always got top grades in grammar and spelling, have been an avid reader my whole life (my parents don't even really know how I learned to read), and my biggest pet peeves in life have to do with incorrect spelling and bad grammar. I know it's never going to stop bothering me, so I just have to remind myself that in the grand scheme of things, it's just not a big deal when people don't know the difference between there, their and they're. I just acknowledge that it annoys me, and I move on. 

I always got top grades in grammar and spelling, have been an avid reader my whole life (my parents don't even really know how I learned to read), and my biggest pet peeves in life have to do with incorrect spelling and bad grammar. I know it's never going to stop bothering me, so I just have to remind myself that in the grand scheme of things, it's just not a big deal when people don't know the difference between there, their and they're. I just acknowledge that it annoys me, and I move on. 

). Honestly, just grit your teeth and bear it? I have my pet peeves too. My big one is "text-talk". Now, I can understand abbreviating something if you are texting on your phone. But if someone sends me an email, spell out "you", don't use "u". It's not that hard. It's 2 extra letters. It drives me crazy and is like nails on a chalkboard to me (actually, THAT doesn't bother me).
. I love it! Text talk in e mails or in posts in forums bothers me, too. Not to the extent of the peeve I mentioned here, but it is annoying, though comforting to know that it bothers others too.

My advice is each time some calls a red cat orange, just ignore it. Don't make a response about how its not an orange cat but red cat. Reacting to it just makes it worse, you're pretty much telling that part of your brain that its okay to let it trigger your anger or anxiety, when your brush it off then it tells that part of your brain "who cares." That method always works on my pet peeves.
On another subject, I think people aren't really thinking on correct coloring terms when they talk about a cat's color, they see a cat that's about the color of the pumpkin they think orange because on the color wheel that's what the color would be called. If I saw a rest colored cat, I would call it red because it is, but if I saw an orange cat, even though I know the correct cat color would be red, I call it orange because 1) as mentioned, that's what the color would be called on the color wheel and 2) most people would say, "that cat's not red, its orange" because most people don't know that's what an orange colored cat is called. Of course I usually just call a red/orange cat a Ginger cat anyways because then everyone knows what I'm talking about.
Other colors on a cat are the same. A gray cat may be correctly called a blue but when generally speaking, the color makes sense for most people when you just call it a gray cat and on the color wheel it would be called gray (though there are some shades of gray that can be considered a shade of blue.) As far as Chocolate and seal colors, if you're talking about a color point on a Siamese or other pointed cat, most people would know what you're talking about, however if you called a non-pointed cat, seal. A lot of people would look at you weird. Chocolate is a little different because many people use the word chocolate as a synonym of brown because it sounds prettier. Anyways, speaking of terms on actual colors, techniqually, white or black isn't a real color too. White is the absence of color while black is all colors, so if you get upset with people calling a red cat, orange, then you should get equally upset when someone calls white a color.
You can also use that reasoning to help with your problem, each time you start getting angry you can tell yourself that you don't get upset when someone calls white a color, why should this get me upset.

One good thing, at least as a pet peeve it's not such a bad one (not in IMHO, anyway). It kind of bothers me if I see a picture just little bit crooked and I think "OMG...I'm like that man they're hunting on America's Most Wanted!" ![]()
Personally, I love the orange tabbies we have here in Canada. 
I agree 100%! I love the grey ones too! 
Everyone has their little foibles. The good news is, it doesn't make any difference, in the long run.
Just because some organized body says there is no such thing as an orange cat doesn't mean that everyone (or even anyone) else will see it that way. The world is full of examples.
Now, personally, it annoys me when people say "snuck" as the past tens of "sneak," "dove" as the past tense of "dive," and when anyone talks about their "hot water heater." But I'm not going to stay up nights worrying about any of them, and, more and more, the dictionary (which is descriptive, rather than prescriptive, much to the annoyance of language purists) says I'm fighting a losing battle.
Ah, the apostrophe thing. I knew it was a losing battle when I saw the door behind the college dean's secretary's office that said, "Employee's Only."
Regarding pet peeves, I HATE incorrect English. For example: "me and my husband". "me and Paul", etc.
Do you ever watch Judge Judy? She always corrects incorrect English and I just love it. The other day a litigant said "He ain't got no money". You should have seen the look on Judge Judy's face!
Another example was one someone said "I borrowed my friend the money". It makes me want to scream. You don't have to be a college graduate to know what is correct and what is incorrect.
Also - incorrect spelling on ads, commercials, etc. A while back a local attorney advertising his services, said he specializes in "seperations". This was on TV. I phoned his office, got his voice mail and told him it should be "separations". I never heard back from him but in a few weeks the commercial was corrected.
Don't know why this bugs me so much ---- do any of you feel the same way?



I absolutely hate it when people call red, cream, cinnamon, golden etc. cats orange (same goes for grey, tuxedo, flame point and other stuff like that)! It can pretty much mean any warm shade of cat, so without a picture I will have no idea what color they are really speaking about which bothers me because I like knowing what kind of cat is being discussed about. And to add to that brown cat list: brown tabbies are genetically black.
It's even worse when someone is asking what color their cat is and people keep misinforming them and saying "he's orange" (sometimes they do that even if they know the term is red, which IMO is like giving wrong directions on purpose to someone who's lost and asking for the right direction). And if they don't know the terms, they shouldn't be giving wrong answers either, guessing is a different thing but it should be mentioned that the person replying doesn't know/isn't sure what he/she is talking about.You don't call natural red head humans orange haired either, so why cats?
Without this post I wouldn't know what the heck is a ginger cat, and I think last year was the first time I ever heard about a 'buff' cat. I think using the wrong terms annoys me specially because english is not my first language, so terms like buff, ginger etc. are total gibberish to me when they are supposedly color terms. Ginger is a plant/spice to me and buff is a very muscular person..
I didn't use random terms when I was a kid, so I don't think being a breeder makes much of a difference here either, I just recognize different colors and patterns better now (for example the difference between a blue point and a lilac point, shaded and chinchilla).

I assume horse owners know much better what color their horse is than a cat owner seems to know the color of their cat. If horse people know correct terms for the animal they have/are interested in, why isn't it so with cat people? It makes me think the lower appreciation to cat as a pet (they get dumped much more often than a horse or dog for example, so people just don't seem to be really interested in the animal they chose to live with. I see it as a lack of research which should have been done before getting the animal in question, what ever species it is, excluding random rescue cases).
) I still call them orange. If of course I was filling out some kind of registration form I would put "red tabby", but if I'm just referring to what color my cat is, I say orange. Because:



I'd hate to break this to you, but I think your cat is not orange OR red, he looks like a cream tabby!