For reference, some feline coat patterns require XX chromosomes.
All cats are girls and all dogs are boys, duh.
I’ve had a male cat and a female dog for the past 16 years and my dad still calls the dog he and the cat she 🙄.
All female cats are cats and all male cats are hangovers
We named a female cat Dave before we knew she was female (we were bottle feeding her before we got her fixed. thought she was male. the vet corrected us, but she came when we called Dave down the hall so we weren’t changing her name). So from then on Dave was male when he was bad, female when she was good, and enby when they were neither.
I went to school with a girl named Dayv (pronounced Dave). She went by Dayve (pronounced Davey).
Most would assume my orange cat os a boy but it’s a girl
I have a female orange as well. She has floating patellas and walks funky. Does yours have something similar?
not really, she does runs funny but there is no physical problem she is just chaotic and a bit dumb lol
It feels like in german that hats are mostly referred to as female (“she is a cutie”) until proven otherwise (maybe) because the word for the species “Katze” is also the word for female cats “Katze” while males have the word “Kater”
Also a lot of cats are “Katzen” and never “Katers”
There’s a cat-in-the-hat joke in here somewhere, I’m just not finding it.
Germans gender hats? But I’m masculine and love wearing bunny ears! /s
The German language has three forms of the word “the” - the two genders, and neutral. As a kid living in Germany for a while, this gave me fits - things like doors, tables, windows, etc. are gendered, but I’ll be damned if I could ever figure out any pattern to predict which would get which gender (or neutral).
The pattern is “what souds good”
Die Tür -> sounds good
Das Boot -> souds good
Die Boot -> souds bad“Sounds good” in language is usually something you’re used to hearing, so it “sounds good” because you’ve already heard it that way & are used to it. Doesn’t help one lick for those not already deeply immersed in hearing the language routinely.
i invested like 2 minutes trying to make it perfect and then *a typo*
This is why Dutch is superior.
Poes.
/jk
Do you want a medal for being a champion cat sexer?
I’ll take one. I’ll sex those cats up
All cats are ‘baby’ unless I’m told otherwise!
Side point, but there’s male three colour cats. Cats can be chromosomally intersex, just like humans. My family used to have a male calico. They usually have XXY chromosomes.
You know just enough to be dangerous
Gender is a social construct…
