It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats.
For reference, some feline coat patterns require XX chromosomes.
Fun fact: while almost all calico cats (tricolor coat) are female, around 1 in 3,000 are males with an extra X chromosome, a condition known as Klinefelter syndrome. As a result, they are almost always sterile. About 1 in 10,000 male calicos are fertile.
Also, around 80% of orange cats are male.
That's genuinely awesome stats you're claiming! I feel doubly blessed for my orange little lovely lady who ran the house.
Her bigger also orange twin brother? Dominated. The big fuckoff dog? Dominated. She ran the indoor animals.
The only animal she didn't run over was our elder statesmen cat, who was big and brilliant in equal measure. My dear boy was the largest cat I ever saw, and would understand language to a frightening degree."Go see X", "Come Here", "stop", and any mention of "Vet" was well interpreted :)
Are the Organge ones and Calicos of the same breed?
Orange and calico are just some of the possible colorings of a cat’s fur and don’t determine its breed (although some breeds are known for having distinctive colors and patterns).
All cats are girls and all dogs are boys, duh.
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.
But we can make it more complicated in Germany:
"Kater" refers to male cats
"Katze" refers to female cats as well as the neutral term for the animal.
:)
All female cats are cats and all male cats are hangovers
Hihi
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).
i invested like 2 minutes trying to make it perfect and then a typo*
This is why Dutch is superior.
Poes.
/jk
I call cats "it" because it sounds more cuterstersterster
Gender is a social construct...
All cats are 'baby' unless I'm told otherwise!
Do you want a medal for being a champion cat sexer?
I'll take one. I'll sex those cats up
Klinefelter cats can have the same fur patterns while phenotypical presenting as male. Very unlikely though.
Tortoiseshell and calico? Not sure of any others
About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.
Yes, plus the tabby variants of those (i.e. tabby with orange splotches, tabby-and-white with orange splotches).
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.
This is a proper shower thought
You know just enough to be dangerous
I always assume a cat is a 'she' until it proves otherwise.
Calicos are usually female, but it is not guaranteed.
Male calicos need to be XXY instead of XY. They're almost always female, with males being very noteworthy. Only 1 in 3000 calicos is male.