# Has anyone experience with a hermaphrodite cat?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-experience-with-a-hermaphrodite-cat/1024596 "2025-11-05T12:45:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-experience-with-a-hermaphrodite-cat/1024596/21 "2025-11-06T14:03:04Z")

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Around here, most cats are spayed/neutered when they reach 3 pounds. And that’s basically the point where they are robust enough that the anesthesia isn’t very risky. I once had a kitten who needed to be circumcised, and he was a lot smaller than that, but since they had to anesthetize him anyway, they neutered him at the same time.

I gather there are regional differences in the age when vets do that.

Anyway, your kitty is gorgeous, and looks sweet. May you have many happy years together.

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**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-experience-with-a-hermaphrodite-cat/1024596/22 "2025-11-07T04:42:10Z")

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> [@LouMa](#):
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> she cuddles and purrs and is adorably cute.

Indeed they are adorably cute!

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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-experience-with-a-hermaphrodite-cat/1024596/23 "2025-11-07T05:59:48Z")

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> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> Pretty cat. I want to pat.

Concur on both.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-experience-with-a-hermaphrodite-cat/1024596/24 "2025-11-07T06:47:43Z")

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I had some friends (they moved away and have since exited this business) who bred pedigreed cats, and they had an intersex cat born in their cattery. They determined that he was male, and because his testes did not descend, neutering him was not an option if he wanted to have a long, healthy life.

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