…only to be told that your cat is a male? That happened to me today.
Three weeks ago, my cat died. She was a tiny black female cat, about 14-15 years old. One week ago, I went to the SPCA and found a new cat, black female, about 2 years old. This cat is enormous–11 pounds, extremely long body, very solidly built. Weighs over twice what my previous cat did, and seems to be twice as long. Has enormous paws, too. Really sweet cat, though–very cuddly. Hard not to take home a cat who purrs when you pick her up.
Anyway, I paid an extra $50 for a spay voucher, since she was unfixed. So today I take her in and I am told that I have a neutered male cat. Spay was canceled.
Now I need to decide on a name. This enormous male cat is not a Clara
I’m thinking Thumper or Tobias.
I’d post a photo, but I’ve never posted a photo link here before. I don’t really have a link to a website or anything. Just imagine your standard all-black domestic shorthair, but bigger.
We did adopt a kitten once who was of indeterminate gender by visual exam. The vet scheduled the kitten for “a spay or neuter? We’ll see when we get in there.” Turned out to be a little boycat.
We took Hugo to the vet to get neutered. ‘He’ ended up getting spayed. It’s hard to tell with young cats, the vet couldn’t be sure from a visual inspection alone.
Is there a historical or fictional male that was mistaken for female? I can only think of the opposite, like Billy Tipton.
Ooh, how about Lola, from the Kinks song! Ehh, it’s still a girls name, which I guess is not what you are going for. Too bad we never learned Lola’s birth name in the song.
I took Gracie, an adult foster cat from a rescue to be spayed - turned out she was a neutered male.
Not my cat, so this was the rescue’s fight, but I was pissed. The cat had been at the clinic for day or two prior to this for diarrhea, so they’d seen him and you think someone would have looked under his tail and checked either then or before opening him up for surgery. The vet clinic said they needed to go in to make sure there were no retained testicles, but I think they didn’t bother to look and then had to justify why they tried to spay a male cat. :mad: :smack:
My favorite Michael Clarke Duncan scene in anything ever. I cannot believe he didn’t laugh. But that voice of his is like falling into a vat of rich velvety melted chocolate.
Although we figured it out a bit earlier than the point of sterilizing him.
We really always preferred girl kitties. So we got this sweet frisky playful patio kitty. We called her “Annie”. We prefer to name our cats after foods and drinks, and “Annie” is short for Guatemala Antigua, our favorite coffee varietal.
A few week on, we notice some bumps growing where girl kitties don’t usually have bumps.
Took her to get her fixed and, sure’s shooting, she’s a he.
He’s “Andy” now. Same full name, just a tweak in pronounciation. Our rule has been refined so that girl kitties are named after candies (such as Necco the Neko or Baby Ruth) and boy kitties are named after beverages.
Yep, got Frankie at about 16 weeks. We had not ever had cats growing up, so we took the sellers word for it. I wanted a male cat cause I figured fixing would be easier.
Vet told us she was a girl cat, we kept the name and lived happily ever after.
