Some "sexpert" I am!

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Anonymous
Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

Well, my chicas, you are NOT going to believe this, but I swear it's absolutely the truth! You may recall several months ago when I had to had my sweet fur girl, Laci, euthanized. She had been my "chemo cat" and I was devastated. And then my niece found me an adorable kitten out in the country who was about to be gobbled up by some wild dogs. So "Katia" came to me in mid-June and was 8 weeks old. We've bonded and she has rejuvenated my 5-yr old cat, Sasha. "My girls," I always call them. So they were with me in my bedroom Friday night as I packed for P's house for the weekend and Katia was on the edge of the bed, doing that cat-cleaning thing known as "playing the cello." I look down at her and notice something mighty odd appearing from her "area." You've guessed it...."Katia" is actually "Katio"! Can you believe that I have spent nearly 3 months with my cat and NEVER realized that she is really a HE!!! Geeeeeez, y'all! And then P calls and when I tell him, he says "I know." I asked him why he hadn't told me and he said he just thought that he must be mistaken because "she" was so small and undeveloped. We're still laughing over the fact that 2 adults with 56 years of marriage between us (28 each) are unable to distinguish a male cat from a female!!!! Embarassed Oy.

~Marin

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  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 2,019
    edited September 2008

    Ha ha ha Marin!!!

    Did I ever tell you about my cat Pete? He was a stray I was taking care of.... he got fatter and fatter and I wasn't feeding him that much. He also had all his "equipment" in full view.

    One day, he ran out of he bushes and he was skinny as a rail and had a look on his face like, "You will not BELIEVE what just came out of me!"

    Yup- FOUR kittens!

    I took Pete to a vet and it turned out he was a hermaphrodite... I asked if he impregnated himself- but the vet said usually only one set of equipment works.

    I finally found a home for him and the people decided to make he a she.

    And guess what they named Pete the he/she?

    Gina!

    Don't worry about not being able to tell the sex of your cello player- you know your way around the human kind and that should cover it!!

    Love,

    g 

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited September 2008

    I have one just as good!

     DH adopted a  wee one that was a BOY, named him Bow-re-gard.  Took him to the vet several times for the cks and shots.  Then it was time for the "fixing"!

     Vet called to let me know that we didn't have a Bow, and I asked what we should call HER;

    Bouquet????  he asked me to stop laughing long enough to give permission to fix HER!!!

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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited September 2008

    OMG! To funny Marin....

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  • smithlme
    smithlme Member Posts: 1,322
    edited September 2008

    We had a scrawny yellow tabby show up in early May. My oldest daughter was positive that Franklin was a boy. The name was then changed to Leo and finally Jack. A week or so later Jack started meowing like a maniac. Jack was in heat! When I took Jack in to be spayed I told the vet that we kept her name Jack because we don't know Jack about cats!

    Linda

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited September 2008

    LOL at all your stories.

    Years ago, my mom and I were at a farm looking at the cows.  We felt so sorry for one.  She looked as though she was ready to give birth any minute and we thought she must be miserable.  The farmer came up and we mentioned this to him and he informed us the "expectant mother" was a bull.  How could we have not noticed this?  I mean, it was a BULL, for God's sake, and hung like one.  Undecided

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  • abbadoodles
    abbadoodles Member Posts: 2,618
    edited September 2008

    LOL.  Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees!!! 

    You're all so funny.

    I raise rabbits and one of the fun parts is "sexing" them.  As it is nice to know as early as possible which sex they are, we who breed them have resorted to all sorts of studies of the shape of the equipment slits and what punctuation point they make along with the an-s.  If it's an exclamation mark, it's a girl!!! 

    It's embarrassing to sell a rabbit as a doe and have it "turn into" a buck and vice versa.  Embarassed

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  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 2,019
    edited September 2008

    Tina, rabbits are Does and Bucks like deer? I never knew that!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2008

    You all are so sweet and now I don't feel quite as stupid! I'm still trying to arrive at a name that fits her....um, I mean, HIM. He's very, very rambuncious and mischievous! "Buddy Boy" might work....Undecided

    ~Marin

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited September 2008

    When I was younger we had a litter of kittens born at the house and the teen age son of the farmer who rented the land came over and examined all of the kittens and proununced we had 3 boys and 1 girl only to find out that we had 2 boys and 2 girls, and yes we had a girl named Tarzan (named by my little brother).

    Sheila

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  • abbadoodles
    abbadoodles Member Posts: 2,618
    edited September 2008

    Yes, no.  Just like deer.  And a few other species. 

    And, Marin, if he's so rambunctious, why not call him Rambo?

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited September 2008

    Or Sparky?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2008

    Oh, I can't bear this! She/he is so sweet, in addition to being so playful! I feel like a mother who has many daughters and was told that her next would also be a girl, only to be surprised at the last minute. I don't know how to deal with boy cats (humans I have no problem with, as y'all know Wink)!

    I think I'm naming him "Bebe." I can't seem to choke anything else out! What a dilemna!

    ~Marin

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  • abbadoodles
    abbadoodles Member Posts: 2,618
    edited September 2008

    This is a good problem.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited September 2008

    Love the name!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2008

    Okay, here's the FINAL, FINAL name: Kodi/Cody....it sounds alot like Katia, so he actually seems to recognize that I'm talking to him. Or is it my imagination? Poor little boy....

    ~Marin

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  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 2,019
    edited September 2008

    MARIN! Name him NED!

    If I got a new boy furbaby that would be the name I would choose- I want NED to live with me foreverCool

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  • newter
    newter Member Posts: 4,330
    edited September 2008

    I love these stories.  I have a girl and boy cat and honestly, I only know the boy is a boy because I was told,  I have never seen any obvious boy parts.

     We almost adopted a third cat this weekend and we were going to call her Pringles.  Unfortunately, the shelter said no to us because this particular cat needed to be in a house where the kids are older than 12.  I tell ya, this shelter does a great job screening.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2008

    I must have gotten lucky.  We had some strays come to our house.  We eventually "adopted" them into our family.  I gave them girl names.  I don't remember if I even checked to see what sex they were.  However, there was also a boy hanging around.  I could tell from his "backside" because there was something there....like bouncey balls....testicles. LOL  Perhaps that's how I figured out that the other two were girls.

    Your stories are so funny! 

    Shirley

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