What affects us affects cats
Google is asked by Internet users to answer the question in the title. The fact of the matter is that the question shouldn’t be asked in the first place. This is because neither the female nor the male is better than the other in an absolute sense. Whether a person prefers a female or …
UK: A cat rescue, Bradford Cat Watch Rescue, described one of their cats, Dixie, as ‘gender neutral’ because she/he is an hermaphrodite (they think). A retired crane driver, Jack Rawcliffe said that it was wrong to call Dixie gender neutral. She should be called an hermaphrodite. Jack is a client of this rescue. “The …
We know that nearly all tortoiseshell cats are female. Dr Morris says that it has been calculated that about one in 200 tortoiseshell cats are males but I’ve also read that one in 3000 is the correct percentage. Let’s say that they are rare. However, Dr Morris makes the interesting point that all tortoiseshell …
People ask whether cats can be gay. I think it’s a silly question. It creates a complication where one doesn’t exist. If you’re going to try and answer the question logically you have to start off with a definition of homosexuality which is “sexually attracted to people of one’s own sex”. Note the word …
Garfield is a well-known cartoon cat. The guys who edit Wikipedia have been arguing over whether Garfield is male or female. There was a battle going on with constant edits to change the cat’s sex. The argument has been resolved. For me, they were missing the point although I see why the argument started. …
No. People ask, “are tabby cats male?”. They should ask “are red tabby cats male?”. To which the answer is: there are more male red tabby cats than female tabbies. To an informed cat owner or someone who knows cats the question in the title sounds a bit silly. But we must be sympathetic …
Is this a photo of a female cat? Sexing kittens can be tricky, I think. I have looked at a ton of images and read the books and then scratched my head and bitten my fingernails 😉 . Below is a picture of the rear end of a female cat. Below the image are …
About 0.033% of calico cats are male, we are told. I am not sure how accurate this figure is. Represented a different way it is one male calico cat for every 3000 female calico cats. In fact, as their existence is theoretically impossible there has to be a genetic anomaly for a male cat …
