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.

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• LouNeko@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All cats are girls and all dogs are boys, duh.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve had a male cat and a female dog for the past 16 years and my dad still calls the dog he and the cat she 🙄.

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    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Things that feel bigoted but aren’t 😅

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All female cats are cats and all male cats are hangovers

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    • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hihi

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I went to school with a girl named Dayv (pronounced Dave). She went by Dayve (pronounced Davey).

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

    :)

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• razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 :)

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  • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are the Organge ones and Calicos of the same breed?

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My friend had a male calico who was very much not sterile… at least not until the parents were required to neuter…

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• Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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”

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a cat-in-the-hat joke in here somewhere, I’m just not finding it.

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  • SGG@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Germans gender hats? But I’m masculine and love wearing bunny ears! /s

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    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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).

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    • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i invested like 2 minutes trying to make it perfect and then *a typo*

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  • Nanook@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is why Dutch is superior.

    Poes.

    /jk

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  • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I call cats “it” because it sounds more cuterstersterster

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most would assume my orange cat os a boy but it’s a girl

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  • eletes@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a female orange as well. She has floating patellas and walks funky. Does yours have something similar?

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    • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      not really, she does runs funny but there is no physical problem she is just chaotic and a bit dumb lol

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Calicos are usually female, but it is not guaranteed.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• SomethingBlack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you want a medal for being a champion cat sexer?

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  • Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll take one. I’ll sex those cats up

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• AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Klinefelter cats can have the same fur patterns while phenotypical presenting as male. Very unlikely though.

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tortoiseshell and calico? Not sure of any others

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  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.

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  • Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, plus the tabby variants of those (i.e. tabby with orange splotches, tabby-and-white with orange splotches).

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All cats are ‘baby’ unless I’m told otherwise!

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• lerba@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a proper shower thought

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• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know just enough to be dangerous

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• miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always assume a cat is a ‘she’ until it proves otherwise.

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• ConstantPain@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gender is a social construct…

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