For reference, some feline coat patterns require XX chromosomes.
Calicos are usually female, but it is not guaranteed.
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.
Submitted 8 months ago by Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 8 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.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All cats are ‘baby’ unless I’m told otherwise!
MissJinx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most would assume my orange cat os a boy but it’s a girl
eletes@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I have a female orange as well. She has floating patellas and walks funky. Does yours have something similar?
MissJinx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
not really, she does runs funny but there is no physical problem she is just chaotic and a bit dumb lol
razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
[deleted]01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 months ago
My friend had a male calico who was very much not sterile… at least not until the parents were required to neuter…
Godric@lemmy.world 8 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 :)
Trex202@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are the Organge ones and Calicos of the same breed?
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 8 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.
LouNeko@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All cats are girls and all dogs are boys, duh.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 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.:)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 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.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 months ago
I went to school with a girl named Dayv (pronounced Dave). She went by Dayve (pronounced Davey).
starlinguk@lemmy.world 8 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 🙄.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 months ago
Things that feel bigoted but aren’t 😅
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
All female cats are cats and all male cats are hangovers
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Hihi
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I always assume a cat is a ‘she’ until it proves otherwise.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
You know just enough to be dangerous
SomethingBlack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you want a medal for being a champion cat sexer?
Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ll take one. I’ll sex those cats up
AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 8 months ago
Klinefelter cats can have the same fur patterns while phenotypical presenting as male. Very unlikely though.
lerba@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
This is a proper shower thought
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Tortoiseshell and calico? Not sure of any others
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.
Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Yes, plus the tabby variants of those (i.e. tabby with orange splotches, tabby-and-white with orange splotches).
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 8 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”
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I call cats “it” because it sounds more cuterstersterster
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 8 months ago
There’s a cat-in-the-hat joke in here somewhere, I’m just not finding it.
SGG@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Germans gender hats? But I’m masculine and love wearing bunny ears! /s
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i invested like 2 minutes trying to make it perfect and then *a typo*
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 8 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).
Nanook@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
This is why Dutch is superior.
Poes.
/jk
ConstantPain@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gender is a social construct…