Sassy Girl's a boy.

[kaitykaity]

We got a kitten two months ago. The lady assured us it
was a girl. Pretty little black part siamese with white
face and paws.

Well, "she" was rolling around on "her" back today and
oops. There was the nuts.

We were like Aw Man. It took us three days to name "her."
Keeping "her" Sassy Girl will make him neurotic.

rotflmao.

[sleepyhead]

1. I know a male cat named "Princess".

Named by the 5-year-old daughter who absolutely refused to change his name when his true gender was revealed at his first medical exam. He grew up to be huge - 18 lb, I think - and reasonably well-adjusted.

Change his name to Sassafras. Close enough.

[kaitykaity]

2. That's not bad.

And call him Sass for short. Not bad at all.
I'll run it by my devastated mother and see
what she said. (She doesn't like boys because
they spray.)

[sleepyhead]

3. You can almost always avoid spraying

by neutering him as soon as you can. It can be done as early as 4 months - some shelter veterinarians are even neutering and spaying kittens at 8 weeks of age. (I don't think that is necessarily the best idea, but the point is that you can get it done rather early in life.) If you get it done before he develops bad habits, he most likely will not spray. My cats have almost all been males (actually, I prefer them as they tend to be more mellow than the females, believe it or not) and none of them have ever sprayed.

[kaitykaity]

4. I sent her this thread, so hopefully she will take

your sage advice and get him snipped ASAP. I've been
a broken record about it for a few weeks now (even when
"she" was a "girl"), so now I'm just the Charlie Brown
teacher drone.

:eyes:

[BrklynLiberal]

13. I rescued a pregnant cat and after she had kittens I took them to the

Humane Society when the kittens were 8 weeks old. All 5 kittens and Mom were neutered and given shots. No bad side effects or problems.
I have 2 of the kittens and the Mom and rest of the kittens are with friends so I know they are all ok.

[kslib]

9. You probably already know this

but boys and girls can both spray. I have one of each, both "fixed" and my boy is a mellow angel. My girl is anxious and sprays. Just an FYI! :)

[Lorien]

18. Male cats tend to be more loving than female cats

and both genders can spray. The key is to keep the litter box clean, and to keep up with yearly checkups (some spraying is health related).

[Longhorn]

5. We have a female dog named "Paco."

Our daughter named her and we knew she was a female but she just liked the name. We're used to it but it's confusing for others who assume she's a male when they hear her name. :shrug:

[Phentex]

6. We had a Charlie who became

Charlene! :)

[demnan]

7. Here's a link on Catster

to my Luci. http://www.catster.com/?102137

My brother brought him to me as a very tiny kitten from his apartment complex where he found him in the laundry and assured me he was a female. Needless to say, although a bad cat sexer, my brother could sure pick out a wonderful cat. He lived to be 17.

The fun of naming him Lucifer was that it horrified my ignorant red-neck neighbor.

[Eurobabe]

10. red-neck neighbor wouldn't have like my cat either

THE DAEMON.

HAHA!!

[Lorien]

17. Guess your neighbor never saw Disney's "Cinderella"?

The black and white cat in the G rated film is also named Lucifer!

[kaitykaity]

8. Update -- He is going to be Sassy.

It's still so weird, the "he" part.

[China_cat]

11. For future reference

Cats are easily sexed even when newborn. Lift the tail. If what you see looks like a colon (:) you have a male. If it looks like an upside down exclamation point, you have a female.

[kaitykaity]

12. There won't be any new cats in our lives for a while.

My Mean Kitty is only 11, and we're both big believers
in serial feline monogamy.

Thanks for the tip, though. I'll be sure to pass it
along.

[prole_for_peace]

14. When I adopted Abbie I was told it was a girl.

"She" was very fluffy and I couldn't tell on my own so I took their word for it. I named "her" Abbey. I took "her" to the vet that night for her shots and because she was covered in fleas. I didn't tell the vet sex or anything. When I picked "her" up the next day they had put Female on her chart. So I wait a month and take "her" back for "her" second round of shots and when I go back that afternoon I was told "Oh by the way, she is a he." So I changed the name to Abbie and made an appoinment for a neutering. So he is essentially a girl now. I WON!!!

[Digit]

15. Sassman, Sasseur, Sassafraz, you get the drift....

You can make it close and not cause him to need therapy in the future...lol.

[Lorien]

16. My kitten's breeder assured me she was a "he"

most of my cats have been rescues over the years, but Turkish Angoras are so rare that I had to go to a breeder to find one (they are unusually intelligent cats with unique personalities-not much to look at, but once you've had one, you'll always want a Turk in your home)! Puck was sent to me from California. She was such a rough and tumble tomboy that I didn't discovered that "she" was a "he" until she went to be neutered! Fortunately, the character Puck in "a Midsummer Night's Dream" is often played by a woman (sort of like Peter Pan). Since my Puck is such an imp, the name stuck.

Here's her Catster page:
http://www.catster.com/?100222