What gender is your dog or cat?

My cat was coercively assigned male at birth but has since had his goolies chopped off so he is now non-binary.

Sometimes he wears a pink collar; sometimes he wears a black-and-white one.

(Just so you can complete the mental image of this encounter the bloke also had a parrot on one shoulder and a cockatoo on the other.)

This is brilliant. Walking a rabbit 😂 I have a rabbit, it shits itself if you try to pick it up. I can’t imagine walking her lol.

However, they love to hunt and don't really like cuddles

Ah your kitty is similar to my kitty (although she makes an exception for my youngest who is 'The Chosen One')

My cat strongly identifies with being a tiger. Gender is irrelevant, hunting is not.

One of my cats was sold to me as a male (rescue) but upon further examination by a bigoted vet was assigned female. However, they love to hunt and don't really like cuddles and can be quite aggressive. Therefore I feel that this is a rare case where the sex the cat was originally assigned - male - is correct. The cat does not have a penis however and the vet is unwilling to consider transition, so I use they pronouns for now until I can find a more inclusive vet.

My female dog is black and has a ‘masculine’ name - according to most who hear it.

Generally she is assumed to be male when scruffy and when recently groomed is pretty - and called a ‘good girl’ or ‘pretty girl’.

But I’ve asked and she refuses to tell me her gender preference so I will continue to treat her as female despite occcasionally humping people’s legs and her need to mark when walking through dog parks.

This thread has made me laugh no end!

I have a boy cat but he's been neutered so that makes him... non binary? agender?

One of my dogs is frequently mistaken for a girl. He has no issues with it and I feel certain that if you asked him what his hobbies are, he would say "Long walks on the beach, then home for a nice glass of Chablis in a warm bubble bath. And fox poo; rolling in or eating it, don't care"

But remember: don't anthropomorphise animals, they don't like it

Actually my well rounded cat was mis sexed and assumed to be male
She let out a howl of protest at the vets at being mis sexed. Or it could have been because the vet was groping for her non existent balls

My dog identifies as stupid
One cat identifies as a psychopath. The other is polite and we'll rounded and has no time for identity politics

@TheCuriousMonkey that day is coming

Musses

Have a

I've always been interested that my rabbits are charged at different rates for insurance, despite everything else being equal.
Apparently this is because males are more risky.

I think this blatant anti male nonsense should stop. My rabbit "female" is actually dominant and enjoys humping the "male".

How DARE they assume gender.
This is never ending.

Dunno about the cat's gender (sex is female) but the four year old spent half the weekend insisting he was the cat. We had to refer to him as "cat's name" (which is a girl's name) while he crawled around on the floor speaking in a whiny "cat voice" and eating "cat food" (raisins in a bowl on the floor).

He was clearly wrongly assigned male human at birth and is really a female cat.

Is there anywhere I can take him for gender and species reassignment?

Thanks. Sorry to be a downer - this is a very funny thread, do carry on because it really outlines the absurdity Words really do matter, though, and thinking more about it in this context just makes me annoyed all over again about the appropriation aspect.

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My poor old lady has had some pretty major surgery lately, and I must admit I was really annoyed by the vets a number of times as they frequently referred to her as "he". I know she has a neutral name, but it just made me feel that if they weren't paying attention to such a basic fact, they might also not be paying attention to other things like her weight, kidney disease status and so on. She lives to fight (for my lap) another day, but it won't be long now, and it seemed a bit disrespectful to me as an owner/client who was clearly upset at knowing I'll be saying goodbye to my companion of the last 20 years soon, a creature my children have never known life without.

Words matter.

My dog’s feeinz in very upset cos nun of you will validate his identity

As a

..... furry

My pussy is most definitely female

I know a couple of transgender cats. Given male names but turned out to be female.

My dog constantly gets misgendered... he is very pretty, so everyone calls him a girl. Maybe his gender is "pretty boy"

This will out me if any of the neighbours are reading, but we do actually have a transgender cat in the neighbourhood. A giant fluffball empress of a feline, who would give Catherine the Great a run for her money, named Mr Cat

Our cat was sold to us as a female but ended up actually male. Then we got his nadgers cut off, and he is still referred to as she and is named Bella.

Ddog ids as "good boi ".

Fortunately, I was able to register my rabbits' sexes at the vets.

Which is good.

Because my rabbits can't speak. Any of them. Ergo, I am unable to ascertain their genders and would hate to commit "literal violence" against them by misgendering them.

I love my bunnies.

of course they need to ask what gender your dog is

Animals don't have a gender. They have a sex. Very different things.

My dog identifies as a cat...which box should I tick on the form?