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What gender is your dog or cat?

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TimIsHavingABadDay · 01/10/2018 12:00

So I had to insure my moms dog over the weekend and I went with Tesco . I asked and asked the dog what gender it was but it just licked my hand and gazed at the treat jar. I went with female and she seems happy with that.

Seriously though, this madness now applies to animals? Tesco pet insurance need to sort their shit out

What gender is your dog or cat?
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BertrandRussell · 01/10/2018 13:00

Our groomer has different cologne spray things for dogs and bitches. Should I report her to someone?

NobodyToVoteForNow · 01/10/2018 13:00

Tekken - no need to feel ashamed, you just know more than your daughter does. Happens quite often when you're a mum.

littlbrowndog · 01/10/2018 13:00

Yeps asked mine cats what gender they identify with in their inner selves
Stony stares

Gribbie · 01/10/2018 12:58

DDog: Sex - female, Gender - humps pillows so male I guess.

NobodyToVoteForNow · 01/10/2018 12:58

Mine sometimes sticks her tongue out at me. She's probably some kind of non binary.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 01/10/2018 12:58

Silliness aside, how is this even possible?

If gender is a social construct then how can pets/animals even fit in a category, being, well, animals?

LuvSmallDogs · 01/10/2018 12:56

Not sure on gender, but judging by her behavior towards the postie, Ddog obviously identifies as a Rottweiler rather than a chihuahua.

lunamoth581 · 01/10/2018 12:51

My dogs identify as “we want what you’re eating.”

placemats · 01/10/2018 12:50

My cat is male. He is a rescue cat.

He is male because he was born with testicles and not a uterus.

He is wary though of all human males. He runs away from them.

He does love the female humans in his life though.

InWomensProtection · 01/10/2018 12:49

Wonderful news that your dog now feels recognised. The dog walks will be totes amazing, no longer declaring they just a bitch amongst fellow dog friends.

MinecraftHolmes · 01/10/2018 12:48

WELL. My resident House Panther arrived at the Cats Protection a girl cat. But by the time we got her, she had had been spayed... So....

Incidentally, in Germany "dog" is a masculine noun, and "cat" is a feminine" one. Der Hund, die Katze.

AngryAttackKittens · 01/10/2018 12:48

Get her some of those fake testicle implants that insecure men buy for their castrated dogs, Vicky, obviously.

GulagsMyArse · 01/10/2018 12:46

PositivelyPERF :)

VickyEadie · 01/10/2018 12:46

My dog is of the female sex, but being a mastiff is extremely butch and often taken for a male. What should I do?

FermatsTheorem · 01/10/2018 12:46

My cat is "me-gender" in that she expects the world to revolve around her. In this respect I feel she fits perfectly beneath the trans umbrella.

ErrolTheDragon · 01/10/2018 12:45

I intentionally have a pink lead on my male dog which messes with people's minds like mad

In all seriousness, I actually find it quite helpful that so many people use pink or purple or 'pretty' on their bitches. Having a clue to the dog's sex from a distance before the undercarriage is obvious can be useful to assess how my dog will react, especially with larger dogs. He obviously knows their sex!

sallysparrow157 · 01/10/2018 12:44

My (female) tortoise identifies as male...(Basically thought it was a boy for about 8 years and we’ve been saying ‘he’ and ‘him’ for so long now we can’t bring ourselves to change - made for a very interesting conversation with the vet talking about ‘him’ maybe being egg-bound! Tortoise showed approval of appropriate pronouns by kicking dirt in the vet’s face and pissing on the floor...)

AngryAttackKittens · 01/10/2018 12:41

My cat currently identifies as "scared", or possibly "annoyed", as there's work being done on the exterior of the house.

Either way her sex is female.

PositivelyPERF · 01/10/2018 12:41

He"s a furry The little pervert! 😱

🤣

RoseDog · 01/10/2018 12:40

My ddog has teats that drag off the ground due to overbreeding but has a very masuline stance, i put a pink collar and coat on her but people always call her 'he' thankfully she is deaf so is unnaffected by peoples opinions on her gender.

Her body language and attitude identifies as a sloth!

Knicknackpaddyflak · 01/10/2018 12:39

You only believe in women's rights and not erasing them if the women standing up for them are not in any way silly?

Yeah, you crack on with that. AIBU is over that way.

NotBadConsidering · 01/10/2018 12:38

Well our cats have had more “bottom surgery” than most TRAs, so...

LangCleg · 01/10/2018 12:37

I begin to lose respect for your wider discussion when silly comments like this are made.

What? When attention is drawn to the insidious creep of language in favour of gender (system of oppression) over sex (material reality) which is to the detriment of women (sex) who are oppressed (by gender)?

Well, you carry on losing respect, and we'll carry on drawing attention to the war of attrition.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 01/10/2018 12:36

This is utterly barking.

Knicknackpaddyflak · 01/10/2018 12:36

I intentionally have a pink lead on my male dog which messes with people's minds like mad. He is definitely a frostgender demiboi. My cat is of the female sex and identifies as permanently pissed off.

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