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How can you tell a male and female cat. Steps to follow. The first step we must follow to tell if a cat is male or female is to pick up the cat and put it on its back with its bottom facing towards you so that you can check its genitals which are close to this area. Once the tail is up you should have full view of the cats genitals and anus.
A male will have a much greater distance between the genitals and anus than females ½ inch apart on a male kitten or over 1 inch apart on a male adult cat. Conversely if the two are almost adjacent on a kitten or less than 12 inch apart on an adult its a female. When trying to tell if a stray cat or any cat from afar is a male or female there are a few characteristics in their appearance which can help tell them apart.
The face of a male cat tends to be heavier with more pronounced jowls. They have broader foreheads and their muzzles are wider with larger nose wings. Here you have the short answer to your question how do I know if my cats male or female.
Lift your kittens tail and take a look. If hes male youll see that theres an opening about a. Female cats tend to be homebodies who will be satisfied with a smaller territory.
Male cats have a tendency to roam. A female cat will consider anything within 330 feet of her food bowl to be her territory. A male could decide his territory circle is nearly a mile wide.
Even then a female is more willing to share her territory with someone nonthreatening. A female kittens genitals will resemble an upside-down exclamation point with the vertical vaginal slit sitting just below the anus and with very little spacing in between when the cat is upside down and facing you. A male kittens organ looks more like a colon with the penis residing just below the anus and separated by enough space to accommodate his testicles.
How To Tell Cat Gender By Face. Some very often use this method to identify the sex of their cats. First you look at the faces of both cats.
First of all you will have the shape of two completely different faces. As a result male cats often have a substantial rounded face than females. How to tell if a kitten is a boy or girl.
While youre waiting to examine each kitten individually one clue as to what their sex may be is their coat color. Certain colors are far more common in certain genders. Almost 90 of calico or tricolor cats with orange black and white coats are female.
Behavioral differences between male and female cats are most obvious in pets that are not neutered or spayed since the behavioral differences usually are related to the cats sex drive. For example male cats may become more aggressive spray urine and try to escape the house when they are in their sexually mature stage. Only if the male cat was not neutered and is an outdoorstray cat.
If you see a cat with patchy and dirty sometimes matted fur along with several battle scars its probably a male cat. They fight each other over territory and girls. They tend to bathe themselves less when theyre busy fighting and screwing the ladies.
Another way to tell if a cat is male by looking at its the. Many of the differences between a male and a female cat are based on their behavior. Learning these gender-based differences can help you decide whether to bring home a male feline or a female kitty.
Regardless of which cat you choose know that it will still need your 100 percent caring and affection. Lift the cats tail and you will see a circularpink opening closest to the base of the tail. This is the cats anus which both male and female cats have.
The vulva external female genitalia is located underneath the anus and has the appearance of a vertical slit. Even though cats can recognize hormones exclusive to a specific gender cats cant tell the difference between a male and a female human. It means absolutely nothing to them.
While more research needs to be done cats behave the same way to men and women as they do to other cats suggesting that cats see humans as their own kin. One can also guess the gender of the kitten by looking at the color of the kitten. In general one can identify female cats by the tortoiseshell and calico fur.
The chromosomal effects on their fur are responsible for the specific type of pattern. For male cats this process is not always dependable as only three-quarters of the ginger cats are male. Look at the openings on the catfish belly.
Both will have two openings at the lower belly one for the anus and the other for the genitals. Male genitals are raised and shaped like a nipple. The female catfish genital area has an opening that is rounded.
Right before spawning the female genital area will be reddish and swollen. There is no reliable means of determining a cats gender without examination of the genitalia unless of course the cat happens to be noticeably pregnant However that said there is this. Female cats tend to be right-pawed while male cats tend to be left-pawed.
Note the operative term here is tend to be. Intact male cats or cats that reached sexual maturity before they were neutered have large fat pads on the sides of their faces. Males tend to be larger and more muscular than females as well.
Obviously male cats are the bigger ones and female cats the smaller. Their behaviors and personalities differ too but there are other factors to consider. One distinct difference however regardless of these factors is that male cats are more territorial and female cats go into heat.
Sexing kittens who are under 8 weeks of age is even more difficult because the structures you are looking at are tiny and relatively underdeveloped. Thankfully kittens this young should still be with their littermates and comparing same-aged individuals can really help you determine what male and female kitten anatomy looks like. A 2011 study out of the University of Vienna found that cats tended to approach and interact with female owners more frequently than they did with male owners and concluded that the bond between women and their cats is more intense than the bond between men and their cats.
This study also did not specify whether the individuals used were cisgender transgender or.