Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS
Keymaster
Hello! I can't see the top or bottom picture clearly enough, but the middle one looks like a boy to me. I don't believe in sexing kittens from pictures though, because it isn't reliable enough from photos like this: it should be done in real life. You might want to try for yourself. In a boy, there are two holes, the anus (where poo comes out) and a second hole an inch or more lower down, which is actually the end of the penis (the penis of a cat is different to most other mammals: it points directly backwards and the circle you see is the hole of the tip; the shaft is often hard to visualise, as it is sunk into the tissues around it). The two holes (anus top, tip of penis bottom), are a minimum of about an inch apart in a Tom, and between them, one would ordinarily find the testicles. However, in a young Tom the testicles are usually absent; all there is to see is a rough impression of where the testicles will sit, when they've grown. In contrast, a female has a round hole (the anus) and blow it a slit-hole, the vulva. The two are quite close together (a cm or two, not an inch) with no room for testicles between them.
I hope that this helps. We would always advise a second opinion if you're not used to doing it, because it's an awkward thing to make a mistake about.
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