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Male or Female?

Published on: December 01, 2021 • By: WildApzi · In Forum: Cats
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WildApzi
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December 01, 2021 at 08:55pm
Hello! I'm very confused on the sex of my kitten. I've attached some photos for help.20211201_19554420211130_19555220211130_195801
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Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS
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December 01, 2021 at 10:03pm
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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