For reference, some feline coat patterns require XX chromosomes.

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      5 months ago

      I’ve had a male cat and a female dog for the past 16 years and my dad still calls the dog he and the cat she 🙄.

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      We named a female cat Dave before we knew she was female (we were bottle feeding her before we got her fixed. thought she was male. the vet corrected us, but she came when we called Dave down the hall so we weren’t changing her name). So from then on Dave was male when he was bad, female when she was good, and enby when they were neither.

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      But we can make it more complicated in Germany:
      “Kater” refers to male cats
      “Katze” refers to female cats as well as the neutral term for the animal.

      :)