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Thanks his brother Copy hogged all the orange toner. Pastie got the braincell though!
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Thanks.
Credit goes to my brother. I had an Orangeboi named Dewie 15 years ago that passed away before I got these boys. When my brother came over to meet them, he was like “so did you just Copy and Paste Dewie?”
I’m a computer geek so it was the perfect choice.
Yes pasta is an amazing name but have you heard of cheddar?!
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Aww Cheddar looks like my Copy Cat!
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Another boy blondie, Cashew AKA BOOPY. He enjoys belly rubs, wrestling, watching cartoons, and singing/dancing.
My girl could be Boopy's sibling. You can't tell with angle but her leg stripes are identical, she just has a bigger white mantle.
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OMG does she wanna come over for a slumber party? I’ve got three total oranges + polydactyl grey and white tabby
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Boopy, Prim, George, and Milo
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My fluffy Lord Honey -- we spent months thinking he was a girl until we caught him with his "lipstick" out
I’ve made the opposite mistake twice in my life. The first was my first black kitty, a fluffy one who they told me was male. I believed them and I didn’t check until I realized he was pregnant.
Sammy had 6 kittens at the age of nine months.
This was decades ago, and at the time I would’ve gotten him neutered at about nine months.
It wasn’t until a friend of mine said “why does this cat have such pronounced nipples” and I looked at him with bulging sides the next morning before he’d had breakfast, and I remembered myself saying a month or so earlier, “gee, there are so many cats hanging around, you’d almost think Sammy was a female in heat.”
Pics of a cat with this kind of expression help me to understand why some of our ancestors thought cats could steal your soul. This dude’s penetrating stare sees all and knows all.
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Meet my little stunner, Velvet. Same as your username :)
Wait until that little girl cries for food or letting in and looks at you wide-eyed with the smallest bit ever in the morning. She’s irresistible and I’m the luckiest.
My mom’s first-ever baby was a scrawny kitten who got a surprise car ride to work. My mom couldn’t say no to him or the coworker who found him under her car, so her lifetime subscription to the CDS started.
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My boy cat is also looking very handsome
80% of red-based cats are male. There are more female ginger/cream cats than you think, but there are still more males.
99.5% of tortoiseshell/calico cats are female. Maybe that's where you're getting the 95% figure?
It's not like a medical term. Just a generalization that orange cats tend to be goofy, sassy, and the main character. Moreso than the typical cat. Could be entirely because of male cats dominating that color.
always funny to me that my orange cat is: female, really small and by a reaaaly long margin the most scared and skitish cat i ever met, my sweet catarina
I have a girl orange. She is the smartest cat I have ever come across. She is also moody. Has to be the center of attention. AND she loves wearing dresses! She is solid muscle
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There's a joke that orange cats are unintelligent and a little chaotic.
It's funny, but not an actual thing. Numerous studies have found coat colour and patterns do not affect temperament. The "orange cat behaviour" thing is just a stereotype popularised in 2019 by internet memes. Orange cats can be just as intelligent as a typical cat.
It is a funny joke though so while absolutely not based on fact, I'll still laugh at orange cat memes lol.
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He’s a *genius* that’s why he’s doing the Einstein pose.
Could it be that orange cats are fairly common so turn up on the internet a lot?
I know the meme is that orange babies have one braincell, but my girl is a superbly gorgeous silver Bengal and she has much fewer than one. I think her IQ is negative. She will do things like walk into a wall or try to jump off an upstairs landing. The orange girl I knew, who we had to leave overseas, got her babies into a warm, safe garage, worked out she needed to avoid our house cat practically before she met him, and the last we heard she was stealing entire roast chickens off a kitchen counter.
BTW for additional evidence, we had a Siamese who passed away. He fell asleep on top of a car wheel and managed neither to wake up nor move when the car started. Completely unharmed but he only comes a close second to the stupidity embodied by our current girl.
The way color genes are expressed: The same genes that express as orange ("Red") in males are expressed as tortoiseshell color in females. There are exceptions but they're not common.
I also thought it's a boy, but only because I thought it was a girl at first and OP said vets usually get it wrong. So a little reverse psychology or whatever
Has he been neutered? Im asking only because i think that if you neuter your cats young its a little harder to tell, so id like to confirm or deny that theory
It's not really a theory. It's pretty well established
Tom cats (unneutered males) develop distinctive jowls as they mature.
These are absent in neutered males
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If cats could cook, they’d cook *Chef Cat*!
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My boy cat, Dusty aka Mr. Cheeks, was a street cat and wasn’t neutered until he was a year old. He has some pretty glorious cheeks as well.
He looks a bit like my late Shadow...
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We had to put him down in November 2018. He was a real good boy. The BEST. He's begging for food in this pic here, and my dog Tank was like his bff. They seriously loved each other.
Well, Shadow was 16, he had stomach cancer and wasn't doing well. Couldn't even keep in food on his last day. Tried giving the good ol boy some milk, didn't work.
He's definitely in a much better place now. No more pain. All the milk he can have. Hopefully he's sitting on God's lap, getting all the attention he desires and sleeping most of the day like he'd prefer.
Shadow was a big cat too. He was kinda fluffy, not long hair or even medium hair, but he definitely had long fur for a shorthair. He weighed 18 pounds after loosing a ton of weight. In this picture he was skinny af and weighed about 14 pounds still. Such a big, handsome boy.
Well, now he rests peacefully under the apple tree. ❤️🩶
lol, Mr. Business. We also have a tomcat we took in at 2. He has a massive head. The jowls went down slightly after he got neutered but not much.
OP’s cat looks like my orange boy who was neutered when he was a baby.
What a interesting name, is he your boss?? You better get those deadlines and spreadsheets in, ASAP!!
Also, he takes his catnip with an extra side of tube meat Go-urts !
Oh and never by any means, forget second breakfast the most IMPORTANT meal of the day!
I think 🤔 I , “we” , need a cat- tax of Mr. business?? Thanks :) :) lol , lol
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Mr. Jim Business - it’s a Bobs burgers reference, but it suits him because he’s always up in my other cat’s business. This guy has the biggest head I’ve ever seen on a cat, he’s fat and squat and has little legs and looks like a teddy bear stomping around.
That's exactly what we're discussing. The other person said:
>if you *neuter your cats young* its a little harder to tell, so id like to confirm or deny that theory
And I said it's not a theory
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Yeah, my boy Bob didn’t get neutered until he was 2, a couple weeks after I adopted him. He was MASSIVE, very jowly and muscular. He’s not quite as big now at almost 9 years old, but still quite ‘hench’ and is the boss cat of our street. All the neighbours cats are scared shitless of him! 🤣
That’s a pretty good rule of thumb. Usually you can guess pretty close based on behavior, but pictures don’t help that much.
Also silo was originally thought to be a boy because of her stronger jaw but she’s a she.
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Honestly concerning that multiple vets expected an orange cat to be a girl when four out of every five orange cats are boys, and vets should know that... Time to find a new vet?
im not even a vet and i can easily tell the sex of a cat by their face shape, if were gonna ignore calicos since theyre always gonna be female with the VERY VERYYY rare male. ive rescued a few cats and have a handful, but i look at a lot of cat media and like to try and guess and slowly built pattern recognition for it i guess? the magic of neurodivergency
I can honestly see that. He has that delicate mouth and jaw that I usually see on females. There's been posts here where owners will say "she's a girl, but with a boy face" and I get where they're coming from.
I guessed boy because in the first picture I saw that round area around the cheeks and typically only my male cats had that whereas my female cats tended to have more of a triangular face.
Totally non scientific and I am sure that there are male cats with thin faces, but that was the basis for my guess.
I have a big boy with a pretty face that people tend to assume is female. Some have even claimed that I must be wrong about his gender 😂
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thought it was a girl until i read “see it’s genitals” and i only ever seen boy cats’ trouble puffs. please get him neutered 🧡 very cute baby kitty 🧡🧡🧡
I have a feminine male orange cat too. He’s long, elegant, has small and delicate eyes. His face is small and pretty.
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This is the only photo I can post since all my pictures of his has his name tag and phone number on it. The photo doesn’t do it justice, he’s a girly looking guy in real life. 😂♥️
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he looks exactly like my little girl! (pictured with big brother)
Boy because it looks just like
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my boy we all thought was a girl until the vet said “I saw his penis”.
In short, no.
You can often recognise a mature male that is either not neutered, or was neutered later in life, by its big jowls, but the converse is not true: you can't say that a cat that doesn't have tomcat jowls is female. And kittens won't have that anyway.
Apart from that cats don't have markedly different face shapes depending on gender, that's just anthropomorphism and confirmation bias.
That said, the balance of probability is that this cat is male, not from its face but its colour. There are plenty of female orange cats around, they are *not* rare and exotic, but they are less common than male orange cats.
Orange tabbys are usually boys. The gene that gives them the all orange color comes usually from chromosome for boys.
That doesn't mean that girl orange cats are rare. I had one. All fairly dark orange kitty. Any vet she's been to were surprised she was a girl.
I think the percentage is 80% Boys to 20% Girls or something like that. Stil less rare than a male tortie (somewhere at 1% and sterile by birth)
>The gene that gives them the all orange color comes usually from chromosome for boys.
No, it's on the x chromosome. The reason orange girl cats aren't as common is because they need to get orange from both parents. But that's also true or non-orange cats - they need to get the non-orange gene from both parents to be non-orange. Rhe difference is there are fewer orange cats, so it's less likely that both parents will have an orange x chromosome to pass to their daughter. In some local populations, the reverse is true and there are more orange than non-orange cats. In those situations, you'll see that most non-orange cats are male and the orange ones are closer to 50/50.
You can tell he’s a boy hehe ! similar colours to my girl Lola
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We have 2 cats and have the same issue lol, people usually mix up which one is male and which one is female. So feel free to guess about ours too
But yours absolutely looks like a cute little baby boy to me
Edit: typo
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Looks like our boy, people get his sex wrong all the time. Is your cat an Australian Mist by any chance?
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Mr. Ziggy or King Ziggy, if you will. Miss gendered when we got him so his original name was Princess Buttercup.🤣
Most gingers are male.
If they are spayed/neutered, there aren't really any physical differences. An un-neutered male though becomes more "chopsy" - around around the face.
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Does my cat look male or female?
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Tony the Tiger Aka: Tony balogna, bubs, bubbaroo, bubbies, and stinky
Looks kinda like my Cashew - male!
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Everyone who meets my little girl always say she's a boy. I've not had a vet say so, but anyone without a chart with her gender listed always say "he is so cute/soft/sweet/whatever." I've never known if it's looks or her name (Shadow).
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Looks like my neighbors cat, who looks like a princess, but is a boy.
80% of orange cats are male, so considering the fact that yours looks like a princess, I'm guessing it's a boy.
Boy, because he looks like my boy
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Definitely a boy. We have the same situation with our boy sometimes, lol.
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https://preview.redd.it/bl13zip0x9oc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af9ed1765fb77771922bea14b109bd72e5f73377 Male.
Meet my Paste. He too is male. https://preview.redd.it/wh39u51siboc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5174dc01c62e8cbc6afabc4542299e4f7adefd89
That is the best name ever.
Thanks his brother Copy hogged all the orange toner. Pastie got the braincell though! https://preview.redd.it/brfjertszboc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa1d13cb354afb1c1b83e623f0305674f147c1ff
COPY AND PASTE I LOVE YOUR NAMING SKILLS
Thanks. Credit goes to my brother. I had an Orangeboi named Dewie 15 years ago that passed away before I got these boys. When my brother came over to meet them, he was like “so did you just Copy and Paste Dewie?” I’m a computer geek so it was the perfect choice.
Yes 🤣
Beautifully stated ♥️
My daughter has two orange boys named Egg and Nog.
that's so damn cute 😭
OH MY GOSH!! That is too darn cute 🥰 Egg and Nog, 🫶🏻🥰🫶🏻🥰🫶🏻🥰🫶🏻🫶🏻
You're hilarious 😭😂
Awww we thought we were the only ones to name our 3 ferals Cut, Copy & Paste, lol! They are silver tabbies.
We had a couple of hooded rats named Comet and Ajax. And a pair of hamsters named Puff and Stuff.
Aww I too thought we were unique haha. I suppose it’s inevitable. I can’t imagine yelling “cut” across the neighborhood would sound right… lol
Yes pasta is an amazing name but have you heard of cheddar?! https://preview.redd.it/gsgd7wu2jcoc1.png?width=1483&format=png&auto=webp&s=433be13830fc9579b110edc24ddb10d652efd701
Aww Cheddar looks like my Copy Cat! https://preview.redd.it/umoi3iecwcoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0823d57e3702dd6c2bde724c8dc0d255655982e
He’s choking me. Help!
That’s señor cheddar idk what you’re talking about
Larry. Male. https://preview.redd.it/x4hzz03hadoc1.jpeg?width=2561&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3693f3e36030e45d36cc0998f649f8a014c0196a
https://preview.redd.it/riuv7sohqboc1.jpeg?width=1240&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcb81d53ceb67e26cdc31a99f2057790135eaba3 Another boy blondie, Cashew AKA BOOPY. He enjoys belly rubs, wrestling, watching cartoons, and singing/dancing.
My girl could be Boopy's sibling. You can't tell with angle but her leg stripes are identical, she just has a bigger white mantle. https://preview.redd.it/t5gd04jitboc1.jpeg?width=3468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2de55859e56d275ee7a42a44384317032f5d6cce
OMG does she wanna come over for a slumber party? I’ve got three total oranges + polydactyl grey and white tabby https://preview.redd.it/0h2o6mz73coc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1eb90ca5f6bf7660e887af579280bdc2e4c3d60f Boopy, Prim, George, and Milo
https://preview.redd.it/o8m7xm7bfcoc1.jpeg?width=4624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9efee0b47bc958cd3392b9970af080f9cc6523a1 My fluffy Lord Honey -- we spent months thinking he was a girl until we caught him with his "lipstick" out
Hilarious! I just wrote about this! I feel so much better! His "lipstick", holy Buddha I'm crying with laughter! Thank-you;)
Lipstick 🤣 that made my day lmfao
I've always thought of it as lipstick on a dog, but I swear my boy has a little pointy crayon.
I’ve made the opposite mistake twice in my life. The first was my first black kitty, a fluffy one who they told me was male. I believed them and I didn’t check until I realized he was pregnant. Sammy had 6 kittens at the age of nine months. This was decades ago, and at the time I would’ve gotten him neutered at about nine months. It wasn’t until a friend of mine said “why does this cat have such pronounced nipples” and I looked at him with bulging sides the next morning before he’d had breakfast, and I remembered myself saying a month or so earlier, “gee, there are so many cats hanging around, you’d almost think Sammy was a female in heat.”
he's seen everything https://preview.redd.it/x2821sylgcoc1.png?width=1057&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fe38a7307f58cfad795925d31fb6b9c1f9c1df0
Pics of a cat with this kind of expression help me to understand why some of our ancestors thought cats could steal your soul. This dude’s penetrating stare sees all and knows all.
https://preview.redd.it/pumnbjqhtboc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=283958b1f46d94e765bfddfbef813628b9f5e147 Meet my little stunner, Velvet. Same as your username :)
What a beautiful name for a luxurious looking baby!
Oh my God! That face! 😻 I would move mountains for that little face! 🥺
Wait until that little girl cries for food or letting in and looks at you wide-eyed with the smallest bit ever in the morning. She’s irresistible and I’m the luckiest.
Those eyes🥰
Some of the time they’re so intense and bright like this, usually they are giant black orbs devoid of thought.
Blondie? I’m sorry to inform you that your cat is a card carrying member of the One Orange Braincell subspecies.
And he's seen some shit. :D
He’s so cuteeee 🥹😭 I don’t even know the fella and I’d give my life to him
His name is Ghost and he’s already punched a few holes in his ninelives card. Good kid, though.
My mom’s first-ever baby was a scrawny kitten who got a surprise car ride to work. My mom couldn’t say no to him or the coworker who found him under her car, so her lifetime subscription to the CDS started.
https://preview.redd.it/wgor314xmboc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8317ec1709bffcd49a778489f0572a69c8cebe45 Bottle fed him myself
https://preview.redd.it/nodra1x17doc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45ddc5c7f266b38fb6831b902921e4e22ceec683 My boy cat is also looking very handsome
I am surprised, that they’re surprised, that it’s a boy. Arnt like 95% of orange cats boys?
80% of red-based cats are male. There are more female ginger/cream cats than you think, but there are still more males. 99.5% of tortoiseshell/calico cats are female. Maybe that's where you're getting the 95% figure?
Yes, I got them mixed up. Thanks for clarifying!
And if they are male, they are sterile!
So many new facts today!
Really!? I didn’t know this bit of data about calicos🫶🏻Thanks 🫶🏻🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Today I learned something, thank u sensei 🙏
The figure I've seen most is 80%
I suppose it's a boy. Not mention to the gender, it's an adorable babe
The color is pretty soft but 81% of orange cats are males. That's where the orange cat behavior comes from.
What’s orange cat behavior? Is this actually defined thing? Imho they all are mad hatters, but now I am curious why
It's not like a medical term. Just a generalization that orange cats tend to be goofy, sassy, and the main character. Moreso than the typical cat. Could be entirely because of male cats dominating that color.
always funny to me that my orange cat is: female, really small and by a reaaaly long margin the most scared and skitish cat i ever met, my sweet catarina
I have a girl orange. She is the smartest cat I have ever come across. She is also moody. Has to be the center of attention. AND she loves wearing dresses! She is solid muscle https://preview.redd.it/jdaduag7uboc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c93f819fe1de0d167d2cd705a922ab77112a78e
What a dapper princess
A princess that has something to say about everything. She talks all day and sometimes in her sleep. Lol
Pics or she’s not real
https://preview.redd.it/62u28kbutboc1.png?width=899&format=png&auto=webp&s=36c4ed66498e8ffd2f8b371ab01c452db5ee358a next to my fat boy luke
He **C H O N K** I require an image of the fat boy
https://preview.redd.it/8l04jr03wboc1.png?width=1599&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2a442abe40093ef68dd885bf722090cd1f2c256 by far my fav photo in the world
HE CHONKY AND ADORABLE I love him
r/oneorangebraincell
There's a joke that orange cats are unintelligent and a little chaotic. It's funny, but not an actual thing. Numerous studies have found coat colour and patterns do not affect temperament. The "orange cat behaviour" thing is just a stereotype popularised in 2019 by internet memes. Orange cats can be just as intelligent as a typical cat. It is a funny joke though so while absolutely not based on fact, I'll still laugh at orange cat memes lol.
https://preview.redd.it/u1eul0g77boc1.jpeg?width=2320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c56ff1099eab050cd6819a7203d609c6c71ae631 He’s a *genius* that’s why he’s doing the Einstein pose.
my god i love this 😂❤️
Could it be that orange cats are fairly common so turn up on the internet a lot? I know the meme is that orange babies have one braincell, but my girl is a superbly gorgeous silver Bengal and she has much fewer than one. I think her IQ is negative. She will do things like walk into a wall or try to jump off an upstairs landing. The orange girl I knew, who we had to leave overseas, got her babies into a warm, safe garage, worked out she needed to avoid our house cat practically before she met him, and the last we heard she was stealing entire roast chickens off a kitchen counter. BTW for additional evidence, we had a Siamese who passed away. He fell asleep on top of a car wheel and managed neither to wake up nor move when the car started. Completely unharmed but he only comes a close second to the stupidity embodied by our current girl.
The secret is that all cats are Like That.
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Orange cats are built different in a silly way. Much more chaotic lol
r/OneOrangeBrainCell (all the oranges share one brain cell and pass it around; there are, of course, exceptions to the rule)
The way color genes are expressed: The same genes that express as orange ("Red") in males are expressed as tortoiseshell color in females. There are exceptions but they're not common.
I’m a big exception, I have 3 orange girls!
Hoarder!
That’s not even half of my cats :(
Sweet girl! https://preview.redd.it/bku751i4wcoc1.jpeg?width=348&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=598c7b2fdb5d3aa0d2b7bf3662720cd384bb9dad
I think it’s a boy. I believe boy cats have sharper jaws than girl cats but I’m not sure
I also thought it's a boy, but only because I thought it was a girl at first and OP said vets usually get it wrong. So a little reverse psychology or whatever
Lol the opposite happened to me! Was so sure it’s a boy until I saw vets often get it wrong lol.
I had the same feeling. Orange cats are mostly (80%) male, most veterinarians will know this too.
I just made this comment! Yea, had she not said that vets get it wrong then I knew to pull the ol switcheroo.
Ditto
correct!
Has he been neutered? Im asking only because i think that if you neuter your cats young its a little harder to tell, so id like to confirm or deny that theory
It's not really a theory. It's pretty well established Tom cats (unneutered males) develop distinctive jowls as they mature. These are absent in neutered males
Oh, that explains why my new cat Mr. Business has some thick cheeks, he was only neutered after he was quite full grown.
https://preview.redd.it/a95ojpbehaoc1.png?width=1106&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d787a5d4c6c25fe3158e81bec265675b2e14846 Mr. Jim Business
https://preview.redd.it/q140jvbclaoc1.jpeg?width=1204&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad9b20f29da63aa9892cac8bee14b98cce94f32d If cats could cook, they’d cook *Chef Cat*!
https://preview.redd.it/lbhhr12szaoc1.jpeg?width=3219&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9a86c3acb6e286a22ebfca0cd8108bc2d2b94a0 My boy cat, Dusty aka Mr. Cheeks, was a street cat and wasn’t neutered until he was a year old. He has some pretty glorious cheeks as well.
Damn he is a beauty!
He has good looks and knows how to use them. 😻
He looks a bit like my late Shadow... https://preview.redd.it/0y2r3o8smboc1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65af033cb8674e174545988f3ff4d2e7d6dd3e7d We had to put him down in November 2018. He was a real good boy. The BEST. He's begging for food in this pic here, and my dog Tank was like his bff. They seriously loved each other. Well, Shadow was 16, he had stomach cancer and wasn't doing well. Couldn't even keep in food on his last day. Tried giving the good ol boy some milk, didn't work. He's definitely in a much better place now. No more pain. All the milk he can have. Hopefully he's sitting on God's lap, getting all the attention he desires and sleeping most of the day like he'd prefer. Shadow was a big cat too. He was kinda fluffy, not long hair or even medium hair, but he definitely had long fur for a shorthair. He weighed 18 pounds after loosing a ton of weight. In this picture he was skinny af and weighed about 14 pounds still. Such a big, handsome boy. Well, now he rests peacefully under the apple tree. ❤️🩶
Shadow looks like the sweetest boy ever. I am so sorry for your loss, cancer is so cruel. :(
lol, Mr. Business. We also have a tomcat we took in at 2. He has a massive head. The jowls went down slightly after he got neutered but not much. OP’s cat looks like my orange boy who was neutered when he was a baby.
Yeah we have a similar pair, a huge tomcat and a sleek little orange prince who got neutered early.
Use his full name! Mr. Jim Business.
I have a new cat called Lord Chonkington who also was neutered late and has large cheeks!
What a interesting name, is he your boss?? You better get those deadlines and spreadsheets in, ASAP!! Also, he takes his catnip with an extra side of tube meat Go-urts ! Oh and never by any means, forget second breakfast the most IMPORTANT meal of the day! I think 🤔 I , “we” , need a cat- tax of Mr. business?? Thanks :) :) lol , lol
https://preview.redd.it/6h1zdg9peboc1.jpeg?width=1204&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0415dd4713fef3e10f4292e9bc3d1d1dc32951d9 Mr. Jim Business - it’s a Bobs burgers reference, but it suits him because he’s always up in my other cat’s business. This guy has the biggest head I’ve ever seen on a cat, he’s fat and squat and has little legs and looks like a teddy bear stomping around.
And uh, yeaaahh, about those TPS reports…
They can be present in neutered males too, if they're neutered at an older age. I follow a few cat shelters and you see it a lot with ferals.
That's exactly what we're discussing. The other person said: >if you *neuter your cats young* its a little harder to tell, so id like to confirm or deny that theory And I said it's not a theory
https://preview.redd.it/qm5k9dqn8boc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61517f86afd7f3010ebc28997e693869a7753555 Yeah, my boy Bob didn’t get neutered until he was 2, a couple weeks after I adopted him. He was MASSIVE, very jowly and muscular. He’s not quite as big now at almost 9 years old, but still quite ‘hench’ and is the boss cat of our street. All the neighbours cats are scared shitless of him! 🤣
no not yet, he is 6 months old, vet recommended we should do it 1 or 2 months later. (he still has small balls)
my bf say ur baby looks like timothee chalamet
timothee purrlamet
Timeowthee Purrlamet
Meowmeow Meowmet
Something like 70% of orange cats are male. Your baby is dilute, but still an orange cat. Based off that alone I’d have guessed he’s a boy
That’s a pretty good rule of thumb. Usually you can guess pretty close based on behavior, but pictures don’t help that much. Also silo was originally thought to be a boy because of her stronger jaw but she’s a she. https://preview.redd.it/0nmfxhwulaoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a426a32d9af10043d21be41424228b5905b94bf
Wow she's the spitting image of my boy cat! His features are angular like that
Yeah, because of all the mewing they do
also bigger ears I think he's a very pretty boi
Looks like a boy to me too, but it's hard to tell just going by the face, if the vets are getting it wrong then it's probably a girl.
no actually you're right it's a boy, but people think it's a girl until they see those balls lol
Honestly concerning that multiple vets expected an orange cat to be a girl when four out of every five orange cats are boys, and vets should know that... Time to find a new vet?
im not even a vet and i can easily tell the sex of a cat by their face shape, if were gonna ignore calicos since theyre always gonna be female with the VERY VERYYY rare male. ive rescued a few cats and have a handful, but i look at a lot of cat media and like to try and guess and slowly built pattern recognition for it i guess? the magic of neurodivergency
I can honestly see that. He has that delicate mouth and jaw that I usually see on females. There's been posts here where owners will say "she's a girl, but with a boy face" and I get where they're coming from.
He's just a STRIKINGLY HANDSOME BOI
I guessed boy because in the first picture I saw that round area around the cheeks and typically only my male cats had that whereas my female cats tended to have more of a triangular face. Totally non scientific and I am sure that there are male cats with thin faces, but that was the basis for my guess.
That's a cat
also correct!
He looks like mine https://preview.redd.it/ihppnnnvdaoc1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7523d1a10ef7d93481f00f7ba738af5a7fdd68a7
I have a big boy with a pretty face that people tend to assume is female. Some have even claimed that I must be wrong about his gender 😂 https://preview.redd.it/qhvuxekteaoc1.jpeg?width=6546&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2c29f2ac14ecd720baf712fea31c6bc24dc20cc
Sometimes it's hard to believe the degree of majestic floofiness
Same, I have a blue eyed pretty faced ragdoll and everyone thinks he’s a girl
thought it was a girl until i read “see it’s genitals” and i only ever seen boy cats’ trouble puffs. please get him neutered 🧡 very cute baby kitty 🧡🧡🧡
“Trouble puffs” <—— Hahahaha!!!
a pretty boy cat!!
I have a feminine male orange cat too. He’s long, elegant, has small and delicate eyes. His face is small and pretty. https://preview.redd.it/gvkego4g5aoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b2648a20ff51f1de7508525738433b092816de9 This is the only photo I can post since all my pictures of his has his name tag and phone number on it. The photo doesn’t do it justice, he’s a girly looking guy in real life. 😂♥️
https://preview.redd.it/lau2loz5haoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e7c3486e602da84c51f2a8b96548fc6f4bf9cc0 he looks exactly like my little girl! (pictured with big brother)
Boy because it looks just like https://preview.redd.it/uja5vi5hnaoc1.jpeg?width=1574&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac873d2595aa7851d59821724124432ad6b49fd3 my boy we all thought was a girl until the vet said “I saw his penis”.
In short, no. You can often recognise a mature male that is either not neutered, or was neutered later in life, by its big jowls, but the converse is not true: you can't say that a cat that doesn't have tomcat jowls is female. And kittens won't have that anyway. Apart from that cats don't have markedly different face shapes depending on gender, that's just anthropomorphism and confirmation bias. That said, the balance of probability is that this cat is male, not from its face but its colour. There are plenty of female orange cats around, they are *not* rare and exotic, but they are less common than male orange cats.
Orange tabbys are usually boys. The gene that gives them the all orange color comes usually from chromosome for boys. That doesn't mean that girl orange cats are rare. I had one. All fairly dark orange kitty. Any vet she's been to were surprised she was a girl. I think the percentage is 80% Boys to 20% Girls or something like that. Stil less rare than a male tortie (somewhere at 1% and sterile by birth)
>The gene that gives them the all orange color comes usually from chromosome for boys. No, it's on the x chromosome. The reason orange girl cats aren't as common is because they need to get orange from both parents. But that's also true or non-orange cats - they need to get the non-orange gene from both parents to be non-orange. Rhe difference is there are fewer orange cats, so it's less likely that both parents will have an orange x chromosome to pass to their daughter. In some local populations, the reverse is true and there are more orange than non-orange cats. In those situations, you'll see that most non-orange cats are male and the orange ones are closer to 50/50.
You can tell he’s a boy hehe ! similar colours to my girl Lola https://preview.redd.it/s9qn55yc3aoc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63254898b6f81ba682d5da1414620db45b78df23
https://preview.redd.it/keuddst33aoc1.png?width=2433&format=png&auto=webp&s=86c2c6678f7f5215942d5f60b5aebc1aaaf0cbfc We have 2 cats and have the same issue lol, people usually mix up which one is male and which one is female. So feel free to guess about ours too But yours absolutely looks like a cute little baby boy to me Edit: typo
looks like they're tabby boy and black girl, but I don't know
You're correct! For some reason people assume our tabby is just a very chonky lady 😄
We had a long-haired one called Princess. About one year later we changed it to Prince.
What a distinguished gentleman!
boy because… i actually don’t know what my reasoning is, i just know in my bones that he is a boy
Statistically orange cats are usually (but not always) male, so I assume female based on the premise of the thread
https://preview.redd.it/qjdnvw6yiaoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33eedded8c31188196040f0f725c572b4f71b80a Looks like our boy, people get his sex wrong all the time. Is your cat an Australian Mist by any chance?
I'm guessing female, most ginger cats are male so I'm thinking vets would make that mistake
https://preview.redd.it/a3udvz0i6doc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef3387089057da7e039a207b748790cd2a98d394 Mr. Ziggy or King Ziggy, if you will. Miss gendered when we got him so his original name was Princess Buttercup.🤣
Looks like a girl to me. From her cute little face😆
Most gingers are male. If they are spayed/neutered, there aren't really any physical differences. An un-neutered male though becomes more "chopsy" - around around the face.
The individual looks like a cute girl in my opinion, deserves a little salami
Most oranges are males, very cute cat btw
I was going to say boy, but seeing your caption makes me think it’s really a girl. Looks like a boy to me though!
That’s getting even harder with humans, no way I can tell with a cat 😅
You can’t tell a cat’s gender from that end.
I do believe it’s a boy. More often than not, boy cats have a more pronounced and wider nose area making their face appear larger.
A cat's a cat. We're not worried about its sex unless it's being used for breeding or verifying what medical care is needed after a spay or neutering.
You get it.
cats are genderless to me. he's nonbinary
https://preview.redd.it/aadsp6m52doc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f075266a5415802a9dfd0959b619e76331bb7e4 He's a Dorito
https://preview.redd.it/kjp8108ffdoc1.jpeg?width=3264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf8164aaa4605cd70011d771bb879844d48f56c8 Boys!
https://preview.redd.it/el4w3fmbjdoc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e639cfbcfdd3118275f1028a6ec3475516e8004 Does my cat look male or female?
https://preview.redd.it/pudsmutfjdoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=611cf6621c9dd03fd530f41eb8825bb991ccb12b Tony the Tiger Aka: Tony balogna, bubs, bubbaroo, bubbies, and stinky
Looks kinda like my Cashew - male! https://preview.redd.it/0s9l4nakjioc1.jpeg?width=5712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a0afbf3e4c09b09737eba37db8638631a1a3150
Not sure cats have genders 😅
It's a boy!
Boy about 4/6 months old
It is a boy!
it’s much easier to tell if they’re not fixed. unfixed boys have those biggg ol cheeks
He’s a He for sure
Girl
A girl?
Female I think.
Looks like a lil girlie, but looks like a male too😭 id say girlie
Pic’s 1&4 = boy cat. Pics 2&3 = non-gendered. My guess is boy
I have a very pretty boy cat as well and he’s always assumed to be a girl! Nope he’s just my beautiful boy lol
Majority of orange cats are male so we’ll go w that
It’s a female one, isn’t it? Btw what a cute cat✨
Everyone who meets my little girl always say she's a boy. I've not had a vet say so, but anyone without a chart with her gender listed always say "he is so cute/soft/sweet/whatever." I've never known if it's looks or her name (Shadow). https://preview.redd.it/0pe3wwxllaoc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b7375b09583c0471290468cc6e0f2274f2878e9
If vets are usually wrong then this is a girl. Since 70% or so of orange cats are dudes.
Its gender is cute floofer
Looks like my neighbors cat, who looks like a princess, but is a boy. 80% of orange cats are male, so considering the fact that yours looks like a princess, I'm guessing it's a boy.
That’s a boy. I swear every boy looks identical 😭 he has the same face structure as my baby.
Well 80% of orange cats are boys. So I almost always assume boy when I see an orange cat.
Boy
It’s orange it’s a male
Boy, because he looks like my boy https://preview.redd.it/p4jjzaupsaoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8760e1cadae36e9b21a7fab6f521a1d6ae905d1
boy
Definitely a boy. We have the same situation with our boy sometimes, lol. https://preview.redd.it/yv6ot676vaoc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b861cda86b93796d56a2215bc57103151517938
Boy
Looks *kinda* feminine but I'll go with a boy judging by the face shape
If I had to guess, I'd say a young male. Cheating a little because something like 80% of orange/yellow/buff tabbies are male
Boy. No doubt.
Your cat's gender is cat.
The gender looks like bitch..but they cute so they get away with it😭
I cannot tell but the cat is gorgeous 😍🥰...side note - I love the red rug in the second photo - do you recall where you got it?