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 🙄.

All female cats are cats and all male cats are hangovers

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.

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.

:)

There's a cat-in-the-hat joke in here somewhere, I'm just not finding it.

Germans gender hats? But I'm masculine and love wearing bunny ears! /s

This is why Dutch is superior.

Poes.

/jk

I call cats "it" because it sounds more cuterstersterster

I have a female orange as well. She has floating patellas and walks funky. Does yours have something similar?

Yes, plus the tabby variants of those (i.e. tabby with orange splotches, tabby-and-white with orange splotches).

About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.

Male calicos need to be XXY instead of XY. They're almost always female, with males being very noteworthy. Only 1 in 3000 calicos is male.

I'll take one. I'll sex those cats up