How to distinguish a cat from a cat: useful tips

Determining who is in front of you, a cat or a cat, when sexual characteristics are obvious, is quite simple. It is much more difficult to understand the gender of a kitten at a very young age. For this, many even go to the veterinarian or simply wait 2-3 months to determine the gender on their own. However, there is nothing complicated in this, and any person can learn to understand who is in front of him: a cat or a cat.

How to determine the gender of a newborn kitten?

The kitten, which was recently born, still has a very weak immature organism. For this reason, the animal should be handled as carefully as possible. In order to determine the sex of the baby, you need:

1. Hold the kitten in your hands as carefully and carefully as possible.
2. Put the animal on some surface, on the stomach, and then raise its tail.
3. Before the above manipulations, you should make sure that the mother of the kittens is not against you picking them up. Otherwise, you can suffer from a cat, because in such a period all the instincts of the newly minted mother are aggravated.
4. Try to carry out this procedure as quickly as possible so as not to make either mom or kitten nervous.
5. If the issue of determining sex is not too important, you should leave this procedure until the kittens reach 3 months.

Much attention should also be paid to what is not recommended for small kittens:

1. You can’t hold the kitten in your hands carelessly, sloppy, you can thus hurt the baby.
2. It is forbidden to lift the kitten by the tail.
3. In general, it is better not to pick up the kitten until it reaches at least 21 days of age, since any careless action can harm the baby's body. In addition, your smell may remain on the hair of the kitten, which is why the baby's cat-mother can refuse it. Subsequently, the process of feeding the baby may already be your concern.
4. In no case should you take the baby from mom during feeding.
5. At such an early age, small kittens have not yet fully formed the processes of thermoregulation in the body, as a result of which even slight drafts or wind blows can cause hypothermia. For this reason, you should not hold the kitten in your arms for a long time.
6. It is forbidden to press on the genitals of the animal, they can easily be damaged.

How to understand a kitten - a boy or a girl?

First, gender can be determined by the distance between the anus and genitals. If we look at the genital area in small kittens, we can see that in boys the distance from the anus to the genitals is greater than the similar distance in girls.

Of course, one of the main signs is the shape of the genital organs. You should carefully look to understand who exactly is in front of you: a cat or a cat. In males, as a rule, the genitals are a colon in shape. But in girls, the genitals are more like the letter "i". It should be understood that these designations are very arbitrary, the main thing is to find similarity in these forms and genitals of kittens.

When do testicles appear in male kittens?

Traditionally, the main and most pronounced sexual trait in kittens is the testicles in boys. It is on them that sex is usually determined in adults. The main problem is that in newborn kittens the testicles are almost invisible, so it is so difficult to determine the gender of the baby. Typically, testicles in male kittens begin to form closer to three months.

Tactile sex determination of a kitten

One of the most effective ways to determine the sex of a newborn kitten is probing the genitals. This method can be used almost from the very birth of a kitten. The fact is that even if the kitten does not see the testicles, they are still initially formed and can be gently probed. To do this, you just need to gently hold your closed fingers in the genital area. The main thing is to do this without pressure on the genitals, gently and without pressure. Thus, you can feel small pea-like formations in the genital area, it is these formations that are the future testicles. The size of such pea-shaped formations is not more than half a centimeter.

How to find out the sex of a kitten by color?

Few people know, but the kitten’s gender can also suggest the color of its coat. For example, the tortoiseshell coloring indicates that the kitten in front of you is definitely a girl. Tortoise color consists of three colors: white, black and red. These colors are transferred only by chromosome X. In order to get such a combination of colors, there must be two chromosomes X in the animal’s DNA. Traditionally, cats have only one chromosome X in DNA, and two can be found only in females. Just for this reason, cats do not have three colors at the same time. A similar combination in male animals can be found only in the presence of a rare genetic disease.

The red color in the color is a kind of indicator of the male sex. It is for this reason that most often ginger animals turn out to be cats, not cats.

In some cases, catters determine the sex of a kitten even by its face, however, this method is not always effective.

Alternative methods for determining the sex of kittens

Many cat breeders determine the sex of the animal by completely non-standard methods. For example, cat-catters are often able to understand who is in front of them, a cat or a cat, from the look of an animal. As a rule, cats have a more self-confident look, and cats are more alert. However, it should be understood that this technique also does not always work.

In order to finally establish oneself in one's opinion regarding the sex of an animal, one can pay attention to how the hair of an animal grows in the genital area. In males, the hair between the anus and the genitals is quite thick, but the females have practically no hair.

There is another very old, but at the same time widespread method: you need to put a bowl of milk in front of the kitten and watch how the kitten drinks milk, and in what position its tail is in this case. If the tail is raised up, then most likely, in front of you is a cat. If the tail, on the contrary, is lowered down and pressed to the body, then in front of you is a female.

Sometimes a sign that a kitten is a boy is a presence of a more acute and pronounced smell of urine. Many cat-worms, due to their extensive experience, also know other ways to determine the gender of a kitten, however, not everyone can use them. If you still can’t determine the sex of the baby yourself, you should contact the specialists.

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