This morning, bright and early, we crammed Gracie into the cat carrier and took her to the vet to be spayed. The plan was to have her fixed and let her roam around outside since she spends a great deal of time sitting by the storm door twitching at the birds and squirrels.Well, friends and neighbors, the phone rang about 10 minutes ago from the animal hospital. It seems that Gracie, despite 2 or 3 previous trips to the vet, is actually George.
Potential psychological damage to the cat aside, (from 7 months of calling him her) the plan stands. The vet said they would neuter him, and we still plan to let him roam and hunt small animals.
Like I told Marilyn, the only sure ways to be sure about a cat's gender are to witness the birth of kittens (thankfully, we won't have to be living through that), or to pick up a scalpel. I guess even experts can be fooled.
As long as I'm on the subject of psychotic cats, I guess I should update y'all on Gizmo. She (yes this was confirmed by the vet) has been outside for about 4 months. She spends her time sleeping on one of the chairs on the front porch, or driving the birds in the front yard to the back, then chasing them to the front again. She's doing quite well, and waits patiently by the front door each evening until we feed her.Stay well.
That is just so funny. Poor Tux is still gender confused. Tux looked like a boy to me and Gracie looked like a girl. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteI guess Gracie has had good reason to be so temperamental,poor thing was just trying to be gender appropriate---
ReplyDeleteO.K. What do I call the cat when it gets home tomorrow? The Vet. office even said they would change her/his name on the record -- I have never really been good at telling at kittens sex from behind - so looking at their face has served me well till today!!! Thank heavens humans are fairly easy to identify!
I think George is good. I just still think that this is hilarious. I'm not the only one that cant tell =)
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