Help confirm gender?

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post.  If not feel free to move it.  We got a kitten yesterday that is 4 months old.  The previous owner never took it to the vet and insists it's a male, but it looks very female to me.  I probably wouldn't even second guess myself except that the woman seemed so sure it was a little boy.  Any help is greatly appriciated, I hope this picture is good enough, and sorry for posting cat bum LOL.

Looks like a girl to me as well.  And at 4 months it's a good time to get her neutered.  Can we see a photo of her face, please? 

OrientalSlave said:

Looks like a girl to me as well.  And at 4 months it's a good time to get her neutered.  Can we see a photo of her face, please? 

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LOL, yes I posted some more pictures on my other thread

http://www.thecatsite.com/t/246292/is-this-unusual-coloring/30#post_3230234

Absolutely looks like a girl. At 4 months old you'd definitely be seeing some "kitty cotton puffs" (my word for feline testes :lol3 growing. The previous owner probably just doesn't know how to sex kittens.

I would love to know why anybody might think that cat is a boy. Even after they are neutered, tomcats do not look similar under their tails.

EmilyMayWilcha said:

I would love to know why anybody might think that cat is a boy. Even after they are neutered, tomcats do not look similar under their tails.

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I'm not sure, she was just so convinced though.  She asked me how "he's" doing via email, and I replied always saying he instead of she, because when I suggested (a week ago when I first went to visit) that "he" looked to be a "she", she seemed a bit offended that I would question her ability to determine the sex of her kitten.  I was going to show her a picture but then she'd wonder about the pink collar she's now wearing LOL.

That woman needs to learn some things about feline anatomy. Show her a picture of a tomcat's butt so she can see the (very obvious) difference.

It's the coloring. . .I raised an orphan tabby kitten who looks like that under the tail, and I wasn't positive she was a she until about that age, when no testicles showed up. The black spots on the sides there really do look like baby (undescended) testicles. And I like to think I'm good at sexing kittens!

But I guess she really is a tortie :tongue2:.

I read you can't tell the sex of a newborn kitten because the testicles don't drop in utero. But at four months old, the testicles would have dropped by now if the OP's kitten was a tomcat.

Kittens are best sexed at birth Emily, it's very easy to tell at that time. In the days following they can swell and be harder to tell, a few days later they're back to normal

I've been able to tell the sex of 4 different litters at birth, the latest being 4 days after birth and haven't been wrong yet!

Definitely a little girl!

14 kittens sexed at birth and 6 at hours old.  All right and one even at 8 weeks had a tech fooled!

I guess it will sink in when you say "She did great from her spay."  and mention something about her shaved belly in case she thinks you think spay is for a boy.

I normally can sex kittens so easily! This one looked different from her sisters and there were no boys in the litter for comparison. She still kind of looks like a boy back there. I should get pics sometime.

Is anyone guilty of giving a cat the wrong name because the sex was unknown?

I was told by someone who had kittens any time you went to her house(she was a kid so parents fault) that this one was a girl 100 percent.  Wrongly named for over a week till first vet visit.  I never looked and only cat I had at time was neutered anyways. 
 

Being neutered changed nothing. You would have thought Wilbur still had his testes if you saw his butt. I guess it varies how much the scrotum shrinks after the testis is removed.

And at what age it is done.  My done at 7 weeks look smaller then the 9 1/2 week olds.   Just like in humans different guys different sizes to start with lol.
 

catsallaround said:

14 kittens sexed at birth and 6 at hours old.  All right and one even at 8 weeks had a tech fooled!

I guess it will sink in when you say "She did great from her spay."  and mention something about her shaved belly in case she thinks you think spay is for a boy.

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 LOL, yes that would be funny except given her lack responsible ownership and the fact that her cats hadn't been to the vet, she would probably think a spay is for a male LOL.  She still had the mother of this cat who was barely a year herself and wanted to separate them soon because she didn't want "him" getting her pregnant again.  Fair enough concern had he been a male, but I couldn't understand why the heck she wasn't getting the mom spayed.  My kitten has never even been to the vet st 4 months old.  That's about to change on Friday

Here's a picture of my gender-bending little girl:

The OP's kitty doesn't look this much like a boy, but I can see why the previous owner thought she was a he.

My mom had a "male" kitten who was given to her by her high school biology teacher (lol) who had kittens. You'd think they would have figured it out by then but, well, some people :tongue2:.