Not sure weather kitty is male or female!

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please help me figure out of my kitten is male or female! it is an outdoor cat and needs to be fixed immediately if it is a female!
my family is having a lot of debate weather it is male or female. thank you!

 

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He's a boy :D. But you should still have him fixed immediately or he'll start spraying toxic-smelling urine all over! Plus he would father a lot of unwanted kittens :(.
 

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He's definitely a male (the distance between his anus and the genital opening is the deciding factor---females have theirs directly under the anus, males have the scrotum in between). BUT, he's either already neutered or he's a cryptorchid (his testicles are inside his body), because there just ain't no testicles there :tongue2:. If he's cryptorchid, he'll start acting like a tomcat soon, and the vet will have to do surgery to find his testicles :(. It's a lot like a spay surgery.

Were did you get him? Any possibility they had him neutered before giving him to you?
 
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he is not yet neutered! is this an emergency type of surgery?

He's definitely a male (the distance between his anus and the genital opening is the deciding factor---females have theirs directly under the anus, males have the scrotum in between). BUT, he's either already neutered or he's a cryptorchid (his testicles are inside his body), because there just ain't no testicles there :tongue2:. If he's cryptorchid, he'll start acting like a tomcat soon, and the vet will have to do surgery to find his testicles :(. It's a lot like a spay surgery.

Were did you get him? Any possibility they had him neutered before giving him to you?
 

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No, not an emergency. My cousin had a cryptorchid kitty and the vet made her wait until he was 10 months old to neuter him, to make sure he hadn't been neutered as a very small kitten. By then his tomcat behaviors were pretty bad, so we knew for sure he hadn't been neutered. But it will have to be done eventually because the testicles aren't meant to be inside of him, and so they're more likely to become cancerous or cause an infection if not removed.
 
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