Are your dogs or cats often mistaken for the wrong gender?

[ParNone]

Oz pretty much always gets mistaken for a Girl. I always have him in either a blue, green or purple collar. But I guess he does look sort of dainty, plus add in the blue eyes and long eye lashes and it's an automatic assumption. I don't even correct people anymore.

[IRescue452]

People always call Autumn a boy. Even when she's shaved and its easy to tell. She also used to have a pink collar.

[molucass]

Oh my gosh that is hilarious!!!!! ROTFLOL! a chihuahua meowing!!! too funny!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found that really funny. I started laughing out loud, and my mom asked me what I was laughing at, and I told her and she said "Well, that's not funny."

[Chilli]

Khaith (my kitty^^) is always mistaken for a female.. and they always think his name is Kate. Well, it doesn't help much when I used to let him wear pink collars.
Frisk... everyone tends to mistake him for a girl. Anyone who knows my fat little boy says that they couldn't picture him as a girl. Maybe his name is a bit feminine? Or maybe he looks a wee pregnant(He's not round enough in my opinion to even come close to looking pregnant, though)?
People get the genders right on everyone else, though.

[dionne]

you know strangely enough for me, people call my girl cat a boy, and my boy cat a boy...apparantly some people just prefer to think of all cats as boys or something.....to ME i think it's quite obvious which gender my kitties are, but that could contribute to the fact that i raised them....

[dab_20]

Sammy is often mistaken for a girl. Some people think he just looks like a girl when he has long hair. He obviously looks like a boy to me. Some people think Oreo's a boy because of her name.

[zanyshihtzu]

My mia gets called a boy alot even though she often wears pink bows and a pink collar.

[Roxyluvsme13]

YES! Everyone calls Roxy he all the time..

[cloverfdx]

Yep all the time. Clover is always called "big fella" by strangers hehe, even though she has been wearing/ using a pink collar and lead for the last 8 months or so. Elvis has been mistaken for a "pretty girl" aswell, but he has realy put on some manly muscle in the last few months so he does not look girlie anymore .

Everyone else is pretty obvious.

[Zippy]

Pumpkin is called a boy a lot sometimes even after they have been told she had kittens(only happened to my relitives(sp?) Tiger(Zippy's RB brother)was alwas called a girl and Zippy a boy.

[bckrazy]

Kay, that theory cannot be completely true. Gonzo is always called a "she" or "pretty" by everyone! =P I think it might be because he's such a softy. Even 2 ladies on our Flyball team, who we've known for over a year, call Gonzo a "she"... and they have a male BC. It does get annoying, after you've said "No, he's a boy." 10x.

Strangely, everyone knows Fozzie is a wittle boy. He must exude masculinity

Cali, I think the show you're referring to is "the Facts of Life". My best friend is a girl named Blair! So I also associate it with females.

[K9soul]

My current dogs don't get mixed up. Tommy is so large he's just obviously male .

But with Willie and Cody it was different. Sometimes both were called she, but Cody was ALWAYS called she. Because he looked like "lassie" I suppose. There may be something to the black dog thing as Willie was called she far less. I still remember one lady's response after I told her Cody was a boy "Oh but she's too pretty to be a boy!" Never forgot that one LOL. Ironic too considering males generally have the thicker/longer coats.

[king2005]

my old dog Max was often called a girl.. I even saw people look at his belly & say, isn't she pretty.. ummm that wasn't a nipple lady lol

I think most people thought Max was a girl because he was so slim & he was fixed. People who don't know squat about dogs don''t understand that the male part is inside the dog & doesn't hang like a humans.

I only think this becasue my mentally challenged friend looked at my dog while he was on his back & told me Max was a girl. When I asked why she said there was no testies (not her words, so I'm cleaning it up a little) & no penis. I said yes he has penis, its right there & she said no, because its not hanging, so it has to be a female.. long story short, I had to teach her about male dog parts. She never mistaken a male for a female ever again after that

So if my mentally chalenged friend thinks like that, I'm sure people who don't know squat about dogs, think the same way.

[finn's mom]

I think, in general, people seem to think dogs are male. Not sure why. And, it used to be, before everything got so "politically correct", and it became "he/she", people referred to anything where the gender was unknown as "he." If I remember correctly, that was the "correct" way in English class. I still do that when I'm writing or typing or speaking although people think I am just assuming, when all I'm really doing is going by the way I learned in school, even if it is not as "PC"... I refer to everything as "he" unless or until I'm told otherwise. Or it's something obvious like a feminine name or color or something...but, even then, I've seen people put pink collars on male dogs. I know I'll sometimes just ask "is your pet male or female?" just to avoid annoying people. It has never bothered me in the past, though...my dog Bruno was small, so, I think that's why some people thought he was a girl, but, even then, that didn't happen often. I don't think anyone's ever asked if Finn was a girl...they just always call him a "him." But, it wouldn't bother me if people thought he was a girl.

[chrissycat21]

Snowy has been called a boy several times while wearing a pink collar and pink harness.

Although, it might have been because she has a blue leash...