aha! Thanks for the kind explanation. I've always found our naming conventions interesting - and that so many countries have gender-neutral names....I would agree - once you get a cat to recognized and respond to its name, changing it would be more pain than gain, and a rose by any other name still wouldn't be as fun as a kitty

Ritz's name is somewhat neutral andwas chosen for her attire - as in "puttin on the ritz"...but I know what you mean about kitties and their gender at an early age - I grew up on a farm and we had many litters of kittens - it was always hard to tell for awhile what they were. Even fooled my dad, the expert at animal husbandry