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

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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.

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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.