Gender Bending Cat???

• Gender Bending Cat??? ksags411 Posted : 9/27/2006 2:32:32 PM I'm a big fan of my local city's craigslist. So I was browsing today and came across this post (below). Very, um, different. Is this possible in animals??? [8|]   "Sweet Pea was given to us because our nephew has asthma. Sweet Pea is a shy sweet and is a male cat with female internal organs (and has nipples).  He/She was both spade and neutered. she is afraid of children and would make a wonderful companion with others like herself. She responds to Sexy and loves Cat Nip toys like the Fat Rat. she hates cheap kitty litter and will tell you so by digging and digging...." LIKE 6 REPLIES 134 VIEWS LAST POST ROLENTA Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Julitza Posted : 9/27/2006 2:38:02 PM I cant say if this particular case is true or not but I saw a show the other day about an egg laying rooster. I guess anything is possible with animals! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 9/27/2006 2:40:57 PM Lol of course it is! Beagle have both true hermaphrodism and pseudo hermaphrodism documented as occuring. There's even a few pictures in the Beagle book I have. The female can have a "penis" like growth on her vulva etc...   It happens occasionally just like in people or presumably other mammalian species. In people I believe the PC term these days is "intersexed". 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• marynh Posted : 9/27/2006 2:44:16 PM and male cats have nipples like male people do 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Mallory Posted : 9/27/2006 2:46:59 PM Alllllllll the time. Hermaphrotidism can just be a genetic mutation, but it can also be the result of other things such as chemical exposure (this is well documented in frogs and studied in detail by Berkeley professor Tyrone Hayes's laboratory).  It's seen in all sorts of vertebrates. Heck, I'll even go out on a limb and talk about the unisexuals -- the females that don't need males to reproduce.  Not quite gender bending (none of them turn to males, though there are situations in fish where that can happen), but the lizards I work with reproduce asexually and don't ever mate with males. Nature is a fabulous, ridiculous, and crazy thing! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• pofi_pasquale Posted : 9/27/2006 6:04:42 PM All three of my male cats have nipples...it's never been reported to me by their vets that they also had internal female organs!!!![] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rolenta Posted : 9/28/2006 2:57:30 AM Yeah, I'd say the nipple thing doesn't matter. How would they find out if a male cat had female organs? I doubt they check routinely! Weird. Maybe it went into heat... Anyway, I read that hermaphordites are usually genetically either male or female, not both, and it's a developmental problem. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login