How to distinguish a cat from a cat: useful tips

Determining who is in front of you, a cat or a cat, when sexual signs are obvious, is quite simple. It is much more difficult to understand the sex of a kitten at a very early age. Many people even go to a veterinarian for this or simply wait 2-3 months to determine the sex on their own. However, there is nothing difficult in this, and any person can learn to understand himself who exactly is in front of him: a cat or a cat.

How to determine the sex of a newborn kitten?

A kitten that has just been born has a very weak, fragile organism. For this reason, the animal should be handled with the utmost care. In order to determine the sex of the baby, you need:

1. Keep the kitten in your hands as carefully and carefully as possible.
2. Put the animal on some surface, on the belly, and then lift its tail.
3. Before the above manipulations, you should make sure that the mother of the kittens is not opposed to you taking them in hand. Otherwise, you can suffer from the cat, because in such a period all the instincts of the newly-made mother are aggravated.
4. Try to carry out this procedure as quickly as possible, so as not to make any mother or kitten nervous.
5. If the question of determining sex is not too important, you should leave this procedure until the kittens are 3 months old.

Great attention should also be paid to the fact that it is extremely not recommended to do with small kittens:

1. You can not keep a kitten in your hands carelessly, carelessly, you can thus make the baby hurt.
2. It is forbidden to lift the kitten by the tail.
3. In general, it is better not to take a kitten in your arms until it reaches at least 21 days old, since any careless action can harm the baby’s body. In addition, your smell can remain on the kitten's fur, which is why the baby's mother-cat can refuse it. Subsequently, the process of feeding the baby can become your concern.
4. In no case can not take the baby from the mother during feeding.
5. At such an early age, small kittens have not yet fully formed the processes of thermoregulation in the body, as a result of which even minor drafts or blows of the wind can cause hypothermia. For this reason, you should not keep a kitten in your arms for a long time.
6. It is forbidden to press on the genitals of the animal, they can easily be damaged.

How to understand a kitten - a boy or a girl?

First, the sex can be determined by the distance between the anus and the genitals. If we consider the genital area in small kittens, then we can see that in boys the distance from the anus to the sexual organ is greater than the same distance in girls.

Of course, one of the main features is the shape of the genitals. You should carefully look to understand who is in front of you: a cat or a cat. In males, as a rule, the genitals are a colon in shape. But in girls, the genitals are more like the letter “i”. It should be understood that these designations are very conditional, the main thing is to find similarities in the specified forms and genitals of kittens.

When do testicles appear in kittens?

Traditionally, the main and most pronounced sexual sign in kittens are the testicles in boys. It is for him that the sex of adults is usually determined. The main problem is that in newborn kittens, the testicles are almost invisible, which is why it is so difficult to determine the sex of the baby. As a rule, testicles in kittens-boys begin to form closer to three months.

Tactile sex kitten

One of the most effective ways to determine the sex of a newborn kitten is to probe the genitals. This method can be used almost from the birth of a kitten. The fact is that even if the kitten does not have testicles,they are still originally formed and can be gently probed. To do this, you just need to gently hold closed fingers in the genital area. The main thing is to do it without pressure on the genitals, gently and without pressure. Thus, you can feel small pea-shaped formations in the genital area, it is these formations that are the future testes. The size of such pea-shaped formations is no more than half a centimeter.

How to find out the sex of a kitten by color?

Few people know, but the sex of a kitten can also be suggested by the color of his coat. For example, tortoise coloring says that a kitten in front of you is definitely a girl. Turtle color consists of three colors: white, black and red. These colors are transferred only by the X chromosome. To obtain such a combination of colors, there must be two X chromosomes in the animal's DNA. Traditionally, cats have only one X chromosome in their DNA, but two can only be found in females. Just for this reason, cats do not have three colors in color at the same time. A similar combination in male animals can only be found whenthe presence of a rare genetic disease.

Auburn color in color is a kind of male indicator. It is for this reason that most red animals are cats, not cats.

In some cases, the cat owner determines the sex of the kitten, even on the face, however, this method is not always effective.

Traditional methods for determining the sex of kittens

Many cat breeders determine the sex of an animal by completely non-standard methods. For example, cat owners often are able to understand who is in front of them, a cat or a cat, by the look of an animal. As a rule, cats have a more self-confident look, and cats are more alert. However, it should be understood that this technique also does not always work.

In order to finally establish oneself in one’s opinion regarding the sex of the animal, one can pay attention to how the fur grows in the animal in the genital area. In males, the fur between the anus and the genital is rather thick, but the females have practically no hair.

There is another very old, but at the same time, a common method: you need to put a bowl of milk in front of the kitten and see how the kitten drinks milk, and in which position its tail is. If the tail is raised up, then, most likely, in front of you is a cat.If the tail, on the contrary, is lowered down and pressed to the body, then the female is in front of you.

Sometimes a sign that you have a kitten boy in front of you may also be a more acute and pronounced urine odor. Many cat owners, due to their great experience, know other ways to determine the sex of a kitten, however, not everyone can use them. If you do not succeed in determining the sex of the baby yourself, you should contact the specialists.

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