Many of us have been through the "Confusion of the Neuro" with the yes it is not it's not, 2nd or 3rd opinions each being different, there is a lesion no there is not a lesion, etc. Well, yesterday we had an eye opening experience. I found out that vets are the same way!

As you know about 5 months ago DD18 brought home a feral kitten. We brought Tux to the vet and he said it was a boy. It is NOT a boy unless male cats go in to heat making lots of noise and sticking there bottoms in the air. DDs and I sat here wide eyed exclaiming "He's a Girl!" LOL

BTW - Tux is doing great! "She" has become a loving and affectionate cat full of spunk. Jules if you are reading this, we did it. And, "he" will be spayed. lol We were waiting until "he" was about 6 months old per the vets recommendation. We will be searching for a new vet too for that 2nd opinion. LOL

HA HA imagine the embarrassment if you took him to get neutered!

That would have been embarrassing.

With Tux making her noises, DD17 thought she had really bad cramps and wanted to know what we could do for her - like a hot pack. LOL I told her that there was only 2 things we could do and 1 of them was NOT an option (finding a male cat).

LOL - I had the same thing happen to me! We got two kittens and I told the girls to make sure they were female, I didn't want a male cat. When the girls went to pick them up at the neighbors house they all checked and double checked to make sure. When they came home we checked again, no problem both females.

Well, about 6 months later I had one sitting on my lap on "her" back rubbing her belly and low and behold she was a he! We had taken them for their first shots a couple of months earlier and the vet said they were both girls! Well, come to find out they were both boys!

It was funny cause DD #1 named hers George thinking it was a funny name for a girl kitten. DD #2 named hers Buttercup which was ok.

We found a new vet too! Buttercup is still around living with my parents happy and fat as can be! When we took them to my parents George ran away after a week never to be seen again. We hope someone took him in but after weeks of putting up signs no one claimed to have seen him.

Char, that's funny! Thanks for that because I was feeling like such an idiot!

DD18 still wants to call her Tux/Tuxie. If DD18 knew in the beginning that she was a girl she would have named her Basil or Pixie.

When I was pregnant, the big shot specialist of multiple births my obstetrician sent me to did an ultrasound and said "Two boys". I looked at him and said, "No. Boy and a girl". I was right. I reminded him he also mis-sexed my Ob's child (he said boy, she had a girl) Maybe all those girls were giving him the finger.

I can still remember the day when DD's kitten changed names from Jasmine to Cody.....so I empathise!

Tomorrow we're going to get our long awaited cockatiel and although the breeders tell you they can tell a male from a female bird.....we will see.

Most literature says it takes around 6 months to be absolutely sure if a bird is male or female, and this brood is only about 4 weeks old.....so it will be interesting to see if their 50/50 guess is correct or not.

For some unknown reason I was watching Home Alone 3 with my granddaughter and Doris the rat has testicles. Hmmm.... that was about the funniest part of the movie--watching Doris run up some guys's legs with his little rat puffies waggling between his legs.

Wow you were paying way too much attention to THAT movie! I think that one was released straight to DVD - for good reason!! You must have been watching the ABC Family channel when they had the Home Alone marathon this weekend cause we got sucked into it, too. I saw that same scene but didn't notice the "little rat puffies".

maybe I need new glasses?

with guinea pigs, sometimes I just wait and see who climbs on top...



their apparatus is so SMALL, it's kinda hard to, er, um, distinguish.

don't feel bad, Trish, I've got a female goose named Larry, and a MALE goose named Glinda!

they *know* their names, so once one has been calling them for a year, it's hard to change...

then there's Thelma and Louise, the pair of ducks (paradox?) who always walk together, yet have never laid eggs or mated.

I defy *anyone* to tell me their gender... they exhibit caruncling (the red knotty lumps around the beak and eyes in Muscovy drakes), yet have NO male feather head-crests (which rise like a cockatiel's when danger is perceived)

it's just going to stay a mystery... lol... they're PETS and will never be gracing my table for sure.