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    Roger is a girl!

    I took Roger to his first vet visit since I brought him home. He was due for some shots. The vet was looking him over and discovered that Roger is a...Rogette, I guess. The spay site and spay tattoo apparently gave it away. The people at the rescue said it was Roger's umbilical cord/belly button. Roger's paperwork said she was a he, also. So I never looked (not that I'd be able to tell). I also never questioned it because I know orange cats are usually male.

    Ugh, now I have to rename him, I mean, her.

    Also? Looks like Roger has ringworm. Awesome.

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    hee heee Sorry but your story is very familiar to me. Friends of ours rescued a cat they called her Miss Kitty she was a beautiful long haired black cat, anyway we took her and started calling her Emily. We could call and little Emily would come running. We got her into the vet about a week later and our vet was looking Emily over and said we have an Emil instead. Aubrey Jacob (AJ) came home with me that day.

    I also thought all orange were males most of the ones I had seen were male but our vet tech said no. I hope your little GIRL gets rid of her worms quickly.
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    LOL. Wasn't there a shaved patch on her little tummy? How early did they do that spay? Little kitten parts are so small and close together, it can be awfully hard to tell.

    Rosie? Shouldn't matter. Both my kittens that went to new homes had their names changed, didn't seem to phase them at all. OOh, Jessie, short for Jester (which sounds male to me) because she fooled you?

    Lots of orange cats are female. The old rule is quite a bit off. There can be male torties as well but that rule is a bit better, most are female. Our Ginger was orange and white. Her two male kittens were both orange and white, one long hair, one short. Her two female kittens were both torties, one long hair, one short.

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    Ooh ring worm!! Not good. When I was still at home, my older bro brought home a cute little kitty-kitty stray he found at work. We ALL got ring worm, my girlfriend got ring worm, her family got it, it spread CLEAR to Kansas to her older sisters family there. Nasty nasty stuff. We all carried ointment cream prescribed from our doctors, and the cute little kitty kitty had its own ointment too. NOT FUN

    how about the name Rochelle?

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    I'd leave her name as Roger....an "inside joke" kind of thing, along the lines of naming females Sam, Joe, Fred (OK...they could be nicknames for Samantha, Josephine and Fredericka, but they're not always). Maybe you're not as perverse as I am in my appreciation of weird names for animals, though.

    My Trouble was thought to be a male when she was picked out....both the woman who had the litter and I thought we saw a colon and not a semi-colon down there. I had specifically gone in search of a male. I was disabused of the notion at my first vet visit. Trouble didn't care....and she was the third cat of mine to be named Trouble (the first female but that's a pretty good unisex name).

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    A few years ago we had a neighborhood stray with 3 tiny kittens we started feeding. We slowly got the kittens to warm up to us but mom disappeared. We determined there were 2 boys and a girl.

    We wanted to get them all fixed so once they were comfortable enough to let us pet them we started trying to coax them into a crate. "Stephanie" was the first to give us a chance so off she went to get spayed. Only...when we picked her back up the papers said "neutered." Oops. Lol. Turns out Stephanie was a Calvin all along.
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    I was certainly surprised! I haven't decided whether or not to change the name. Of course, now that he is a she, she looks like a girl to me and Roger no longer fits.

    Regarding the ringworm -- yeah. Not happy about that. I spent all last night cleaning, washing, doing the best I could. I have meds for the cat, and, from personal experience, I know that you can do things to help the spores keep to themselves. I used nail polish on a spot that I got years ago and it was gone in a couple days. I am not putting nail polish on the cat, but I put vaseline on the areas that are infected, over the meds. The backs of her ears. I washed both dogs with an anti-fungal shampoo last night, just hoping that it would do something for them. And for about two weeks, little Roger is locked back in the utility room. Too bad for her. If the dogs have it, my life is going to be hell.

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    OOPS

    I can never tell with kittens.

 



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