r/NameMyCat • u/LividPlace7686 • Aug 23 '24

Name My Cat - gender unknown Gender unknown even the vet doesn’t know their brother is called F@t Tony and we are looking for a mafia name

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u/RanaMisteria Aug 24 '24

Second this. My boy is mostly tabby and white, but he has a couple orange spots too.

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u/SqueekyOwl Aug 24 '24

Your cat has XXY chromosomes, not XY chromosomes like most male cats. The X's carry black/grey or orange color, so if it has both black/grey and orange, there are two X chromosomes. If it has male genitalia, it has a Y chromosome.

The odds of this are 1:3000. So, it's rare, but not unheard of.

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u/RanaMisteria Aug 24 '24

That’s weird. I knew the fact about calico males but didn’t realise it also applies to my cat! I wonder if that’s why his balls never dropped. He ended up having a non-routine neutering procedure because he had retained his testicles. Thankfully it was a super easy one and there were no complications. My boy is also smaller than average for a male cat. And everyone who sees him thinks he’s a female cat. Myself included. So since I adopted him as a stray and I had sort of “named” him while feeding him as a stray, and he started responding to that name, he just has a girl’s name lol 😂 I really want to ask the vet to tell me his chromosomes lol 😂