Are Girl Cats Girlish?

[SoDesuKa]

I have a male cat and a female cat. I think of the male as masculine and the female as feminine. It occurs to me that that may not be because they act any different, but that I think they act different.

Are female cats precious and dainty? Do male cats swagger like guys? I suspect my perceptions may be just ideology. A friend of mine with several dogs says that bitches are, well, bitchy. Hmmm.

[Taverner]

1. Nope. Female cats want to be their male owner's girlfriend

Male cats just wanna get busy

[fizzgig]

5. my fat cat is certainly in love with my boyfriend

she cracks me up

[SoDesuKa]

8. Lapsitting Cat

Gracie's a lapsitter and she likes to be held. Otis likes to be petted but he doesn't want his movements restricted. She makes much more of a fuss over me in the morning. Oh my, she's all over me. He's not aloof, just . . . reserved.

[fizzgig]

2. unnueuered males are definitely masculine

as are some neutered males...my dad's big male certainly is, at least when he's not trying to convince us his nothing more than a pitiful kitten :rofl:

but i wouldn't call any of my girls dainty

[Kutjara]

3. While biochemical differences between the sexes may...

...cause male animals to behave differently from female ones, I don't think they can be mapped too closely to human behavior, which is as heavily influenced by culture as by chemistry. So, while a female animal may display more "nurturing" or "nestbuilding" behavior than a male of the same species, I don't think it necessarily follows that she would display the rest of the characteristics that humans regard as "girl-like."

[DainBramaged]

4. YES! without a SHADOW of a doubt.

[kath]

6. Actually, many people say that male cats (neutered ones at least) tend to be more

snuggly. And that, when introducing a kitten into a household with an older cat, an older male cat will be more nurturing towards the kitten than an older female cat will.

[jumptheshadow]

20. That's been true for us

Our two males are mama's boys. When the younger one came in as a kitten the older male "nursed" him for months. His poor nipples looked sore!

[applegrove]

21. That is my experience too. My big neutered male loves kittens and loves

to snuggle. That being said my older female is very dainty. So is my younger female.

[RedShoes]

7. I have two girl cats. One is a girly girl, and the other is sassy and tomboyish

One day, when I figger out how to post piccies, I will show you them. The girly girl is the Mommy of the sassy one.

[SoDesuKa]

9. Tomboyish and Sassy

Here's the question. Is the behavior of the tomboyish cat less feminine than that of the girly cat, or is that just your expectation? Being animals, they're not influenced by human culture, but you certainly are.

I'm trying to figure out if my perception of Gracie as precious and dainty is the result of my expectation that this is how females behave. Otis, on the other hand, is more like a guy. I suspect ideology is influencing my perception.


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[RedShoes]

15. Nah...she's a little tomboy. I tried to make her a girlie girl, but she's not having it

cutie little thing that she is.

[SoxFan]

11. That's how mine are

Brianna is a prissy, spoiled daddy's girl, while Pippy is a scrappy little tomboy.

They're kind of like Threepio and Artoo at times.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Mine is very dainty. But she is also sassy and a whiner. My boy has

a squeaky voice and is a big marshmallow. We call her the princess and him the teddy cat. :)

[SoDesuKa]

12. Squeaky Voice

Gracie's voice is much higher-pitched than Otis's. And considering that Otis meows like the cat he is, her voice is really in an upper register. When she has a scratchy throat she sounds waif-like. I love both my cats, but Gracie's scratchy mewing gets me feeling really protective.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. You'd love our Pretzel boy. He is _so_ sweet and seems so lost and in

need of protecting. Not so out little girl. She's super independent and knows what she wants. (Including meowing at mom to move dad off the bed so she can sleep in her rightful place. LOL)

[hippywife]

14. I've onlyhad girl cats

so I've nothing to compare, but our new kitten is a hellraiser. She runs around here like a rocket sometimes and jumps all over the bed at night when she wakes up anywhere between 2 and 3 in the morning. I really don't see their behaviour as a male/female thing. Just a cat thing. :shrug:

[Arugula Latte]

16. My observation: The girl cats tend to be smarter and sassier

We have had all sorts of kitties, and we've had a couple tough-as-nails girl kitties who get royally pissed off if strange cats enter their territory. As a kid I had a fat little calico who would charge any cat that dared show its face in our yard. My kitties now are indoor kitties, but it is my girl kitty who charges up and smacks the glass door and growls if a strange kitty comes by. I've also noticed that the kitties who see me as their "mother figure" tend to be the girl kitties.

The males tend to be big lovey lugs. :)

[DainBramaged]

17. PICTURES PLEASE, NOTHING makes my day more than kitteh pictures.

[Orsino]

18. Frequently.

I think there is a statistical tendency, but there are some bruiser female kitties. I've known few unneutered males, so I'm not sure how they roll.

[Sanity Claws]

19. Boy cats like to play wrestle each other

I don't think girl cats play wrestle as much with each other or with the boy cats.
Girl cats seem to grow more attached with the male partner in a couple. I think either sex of cat will bond with children of either sex.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

22. I think so,,

This is Siouxsie, my female kitty. She is very dainty, wiggles her butt when she walks, makes cute little peeping noises instead of meows, and never takes up too much space. Very girly.
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And this is Henry, the male kitty. He's extremely vocal, takes up a lot of space when he lays down & proceeds to tackle and wrestle everything that walks by, including dainty little Siouxsie.


I can totally see the gender difference between the two.