Newborn Kittens Male Cat Gender How To Tell Pictures

Lots of people liked our video last year about how to tell if your kitten is a boy or a girl by catdogcuties so here s another video showing how to know what se.

Newborn kittens male cat gender how to tell pictures. If your cat is 8 weeks of age or older the procedure is fairly straightforward. I find the best time to determine a kittens sex is either when they have just been born still wet or when they are about 2 3 weeks old. Below the anus is the genital opening which is round in males and is a vertical slit in females. Orange striped kittens are likely male while certain colors like tortoiseshell brown orange marbled black and sometimes is white as well and calico white black and orange are mostly female.

For the purposes of this article i have decided to use 3 week old kittens in the photographic examples in conjunction with diagrams to try and show the clear differences that can be seen in a small kittens genitals. The surest way to tell the difference between a male and female cat is by examining the cat s physical features below its tail. Let s take a look at the best way for pet parents to determine or confirm the sex of their kittens. You may feel one or two small pea sized lumps.

A male will have a much greater distance between the genitals and anus than females inch apart on a male kitten or over 1 inch apart on a male adult cat. Determining the sex gender of a kitten is easy when you know what to look for. Another simpler but less reliable way to tell the sex of your kitten is by the color of its coat. And once a sex has been assigned it may not be rechecked as the kitten matures.

Cats with three colors sometimes called tortoiseshell cats are almost always female. Begin by looking for male genital features which can be somewhat easier to spot. I personally prefer to check them when they are born. The opening just under the tail is the anus.

Lift the kitten s tail. You can not see the scrotal sac in the pictures of the 3 week old male kittens above however as the kitten gets older 10 weeks and its testicles start to enlarge the scrotal sacstarts to protrude outwards and become very obvious. If you see a small bulge or pouch it s likely the scrotum and thus the kitten is male. Once the tail is up you should have full view of the cat s genitals and anus.

There are some ways to know how to tell if a kitten is male or female based on their colors. The chromosomal makeup of female cats is solely responsible for this coloration so you can pretty much guarantee any calico cat is a girl. A male cat will have an anus scrotum and penis while a female cat will have only an anus and urinary tract opening.