I got this kitten yesterday. "It" is 7 weeks old. The owner said that the kitten is a boy but my sister says girl. Can anyone help?!
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Boy or Girl
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The pictures aren't good enough for me to tell for sure, but I'm gonna say girl. Mostly because, from what I can see of her fur, it looks like she's a tortie/calico 
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Willowy , I had the same thought. Looks like the kitten might be a blue-cream tortie. which would almost always be female.
It's hard to tell from that photo but that looks more female to me, too.
If you can get a photo either standing, while someone is holding the tail up , or with the kitten lying on her/his back , with the tail out of the way and a really good view of the "privates", we can try to make sure. Or here is a link that might help you figure it out. http://www.pet-informed-veterinary-advice-online.com/sexing-kittens.html
One of the main things is that with a boy there is more space between the anus and the urinary opening. (The penis in a cat is kind of hidden, retracted until they need it, but you can usually see the spot where it would come out. ) The bigger space between the anus and the urinary opening in a boy is of course the space for the testicles, but in a little kitten those are very tiny)
The other main thing to look for is that in a boy , the rear looks like 2 dots, like a colon in punctuation :
and in a girl it looks like an inverted exclamation mark ¡
It's hard to tell from that photo but that looks more female to me, too.
If you can get a photo either standing, while someone is holding the tail up , or with the kitten lying on her/his back , with the tail out of the way and a really good view of the "privates", we can try to make sure. Or here is a link that might help you figure it out. http://www.pet-informed-veterinary-advice-online.com/sexing-kittens.html
One of the main things is that with a boy there is more space between the anus and the urinary opening. (The penis in a cat is kind of hidden, retracted until they need it, but you can usually see the spot where it would come out. ) The bigger space between the anus and the urinary opening in a boy is of course the space for the testicles, but in a little kitten those are very tiny)
The other main thing to look for is that in a boy , the rear looks like 2 dots, like a colon in punctuation :
and in a girl it looks like an inverted exclamation mark ¡
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OK I took more pics. I forgot to add a pic of the kitten!! Here you go. I'm thinking girl only because of her colors BUT the lady I got her from INSISTED that the kitten was a boy.
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Yep, a girl. See how it's like an upside-down exclamation point ! instead of a colon : that's how you can tell.
And so cute! I'd call her a dilute/blue-cream tortie with white.
And so cute! I'd call her a dilute/blue-cream tortie with white
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Yay!! Thanks for your help! She is super sweet and really talkative but that's a tortie thing I guess. 
Yep, Willowy and I agree on all counts:
She is a little girl kitty!
She's Blue-Cream Tortie and White ! also just called Blue Tortie and White but I always like the sound of "Blue-Cream".
And she's VERY cute!
She is a little girl kitty!
She's Blue-Cream Tortie and White ! also just called Blue Tortie and White but I always like the sound of "Blue-Cream".
And she's VERY cute!
It's a girl 1 I can tell by her coloring 2 when I was looking at her pic of her privates I can defendly tell its a girl
My cat just had kittens when they was just around 8hrs old I automatically knew Blazikens gender by looking at her colors calico so I looked at her siblings down there I knew what they was by looking for like 2seconds and I'm never wrong on sexing kittens
My cat just had kittens when they was just around 8hrs old I automatically knew Blazikens gender by looking at her colors calico so I looked at her siblings down there I knew what they was by looking for like 2seconds and I'm never wrong on sexing kittens
Girl!
The way to tell is by thinking about punctuation.
Boys are a "colon" :
Girls are an upside down exclamation mark
The way to tell is by thinking about punctuation.
Boys are a "colon" :
Girls are an upside down exclamation mark
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This is too funny. Live and learn.:lol3:
Way more than 90%! If 10% of torties were boys, you'd definitely meet a few of them. About 1 in 3000 torties are male.
I think the fact that so few cats of the calico or tortie cats are girls makes them so desirable. But don't ask Izzy since she was in the shelter for 11 months and 22 days. She was about 3 1/2 when I adopted her.
I think you have it backwards. Almost all torties/calicos are girls. Only 1 in 3000 are boys. Tortie is (IME) the most common color/pattern for female cats. Maybe brown tabbies are more common but I think I see more torties.
Thank you Willowy I did indeed mean so few are male. I am quite aware of the genetics on that and I apologize for typing faster than I was getting it through my mind. My brain doesn't always wake up when I do lol and sometimes I wonder if it's ever going to turn on. For me the attraction to the calico and tortie is that it makes it super easy to adopt a cat. I love all cats/animals but for me boy cats are simply not an option. Anyway, thank you again for catching that.
I did indeed mean so few are male. I am quite aware of the genetics on that and I apologize for typing faster than I was getting it through my mind. My brain doesn't always wake up when I do lol and sometimes I wonder if it's ever going to turn on. For me the attraction to the calico and tortie is that it makes it super easy to adopt a cat. I love all cats/animals but for me boy cats are simply not an option. Anyway, thank you again for catching that. 
