Hahaha, guess what?

It turns out Isabel, our gray kitten we dropped off to be spayed this morning, is a boy!

What makes this doubly funny is of the three original kittens, we though the orange one was a boy and the black and gray ones were girls! We figured out the black one was a boy as he got older, and the family who adopted the orange one had their vet tell us he was actually a she (her name is Halo). But we thought the gray one was a girl, no doubt (because her, erm, his little balls are a third or smaller size than his brother's and we thought it was just, as Mom said, a 'tinkler').

And even funnier it took MONTHS of agonizing to choose their names (they are 4 months old and Isabel was only named three weeks ago) and now we have to go back to the drawing board on that one!!

(btw they're all done and all fine. Oh, except Devlin had worms so we'll have to treat him for that. But actually, since neutering is less expensive than spaying, we came out five dollars less with the worming than we would have if Isabel had actually been a girl!)

I think Bobbi meant he's been neutered, so he's not really a boy anymore.

About 30 years ago, when my mother's cat had kittens, we read that if you turn them upside down and you see a semi-colon ( it's a boy and if you see a colon ( it's a girl.  Not sure if that helps.

Ya'll could call him, "Izzy"....Kinda like "Isabel, is a he...hee hee!"

Years ago we got 2 baby rats (as in domestic black/white rodents) thinking they were both girls.  Nope...one of the girls sprouted "attachments" so we knew it was a boy.  Then the male started abusing the female (rodent domestic violence), he was really mean, so back he went to the pet store. 

Then of course there was the time we got a pretty female rat (again...rodent).  Got her home and a few days later she was frantically hiding in my shirt and hair...didn't want put out on the table or cage.  Next morning there were 8 rats in the cage.  She was good mommy, too.  Never tried to figure out the sex of the babies as they went to the pet store after weaning.