Determining Newborn Kitten Gender

The male s round genital opening is further down.

Determining newborn kitten gender. The female s genital opening a vertical slit is close to her anus. How to tell the gender of kitten can also be done when the cats are mature enough and go into heat. To determine gender compare all the kittens looking at the distance between the anus and the genital opening below it. However if you are determining the gender of a single kitten look for the shape of the reproductive opening.

Additionally the color of your kitten may help to identify it by gender. More orange or ginger colored cats are male than female but this is not an accurate way to determine a cat s sex. In a newborn male kitten the testicles are tiny and the scrotal sac barely recognisable e g. Almost all but not all kittens of calico black white and orange or tortishell black and orange color are females.

In the male the penis is lower down almost between the back legs. Let s take a look at the best way for pet parents to determine or confirm the sex of their kittens. 1 the chromosomal makeup of female cats is solely responsible for this coloration so you can pretty much guarantee any calico cat is a girl. And once a sex has been assigned it may not be rechecked as the kitten matures.

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 have a litter of kittens look at the color of the cats. Another simpler but less reliable way to tell the sex of your kitten is by the color of its coat. Some cat colorations are sex specific and can help you determine the sex of the cat.

Cats that are calico or tortoiseshell colored are typically female. The color of the kitten may suggest its gender. Between the anus and genital opening is the scrotum which may be flat and devoid of testicles in a young male kitten. Female 8 week old kitten as the male kitten grows the testicles become more apparent.

Check the spacing between the anus directly under the tail and the vulva or penis. At two months your kittens are. Cats with three colors sometimes called tortoiseshell cats are almost always female. In the female the vulva is just a few millimeters from the anus.

Male kittens have reproductive openings that are circular while female kittens have a vertical slit.