Transgender Cat: Humor, Fact Or Hoax?

[Guest]

How do you tell if something is fact, fiction or humor? While i found it to be amusing some were insulted. The author asks for money to give her cat a sex change operation but I don't recommend sending funds. Be sure to check the sites comment section.

Transgender Cat

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The Question is were you amused or insulted?

Laura

[haythorx]

Hmmm, don't think it's true. Pet psychic? I say it's probably a joke or just plain fiction. I didn't see if there was an actual donation box, if so, it could just be a scam.

[Guest CharlieRose]

One of my friends jokes that her cat is transsexual. (When I saw this thread, I actually thought, "What, like Holly?") It is male and had a male name, but I think she said the cat "preferred" a female version of it. (In a joking way, my friend's not crazy) So now they call it by a female name and refer to it with female pronouns.

I don't think the cat really cares. But it is funny.

That person is either deluded or joking; animals don't have enough self-awareness to have a self-image, let alone a gender identity.

[Guest Donna Jean]

That's weird.....I have a male friend who has a female cat named "Carl" ...just because.

I can take a joke and am not insulted in this case, but, I think someone may be a cheezburger short of a McDonald's here

Goodness...a little bra with six little cups!

lol lol lol

Donna Jean

[Guest RainBird]

Does the cat take hormones?

[Guest Sergei]

I don't believe an animal can be transgendered, as gender is a social cultural idea. Maybe transsexual, if the animal was shown to be acting as the other sex to which it was born. I don't find it offensive or amusing. I just think that cat's owner needs to get out a bit more!

[Sally]

A joke than could spawn an entire industry!

Well I see it as just another case of people caring so much more for their pets than for people. This person doesn't have a site to raise money for starving children, just a kitty sex-change. To me the thought that a person can make a living as a pet psychic is ludicrus enough, but now we open the dor for pet psychics specializing in gender identity issues, pet hormone treatments, not to mention the veternaian SRS/GRS surgeon. How much is a cat fare to Thailand? And what if poor Bubba only grows 2 or 3 nipples - she'll be shunned and then require more therapy and tiny little implants - wow a whole new industry. That will call for regulation and some sort of governing board - we don't want a lot of cats, dogs, rats, etc getting a sex-change on a whim. Yes, I can see a need for very careful regulation. Did she mention how Bubba did on the COGIATI as a means of some indicator or did the cat just say, "I'm a girl and this idiot is calling me Bubba!"

I am not offended, but ever amased at the level of stupidity that surrounds pet ownership - excuse me we don't own pets any more we adopt them (and highways) just like people. Maybe this person, who is so well intentioned and aware of the devistating effects of being transgendered, should find a transgendered child to adopt and pay for the treatment. That will never happen!

Sally

[Guest Zenda]

Kia Ora,

I’m amused with this cyber psychological experiment that deals with human ‘gullibility’…Some people will do things like this for fun, just to see how ‘gullible’ some people are…Others will use this ‘gullibility’ to see if they can make money out of it…

Umm, I wonder how many cat lovers have had their cats spaied/castrated =de-feminised / de-masculinised ? Oh wait... isn’t that a form of 'involuntary' sex change for the poor vagina/cat ?

Happy mindfulness

Metta Jendar

[Guest KaylaK]

It is a cat for heaven sake. lol

Kayla

[Guest Elizabeth K]

No, the story didn't hurt my felines.

Fur example, it would be 'cat'astrophic to have sent all that money then discover it was a joke.

And puns have never been a 'pet' peeve with me.

So this topic was purrfect... as I paws and wait for someone to add to this tail

Cat wait!

[Guest Donna Jean]

No, the story didn't hurt my felines.

Fur example, it would be 'cat'astrophic to have sent all that money then discover it was a joke.

And puns have never been a 'pet' peeve with me.

So this topic was purrfect... as I paws and wait for someone to add to this tail

Cat wait!

OHhhhhhhh, Lizzy......

How could you???? :lol: :lol:

Geesh!

Donna Jean

[Sally]

Shakespeare said that the pun was the highest form of humor and look where it got him - he's dead and people are debating wiether he actually wrote those plays or if they were actually written by a breakfast meat! (Bacon)

Just a touch of litterary humor - the more common belief was they were written by Marley - but that's a miserable attempt at a pun!

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

That's weird.....I have a male friend who has a female cat named "Carl" ...just because.

I can take a joke and am not insulted in this case, but, I think someone may be a cheezburger short of a McDonald's here

Goodness...a little bra with six little cups!

lol lol lol

Donna Jean

OMG DJ, I didnt need the visual you gave me with this.. tucked n taped maybe?

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

A joke than could spawn an entire industry!

Well I see it as just another case of people caring so much more for their pets than for people. This person doesn't have a site to raise money for starving children, just a kitty sex-change. To me the thought that a person can make a living as a pet psychic is ludicrus enough, but now we open the dor for pet psychics specializing in gender identity issues, pet hormone treatments, not to mention the veternaian SRS/GRS surgeon. How much is a cat fare to Thailand? And what if poor Bubba only grows 2 or 3 nipples - she'll be shunned and then require more therapy and tiny little implants - wow a whole new industry. That will call for regulation and some sort of governing board - we don't want a lot of cats, dogs, rats, etc getting a sex-change on a whim. Yes, I can see a need for very careful regulation. Did she mention how Bubba did on the COGIATI as a means of some indicator or did the cat just say, "I'm a girl and this idiot is calling me Bubba!"

I am not offended, but ever amased at the level of stupidity that surrounds pet ownership - excuse me we don't own pets any more we adopt them (and highways) just like people. Maybe this person, who is so well intentioned and aware of the devistating effects of being transgendered, should find a transgendered child to adopt and pay for the treatment. That will never happen!

Sally

if they get away with a shorter, easier set of standards than we do, its time to lobby for psychiatric assessment of pet owners who think their pet is trans or worse yet androgyn

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

No, the story didn't hurt my felines.

Fur example, it would be 'cat'astrophic to have sent all that money then discover it was a joke.

And puns have never been a 'pet' peeve with me.

So this topic was purrfect... as I paws and wait for someone to add to this tail

Cat wait!

while you are waiting no pettin da vagina (hey now theres nothing wrong with showing affection to a feline)

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

Just a touch of litterary humor - the more common belief was they were written by Marley - but that's a miserable attempt at a pun!

Love ya,

Sally

OOO you mean Jacob Marly who showed up in a door knocker... lol or the Rastafarian Marley

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

while you are waiting no pettin da vagina (hey now theres nothing wrong with showing affection to a feline)

 this is one incident where the word police messed up and actually made it worse it should have read

while you are waiting no pettin da p.ussy (hey now theres nothing wrong with showing affection to a feline)