Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
Turns out that IBK(formallyknownas)Fergus is actually a her. The, err, boy
bits turned out to be a strange optical illusion from the very faint tabby
pattern within her fur. They didn't look quite so, err, boy-like today, and
when I confrimed their presence - or in this case, absence - with my finger,
I revealed not black fuzzy marbles but an exclamation point.
But of course, now she *answers* to "Fergus" - or at least, answers as much
as any cat ever does to their name. It will still take a bit of work to
remember to refer to the small mostly black whirlwind of doom as "she", but
I"ll guess we'll get the hang of it eventually.
So, the score has evened up. 3 boys and 3 girls.. Excellent.
Yowie
Helen C Simmons - 26 Jan 2005 10:34 GMT
> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
Furgirl?
> So, the score has evened up. 3 boys and 3 girls.. Excellent.
>
> Yowie
Waffles & I are the only females house with four males
- both Waffles & I are, err.... "fixed" but only two of the males are ;-)
Cheers, helen s
Kilikini - 26 Jan 2005 12:15 GMT
>> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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> ;-)
> Cheers, helen s
We've got two males and two females. Time to make it one more male, though,
because I want a dog.
kili
Tish Silberbauer - 26 Jan 2005 10:39 GMT
aaah, your little, black, tractor-like princess! ("Fergie" is the
fond name for a brand of tractor - Fergason Tractors - Australians
being original in their naming to the last
http://www.bareco.com.au/files/geninterest/fergiemuster.htm)
Tish
>Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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>Yowie
Tish Silberbauer - 26 Jan 2005 10:41 GMT
I forgot to add before, Ted says (with her customary bad grace) "so
what's wrong with girls having boys' names anyway"
Tish
>>Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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>>Yowie
Monique Y. Mudama - 26 Jan 2005 15:33 GMT
> I forgot to add before, Ted says (with her customary bad grace) "so what's
> wrong with girls having boys' names anyway"
>
> Tish
Oscar agrees.

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Karen Chuplis - 26 Jan 2005 13:09 GMT
> aaah, your little, black, tractor-like princess! ("Fergie" is the
> fond name for a brand of tractor - Fergason Tractors - Australians
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>> Yowie
I missed this the first time through. Well of course IBK Fergie, (like HRH
Fergie the wild duchess)!
Tanada - 27 Jan 2005 05:23 GMT
> I missed this the first time through. Well of course IBK Fergie, (like HRH
> Fergie the wild duchess)!
And the difference is? Well the furless one is a red-head...
Pam S.
Christine Burel - 26 Jan 2005 13:30 GMT
I vote for Fergie if she'll go for it.
Christine
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> Yowie
Seanette Blaylock - 26 Jan 2005 14:06 GMT
"Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@yahoo.com.au> had some very interesting
things to say about IBKFer....?:
>Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
>Turns out that IBK(formallyknownas)Fergus is actually a her. The, err, boy
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>I"ll guess we'll get the hang of it eventually.
>So, the score has evened up. 3 boys and 3 girls.. Excellent.
We got used to calling the bird "her" after 21 months of "him". You'll
do fine. :-)

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Kreisleriana - 26 Jan 2005 15:14 GMT
>Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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>Yowie
Eeeeek! What a lot of devious kitties we're fielding these days!
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Monique Y. Mudama - 26 Jan 2005 15:32 GMT
> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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> So, the score has evened up. 3 boys and 3 girls.. Excellent.
*evil grin*
You know, I just had this feeling about IBKFergus ...
Welcome to the gender-confused pet club! Oscar also doesn't lend itself to
feminization terribly well ...

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jmcquown - 26 Jan 2005 15:34 GMT
> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
>
> Turns out that IBK(formallyknownas)Fergus is actually a her.
> Yowie
IBKFergie gets my vote :)
Jill
Marina - 26 Jan 2005 16:42 GMT
> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
That does it. This has been all too common lately. If I ever get a new
cat, I will not name 'it' before 'it' has been to TED and had 'its' sex
determined by a professional.

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Monique Y. Mudama - 26 Jan 2005 16:56 GMT
>> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
>
> That does it. This has been all too common lately. If I ever get a new cat,
> I will not name 'it' before 'it' has been to TED and had 'its' sex
> determined by a professional.
But I *did* do that with Oscar! The professional said she was "probably" a
boy! (She was eight weeks old at the time.)
So, uh, good luck with that.

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jmcquown - 26 Jan 2005 17:07 GMT
>>> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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> So, uh, good luck with that.
Yep, that happened with a friend from my office, too. She had two kitties,
Lucy & Ethel. They were checked and got their first shots from the vet.
When they went back for the next round a few weeks later, they had to change
their names to Ricky & Fred.
Jill
GraceCat - 27 Jan 2005 04:04 GMT
Marina, are you forgetting about Pam's QC at a quite older age than these
kids? *grin*
Grace
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Marina - 27 Jan 2005 04:37 GMT
> Marina, are you forgetting about Pam's QC at a quite older age than these
> kids? *grin*
Yes, I realise I'm not safe anyway. Even the 'experts' make mistakes.
Hehehe. That was pretty amazing.

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Yowie - 27 Jan 2005 05:14 GMT
> > Marina, are you forgetting about Pam's QC at a quite older age than these
> > kids? *grin*
>
> Yes, I realise I'm not safe anyway. Even the 'experts' make mistakes.
> Hehehe. That was pretty amazing.
At least "QC" is not a gender-specific name!
And to Ted, owner of Tish & Dave, no, there is nothing wrong with a female
having a male name.
Did I say 'nothing wrong'? What I meant to say was that is perfectly decent
and acceptable.
Silly me, its not just perfectly decent and acceptable, its actually quite
charming and endearing.
No, honestly, on the *best* cats, the ones with lots of personality, spunk
and incredible good looks, the ones that are rulers of the Universe and even
Rulers of the Unseen Universe, are the blessed with names from the other
gender.
I stand corrected, only cats that live with the lowly hoomins Tish and Dave
and that are named with the traditionally male name of Ted but are in fact
female are the oone and *only* Rulers of the Known and Unknown universe, and
that they graciously and generously allow other female cats with male names
to live, as long as they don't get all uppity and think they have any rights
to rule anything besides their own lowly hoomins and even lesser creatures
such as d*gs.
Now can you please get that claw out from my nipple?
Thankyou.
Yowie
Tanada - 27 Jan 2005 05:25 GMT
>> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
>
> That does it. This has been all too common lately. If I ever get a new
> cat, I will not name 'it' before 'it' has been to TED and had 'its' sex
> determined by a professional.
And even they get it wrong upon occasion...
Pam S. giggling at all the gender challenged kitties in here
Irulan - 26 Jan 2005 16:45 GMT
oh, just call her Fergus. Its cute and I'm sure she won't mind. :)
Jazz used to be Jasmine, until we discovered his little bits. I'm sure he
wouldn't have minded Jasmine either, heh.
Jazz & his mama

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> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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> Yowie
Ginger-lyn Summer - 26 Jan 2005 19:37 GMT
>Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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>Yowie
lol! Looks like missed gender week on rpca! ;-) I had a male Circe
and have a female Sabra, so what the heck! Why can't she be a female
Fergus?
Ginger-lyn
Jo Firey - 27 Jan 2005 00:02 GMT
> Fergie? Fergette? Fergusina? Fergusia?
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> Yowie
Maybe she will answer to Fergie. Like the princess.
Jo