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Cat Forum / General Topics / August 2005Misdiagnosing sex of cat
My cat is now almost a year old and I think that my vet misdiagnosed the sex of her!!!! I brought her into the vet for her first exam at 6 months old and the vet told me sammy was a female, and it was documented as such... to my surprise my almost 1 year old "female" cat seems to have a pair of testicles. Now i have thought that they were anal sacs but these "balls" are grape sized and located UNDER the anus!!! Sammy acts like a female cat and doesnt possess any male traits that i know of, however sammy is a timid cat...please let me know if there is any action i can take against my vet should they diagnosed the sex wrong!!! this is really devastating to my boyfriend and I... We thought we had two female cats but it may turn out to be a female and a male!!!!! email me at rocperk@hotmail.com Thanks anyone who can help me... > My cat is now almost a year old and I think that my vet misdiagnosed the sex > of her!!!! I brought her into the vet for her first exam at 6 months old and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > We thought we had two female cats but it may turn out to be a female and a > male!!!!! email me at rocperk@hotmail.com Thanks anyone who can help me... I don't understand what "action" you want to take against your vet. If you mean bring a lawsuit, I suppose you can try to file one but it won't go anywhere. You haven't suffered any monetary loss, have you? Vets are human. They make mistakes. It could be that your cats testicles didn't descend the way they're supposed to, and the vet just couldn't tell. That happened to a cat of mine, and when I took "her" in to be spayed, they had actually made the incision and upon failure to locate ovaries and a uterus, figured out it was a male cat. There was no harm done, and I understood the error. I loved the cat just the same. Cleo just turned into a Leo that day. Sherry >> My cat is now almost a year old and I think that my vet misdiagnosed the sex >> of her!!!! I brought her into the vet for her first exam at 6 months old and [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >and I understood the error. I loved the cat just the same. Cleo just >turned into a Leo that day. Was the vet who did the surgery the same one that told you Leo was a girl? If so, I don't think he should have charged for the attempted spaying - if he did charge, that is. >Sherry > Was the vet who did the surgery the same one that told you Leo was a > girl? Really, I never asked a vet. It was a half-grown medium-haired stray, and had no testicles. I assumed it was a girl, and I guess the vet did too. > If so, I don't think he should have charged for the attempted spaying > - if he did charge, that is. Naw, they didn't charge me anything. Though I was willing to pay for the castration, which they went ahead and did after they closed him up. We actually kind of laughed about it. From then on they referred to him as "The Cat in Drag." Sherry : My cat is now almost a year old and I think that my vet misdiagnosed the sex : of her!!!! I brought her into the vet for her first exam at 6 months old and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] : We thought we had two female cats but it may turn out to be a female and a : male!!!!! email me at rocperk@hotmail.com Thanks anyone who can help me... Well, before you do anything else you have to get them neutered anyway ASAP. Carola You will get over the shock. This is the same cat you've loved for 6 months, nothing has changed about the cat. The vet made a mistake and I know it's hard to adjust your perception, but you can do it. I don't understand why you would be "devastated", much worse things have happened to cats. You were planning to get him neutered very soon, weren't you? Male or female, I'm not sure why you'd wait until the cat was a year old. Rhonda > My cat is now almost a year old and I think that my vet misdiagnosed the sex > of her!!!! I brought her into the vet for her first exam at 6 months old and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > We thought we had two female cats but it may turn out to be a female and a > male!!!!! email me at rocperk@hotmail.com Thanks anyone who can help me... >My cat is now almost a year old and I think that my vet misdiagnosed the sex >of her!!!! I brought her into the vet for her first exam at 6 months old and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >We thought we had two female cats but it may turn out to be a female and a >male!!!!! email me at rocperk@hotmail.com Thanks anyone who can help me... Sounds like a troll - what action would you possibly want to take against the vet? The obvious thing to do is take the cat to a vet - any vet - and explain that it appears your female cat has the cojones of a male. Ask him what the hell they are, and have them removed if necessary (if they are indeed balls or tumours) Have you raised Sammy any differently because you thought "he" was a girl? Little frilly dresses, dolls, pink litter box? Anything like that? Are you upset that Sammy has been sleeping (literally sleeping) with your other female cat without the benefit of marriage? LOL yes i was going to have it spayed or neutered soon...I guess devestated was the wrong word to use... shocked is the right one. We just thought the vet knew what they were doing when they did the examination, i never knew the testicles could just appear one day!! to my surprise they do! And i guess "action" was also the wrong word to use. What I was asking was are they going to check him/her out without charging me because of their mistake? Yes, I love my cat just the same, it is actually quite comical that we named him/her a unisex name!!! it could go either way... Is it possible for a cat to be a hermaprodite? both male and female? What I was asking was are they > going to check him/her out without charging me because of their mistake? I still don't understand your question. If you're asking if the vet will take a second look for free and determine if indeed it's a male, he probably would. The vet techs could do that for you too. Just give them a call and ask. Sherry > LOL yes i was going to have it spayed or neutered soon...I guess devestated > was the wrong word to use... shocked is the right one. We just thought the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Is it possible for a cat to be a hermaprodite? both male and female? We had in a cat once that we thought was possibly hermaphroditic. We named it "Hermie." Turned out he'd just had a really, really, REALLY bad neuter. Well, this thread has made my day. I've recently started my peri-menopausal stage in life and woke up today in the worst snit I've ever been in my life. It has been a crappy day. But, as I sit here and read this I'm just rolling. Thanks for the laugh. |
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