Newborn Kittens Gender

At first glance even professionals find it tricky to distinguish a female kitten from a male.

Newborn kittens gender. Here are two features not to use when sexing a kitten. However a few characteristic differences can be observed in kittens as young as five weeks old genital spacing coat color and behavior indicating their sex. Newborn kittens will have immature genitalia so wait until the cats are a few weeks old to determine their sex. A male kitten s testicles should be very obvious nonetheless with 2 opening farther apart.

If you know what to look for however there are several key differences that will allow you to differentiate between the sexes. Or to be blunt the holes are closer together in a girl than in a boy. Orange striped kittens are likely male while certain colors like tortoiseshell brown orange marbled black and sometimes is white as well and calico white black and orange are mostly female. And while the testicles should in theory be palpable within the scrotum lying in that space between the anus and penile opening they may be too small to identify.

Also many kittens are neutered at a very young age these days. If you can see a clearly definedscrotal sac the kitten or cat is a male. A female kitten s genital opening is placed higher up and closer to the anus. The penis itself is not normally visible in male cats and can be very hard to feel especially in young kittens.

Therefore a lack of testicles doesn t necessarily mean your kitten is female. The color of the kitten may suggest its gender. 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. When sexing kittens the easiest way to explain the difference is by saying that the distance between the anus and the urinary tract opening is much shorter in a female than in a male.

Lots of people liked our video last year about how to tell if your kitten is a boy or a girl by catdogcuties so here s another video showing how to know what. Female kittens have a lesser anogenital distance than do males so you can use the distance to distinguish the sexes. Is easiest to tell when they are just born within the first week and when they hit sexual maturity. How to determine the sex of a kitten.

Almost all but not all kittens of calico black white and orange or tortishell black and orange color are females. Check the distance between the openings. A male kitten s genital opening is further below the anus. It is might be difficult to tell the sex of the kitten based on appearance only when they are not mature yet.

In a newborn male kitten the testicles are tiny and the scrotal sac barely recognisable e g.