Oops.. meant to link to this page instead of the art one twice.
It’s kind of funny, in response to not knowing Kali was female immediately, how it happened. I’m a huge cat lover, but I’m not sure I knew calicos tend to be female (I knew about tortoiseshells and orange cats), plus I don’t think I was connecting this coloring pattern with being calico. When I think calico, I think red-brown, not tabby.
She’s 7 or 8 months old and was given to us by Emily’s friend, who thought she was a boy and called her Jack Black. Secondly, I used to have a male cat with very similar coloring (white with grey-black tabby patches), though in hindsight I don’t think he had any red-brown. So when the friend said she was male, I sort of automatically just accepted it.. I mean, it’s not hard to tell if a cat is male, she lived with them since she was born, yadda yadda. You’d think that’d be ample time to notice the lack of testicular fortitude, as it were.
I did think Kali was awfully petite to be a male cat of that age, as it’s about the time they tend to bulk up and get big. I checked the equipment mainly out of curiosity, so willing was I to accept what the friend said. Imagine my surprise. :)