Can my cat be gay

Commission Disclosure: Class Act Cats participates in the Amazon Associates and other affiliate programs meaning if you purchase any products through the links on this page, Poutine may earn a small commission. You have been warned. June is Pride month and many of us humans are celebrating our own identities or those of people we care about.

Now, my blog and business are cat focused so you may be wondering how Pride or Purr-ideto use the cat centric term ties into cats. To write this blog post, I spent way more time reading articles on homosexuality in cats than I ever thought I would.

Is My Cat Gay?

Almost every source I looked at which are listed at the bottom and linked throughout the post started out by separating identity and behavior. Sexual identity is how you cat yourself and who you are attracted to. Gender identity is whether you identify as can male, female, both, neither, or something else entirely.

As chatty as some cats are my own sweet Zoloft included! Of course, cat parents, whether they are gay or not, are free to think of their cat as whatever orientation they want. You can even get them a fun rainbow toy filled with catnip so your cat, too, can celebrate Pride. Now, this would be a pretty disappointing article if things end there.

We can look at behavior as behavior is observable so by rephrasing the question we ask slightly. For those who think homosexuality is unnatural, there are hundreds of species of animals that have demonstrated homosexual behaviors according to possibly my new favorite book, Biological Exuberance: Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl.

Homosexuality has been observed in bighorn sheep, flamingos, gorillas, and whales among many, many others. The whiptail lizard has gay females and reproduces asexually. There are even trans animals out there. Again according to Biological Exuberance seriously, go read itsome animals will change which gametes sex cells used for reproduction they produce or even fully change sex organs based on their environment or other factors.

Similarly, and before we get back to cats, drag is a pretty common tactic among many species in the animal kingdom. Some species may partially imitate members of a different sex or they may completely disguise themselves as being a different sex. Personally, I think setting up a Tinder profile would be an easier way to achieve that, but to each their own.

Have we observed homosexual behavior in house cats? Boy, have we ever! Cats big and little have been observed engaging in homosexual behaviors, although in some cases it may not be actual sexual behavior and instead are just affectionate behavior between friendly animals. Observations of homosexual behavior among house cats have even been documented in the scientific literature as far back as the s.

While it is typically associated with unneutered male cats, it can be seen in neutered males as well. In some rarer cases, female cats have been observed mounting other cats. Speaking of mounting, intact males will try to mount basically anything. This leads to one explanation of why cats engage in homosexual behavior: sexual frustration.