As you may all recall, a number of years ago we discovered that Little Orphan Annie was actually an Andy and thus became Andy Panda Pants.
The folks at Banfield are idiots, pure and simple.
For years we thought this was a fluke, a funny family story , along the lines of " If you ask Aunty Pol and SU what the sex of any of their cats is, assume the opposite of their answer to be true."
And......................
The same damn situation occurred with Gracie Marie.
Now remember at first for whatever reason , my husband thought Gracie Marie was a girl...I haven't a clue why. When she first came up to the patio, I said " Come here little girl " ..I have no idea why but she trotted up. Mind you it was fall and getting colder, she probably would have run up just the same if I said " Come here dipshit."
We tool her to Banfield for a check up and presented her as a girl..which NO ONE challenged. In hindsight , it makes me wonder if they looked at her at all.
Fast forward to last month when she was at Dr.Tom's. Now , I really didn't think to much of it at the time because Dr. Simon has a very heavy accent..lovely but pronounced . And I was calling on my cell phone which kept dropping the call...actually we realized it was his cell...hah !
Anyhoo, he kept saying he and I kept saying she and so on.
It wasn't until Southside Johnny showed me what little could be seen since the cat is a long hair...
Yep !
Now it's not like I pick up the business end of a cat and go " Let Mama see."
Um..hell no.
So now we have the name issue.
I had to fight to get her a middle name..this is the south after all.
Grace.
Gracie Marie
Grayson
Grayson Matthew .
Grayson Mathias .
Grayson McFuzzypants ( I am actually leaning towards this...it makes me smile.)
Gray .
Baby Dude .
Dude .
The Dudester .
Dingbat..now that my transgendered cat will answer to .
Her/His attitude ?
Call me whatever, just don't call me late to dinner.
Here we go again.
Happy Friday Eve.
Ciao,
Aunty Pol
2 comments:
Oh my gosh this made me laugh! Most people don't have issues with getting their cat's sex wrong! And how do you change the name when the cat's learnt the name it has? I guess keep it as same sounding as possible?
Pick me up off the ground! I'm laughin' soooo hard! Look at it this way, your story just got bigger and better. Texas sized! I mean, really!
If it makes you feel any better, I thought one of my last fosters was a girl child for about a day. Hadn't thought of a name yet when I caught a look at the business end. Yep, he's my girly man. Now he's Buster (after Mr. Keaton... long sad face, but then the eyes get the glint of the devil and it's all acrobatics and clowning).
PS- I like G McF!
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