"Bookends of a Different Kind" or "She's a WHAT?"

I want to introduce you to our two furry children, Angel on the left, Precious in the middle. The picture on the right shows the two snuggled up so closely you can't tell where one kitty ends and the other begins. They are sisters, with the same parents, but from two different litters.

We decided right off to have both kitties spayed. I knew if ever we'd have baby kitties I wouldn't want to part with any of the litter and would soon become that strange lady down the street with all of the cats. You know the kind. =)

So, off when Precious to be spayed. Later in the morning I got a call from the vet's office. The conversation went something like this.

Vet's office: "Mrs More, we have Precious on the table here"
Me: "Yes??"
Vets: "Well, Precious, it appears, is a boy"
Me: "WHAT??" "That can't be"
Vets: "Well, we were ready to do the spaying and couldn't find a uterus, so decided we'd better find a penis and sure enough, under all of that fur, there it was".
Me: "Oh my gosh! I can't believe it. But she doesn't have..........."
Vets: "Dr Beck found her testicles up in her pelvis, there is no scrotal sac so the mistake is an easy one to make".
Me: "Well okay......thanks..........bye"

After I got off of the phone I had to call friends and family who also found this to be a very humorous situation. Our daughter Wendi and I had had many a discussion over possibility of "gender confusion" in Precious as she was way TOO fond of one of Wendi's female cats and had tried to express her affection in ways inappropriate for a lady of Precious' stature in life etc. We had decided that she was perhaps "Gay" but we decided to accept this about her and love her in spite of the fact that her life choices weren't recognized by our church. =)

After finding that Precious was a boy, we had many suggestions as to what we could change "her" name to, but we decided to just not do anything at all. We'd continue to consider Precious a girl. After all, she'd been raises as a girl, and we were not about to cause her the emotional trauma of finding out she now had to be a boy, and do boy things. No!! I wouldn't have it. We would let "sleeping cats lie" so to speak.

So, our little furry girl stayed our little furry girl. Even her sister Angel doesn't know and we intend to keep it that way. When we discuss this situation it's with hushed voices and only if our kitties are out of the room or asleep. I'm sure you all understand this. (sign, hand to forehead etc)

Stay tuned for more on Precious and Angel,

Mary