Woman Has Gender Reveal for Stray Orange Cat and Is Shook by the Results
You love your cat like a baby, so it only makes sense that you'd want to celebrate their big moments — right? Well that was one woman's reasoning when she decided to throw her stray cat a gender reveal to officially learn if it was a boy or girl. And her reaction to the results was too funny.
Ainsley Tucker has had her stray for two years, so when it was time to learn the truth she invited all of her family and friends to gather around.
At the start of the video, Tucker held her cat in her arms and shared what she hoped her cat would be.
"I'm your mom and I'm hoping you're a girl because that's what I've been calling you for two years," she said in the footage.
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She then passed the phone to her pals and asked them for their opinions. Some people agreed that the cat was a girl — while other were sure that it was a boy.
Tucker then used confetti cannons to learn the gender of her baby. It was a...boy! You could hear her scream "No!" from off-screen. We guess she was a little disappointed.
People in the comments section couldn't stop laughing at the woman's reaction. "Gender disappointment is so real! Doesn’t mean we love them any less," one commenter joked. "It’s you screaming NOOOO for me," someone else teased. "As soon as I saw the orange cat and you said girl I was like, 'oh no,'" a third commenter admitted. "You couldn’t tell that absolute beast was a boy cat?!" one person wondered.
Are Orange Cats Always Male?
Many people in the comments section argued that orange cats are always male, so Tucker should've probably had a clue that her stray was a boy. But is that true?
First we need to look at fur color in general. A cat's fur color is usually determined by their sex. Males typically carry only one X chromosome, which means they typically either black or orange. Because females carry a second X chromosome, they can receive both a black and an orange gene.
This is all to say that a whopping 81 percent of orange cats are male. It's not impossible for a female to be orange if she carries the orange gene on both X chromosomes. The difference is that if a male carries the orange gene at all, he will be orange.
It's pretty interesting, isn't it? So while it wasn't totally obvious what gender Tucker's cat was going to be, it was sort of a safe bet that the confetti in those cannons was going to be blue.
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