Are male kittens more active than females?
I have been fostering cats and kittens since 2000. I wondered when I started if I could tell the sex of a kitten before I could visually confirm the guess. Were males more active/aggressive than females? Which were more territorial? Which were more afraid?
To do that I took into account how active the kittens were. I noted which were the first out of the box — so to speak. Which were the most active, curious, aggressive. I assumed they would be the same. That maybe it was nurture not nature that determined the aggression level.
I can now say that from my first hand experience over the past 8 years watching hundreds of kittens through fostering and through working at animal shelters, that males are generally more active, more aggressive and more playful when they are first born. I’m almost always correct in guessing the sex of kittens before confirming with a look/see. With feral moms, I usually have to wait and have time to guess. When I have a non-feral mom, I don’t guess because I can hold them before they even open their eyes! Which, is way cool!
Here are photos of my latest fosters:
Beauty
Bandit
Jazz
Aren’t they just adorable? Beauty and the Bandit were both adopted and Jazz is looking for a forever home right now.
Purrs, Frankie
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