Feline Gender Stereotyping

[muninnhuginn]

Sighs.

The young men upstairs (yup, still stuck due to the little white witch downstairs) have two litter trays between them--the old, plain dark blue one and the snazzy new pink one with an anti-splash surround--in two locations--LL's bedroom and the bathroom. The blue one in the bathroom--smaller and prone to overspills of ltter--was well-used; the new one in the back bedroom was less frequented. It therefore seemed sensible as it was larger to put the pink one in the bathroom and the blue one in the bedroom. So I swapped them around. Evidently it wasn't location that made blue in the bathroom more popular than pink in the bedroom. Blue is still preferred over pink.

Can it really be the case that tomcats won't use pink accessories? And choose blue?

Downstairs, the Little cat (who is on a diet to increase her weight [yes, after all those years of keeping her weight down, she's now too thin]) prefers the pink Whiskas Senior sachets over the blue. Inconvenient when you can't buy a box of just, say, Salmon flavour.

Queens prefer pink, eh?

Three cats is, I suppose, too small a sample to definitively state that cats make gendered colour choices.

Sighs.

Comments

[muninnhuginn]

Your cat pees on Marmite rice cakes? Could improve the flavour, I s'pose.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

grin!