Abandoned Kitten - Day 2: Weeble Poops!!!

Actually, technically, animals are "it" in the English language. Otoh,
that's always bugged me & I personally use the gender appropriate pronoun -
if known.

Cathy

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"Cat Protector" wrote in message
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A cat is not a thing or an it.

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"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message
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As if the thing even KNOWS it's name, it's only a few days old (I
believe
him to have been born sometime this past Wednesday or Thursday). And
even
if he did know that that's his name, it will never know the meaning of
the
word. Besides, I have a cat named Tennessee Tuxedo - he answers to
Tennessee, or anything that sounds like it: Canofpeas for instance, and
one
time I even called him Kentucky and he answered.

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"Cat Protector" wrote in message
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I bet the cat hates its name. Can you imagine going through life with
a
name
like Weeble?

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"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message
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Never thought I'd be excited over catpoop, but today, I am! Weeble
had
his
first poop! He fought me every second of cleaning him, and proved
exactly
how powerful his lungs are!

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"Cathy Friedmann" wrote in message
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Actually, technically, animals are "it" in the English language. Otoh,
that's always bugged me & I personally use the gender appropriate
pronoun -
if known.


So we are "it" as well, after all we are animals also. Forgive my
language, but I don't care about grammar, that's just bull**** - if a
creature is living and is male or female it is stupid not to refer to them
appropriately.

Ivor

"Cathy Friedmann" wrote in message
...
Actually, technically, animals are "it" in the English language. Otoh,
that's always bugged me & I personally use the gender appropriate
pronoun -
if known.


So we are "it" as well, after all we are animals also. Forgive my
language, but I don't care about grammar, that's just bull**** - if a
creature is living and is male or female it is stupid not to refer to them
appropriately.

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
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"Cathy Friedmann" wrote in message
...
Actually, technically, animals are "it" in the English language. Otoh,
that's always bugged me & I personally use the gender appropriate
pronoun -
if known.


So we are "it" as well, after all we are animals also. Forgive my
language, but I don't care about grammar, that's just bull**** - if a
creature is living and is male or female it is stupid not to refer to them
appropriately.

Ivor

Hey, *I* didn't make up the usage & grammar rules!

Cathy

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"Staccato signals of constant information..."
("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon
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"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
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"Cathy Friedmann" wrote in message
...
Actually, technically, animals are "it" in the English language. Otoh,
that's always bugged me & I personally use the gender appropriate
pronoun -
if known.


So we are "it" as well, after all we are animals also. Forgive my
language, but I don't care about grammar, that's just bull**** - if a
creature is living and is male or female it is stupid not to refer to them
appropriately.

Ivor

Hey, *I* didn't make up the usage & grammar rules!

Cathy

--
"Staccato signals of constant information..."
("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon
\

"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
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So we are "it" as well, after all we are animals also. Forgive my
language, but I don't care about grammar, that's just bull**** - if a
creature is living and is male or female it is stupid not to refer to them
appropriately.

Ivor



But then what pronoun do you use for flies? Snakes? Fish? Would you use
he or she regardless of its sex, or would you take a look at its anatomy
before refering to it at all? Or would you just keep using the appropriate
noun ("That fly sure is bugging me. I'm going to get a fly-swatter and kill
that fly. Oops...the cat got to the fly and ate the fly so I couldn't kill
the fly"). Flies are most definitely male or female, they are living, so
why not refer to them "appropriately"? I'm being facetious but really, do
English speakers, on a daily basis, use 'he/she' for every living creature?
Is there never an occasion when you would use 'it'?


Personally, I use 'she' when needing a pronoun to refer to my cat. However,
if someone would choose to call her 'it', I would have no objections (though
I would object to "he"), as Cat Protector did. To insist that someone use
'he/she' is as stupid as insisting on using 'it' (which I did not, I was
merely offering that 'it' was prescriptively correct and therefore
acceptable).


rona

"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
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So we are "it" as well, after all we are animals also. Forgive my
language, but I don't care about grammar, that's just bull**** - if a
creature is living and is male or female it is stupid not to refer to them
appropriately.

Ivor



But then what pronoun do you use for flies? Snakes? Fish? Would you use
he or she regardless of its sex, or would you take a look at its anatomy
before refering to it at all? Or would you just keep using the appropriate
noun ("That fly sure is bugging me. I'm going to get a fly-swatter and kill
that fly. Oops...the cat got to the fly and ate the fly so I couldn't kill
the fly"). Flies are most definitely male or female, they are living, so
why not refer to them "appropriately"? I'm being facetious but really, do
English speakers, on a daily basis, use 'he/she' for every living creature?
Is there never an occasion when you would use 'it'?


Personally, I use 'she' when needing a pronoun to refer to my cat. However,
if someone would choose to call her 'it', I would have no objections (though
I would object to "he"), as Cat Protector did. To insist that someone use
'he/she' is as stupid as insisting on using 'it' (which I did not, I was
merely offering that 'it' was prescriptively correct and therefore
acceptable).


rona