Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Padre Bateleur''': How do you sex such a dangerous animal?<br />

'''Flinx''': In my case, by dumb luck. She had babies.|''[[Humanx Commonwealth|Mid-Flinx]]''}}

If this Trope is applied to creatures other than pets, it might overlap with [[Samus Is a Girl]] and/or [[Monster Is a Mommy]]. If a tomcat is ''actually pregnant'', that's [[Mister Seahorse]].

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Although not revealed in-story, this is presumably why [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|May Parker]] owns a male dog called Ms Lion in ''[[Pet Avengers (Comic Book)|Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers]]''. Apparently, she ''hasn't'' found out yet.

{{quote| '''Thomasina''': They started out by calling me Thomas, but when they, um, got to know me better, they changed it to Thomasina.}}

* Kevin the giant bird from Pixar's ''[[Up (Filmanimation)|Up]]'', although the actual pregnant part is skipped over and we just see the chicks.

** In fact, there was [https://web.archive.org/web/20130318023724/http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/06/11/up-director-reveals-secret-deleted-subplot-and-the-egg-on-carls-face/ a subplot] where Carl had to protect Kevin's egg from Muntz because it could make you [[Fountain of Youth|grow young]]. Despite the interest the plot thread generated, it was dropped from the film for being "too bizarre".

{{quote| "And I've been undressing in front of you for all these years??!"}}

* Kiara at the very beginning of [[The Lion King (Disney)|''The Lion King II'']].

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, Hagrid's temporary "pet" dragon Norbert is mentioned in passing in a later book to have turned out to be female and redubbed "Norberta."

* Bill (later Billina) the chicken from ''Ozma of Oz'' and later [[Land of Oz (Literature)|Oz stories]].

{{quote| ''If I had a brontosaurus,<br />

''I would name him Horace or Morris.<br />

''But if suddenly one day he had<br />

''A lot of little brontosauri--<br />

''I would change his name<br />

''To Laurie ''}}

* Played straight in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s short story "The Haunted Space Suit." The protagonist, hearing muffled sounds in his suit halfway through an EVA, begins to believe the suit is haunted by the ghost of a former colleague who may - or may not - have died while wearing it. Halfway through requesting a check on the suit's history, he is reduced to incoherent screaming panic when something ''actually'' pats him on the back of the neck. Turns out the ship's cat, Tommy, is badly misnamed... and had found a very interesting place to have 'his' kittens.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* Data's pet cat, Spot, on ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' initially was a male cat (and one of a different breed) but was [[Retcon|retconnedretcon]]ned to be female when the plot demanded a pregnancy. One [[Fan Wank|theory]] is that the original Spot died and Data got a female cat that he gave the same name, which wouldn't be out of character.

* On ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'', after Telly's pet hamster, Chuckie, had babies, Telly renamed the hamster Chuckie Sue.

{{quote| '''Kramer''': Well, that would explain Little Jerry's low egg count.}}

* ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' has an interesting case in one episode, in which Klinger is trying to breed chinchillas that he bought from a "travelling chinchilla salesman".

{{quote| '''Klinger''': Now, if you'll just let me cover the cage, Romeo and Juliet are giving each other that look that only lovers share.<br />

== [[Music]] ==

{{quote| ''It's a Saturday morning confusion.<br />

''If you think you can sleep, it's illusion,<br />

'cause'{{'}}Cause you'll probably get a rude intrusion from Harry the dog.<br />

''Harry the dog is as big as can be<br />

'n' Harry the dog had puppies last week.<br />

''We couldn't tell if it's a he or a she, now we know. ''}}

* In H.H. Munro ("[[Saki (Creatorauthor)|Saki]]")'s play, ''The Watched Pot'', Hortensia, Lady Bavvel, continually rebukes her servant for referring to her parrot, Adolphus, as "she" -- until—until Adolphus lays an egg.

* In ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|Pokémon Red and Blue]]'', genders were not displayed for most Pokémon. In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' - compatible with the first - they were. Woe betide any Pokémon who is given a gender-specific nickname in the first gen and traded to the second.

== Webcomics[[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Housepets (Webcomic)|Housepets]]'', one old woman has so many Siamese cats that all look nigh identical that she can't be bothered to name them all. So she names them all Mr. Bigglesworth. [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/06/03/yes-all-of-them/ Yes, all of them.] [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/08/19/increasingly-bizarre-implications/ Not even they can tell each other apart.] [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/02/13/quick-valentines-bonus/ This results in hilarity.]

{{quote| '''Mr. Lancer:''' ''[in class, reading from an article]'' "Brooding genius, Daniel Fenton did what no other researcher dared to do. He got close enough to this rare purple-back gorilla to realize that Sampson was actually a Delilah." ''[stops, indignant]'' Nobody at that zoo ever bothered to see if it was boy or a girl?<br />

* In the ''[[Doug]]'' episode "Doug's Fat Cat", Roger forces Doug to look after Stinky, his [[Right -Hand -Cat]]. This leads to Doug freaking out when he thinks he's gotten Stinky sick by giving into [[Cats Are Mean|the "tomcat's" unreasonable desires]] for pizza and ice cream.

{{quote| '''Doug:''' And now it looks like he's.... he's...<br />

'''Roger's Mom:''' A very proud mother.<br />

'''Roger and Doug:''' Huh?<br />

'''Doug:''' Stinky's a girl? Roger, why didn't you tell me Stinky was a girl?<br />

* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' has a more [[Justified Trope|justified]] variation for this in "Das Subway", where a blind man's "male" dog gives birth when they're stuck in a stalled subway. Seeing-eye dogs are typically spayed/neutered but it isn't clear if the dog is a trained Seeing-eye dog or just a pet.

{{quote| '''Spinelli:''' Stuart's a Stella!}}

* On one episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney Atat Law]]'', Avenger (a male eagle) lays an egg...except, not really. Confusion sets in, and the explanation gets more and more absurd: the egg was actually Potomus' lunch, which he left under the bird in a split second without being seen, Avenger becomes uber maternal over the egg when he decides he really did lay it himself and pokes Potomus in the eye when he goes for it, then it hatches and the chick is a [[Half -Human Hybrid|half-bird-half-Jesse Jackson hybrid]].

* On one episode of ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'', SpongeBob adopts a worm whom he names Mr. Wormsley, but then it turns out it's pregnant. Spongebob spends the rest of the episode trying to find someone to adopt the baby worms.

* Subverted in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Perry Lays an Egg". When the boys find the egg in question (which by the way {{spoiler|was not actually laid by their pet platypus; it fell out of a nest on the tree and landed by Perry's posterior}}), Phineas responds: "Perry laid an egg! You know what this means? ...We're gonna have ''two'' Perrys!"

{{quote| '''Phineas:''' Congratulations, old ''boy,'' [[The Un -Reveal|you're gonna be a--]][[Running Gag|hey, where's Perry]]?}}

* The art book for ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' reveals they once planned to do this with Appa the skybison as part of the ending, after being thought of as the [[Last of Their Kind]].

* It was made quite clear, in "Appa's Lost Days", that Sky Bison have multiple offspring at a time. If the asexual reproduction thing ''doesn't'' work, then [[Parental Incest]] would ''not'' have been the [[Brother -Sister Incest|particular problem encountered]] ... take from that whatever you will.

* [[South Park|Cartman's]] cat is named Mr. Kitty, then came the episode [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Cat Orgy]]. Where it goes into heat..

* A variant occurs in one ''[[Cow and Chicken (Animation)|Cow and Chicken]]'' episode, where the Red Guy steals an egg from a random nest and places it under Chicken while he's asleep. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as everybody starts thinking that it was Chicken who laid the egg and that therefore he is actually a she.

* In a story from ''[[Charlie and Lola (Literature)|Charlie and Lola]]'', Lola brought home the class guinea pig, who was called Bert. Lola insisted that Bert was a female guinea pig, even though everyone else insisted it was male. At the end of the story, Bert had guinea piglets. This story was also adapted for a book release.

* One episode of ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' either plays this straight or subverts it: the Ice King brings his main penguin, Gunter, to the hospital, and the two return later with an egg. A shocked Jake yells "Gunter is a woman?!" and the Ice King replies that no, of course he's not... then [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|checks the relevant body parts]] before shrugging the question aside.

* ''[[Camp Lazlo|]]'': "Lamar wasn't a Lamar, he was a Lauren!"]]

* Dan of ''[[Dan Vs|Dan.]]'' owns a kitten named Mr. Mumbles, but he doesn't know that Mr. Mumbles is actually a female. This is a bit of a running gag. Even once he finds out, he doesn't change her name.

* Inverted in one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' where Bart actually raises a calf in which he names Lulubelle, but then it's revealed that the calf is actually a male, so he renames "him" Lou.

* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' has a sort of weird example with Jeff the Spider, who lays "thousands of thousands" of eggs. Even ''he'' thought he was male, and continues to be treated as such afterward, so whether or not this counts as [[Mister Seahorse]] is up for debate.

* In a Growing Up Special on [[Animal Planet]], they had thought that the lion cub they received was a girl. They named the cub Amy; however, as it began to lose its spots they discovered that it was male but didn't change the name.

* [[The Diary of Anne Frank]]. Anne was convinced that Peter's cat was female, until Peter flipped the cat over onto his back and proceeded to show Anne the "male organs". Anne's commentary afterward was quite amusing.

* The genus name for the beaver is Castor, as it is not possible to tell males from females without... um... ''very'' close inspection; thus, the main reason beavers do not normally fall foul of this trope is that few people keep them as pets -- howeverpets—however, the capacity for tragicomedy exists.

* In a variation, in 2005 Boston park officials were puzzled by the fact that the swans in the Public Garden, traditionally named [[Romeo and Juliet]], had produced eggs, but they hadn't hatched. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130625051521/http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Science/story?id=1034434&page=1 Then they found out that both swans were female], meaning that the lack of a pregnancy tipped them off. Given how aggressive swans are known to be, especially [[Mama Bear|in regards to their eggs]], it's understandable why they were hesitant to check.

* The mascot for [https://web.archive.org/web/20120415025210/http://www.ambrosiasw.com/ Ambrosia Software's] office in Rochester, New York, is a foul-mouthed African Grey Parrot named Hector D. Byrd. Then came a trip to the vet where a blood test revealed that Hector was, in fact, female. She has since produced at least two eggs, both unfertilized. Given the [[Complete Monster|persona]] cultivated by the company regarding Hector, this is probably a good thing...

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