'She told me she’s calling animal control about it': 60-year-old neighbor throws a tantrum because a family named their newly adopted female street cat, who just gave birth to 6 adorable kittens, a 'male' name

Over our time here at ICHC, writing about cats day in and day out, we have noticed something. We have noticed that the names people give their cats get divided into a couple categories. It's either cats have completely absurd names that are just hilarious and ridiculous, or people give their cats very human names, which is also hilarious in other ways. 

The latter is what happened in this situation. The family who adopted this kitty named it Dave. The only problem is that, with human names, come human connotations. And the name Dave, generally, is given to males in the human kingdom. The family didn't know, when they named it, that this kitty was not only not male but also very, very pregnant, but the name stuck. And although we don't have a problem with her being called Dave and the family doesn't have a problem with her being called Dave… their neighbor apparently thinks it's worth calling animal control over. 

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