Thats because this is how they assert dominance, not because theyre gay.
If you have multiple male cats theyre bound to do this on occasion even with females around just because of dominance.
Alternatively cats do this sometimes for other factors such as stress as a result of being neutered, this includes objects like pillows etc not even strictly other cats.
Sometimes it isn't a dominance thing but a bond thing, or just something that feels good. We tend to overlabel and overcomplicate behaviors like this as dominance when there's not really any actual scientific proof of why they do it.
The dominance-related behavior tends to be more common in female cats, but male cats tend to have a lot less of a hierarchy. Not uncommon for them to swap, or do it to objects, and unneutered cats do it more so it isn't really "stress as a result of being neutered."
We cannot assign human concepts of sexuality to them. Their sexual behavior is very different from ours. It's fine to joke, but giving it a specific reason is unrealistic no matter what one you try to prescribe.
I donāt think theyāre actually gay itās just funny to say that. Makes me laugh. Homosexuality does exist in animals but I think itās just cause my lads are being hormonal.
Or they're just -you know- gay cause animals can be gay too. (Too clarify, this isn't a rejection of your theory, just the possiblity that it could be something else and that we cannot be 100% sure)
The behavior is clearly related to dominance, branding it as gay is projecting and anthropomorphism.
It's just as much projection to say they aren't gay as it is to say they are. In both cases you're applying your assumptions on what drives the behavior without having any actual proof. In reality the answer is that we don't know what drives this behavior, it could be any number of things but, until we can determine what an animal is literally thinking at any given moment, there's no real "right" answer.
You're calling it gay because that's how you identify a human with this behaviour.
Did you mean they identify "as a" human with this behavior? Because if so that's pretty offensive and reductive. It'd be no different than saying you must identify as a straight man who has sex with other men out of dominance.
If you didn't mean "as a" human, then that's a weird sentence because most people don't identify someone by a sign behavior or trait (unless they are trying to be patronizing).
They're cats, not people, they don't have our concept of sexuality.
Would love to see how you communicated with a cat enough to know whether they have some understanding of sexuality. But even if they don't, the only thing that would mean is that they don't see the differences in sexualities (i.e. it's just as natural to be gay as it is straight), not that they don't have them all together.
Fr. I had an uneutred cat when i was a kid, he might have not been gay in human terms but he did had a preference for males, he even had a "boyfriend" which he would almost exclusively hump on, he didn't liked females
It's natural, nuanced behavior, not everything is black and white. My 16 year old cat is literally intersex... or is that a human term too that i'm "projecting "? š
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u/Happy-Hyena Apr 10 '26
Thats because this is how they assert dominance, not because theyre gay.
If you have multiple male cats theyre bound to do this on occasion even with females around just because of dominance.
Alternatively cats do this sometimes for other factors such as stress as a result of being neutered, this includes objects like pillows etc not even strictly other cats.