Is Your Pet Queer?

This weekend, my brother (who is straight but metro, and can wear pleated pants with uncommon flourish) announced to me that one of his cats has come out of the closet.  My brother sent me the rainbow-infused picture at left (the gay one's perched on the dresser).  I was proud of the cat, and would like to think that as its aunt, I played a role in its conversio --er -- realization.   My brother and me then brainstormed other ways to identify LGBT pets:

Top Signs that Your Pet Might Be Queer

1. She will only eat vegan, locally-sourced kibble.
2. He refuses to watch anything besides HGTV or Bravo, and claims he reads Playgirl "for the articles."
   
3. She steals your LL Bean Visa card to buy a doggie flannel.
4. You pick him up from the groomers and he says, "OMG, never going there again."
5. She only chews up comic books by Alison Bechdel or Paige Braddock.
   
6. When you come home, he has rearranged the furniture.  Again.
7. Before you know it, she has adopted a small cadre of other rescue pets.
8. He will only wear an American Apparel cat sweater.
9. After coming back from the groomers, she immediately tear the bows out of her fur, muttering something about "patriarchy."
10. He takes long walks with a male, gender nonconforming pet "friend."
    
11. She will only sleep beside you in bed if you use unscented laundry detergent.
    
12. He has limp paws (see pic below). 
    

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Special thanks to my hilarious brother for coming up with about half of this list!  Do any of you have gay pets?  How do you know?  Do you feel like your own queerness helped or hindered their realization process?

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