Female Feline, Male Mutt/Playing With

Basic Trope: A dog will be male, a cat will female, and their owners will often be the same gender.

• Straight: Fluffy is a sassy, snarky female cat owned by Alice. Fido is a male Big Friendly Dog owned by Bob.
• Exaggerated: Cats and dogs are shown to be a One-Gender Race, all female and all male respectively.
• Downplayed: Fluffy is female and Fido is male, but other than that they mostly don't adhere to the stereotypes.
• Justified: Alice is a cat person, Bob is a dog person, and they simply feel more comfortable with a pet the same gender.
• Inverted: Fifi is a female dog owned by Alice and Max is a male cat owned by Bob.
• Subverted: Tom the male cat joins Fluffy and Fido.
• Double Subverted: Then Tom gets pregnant.
• Parodied: Alice is a Straw Feminist who will not have any pet but a female cat.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: There are many cats and dogs in the cast and they are of varying genders.
• Enforced:
  • The author has a thing for Cat Girls, and makes the dog a male so he can be the Idiot Hero.
  • The publisher wants the dog to be male to avoid B-word jokes, thereby keeping the work family-friendly.
• Lampshaded: "Oh Fluffy, I just love your feminine feline wit."
• Invoked: The series plays all the Animal Stereotypes straight or exaggerated.
• Exploited: Fido is a Lovable Sex Maniac who loves female cats, and visits human women's homes first to find them.
• Defied: Alice hates cats and Bob hates dogs.
• Discussed: "Is it hard for you cat ladies to deal with oafish dog men?"
• Conversed: "Hey Carl, ever notice how the cat is always a girl and the dog is always a guy?"