By Yuan Ren For Mailonline
Published: 13:30 BST, 16 April 2019 | Updated: 14:17 BST, 16 April 2019
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A male cat known as Piglet had his penis removed and now urinates like a female after a life-saving operation.
Piglet's urethra, the passage urine passes down from the bladder to the genitals, was blocked by a lump of minerals and stopping him from going to the toilet.
Surgeons removed his penis and the blocked urethra, before creating a permanent opening so that urine would come out of his perineum closer to his anus.
After vets performed the procedure, which they said was 'a little bit like gender reassignment surgery', the six-year-old cat made a swift recovery.
A male cat now is now peeing differently after undergoing a radical 'gender reassignment' surgery that removed his penis, his vet has revealed
This surgical procedure diverts the stream of urine away from the urethra in the penis.
It creates an opening for urine to go through in the perineal skin, which in males is found between the anus and the scrotum.
Ejaculated semen will also come out through the urethrostomy instead of the end of the penis.
If the scrotum is not removed, human males will usually have to sit and lift up the scrotum up to pass urine.
Vets from Cheshire removed Piglet's urethra and 're-plumbed' him in a rare procedure to combat a potentially fatal blockage called perineal urethrostomy.
The procedure reconnects the urethra to a new opening in the perineum skin nearer the anus so that pee can be dispelled without going
