Dogs are boys and cats are girls... Please stop

Not to take the name of the sub too literally, but I absolutely cannot stand people, of whom I know multiple, who genuinely only use male pronouns for dogs and female pronouns for cats.

I have only had male cats my whole life. My aunt, who has never really had pets, says she was raised with cats being girls and boys being dogs, and has called every cat I've had (names like Robert, pickles, Hubert) she.

My mom was raised by the same mother and has never had this problem 🤣 but fair enough, my aunt spends zero time around pets, who really cares if she can't remember Robert is a boy cat.

Well now her son has a dog. A female dog, with a female name, who she regularly babysits and knows very well... A year in and she still calls this dog he every single time.

I can't tell if she's not trying, doing it on purpose as a weird joke no one appreciates, or if it's something we should start being concerned about atp