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Jim Davis, Garfield's creator, told the Mental Floss in an article, “Dealing with eating and sleeping, being a cat, Garfield is very universal. By virtue of being a cat, really, he’s not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old. It gives me a lot more latitude for the humor for the situations.” This statement spun an edit war in Wikipedia - a satirist called Virgil Texas changed the cat's gender to None on Garfield's Wikipedia entry in February. Now the entry reads "Male". 

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