I suppose you could just make printdetails use cout.


void printDetails(dog dogObj){

cout << "The dog is " << dogObj.getAge() << " years old." << endl << endl;
cout << "Dog's Gender?: " <<...

if it's working, you should mark the thread as solved, it's my first one :)
also, use [ icode] just for inline code like this, but if you're pasting C++ code, use [ code=cpp] ... [ /code] and it...

The problem with the char is this line:
davesDog.setGender("M");
"M" is a character array,
you are passing the letter M and a NULL character ('\0') to the setGender function (the NULL character...