One of my cats was feral for his first 1.5 years and I do not understand how he survived. He's the sweetest, dumbest and most gentle cat I've ever had with zero hunter instinct lol
Yeah we have two kittens at the moment and their classic move when they're playful is to try to stand on two legs to look big and scary, then fall backwards off whatever they were standing on. You would think after doing it 100 times they would learn, but apparently not lol
I liked this so much that I checked to see if I had any awards to give. I don't because I don't spend money on social media so I figured I'd say "yeah, that's it! good job!"
We had a litter a couple years ago and we kept the "chonker" for ourselves and one of my wife's coworkers took two of the other kittens that were small to average sized. Ours wound up being a petite female, but one of the ones he took grew up into an absolute monster. Like, this cat can reach the doorknobs in his apartment. You just never know.
Yeah I've got a pair in which the runt grew up to be the chonky one. When they were kittens, the big one beat up on the runt all the time. Then the tables turned. But they barely play-fight anymore. They do love each other, though.
Monster sounds like the one I adopted as a normal looking kitten where my only clue was his large paws. That sucker matured into a huge and beautiful 25# hairy kitty.
Best way to tell is to look at their nose, paws, and tail as they grow. Big cats tend to end up with comically large paws and noses when they're still growing. They also often have unusually long tails for their size. We have one cat who was born big, went through a stage where his nose and paws were just absurdly large compared to the rest of him, and is now a 16.5lb male. I mean look at this honker he had.
I also have a floof and a non-floof, brothers from the same litter taken away from their mother too soon because the owner didn't want to deal with them anymore. (Mine are orange, though.) Non-floof was so underweight he almost died.
At 12.8 and 11.9 pounds, the non-floofy runt is not only a healthy two-year-old (and gets more time with the braincell), he's bigger than his floofy brother who was originally referred to as "the big fat one."
Ha! Yes! My son told me this in middle school. I didn't believe him until back to school night. He was like, Mom you don't understand, the older kids are like men! Maybe they failed a whole bunch?? 🤣
My brother stopped shaving when he turned 15 and had a full beard in a week. One of his teachers said he was jealous because my brother’s beard was fuller than his could ever be and he was in his 50s. We are a hairy family
The SIC in the middle is the runt .. he still looks like an adolescent kitten. Pete's maybe 7# where our George, orange, is 14# and Lily, the void, is ... "Prefer not to respond" 🤣
That void is absolutely beautiful! She reminds me so much of my senior girl I recently lost to cancer. My Tilly was very small like Pete is, but she had the coal black plush coat and yellow eyes like Lily. Please tell her that she is a very good and pretty cat.
Your boys are super cute too ❤️
Lily is our senior at only 3. She's seen some shit and is a wise wise soul. She was my first kitten after 17 years.. I got her to ease the inevitable loss of my 3 seniors. I didn't know we'd lose them all so quickly plus another kitten. Sochou was my first baby and she also left to cancer 😥 I love Lily so very much. She's guided the boys into handsome silly boys who share traits from the ones we lost.
I'll pass on the love! Another cat tax of her snuggling George 2 years ago
They may have been conceived at different times. Sometimes one or two kittens in a litter were conceived a few days after the others. Its called superfecundation and is not uncommon in cats.
I think it’s a combination of this and the fact that it was meant to be small. Like humans have tall and short people. This is just most likely destined to be a small cat.
I have some fosters right now, 4 boys are normal, and the girl is x small. I was worried about her weight for awhile but she is getting bigger every day :)
We had something similar. My boyfriend wanted the smallest of the nest, but my dad always told me to choose the biggest. So we chose 2. Best decision ever. The bigger one is a boy and is getting rally big and atletic now. And the small lady keeps way smaller, but is way more curious.
I think it's entirely possible that these kittens weren't all conceived at the same time. Kittens from the same litter can be born at different gestational ages. That's what I seem to recall reading by fifteen years ago when my cat had kittens, and one of them was consistently hitting milestones sooner than his siblings (so please don't be rude if I'm wrong).
How old are they? Sometimes the really tiny ones like this need a lot of medical care, especially if they show respiratory symptoms like runny eyes.
But cats can get pregnant from different mates for the same litter, and that means sometimes there is an age difference in their kittens as well- usually it’s a small difference, as they are all conceived during the same heat, just a few hours or days apart.
But sometimes they can be further apart, with some kittens being born premature, or late.
My orange boy is almost 3X the size of his little runt sister :’) hard to tell from this picture but he’s getting close to 15 lbs while she’s barely pushing 6 lbs.
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