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Just curious...do smaller kittens at 8 weeks ever "catch up" and become large cats or is that a reasonable age to predict adult size. I only ask because there was an enormous difference in size with the littermates I had.
The one was obviously going to be a HUGE cat ( but I think he may have had a different father than the others). The female I'm keeping is very petite.
Also has anyone noticed cats in general seem larger than 20 years ago or am I imagining this?
I am not just saying obese but its just common to frequently see really large cats these days.
Any thoughts...better nutrition? Hormones in food? I just find it odd.
I don't think so. One of my past cats, Scooter, was a very tiny kitten. I have pictures of him at about 8 weeks and he was all ears with a tiny body. Scooter ended up being about 20 pounds and big. Everybody kept asking if she was pregnant. So maybe there is no way to know for sure when they are little how they will end up.
If a young kitten has big paws, it's a good sign it will be a good sized cat. Runts of a litter sometimes will catch up later as they get older, and sometimes they don't. One of my cats was pretty much normal sized as a kitten, but turned out to be on the small side as an adult. Another was a tiny little girl (and malnourished) when we got her at 7 weeks old. I thought she was going to be petite as well, but ended up being a rather big girl. She's a little over 12lbs at 10 yrs old now and there's no fat on her. So, in my experience anyway, it can go either way.
It might depend on whether they were born smaller than their littermates, or their growth was stunted (nutrition, sickness, etc) after they were born. Perhaps others here might have a better answer.
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