Thread: Growing question

I found mine put on a lot of weight quickly until about nine months of age & then slowed down & after a year the weight only went on slowly but every time they had a growing spurt where they looked as if they couldn't control their legs as they were so gangly they actually lost weight,used to worry about it with the first one even though he was healthy & eating well,don't bother anymore just take it as natural as long as they seem ok in every other way,class it as the spotty,rebelious teenage years.I am still trying to get the length of one of my boys,he stood up against a door the other night & looked even longer than I first thought,not had much success yet but at least know the "formula" for working it out now thanks to the link posted in another thread...

I haven't weighed Simba for a while so not sure what he weighs but I haven't noticed him growing so much recently. I suppose they must slow down eventually but there was a time when I almost noticed a change when I came down in the morning. His back legs still look too big for him though so I suspect he has some growing to do. I will try and weigh him later to see what he is.

We weigh The Criminals most days and every Friday we put a dot on their kitten growth chart. It's partly to check that they're doing OK, and partly to see how far off the chart they are!! Luckily they both love sitting in the salad bowl, so we put the bowl on the kitchen scales, press zero, and plonk a kitten in it. We're quite put out if they're no heavier from one day to the next, which does happen sometimes. Then we get into discussions about time of day, whether they've eaten yet, whether they've had a poo.... crikey we have turned in to a pair of obsessives! At the moment they are 19 weeks old, and around 2.9 kgs. Our big old furbag Barney is 4.2 kgs, so they're catching him up!

Louie has started to look like a wheel barrow again he had leveld out but his back legs are on a spurt

Your going to need a bigger salad bowl soon Howlinbob

Originally Posted by Louie-Louie

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Your going to need a bigger salad bowl soon Howlinbob

Haha, you're so right! When they were smaller they would both get in it, double-decker style, Larry almost smothered underneath, Monty on top! Now it's a tight fit for them, so they get cramped and throw a limb out, then before long they give up and flop down beside it.

I think they'll move on the the fruit bowl, which is a lot bigger. Looks like I'll be putting the fruit in the salad bowl any day now...

The scales that we used to weigh Harry in when he was a baby, (the cheap plastic variety) broke so now we use the plastic bowl for Harry's dry food.

I'm not weighing Freyja regularly and am now panicking in case I'm supposed to be - MC weights seem to vary so wildly that I'm not sure I'd know whether the scales were telling me anything alarming or not; should I be weighing her daily/ weekly? Paranoid now!

I would just weigh her monthly unless you are concerned

No, don't worry, there isn't anything to say they have to be weighed on a daily, or weekly basis. So long as Freyja is healthy, eating regularly etc don't worry. When they are tiny it's a good guide to tell you that they are progressing as they should. As one of the things with MC's is their size, and how big they CAN get, it's just fun to compare, and something that "proud" parents do ! - that's not to say that of course if you do weigh them say monthly, you would be aware if there was a problem sometimes this could be shielded beneath all that fur !