Tiny Kitten

[babybombo]

My sister got a kitten from a lady a few months back. At the time she told my sister that she was 8 weeks old, but she was tiny. We took her to be checked at the vets and he said she was probably just the runt and would start to bulk up in a few weeks. But after 2 months she had hardly gotton any bigger and gained very little weight. Last week the vet sent out an appointment for her 5 month check-up, (she is nearly 6 months now but never mind!) At the vets we told him how she was still really small and he agreed that she is extremely under-developed for her age. What the vet told us is that it is impossible that she is the age we were lead to believe and the lady who sold her must have told us she was older just to get rid of her. She is perfectly healthy though so all our worries are over. I just found it terrible that this lady had lied about her age just to get rid of her. She isn't a pedigree but still moggies are just as important, I think people selling kittens should have a letter from their vet confirming that they are of the right age to be given away. Anyone agree ?

[saxy_jag]

We had one like this once - from the RSPCA! They told us the kitten was thirteen weeks, but when we took her to the vets for her first health check/vaccination, he said she was probably only about eight weeks. He doesn't like kittens to leave their mothers until they're around ten or eleven weeks.

She was always a very small (but very healthy and very dominant) cat, who got herself into more than a few scrapes and must have used up every one of her nine lives before she had to be put to sleep at eighteen years of age (senile dementia).