How did we get here from there?

[clevermanka]

For those of you who are acquainted with the giant black beast that is Fetish Purrball, this will, I'm sure, come as a bit of a shock to you. It was to me.

I've mentioned before that she was teeny tiny little when I found her. The vet guessed that she was maybe a month old. Well, Cuteoverload.com posted a YouTube video that shows a kitten roughly the same size and temperament as Ms. Fetish on the day I found her.

"" (Watch on YouTube)

In the video information on YouTube, the person says this kitten is twelve days old. It's possible that Fetish wasn't even two weeks old when I found her. I never bottle-fed her--she went straight to soft kitten food until graduating to the hard stuff. Good heavens. How big would she have grown if I'd given her proper nutrition in her earliest days?

And no wonder she's so heavily attached to me. I really am her mother!

Comments

[apocalypticbob.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Small world. The hand and voice in that video belong to one of my friends, naamah_darling. And that is one of the bigger of three kittens that she is nursing right now. She put video of the smallest one on her lj last night.

And if that is Festish Purrball draped around your neck in your icon, she certainly didn't lack for nutrition, did she? I have found that kittens that were seperated from their mothers too early often grow into massive cats. My mom's cat was just a little bigger than the kitten in the video, and he's huge now!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is a small world!

And yes, that's Fetish draped around my neck in the icon. She's a monster!

kittens that were seperated from their mothers too early often grow into massive cats

Wow. That's really interesting!

[apocalypticbob.livejournal.com]

I had plans for an intelligent reply here, but was derailed by red kitty toenails, so we'll pretend I was witty and bright, okay?

I don't know if statistics back up my hypothesis on cat growth as it relates to early seperation, (though I am now tempted to ask a few vet techs that I know) but my informal research in my own life seems to find that the case.

[bestill.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, interesting. I have a cat that I found dumped at a lake, and she was too young to have even been weaned. She is about 14 or 15 now, and is still smaller than average.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Aye, we have one of each end of the spectrum.
The Jbird's Scarlet is tiny and was taken so early, she hates every other cat. No social skills at all, lol.

OTOH, our monster Mir...is the absolute largest of the litter, so much so, we suspect his pappy may have been a flippin' bobcat.

That's mean lil Scarlet in the pic. She looks precious, but she's a freakin' spitfire. But then, I've heard Tuxedo cats are fairly loco by nature.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

WHAT A CUTIE.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Huh! I guess I never really knew just how teeny she was when you got her!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

OMG - she was tiny!