I'm looking for information please, i've seen a few 'teacup kittens', and also have seen warnings that some people sell regular kittens that just happen to be small claiming they're 'teacup' when they're not actually genuinely teacup and may end up bigger.
What is a teacup kitten?
Isn't it just a defect? a particularly small kitten?
Is it cruel? if someone breeds two very small cats in the hopes of getting 'teacup kittens', how exactly does that work?
Is it a bad thing? Does it cause major health problems?
I know of a few breeds that have health problems because of their size.. so is this different from that? how?
Is there even such thing as a genuine teacup kitten? I thought it was a very small cat, like the runt of the litter maybe.. and no guarantee that it would stay that small as it grows.
What would you say is the smallest legitimate cat breed? what are the health problems of that breed?
Wouldn't it be just lovely to have a tiny little kitten, that grows into a tiny cat.. but i really can't imagine it happening without serious problems for the kitty.
I looked on youtube, and sure there are a lot of teacup KITTEN videos(which again i'm pretty sure they're just the runt of a persian litter) but no teacup CATS, they're all babies.. so they don't stay teacup then? or maybe they died.. I can't find any adult teacups..
Does it affect their quality of life?

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Seriously, I am not a cat person - but sure some will be along soon, but my gut instinct is to say walk away - there is no such thing!

I would imagine it's the same as teacup dogs just small cats being bred together to make them tiny with no consideration for their health . They do it with toy dogs and the size of some of them . It's a marketing ploy it works with chihuahuas etc after all people love the teacup label they're so cute and like wittle babies they can be fashion accessories

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Hiya, I dont breed cats, but foster kittens and i must say iv never heard of a Teacup kitten! I may be wrong but thats all i can tell ya.

No such thing all kittens are small and grow into cats. I'd be walking as far from anyone selling teacup kittens as I could

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no such thing These are just small kittens that are usually born from a queen that was a runt, so small herself. Please walk away the health problems these kittens could have is not worth it at all. Its the same with dogs i think, they breed two runts to try and get smaller puppies as a reslut.

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Next time you talk to Em ask her about the teacups she was fostering and who made the news in the Netherlands

Aren't they just the runts? I know thats what it is with dogs, breed the runts together to make smaller and smaller animals...

So yeah, not good.

It pisses me off actually, these 'false' tiny animals. Like Mini lop rabbits, micro lop rabbits. People assume they are going to be teensy tiny bunnies all their life. My 'mini' lops are almost as big as my cats, theyre are not small. All this ends up is with people dumping these 'teacup' 'micro' 'mini' animals because they grow to a fairly normal size and thats 'too big.'

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Oh holy mother of god we've now got people selling teacup kittens as well as teacup pups!

Unless Iv got it completely wrong I'd imagine this is the exact same story as teacup pups, runts bred to runts to make more extra small (and probably extra sick) runts, or else just people lying about the age to sell say maybe 6 week old kittens as 8 week old kittens.

OMG googled them and there is tea cup kittens......first the dog world now the cat world what are people thinking!!!!

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