Im wondering if you guys can help...

we took in a kitten 2 weeks ago, (2nd sept ) Im not the most knowlegable of kittens...

she was apparently ten weeks old then. The owners said she was a runt of the litter, but she wasnt much smaller than her brothers...

When I weighed her, ( at what they would say was 11 weeks) she weighed 500g.
this weeks she's at 600g. and her eyes ave just recently turned from blue to green.

I really dont believe the age of her now. Especially as Ive just seen the woman posting that they are now ten weeks.

Shes happy and healthy, she's eating and drinking fine. she was quite nervous when we first got her, but I guess that comes with being seperated from her family.

So apparently she's now twelve weeks. at 600g. with just turned green eyes. I;ve attatched a photo but i dont know if it's much help, this was her on the day we took her in. Can anyone give any advice on how old she's more likely to be? I just want to know I'm doing the best thing for her

ah another thing, the mother cat still was quite, well very, enlarged in the nipple area, I didnt think about it until I spoke to a friend who's had a litter of kittens some time before. But the owner had said they kittens were all weaned. It just makes me think I took her on far too early and I really should of realised something beofre getting her home.

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I'd say maybe around 6 - 7 weeks with the eye changing colour.

If you wasn't the most knowledgeable with kittens then IMO you shouldn't have bought one, or ''took one in''. But what is done is done.

Spend lots of time with her, playing and whatnot

Very pretty kitten though

Oh she is played with constantly, and she sleeps, a lot.
When I say I dont have a lot of knowlege, I more mean, I'm not an expert I don't know enoguh about them from birth up until a bit older. I didnt realise about how much they shoudl weigh, or their eyes,.. Our old cat we got him at 8 weeks, and from what I remember apart from the eyes he was the same.

You are probably right, I shouldn't of got her, ...but my cat died a couple of months ago before, and although she isnt a replacement, the house seems right again with a cat in it.

Thankyou for your help, she is very pretty and content,

So sorry to hear about your previous cat.

Have you got a name for your new kitten?

she looks about 8wks old to me ...she is very bootiful
has she got a name?
good for you taking her on ..esp sounds like the person you got her off doesnt really care about them

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Her name is Lulu...she's prettier now, it took a while for her to grow into her face.

What surprised me about the owners was that they were telling me about someone theyd turned down who'd come for a kitten...so I thought they knew what they were doing.

According to the owners, in the photo, she was ten weeks then. adamant infact it was ten weeks. Ive got little faith in them now...

i dont suppose a couple of weeks wll matter in a few months, its like with any young animal/person.

but now im just a bit worriedabout her weight and age being right,

she looks about 5/6 weeks in that photo and if her eyes were still blue when you got her I'd say that's about right. Kittens are born with murky blue eyes and they change as they grow and are normally changed over by 6/7 weeks though the colour may still deepen or lighten afterwards for a while. SO blue eyes around 5 weeks old! Horrid person telling you she was 10 weeks - she doesn't even have the body of a 10 weeks old - they start to go all leggy at that stage - this is my kitten at 3 wks and 11wks - big difference!
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you can see at 3 weeks she still has blue eyes, but by 11 wks they are already aqua

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Lulu looks much younger than 10 weeks in that picture to me (the eyes and also general look of her). Has she been vet checked? A vet should be able to make a reasonable estimation of her current age and also tell if she's underweight for her age. My kitten weighed 1kg at 9 weeks and the vet said he was on the light side but as he was eating well it wasn't an issue and he's a normal weight now.

Sadly it seems Lulu's previous owners weren't entirely honest with you - although (and a breeder would know this, I don't) do very small kittens develop mjore slowly than normal weight at birth ones? Might that account for the eye colour? I don't think so but I'm not 100% sure.

She's lovely, bless her.

Oh, as well if she was only 5/6 weeks then 500g isn't that underweight either - and if her eyes have just changed she's now about 6 weeks and should be around 700g so 600g isn't too bad, just keep feeding her up - IF she was now 12 weeks old she would be severely underweight and starving - she should be about 1.3 kgs for that age.

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Thanks, all of you, thankyou.

she's in the vets on monday morning so I guess they'll be able to give me an age for her and check she's ok, I would hope they know what they're doing!!

she is more than happy in herself, I just dont want to have done any damage.