16-10-2011, 07:06 PM
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Re: Kitten Weight Chart
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Originally Posted by Bonnie82
Does anyone know how accurate the attached kitten weight chart is? 
My kittens are 30 weeks old (almost 7 months!) and they weigh 3.3kg (Dinah) and 3.7kg (Monty).
The chart seems to imply that as a female cat, Dinah should be between 2.3kg and 3.1kg at her age, which would make her slightly heavier than average.
The weights for males are between 2.9kg and 4.1kg, so Monty is somewhere in the middle, closer to the heavier end I suppose.
Yet almost EVERYONE who visits comments on how "fat" (yes they use that word  ) Monty is, and how he "should eat less"... and they say that Dinah must miss out because she's more slender than him.
No matter how many times I say that they're a big breed, how kittens can eat as much as they like, and that males are meant to be bigger anyway (though I am basing that on the attached chart) I still get told that Dinah isn't big enough and Monty is too big. 
So could someone who knows more about this stuff than I do please look at the attached chart, and tell me whether it's accurate or not... and whether males are meant to be bigger than females? I'm getting tired of people commenting on how Monty is bigger than Dinah and that it must mean she's not getting fed enough and he's getting too much.
Oh and you can have a new photo of them as well, as both payment and illustration.   |
Bonnie - I really wouldn't take any notice of the kitten weight chart. It just doesn't make any sense - different breeds of kitten are going to weigh different to each other.
Monty and Dinah look absolutely fine and so gorgeous My 2 Persian kittens will weigh different to your Siberian kittens and, as for an ordinary little moggy, well that won't weigh anything like a large size breed like yours.
How many meals a day do Monty and Dinah have?
Do they always eat together or is it that sometimes one of them might want to eat a bit after the other one?
Do they eat from the same dish or do they have separate dishes?
Would you say that they both eat about the same amount or does one have a bigger appetite than the other?
If one of them leaves some food, then does the other one finish it off?
Do you ever give them any special treat type food?
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