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.

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Bonnie and the gang xxx

I don't know why you are so worried about a chart. I would go with what they look like physically rather than what they look like via scales.


Kind of reminds me of when I had my first born human baby. I was obsessed with how much he weighed and would go to baby clinic every week without fail but once No2 came along. I only got her weighed once

Editted to add your kitties look gorgeous!!! Really healthy!!

I'm not really worried about how much they weigh, it's just that I was using the chart to compare their weights as everyone was saying Monty was too big. I was just wondering if the chart was accurate in that it seems to imply males are meant to be bigger, whereas everyone I know has this idea that males and females are meant to weigh the same.

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Bonnie and the gang xxx

Ignore them - according to that chart Willow is a boy or overweight - and she isn't either

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They look pretty damn perfect to me!

Isn't that chart for your bog standard moggy (sorry - no such thing as a bog standard moggy but you know what I mean) whilst, as you say, yours are a big breed. I've got the opposite problem, mine are on the small side but they were when I got them and they seem to be gaining and growing so I try not to worry.

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Harry: Ginger & White b. September 2002
Oscar: Black b. 7th May 2011
Kitty: Grey Tabby b. 7th May 2011

Our lovely cat family

My 2 are litter mates and today at Kitten Clinic he weighs 2.2 kg and Susie weighs 1.99 kg. I don't know if that is normal or not for 16 week kittens but do me they look great.

I think that males naturally weigh more than females at least in my experience its always been that way.

My old cat amber used to weigh less than the average fly compared to Buster-the-lard-arse in comparison.

Absolutely - well that's what the vet told me when I was there with Oscar and Kitty last week. They were 21 weeks old and Oscar weighed 2.5kg and Kitty weighed 2.2kg. I'd obviously only just got Kitty so I don't know what she weighed before but Oscar had put on 1.5kg in the 12 weeks we'd had him - which the vet said was fine.

They are small cats with a small mum though - I'm sure Dinah and Monty are perfect for their breed. People who say they are fat are (as well as a bit rude!) probably not used to larger breed cats.

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Harry: Ginger & White b. September 2002
Oscar: Black b. 7th May 2011
Kitty: Grey Tabby b. 7th May 2011

Our lovely cat family

I'm also getting sick of people saying "they're not kittens anymore!" when I refer to them as such. Regardless of the fact that they'll always be my babies, it really irritates me that people think that just because they're quite big kittens, that they're fully grown and therefore shouldn't be fed as much as they were when they were tiny. They are hungrier at the moment than I think they've ever been, and I did read (on here I think) that 5-7 months old is when kittens' appetites are at their biggest, so it makes sense to me to feed them as much as they need... but I've had disapproval from people who think we're giving them too much. Grrrrrrrrrr!

Thanks everyone. I'm glad that you all seem to think they're fine!

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Bonnie and the gang xxx

Screw the charts and the people.. If not, then we should be worried about Pyrrha who's 24 weeks on Tuesday and weighs as much as your Monty!

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Your kittens look perfectly healthy to me. I confess that I have been worried for similar reasons with my two, but I have figured that common sense and the behaviour of the kitties counts for more than a 'one-size-fits-all' weight chart. If they're nagging for more food, it's because they need more, and if I can see them getting porky then they'll need to cut back As I understand it, excessive weight gain is only a likely problem post-neutering anyway. I'd say stick with whatever is working for you and the furbabies

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