Chatterley (RB) showed up on our roof, estimated to be about 8 months.
Clifford (RB) was a planned kitten, and came to us at about 2 months.

Of the current crew, I have to guess with Mr. Clark. When he was
rescued, he was estimated at about 3 years.  Rhonda was 3 months and
Ding was 4. As opposed to Clifford and Chatterley (she had been an only
cat for close to a year), who fought throughout Chatterley's life, these
three immediately bonded.

The biggest present challenge is trying to figure out if the two younger
ones regard me or Mr. Clark as their mother. The big guy is extremely
affectionate to me, but seems to be of the opinion that ex-kitten
discipline should flow through him.  Chain of command and all that.

Mandy was said to be about 6 weeks or so, supposedly at whatever the
earliest age for weaning was. Betsy was about 6 months, as estimated by
the vet.

decepticoncommand@hotmail.com (Enfilade) had some very interesting
things to say about How old were your cats when you got them?:

We think Felix was about two years old [got him from the shelter. TEDs
since have agreed with the estimated age we provided]. That was back
in May 1995, so he's about 11 now.

Never let it be said that I was one to let curiosity go unsatisfied

Aries (RB): 12 weeks (he was born in my neighbour's next-door
apartment)

Kensey (RB): 2 Years 8 months (as a private rescue)

Bandit: around 2 years (rescue from Cats Protection shelter on the
death of K)

Pericles: 17 weeks (rescue from Maine Coon breeder who'd had him
returned as
               not up to standard, got because Bandit told me he
wanted company)

Snowball: 12 weeks (from local breeder, my self-indulgence 'cos Bandit
&
                Pericles weren't lap-fungi cuddlebunnies. They're
both learning, tho'

Purrs

Gordon & the TT

-
Feline family viewable at:
http://community.webshots.com/user/exocat

Holly was 6 months old when I adopted her.  (Note:  Tomorrow will be the 9th
anniversary of her adoption -- and I truly am grateful for my furbabies.)

Duffy had been in a shelter for several months, and he was estimated to be
between 3 and 5 years old when I adopted him.

Amber (RB) was 2 years old at adoption and lived to age 16.

Raucher (RB) was approximately 8 months old at adoption (and feral).  He
lived to be almost 20.

MaryL

Brenna's paperwork says she was 8 weeks old when I adopted her from the
Humane Society.  Personally, based on her behavior and all, I'm thinking
she was more like 7 weeks.  They say they don't adopt out kittens
younger than 8 weeks, so they might have fudged the paperwork.  They
were overflowing with kittens right then.  I brought her home Memorial
Day weekend (end of May) 2000.  Funny how that sweet, snuggly ball of
fluff has turned into the independent (but still snuggly - on her
terms), sleek ladycat I an owned by today.

- Denise

Gossamer adopted me when she was about 8 weeks old.  A case of being in the
right place at the right time I guess.  She is now 9 years old.

Jeeves and I met when he was maybe two or three weeks old and I brought him
home when he was 5 weeks old (too early but it was threatened that they
would be tossed outside to live at any moment).  He is now 8 years old.

Not sure.  The vet guessed (based on her teeth) Persia was about 2 years old
when she demanded I let her inside.

Jill

Mimi (RB) was adopted from a shelter, approx. 1 year old.
Stinky was six months old.

Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Weeble - most of you know *his* story.  He was only a day or two old when I
got him in Aug 2003

Lizzy - she was a 'shelter cat', and they said she was 8-9 months old in
December 2002.

Ernie, Mimi & Moe - about 4-6 weeks old May 2004.  Not yet weaned, little
buggars learned *real* quick how to use those needle sharp claws to climb
into my lap to get to the bottle.

Smokey - about a year old, she was given to us by a former co-worker who was
moving and couldn't (or wouldn't) keep her, that was Oct/Nov 1993

Tennessee - I don't remember *exactly* when we got him, but he was a youngun
then, maybe 10 weeks???  That was late sring 1994

Ivy(RB) - she was about 4-6 weeks, took the bottle once, but then I poured
the KMR over kitten kibble, and she chowed down - I thought she was gonna
burst!  That was late summer, 1994

Png - showed up in our basement last month, I guestimated his age at 7-8
months, but TED says he's closer to 5.

Omar was the only one of our current crew that we got as a kitten from
Petsmart at about 4 months old. (now 4)
Oreo was the next youngest we think -- she was a rescue and I'm guessing
that she was close to a year old when we got her. (4ish)
Midnight came next, as a starving skinny (at the time, but no more!) stray
in our backyard and we think she was about a year old.(5ish)
Robin, shy stray, and Tucker, feisty feral, came into our backyard and our
lives at about a year old each we think. (both 2ish).
Christine

Vino was just under 7 weeks when we got him.  Probably 6.5 weeks.  It
was young to get a kitten but he was bottle fed because his momma cat
never did much with the kittens.  So that's why the people let us have
him so early.  It was actually a nice age to get him at because we
were able to handle him a lot and get him used to us.  Now he trusts
us so much, it's wonderful.  He holds out his paw for claw clipping

--
Britta
Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's
covered in fur!
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

Tanada (now 12) was about 6 mos old when we got her from her abusive
hoomins.  Berfert (now 11) was 7-8 weeks old when we agreed to take care
of him for a week, needless to say, we've never had to worry about
giving him back to his original hoomins.  QC was, we guess, about 15 mos
old when Berfert brought him home.  That would make him about 7 years
old now.  Merlin was 18 mos old when we brought him home from PetSmart
where his soldier hoomin was going to give him up because of deployment
to Germany (not all soldiers are abusive or abandon their pets, honest),
we estimate that he's five now.  Pine Cone was about 16 weeks old when
he discovered us at Morrow Mountain State Park.  He's four now (my how
time flies when you're having fun) and still a hollicat.  Squeakers was
found as a roughly (we think) five week old kitten two years ago in the
bushes in front of the house.  He was stunted by his illness, so we
aren't sure how old he was.  Sgt. Huey was abandoned at Simmons Army
Airfield about two years ago.  He was about four months at the time, so
he'd be about two and a half now.

As you can tell, we've gotten animals from caring people who just
couldn't take care of them, abusive people who just didn't care, and
from *ssh*l*s who think that pets are disposable when they become
inconvenient (Miss Penelope Marie Shirk comes to mind) or aren't cute
any more.  Some people should be speutered before they breed true.

Pam S.

Jasper was about nine months, we think. Old enough for the vet who dealt
with the shelter kitties to neuter. He was still small-ish when we got
him, and then went through a teenage growth spurt into the handsome
beast he is today.

Carrie - who knows?  She was taken to the shelter by her "owner's"
neighbour, who apparently was fed up with seeing this poor little cat
permanently pregnant, or nursing, and kittens being taken away far too
young (I shudder to think what might have befallen them). The neighbour
thought she was anything between three and eight.  The vet went for the
lower end of the age bracket, so that's what we plumped for, making her
about a year older than Jasper.

Fuzzbox (RB) was about nine weeks old, we got him from a private house, and
I met his mother.

Izzi (RB) and Fenda (RB) were eighteen months old, and we got them from the
RSPCA in Essex.

Charlie (RB) was five months old, he was a stray kitten who was being looked
after by a vet close to where I used to work.

Spooky (RB) was eight weeks old, he was a feral kitten rescued by Cats
Protection.

Ripley was eighteen months old, he just sort of appeared one day and never
left.

Cav was three and a half, we adopted hm from Cats Protection last March, a
couple of weeks after Izzi was put to sleep.

Jeanette

Rocky (RB) was estimated at 6-8 years old by TED the first time I
caught him an hauled him in to be treated for an abcess bite wound.
Course, he was feral, so those had been pretty rough years. 4 years
later, after being well fed and tamed, TED estmated 8-10.

TED estimated Little Bit was about 10 months old when I let her into
the apartment to warm up after being left outside in an ice storm -
skinny and VERY  pregnant. She had her babies in the bedroom closet
shortly thereafter, and that's where I got Sammy. As I've written
before, I was a little slow and didn't realise I was going to keep
them until a couple months later - was planning and rehoming them.

Current tribe:
Beastie - abandoned cat who turned up end of July 1987 so guessing him 1
then he's nearing 18.5

Willie - was at the pound for 1.5 years, vets guessed him at from 5 to
8yr then so he's 9-12 now and acts young (under-statement!)

Loos - answered a plea on the Net from someone leaving the country, was
3 then so she's nearing 7

Case - no way of knowing, took her from the woods nearly 4 years ago

Quinn - street feral, guessed at 7mos when I grabbed him 1.5yrs ago.
Still very much the adolescent

The Siamese were the proverbial year old when I got them in 1969, RB
1978 and 1983.  Max was adopted from a vet at 1yo in 1983, RB 2000.
Beauty was guessed to be geriatric when I grabbed him, only had him 2+
yrs and a great cat.  Franz was born feral and left me 11 yrs later.

--
"The web has got me caught.  I'd rather have the blues than what I've
got."  <via Nat King Cole

Jazz was 8 weeks old, got him from a pet store where he was
beating up his sister. On hindsight, I should have gotten both
of them so they could grow old together. I regret that now, as
Jazz has no one to play with except her old Mama who doesn't
play that much anymore.

Jazz & his mama

Laku was about 10 wks old when we got him from a
work-related-aquaintance-but-not-immediate-colleague (LOL!).

Nico was 15 wks when we picked him up this monday, the 22 Nov. His
background is related in the thread "we got a new furbaby!".

Boy, you're making me think here, early on Thanksgiving, no less ;-)

Cosmo:  was definitely an adult (stray).  Got him 10 years ago next
month, and I think he was born July 1990, so that would make him four
at the time.

Internet:  another adult, adopted from a shelter.  Their guesses were
from two to eight years old.  I went for six years old, giving him a
birthday in March 1989, which would make him 15-1/2 now.

Sabra:  another adult stray.  Got him the same year as Internet, and I
think they're about the same age, so he was maybe five or six when we
got him.

Trill:  Definitely not full-grown.  Figured him to be about eight
months, since he had *just* started spraying a month later when he got
neutered.  Gave him a January 1997 birthday, so he will be eight soon.

Wolfie:  Actually know he was born the last week of May, 1998.  We got
him in March 1999, so he was 10 mos. old.

Brando:  My dear little big feral :-)  No clue again on age, of
course, but I figured he was about three.  Gave him a June, 1996
birthday, which puts him at eight and a half now.

Merlyn:  Definitely a kitten when she showed up on my porch.  Gave her
a May, 2001 birthdate (stubborn little thing that she is!), so she's
three and a half.

Arthur:  My little kitten rescue.  He was clearly very young, and I'm
pretty confident putting his birthdate at the end of April this year,
which means he was 2-1/2 mos. old when I got him.

Whew!

Gotta go check on the turkey now . . .

Ginger-lyn

Frank was around five months old when I got him from my sister's
co-worker. He had already been in a few other homes that didn't work
out. Since he is one of the sweetest cats I have ever met, I don't
really understand why anyone would have given him up, but hey, their
loss, my gain.

Nikki was two months old - a bit young, but she was in danger of being
PTS, so I took her home. Just wish I couldhave taken her siblings, too.

Figaro (RB) my father recued her as a kitten before I was born. Lived 21
years.

Bod (RB) lived next door, when he was 12 his former slave moved, several
miles away. Bod came back back three times, crossing a main road in the
process. After the third time his former slave and I agreed it would be
better if he stayed. Lived 16 years

Smokey (RB) came from the RSPCA aged about 10. Live 20 years.

Rosie (RB) & Snoopy, sisters belonged to the people that bought the
house from Bod's slaves. When they left they couldn't take the cats with
them and asked me to look after them until they could take them. That
was 12? years ago, Snoopy is still with me, Rosie died last year aged 13

Milo (RB) & Bagheera, brothers were 7 months old when I got them in
February this year. I lost Milo to a car in July, aged 1 year.

Marley (RB) was about a year old and feisty, fighting with his
former fursibs.
Shadow (RB) was ~3 and "put out" by my neighbors for some reason or
another.
Shamrock was about a year old, foster cat turned permanent slave.
Bonnie was 4-6 months, feral in my yard.
Scarlett and Rhett, about 8 weeks, rescued by a great guy with 2
other sibs under his shed at 5 weeks.

Mike (RB) was given to me as a three-week old kitten; he died in June
shortly after his 12th birthday.

Tallulah is a stray who arrived shortly after Mikey died; the vet
estimated her age in August as about a year and a half, and put an
arbitrary birthdate of March 1, 2003 on her rabies certificate.

Hubert is Tallulah's kitten; he was born July 23, 2004, and is now 4
months old.

------
Krista

Xoxo was about 1 year old when we met him. Luna and Maya were 8 weeks
old, Basho and Issa 12 weeks, and Fez and Rufous 4 weeks old. :)

Enfilade howled at the moon, then scrawled thusly upon the aether:

Miss Tabitha (RB) was a 'dumped' kitten, found in an old 'junk' pile (due
to his loud mouth. This trait saved his life twice) at... well, I don't
know how old he was, but probably about 4-6 weeks old, as he couldn't
handle solid food just yet, and he wasn't quite old enough to tell that
he wasn't a she. Oops. He turned into a big scrappy ginger tom, but the
name still stuck.

Blue (MIA, probably found another set of hoomans to feed her) showed up
as an adult stray (no older than about 2 though), pregnant, and obviously
had slaves before, considering how friendly she was. She ended up going
into labour on our couch. She disappeared some time after the kittens
were weaned.

Demon Child (RB), Fevs, and Wuz all came to us prenatally thanks to the
previously mentioned pregnant stray. They were all born in a laundry
basket on a bed of old towels, and spent a great deal of their young
kittenhood on my bed. Fevs was the firstborn, breech birth, cute little
tail sticking out to announce his arrival. Then came Wuz the usual way.
Then wee little Demon, the girl and the runt, a gorgeous dark (born
almost entirely black) tortie, breech birth. She was very lively and an
absolute sweetheart for her short life.

Maeve

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Nice kittens give you time to clot        
between attacks.

I adopted Panther and the late Isadora as 8 week old kittens 16 years ago.
Francesca was estimated to be 6 months old when I adopted her last spring.
And of course, I've had Nina since she was about 24 hours old. =o)

Melissa