Is it possible to extrapolate a kitten's adult size by some current
physical attribute? Our six week old kitten has huge ears and kangaroo
legs, but otherwise she's quite slender and tiny. Do either of these
things mean she'll be big? They say you can tell if a puppy will be big
by the size of its feet.

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bewtifulfreak - 10 Aug 2003 03:02 GMT
> Is it possible to extrapolate a kitten's adult size by some current
> physical attribute? Our six week old kitten has huge ears and kangaroo
> legs, but otherwise she's quite slender and tiny. Do either of these
> things mean she'll be big?
I don't know for sure, but I know our Kismet had huge hyena ears, which he
ended up growing into, but was quite tiny the first few years of his
adulthood, still looked like an older kitten. But in the past few years
(he's about 8 now), he bloomed, and now he's a really *big* boy, although
he's not really fat or anything.
So I don't know for sure, but that was our experience! Then again, I've had
really big cats with tiny ears, so....
I have heard the puppy feet thing, too, but I don't know about cats!
Although I think you can get an idea from the *width* of the paws, same as
puppies, though again, I'm not absolutely sure.
Ann
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Orchid - 10 Aug 2003 13:47 GMT
>Is it possible to extrapolate a kitten's adult size by some current
>physical attribute? Our six week old kitten has huge ears and kangaroo
>legs, but otherwise she's quite slender and tiny. Do either of these
>things mean she'll be big? They say you can tell if a puppy will be big
>by the size of its feet.
Sorry, but neither the size of a kitten's ears/legs or the
size of a puppy's feet will tell you how big the adult animal is going
to be. Different breeds of both cats and dogs have different physical
features. Abyssinians have huge ears and proportionally long legs,
Bengals have small ears and proportionally medium legs, and Bengals
end up being larger cats than Abys. On the dog side, Cocker Spaniels
have enormous feet, and Labradors have smaller feet, but Labs end up
being much larger than the spaniel.
Orchid
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