Hi all. Im a proud owner of my first bengal kitten. I have five rescue Moggy boys and three other bengals adopted as adults (two rescues). Our baby girl almost died at birth and was always behind her siblings in physical development. However since we adopted her shes grown and is a good weight, vet nurse has no concerns and shes a little livewire! She was very fuzzy until recently but she still has sticky up fur. Her siblings are twice her size and sleek and smooth. My question is really has anyone else had a slow developer who had a bad start healthwise and how did they turn out? Is there anything i should worry about? Shes 17 weeks old and fully vaccinated :)

Hi and welcome!

Not sure if I can be of help as such but when I got my two kittens from the "breeder" they were very underweight. Rio weighed just over 500g and Chilli was 700g. They were 9 weeks old. I suspect that they weren't getting enough milk from mum and possibly they were early born as their mum had a prolapsed vagina and an emergency c-section. Anyway, it turned out they also had Tritrichomonas Foetus (TF) which took around 7 weeks to find out - mainly because you are back and forth to the vets trying different things before finally getting a positive result for the TF.

They had the two weeks of Ronidazole capsules and have been fine. They are now putting on weight steadily and have a huge appetite.

In your case, it may just be that they are a little behind and will catch up - or it could be that they will just be small. The females are usually smaller than the males.

Hope this helps

As long as she is healthy and happy, us girls always say "size doesn't matter"

Lisa
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thanks :) size isn't really an issue. one of my bengal girls is small. Phoenix is just so different from her siblings it does give me a nagging worry. her fur is all sticky up - she lost most of her fuzzys a few weeks after we got her but shes still quite scruffy looking ( bless my little dot!) im probably being a silly cat mummy - we do worry :) xx