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She's not exactly and adult - she is hermaphroditic so she's not maturing normally, basically she stopped growing/maturing and is stuck as a 4.5lb kitten, which is a blessing.   The pig has also lived exclusively inside our apartment since she was 4 days old, so she's probably not catching...

@star2000dancer, If it makes you feel any better about those with blockages that the vet had you put down, I had a 17-month old boy with a blockage while living abroad on an isolated island with no real vet care, and because we couldn't get him good treatment, he died in a lot of pain.  Nothing...

I have a kitten, very affectionate and very playful.  She has two 6-year-old cat siblings and a piglet sister, all of which she plays with regularly and aggressively, as they do (but don't worry, the pig isn't aggressive with her).  She's so high energy that she also often entertains herself by...

They were raised together since kittenhood and in 6 years have never fought once, so I'm sure that wasn't what happened.  But we have a huge apartment with a giant living area where they get up to incredibly fast speeds when playing, so my best guess is that she was running really fast and ran...

Thanks!  This actually helps it make sense - the idea that she would have been bottlefed by a person holding her so that she developed those comfortable nurturing feelings with a human forearm/hand.  The one thing I don't think I was clear about in my original post that is unusual is that she...

For the record her eye healed up just fine, no complications.  Thanks again. And lol no she does not flush. In fact, we moved to a new apartment and got a new kitten and a piglet, so much of the routine and environment changed that she (and our toilet-trained boy) reverted to the litter box...

Yes, the other cats are spayed and neutered.  I neglected to mention it in this post but the kitten I was talking about is a hermaphrodite, so a big part of why she's so small (almost a year now and seems to have stopped growing at about 4.5 pounds) is that she isn't reaching adulthood because...

For the record, I do regularly get nervous about her interactions with the pig, because the pig is SO STRONG (you wouldn't believe how damn strong, she recently broke both doors off a wardrobe, one of which she snapped in half, all just by nudging with her nose, and she's only 6 months old) but...

The kitten, whose name is Pani Puri, is coming up on a year old now and her growth is definitely stunted.  Seems like she won't really be reaching adulthood anytime soon.  She still looks like a kitten and very much acts like a kitten.  She is our 7th cat and we are very intimate with our cats...

I adopted a girl that spent her first 10 weeks or so in the streets in the city.  We got her as a companion to our same-aged boy kitten because he was completely out of control (totally worked by the way).   She was immediately VERY skittish.  Shy and visibly anxious 24/7.  She warmed up to my...

She never goes outside.  We live in a 4th floor apartment and she's barely ever been out the door in her lifetime, so no worries about interacting with wild/feral animals.  We have two adult cats that are neutered and a piglet so some kind of sexual interaction is not gonna happen. Here's a...

Her size is sort of expected.  She is not skinny - even has a bit of a belly swinging under her if she's had a lot to eat. We are in Africa and got her from the street - most of the cats we see around here are tiny.  Shortly after we moved here once I saw one that looked like a tiny kitten but...

To start, I live in a remote place in west Africa, so expert vets are not around.  Thus I consult the Internet. We got a baby around 5 weeks, and while I'm pretty good at determining sex in a kitten, this one I wasn't sure about.  Now she is 7 months and, while we call her a 'she', she is...

I have a kitten, Pani Puri, who is an absolute sweetheart.  We got her at about 5 weeks and now shes 7 months and she's a rambunctious and super affectionate baby.  She's barely 4 pounds and seems to have stopped growing - we're so lucky to have a little forever-kitten.  She usually sleeps with...

They seem to be healing fine, her eye is mostly open now.  I'l continue cleaning with warm saline and make sure they don't get worse. Thanks all for the advice! PS As for using the litter pan normally, she doesn't, because she is toilet trained.  It was easy and is the best thing we ever did...