Kitten growth rate is diverging. Something wrong?

jclark

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I have two MC's kittens and both are complete nutso. Crazy, active, wrestle with eachother. Playing all the time. They're 7 months old and littermates. One is the "runt" and the other is the "first born". The "runt" who is the most active of the two and runs himself to exhaustion (Panting cat anyone) has a much softer feeling body. He's not as big or solid as his brother and I'm wondering if it's a nuritional issue (worms?) or just they way he's built.

They both had their worming (2 or 3 times) when they were younger. Would you speak to a Vet about this?

The runt was about 9 lbs and the other was 11 lbs when they were weighed just before 6 months of age.

They eat Nature's Variety Raw and Canned.
 

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It's probably just body build, especially if he was the runt.  Runts tend to be smaller.  However, he may have a growth spurt in the future and pass up his brother!
 
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