I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'll give it a shot.
Out of all 8 of my cats, only 3 were over a year old when I adopted them (all females). Two of them are the same size and shape as they were years ago. The third one however...
Duck was pregnant when she was found and brought to a shelter. She was about a year and a half. She had her kittens in the shelter, was spayed, and when the kittens were old enough, they were brought with her to the adoption center (our local Petsmart). I was there buying food for the 4 cats (at the time) I had at home. It broke my heart as I watched kitten after kitten being snatched up and adopted, while no one looked twice at the mother. I felt so bad for her, watching all her babies leave one by one, and no interest in her at all. As the last kitten was taken from her, I stepped up and said "I don't want the kittens, I want the MAMA!" and she came home with me that day.
This is what she looked like when I first brought her home in November, 2007:
Actually, she looks a little thin for having just given birth a few months before....
Since then she's grown. A LOT. She hasn't grown up, she's grown out. She kind of looks like a football with a tail (which is why we've taken to calling her FumbleDuck or just Fumblers). She's not a squishy, rolly-polly kind of fat either. She's SOLID! Other cats get a floppy belly or their weight tends to hang below them. Duck's is like a balloon with her head sticking out of the middle.
This is Duck a year later. Not bad...
And this is Duck taken last year (She licked all the fur off her belly, I have no idea why, but it does kind of accentuate her largeness...
Anyone else's formerly pregnant cat get this large??
Out of all 8 of my cats, only 3 were over a year old when I adopted them (all females). Two of them are the same size and shape as they were years ago. The third one however...
Duck was pregnant when she was found and brought to a shelter. She was about a year and a half. She had her kittens in the shelter, was spayed, and when the kittens were old enough, they were brought with her to the adoption center (our local Petsmart). I was there buying food for the 4 cats (at the time) I had at home. It broke my heart as I watched kitten after kitten being snatched up and adopted, while no one looked twice at the mother. I felt so bad for her, watching all her babies leave one by one, and no interest in her at all. As the last kitten was taken from her, I stepped up and said "I don't want the kittens, I want the MAMA!" and she came home with me that day.
This is what she looked like when I first brought her home in November, 2007:
Actually, she looks a little thin for having just given birth a few months before....
Since then she's grown. A LOT. She hasn't grown up, she's grown out. She kind of looks like a football with a tail (which is why we've taken to calling her FumbleDuck or just Fumblers). She's not a squishy, rolly-polly kind of fat either. She's SOLID! Other cats get a floppy belly or their weight tends to hang below them. Duck's is like a balloon with her head sticking out of the middle.
This is Duck a year later. Not bad...
And this is Duck taken last year (She licked all the fur off her belly, I have no idea why, but it does kind of accentuate her largeness...
Anyone else's formerly pregnant cat get this large??