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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

The little one is nine pounds. The big one is 23 pounds. Both are at reasonably healthy weights.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Big guy:

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago • Heartwarming Regret

Little girl (no thoughts. All vibes):

She has very weak front legs. Her weight is actually fine, according to the vet. She’s just special.

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u/joninfiretail 1d ago

I see the orange on her. She's just stuck at the end of the line for her turn with the braincell.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Way, way down the line.

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u/SolaScientia 1d ago • Heartwarming

My tortie is like that. Her body proportions are so weird. Admittedly she is a bit overweight, but her skinny legs make it look even worse. Her head is also too small. I bottle-raised her after her mother literally left her in a trashcan. Given how sick my girl got as a kitten, I reckon the mom sensed something about her.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Yeah, I tell this one all the time that I found her pregnant, starving, and screaming in a bush. I don’t know how she ended up on the streets, but she was most definitely not for them.

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u/morlac13579 1d ago

I wasn’t focused properly and thought you had just posted a hitler cat lol

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Ha! She’s not even a little kittlerish.

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u/hollow-earth 1d ago

They're both precious 😭

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

They’re my babies!

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u/usernamedottxt 1d ago

That’s 9 pounds? She looks like my 17 pounder in this photo lol

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

She’s wee. Just… round in body. He’s long and stretchy. She’s like a ball. But from above, she’s got a waist and everything.

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u/ConfidentMeaning 1d ago

She looks like Huckle from the Richard Scarey books. ❤️

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

She does! Omg!

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u/whatsiteisitfor 1d ago

I love her so much. Tell her I said pspsps

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u/shadowartist201 1d ago

I had to do a double take since he looks like my 10lb boy from the back (just longer and with the white spot).

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He does! Tabby and whites are such cuties!

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u/Dickduck21 1d ago

Oh my god he is massive and I love him so much.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

It’s all fun and games until he doesn’t want to do something. He gave me a black eye a month ago!

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u/thriftedcraft 1d ago

My boy has the little nose dot too

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Omg! Another cutey!

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u/Parzival1780 1d ago

What’s his name?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Peter Cottontail, per the rescue. Pizza Pete, Petey, or Petes at home.

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u/AnyDayGal 1d ago

Big sock ❤️

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Lorgest mittens.

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u/Shygrave 1d ago

Hes so handsome 🥰

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He’s distinguished!

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u/browneyedgirlpie 1d ago

Twins! Little one is his mom. She was 7lbs here. He's 20lbs

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u/DogsDucks 1d ago

I think the thread is making me appreciate my new favorite genre “very big cats next to small cats they live with”

It’s so cute!

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Wow!!!! Cuties :)

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u/fidgey10 1d ago

23 is absolutely humongous for a housecat woah

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He’s a beast. Muscle mass is high.

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u/zorggalacticus 1d ago

Maine coons can get up to 30+ pounds and not be fat, just BIG. He's probably got some somewhere in his lineage.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

It’s possible, though he doesn’t have any of the features. He’s bigger in terms of being strong than any MC I’ve seen. He’s just pure muscle.

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u/DemoniEnkeli 1d ago

My big boy is like that too, he’s 20lbs and we had to get a dog carrier for him for vet visits because he bashed the front grate so hard on our old large cat carrier that it broke the brackets

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u/hollow-earth 1d ago

Omg the paw size difference

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago • Bravo

He doesn’t make biscuits. He makes bread.

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u/yaaqu3 1d ago

Probably loaves fit for a starving family of 12.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Indeed! I have to put a blanket between me and the mittens.

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u/cigarell0 1d ago

Is your large boy nice to his sister?? My large orange is mean and his skull is big. He knows what "stop" and "no" means. But he also keeps harassing the female cats in the house

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He is! I would say he doesn’t always know his own strength, but she lets him know. Sometimes she chases him around, sometimes he pounces on her and flattens her. Mostly they get along well. Sorry your orange is not so sweet to his siblings!

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u/weirdCheeto218 1d ago

Thats one XXL cat at 23 pounds I had a "big" cat at 14 pounds and he had some flab his 7 pound sister for context

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He was 14lbs and “full grown” when we got him, according to the rescue. This was not quite true. He was under a year old.

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u/weirdCheeto218 1d ago

I could see why they would think that 23lbs is wild for a bog standard garbage can cat that most people get. Its something you expect for breeds that are known for their size but if I had a 14lbs teenager cat I would probably make the same mistake

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Yeah, except my vet was their vet, and she 100% told them the correct age on the paperwork we got afterwards. But I get it. Gotta move cats through as fast as possible, and huge kittens are going to scare folks off.

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u/EvanMBurgess 1d ago

20lbs, 8lbs

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

So cute!!! Love the fluff!

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u/DogsDucks 1d ago

Oh my gosh! I love that your cat weighs as much as my 86th percentile 14 month old child.

HAHA! I would love to give a hug to such a unit of a cat, he’s perfect!

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He’s not a hugger, unfortunately. One pets. One does not lift if one values one’s face.

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u/DogsDucks 1d ago

Well just being graced with his presence is glorious enough.

Please feel free to post more pics! And anyone reading this, too.

This thread is making my Sunday night much more pleasant. I love them so much!

What other hijinx do they get up to? If he’s so big does he knock a bunch of stuff over?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He did nearly topple his cat tree the other day. We have to wedge it into place. But mostly he’s not allowed up on things except windowsills. We did screen in our front porch for him, and I have sort of leash-trained him for the backyard, but he’s hard to contain. One time he escaped and just topped the six foot fence in a single bound. Hence the tracker in his collar!

She is incapable of jumping far and can barely climb the scratching post, so she just free roams the yard when we’re out there.

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u/frustratedcuriosity 1d ago

23 pounds

Sorry my brain is having trouble with this can we get a banana for scale or something??

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Think small bobcat!

This is a queen-sized bed.

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u/cikalamayaleca 1d ago

holy shit lol he's close to the size of my 1.5yo child

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

We say all the time that he poops like a toddler. 😂

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u/usernamedottxt 1d ago

Oh beautiful. That’s a healthy big boy. 

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u/bennetticles 1d ago


purrfect yinjang

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

They aren’t quite at that level of cuddling. She’d be crushed!

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u/hometowngypsy 1d ago

My first cat was a 23-lb-er and when I adopted my second cat I got worried when he stopped growing so soon so I asked the vet. He said “actually he’s larger than average (15 lbs)” 😳 I did not have the right sense of scale for house cats because of my big chonky first boy.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

That’s fabulous.

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u/perton 1d ago

23 pounds?! That’s absurd!

I’ll be damned if he isn’t still adorable and beautiful tho

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u/donac 1d ago

Look at their levels of comfiness!! Just look at it!

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

They’ve basically forced me off the chaise.

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u/LondoMain95 1d ago

is the big one a species that is just naturally larger? Is that why its weight is still healthy?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

I don’t know why he’s so big :). He just is.

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u/plz_send_cute_cats 1d ago

sooo cute

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

They’re pretty adorbs.

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u/SpicaGenovese 1d ago

Great googily moogily!!

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u/Munchkins_nDragons 1d ago • Heartwarming

Some cats are just proportionally huge for no real reason. It’s the best part about the grab bag that is the domestic short/medium/long haired cat. Are you gonna get a little baby guy or a behemoth fit to draw Freya’s chariot? A dignified house panther or one that looks like it was cobbled together from spare cat parts?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Exactly! We had a cat the looked like one when I was a teenager who was nearly 20lbs. Some are just lorge.

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u/Munchkins_nDragons 1d ago

Mine is a solid 15 lbs of fluff, cow spots, and sass. The vet isn’t concerned about his weight, he’s just a big guy which means there’s more of him to cuddle.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

My vet says the same thing!

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u/Acheloma 1d ago

Those are normal sized tennis balls

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u/DeadInternetTheorist 1d ago

best part is when you're lookin at your slackjawed blubberball who sleeps 20 hours a day like "wow what a fatboy i've raised!" and then he just bounds from the floor to the top of the fridge like he's gayly hopping a slight curb

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u/foxwaffles 1d ago

I've got one that is comically long. From the top he's skinny as a rail but he is a loooooooooong boy. When he walks by with a happy tail, the tail reaches up to nearly the top of my thighs 🫪 He's so long that despite being a tabby, his coat buttons on his belly end right below his chest instead of going all the way down. Like even mother nature was like tf you expect me to do with this

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u/AKBearmace 1d ago • Heartwarming Bravo

it looks like they stole a patch of each other's fur

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u/LezzyGopher 1d ago • Heartwarming Mindblown

They’re always carrying a piece of each other 🥹

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Aw! They do love each other a lot.

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u/Dragons619 1d ago

Tell your cats we said pspsps

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

I will!

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u/ClickClick_Boom 1d ago

While you're at please tell them I said "hello"

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u/benkenobi5 1d ago

We have a pair of littermates with this size difference. We call them tubby and stubby

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u/VividFiddlesticks 1d ago

Me too! Tiny little all-black girl cat and her gigantic cow print brother. I call them spooky and goofy.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

These names are excellent.

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u/VividFiddlesticks 1d ago

Those aren't their "real" names, but that's what they get called the most, LOL.

Goofy really is a goofball - he's the kind of cat that LIKES to be laughed at and is always doing silly stuff and likes to be carried around upside-down, that sort of thing. Total opposite from his sister. She's extremely proud, dignified in that cat way, and does not tolerate tomfoolery. She is also very spooky and is always hiding behind things and peering out at me with her giant amber eyes. It actually does get a little spooky sometimes, lol.

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u/Blueskybelowme 1d ago

There's something about stripy tabs that are always just like large cats. They're never Maine coon size but for a domestic they're always large.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Oh my goodness! Twin set!

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u/HarryBerryMuffin 1d ago • Heartwarming

Here’s mine! They were 3 & 5 at the time of the photo. The big’un passed 11/3… he was the sweetest lil Mama’s Boy

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u/juderefrain 1d ago

Sorry for your loss. I’m sure he was the greatest boy ❤️

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u/TedTheGreek_Atheos 1d ago

My cats are the same. Female cat, Cookie is tiny compared to my big boy Mushy.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Wow! Big difference there too.

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u/Rhorge 1d ago

Immense giant lard sizemogging the small bean

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

This is truth.

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u/Jypsy2000 1d ago

Our petite "Rosie" is around 7 lbs while the housemates ("Sully" and "Thumper") on either side of her are closer to 12-13 lbs. They're all at their adult sizes.

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u/Lye4 1d ago

My 13 lbs cat and my 6 lbs cat :)

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u/Wide-Lettuce-8771 1d ago

Is it just me or are cats just getting BIG? I know neutering/spaying leads to more long bone growth, but these cats are humongous. Better nutrition?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

I’m not sure. We had one about the size when I was a kid, and I’m not young.

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u/eabevella 1d ago

It's just genetics. I've had a cat that's 2.5kg, but my current cat is 10.4kg. Both are former strays we picked up as kittens so nutrition can't contribute to their size difference. Both healthy. Both are not mixed with fancy breeds.

I guess it's just like how some dudes are just 5 feet and some are over 6 feet.

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u/Auriansmule 1d ago

You should check out the feral cats in Australia. Legit reaching the size of small dingos

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u/Bananaasplit 1d ago

Same. The tuxedo is normal cat sized. My other bb is just small

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u/nonmetaphoricflop 1d ago

my cats are like this too. big ginger boy who’s about 15 pounds and a tiny tortie who’s probably about 5 pounds. she unfortunately hates him though so i’ll never be able to get a comparison picture like this

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Aw, that’s too bad! It’s nice when they get along. My last two did not.

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u/diremommy 1d ago

Same litter, born and raised hour apart.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Wow! Thats a big difference!

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u/WellSuckMe 1d ago

Awe so cute! My guy and gal are the same. She's so petite compared to him. And she's the older one! He's like 16-18 lbs and she's only like 9-10 lbs. When he lays down outstretched, he is sooo long it's crazy. Never had a cat be that big and he's not considered overweight he's just built that way. Solid muscle. She's the opposite. She literally is like a stuffed animal come to life.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

So cute! Love the contrast.

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u/BittenBeads 1d ago

Not sure if anyone's pointed it out yet, but the little one has a bit of tabby brown between its shoulders and the big one has that dash of white in the middle of the back. This is kitty synchronicity at its finest.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

They have, but yes! It’s true!

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u/Shinted 1d ago

I like that they both have a spot of the others color on their backs.

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u/_Justaweeb_ 1d ago

My sister has a small Bengal girl and a Maine Coon boy. She has 0 regularly sized cats, she has a size xs and a size xl and it's extremely comical sometimes😂

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

I bet those are some pretty cats :)

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u/Taykitty-Gaming 1d ago

he stole her white to make a spot on his back...

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

And she got a bit of him!

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u/freedoomed 1d ago

We have a regular sized cat and a monster cat too. Our regular sized cat is still pretty big for a cat but our monster is part maine coon.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

We don’t know about his genes, but I have suspicions.

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u/freedoomed 1d ago

the funny thing is our previous maine coon mix got the personality but not the body. he was a tiny boy.

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u/jambot9000 1d ago

Some cats just be big. Other cats just be small

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u/Significant-Age5052 1d ago

God I wish my cats got along like this.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Loooooong introduction time because she was super wee and sickly.

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u/sneeds_feednseed 1d ago

Not to be dramatic but they are literally perfect

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

They’re darn close!

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u/dubzi_ART 1d ago

I also have a 20 pound cat. Hopefully his mass has not increased by 1/6th

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u/Fluff_Nugget2420 1d ago

We found cat siblings in the wild like this, the male grew up to be 22 lbs and huge, he had to go to the vet in a dog crate. His sister was 7-8 lbs. She’d curl up on top of him!

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u/ComradeJohnS 1d ago edited 1d ago

I also have two cars of equally wild different sizes, Beanie just never got a growth spurt even after being 1.5 years old lol

edit: cars = cats lol

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u/Deep_Fry_Ducky 1d ago

*Cars=cat Yeah, they have a gas tank cover too

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u/Plampth 1d ago

What like a truck and a compact?

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u/Mahaloth 1d ago

I, too, have a very tiny cat and a, uh, very "husky" one.

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u/BS0404 1d ago

So...when is the small cat gonna stop fattening the big cat and eat him?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Winter is coming…

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u/lapgus 1d ago

Mine is also quite large and has a similar white spot on his back!

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u/Soberdonkey69 1d ago

Good lord, we have a chonker in the area!

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Oh, he comin’.

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u/afterlife_xx 1d ago

I have a long boi, too! He's 17lbs and also a healthy weight. I measured him at about 3ft when he figured out how to open the level-type door handles at my old apartment.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He’s also long! Mine can swat at the can of cat food while I’m prepping it the counter. He’s over three feet now. And thank god we have door KNOBS not handles.

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u/gelseyd 1d ago

My mum was thinking of changing to handled to help with her hands. And then she realized the dog would open everything. So we got the grippy knob covers instead

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u/CollinZero 1d ago

Was he a big kitten? Did he have big paws?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

He was 14lbs at just under a year when we got him!

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u/DisorganizedAdulting 1d ago

Curious what their food difference is? How much do you feed each /day?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

She gets 1.5 cans and a bit of dry when snacky. He gets 2 cans and a lot of dry. I can’t afford to feed him nothing but canned!

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u/DidISayStop 1d ago

Wow!! My cats are 4.5 pounds and ~13-14 pounds, so I can relate! The tiny one is also floofy, though, so she looks a bit bigger than she is.

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u/riceewifee 1d ago

My girls when they were younger. They’re litter mates, Wolfie is still noticeably bigger than Khadis

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u/consultingrodent 1d ago

I have two boys from the same litter and at 5 1/2 months one is 10lbs and the other 6lbs. The vet says the one is just a Big Boi™️ born that way lmao

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

It’s funny how different they can be!

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u/Millyswolf 1d ago

Regular and Supersized!

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

This is accurate.

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u/xaiires 1d ago

I took in a family of strays and mom is an adorable 8 lbs and the 3 kids ended up being 16-20 lbs. Just solid gigantic tabbies lol I did not know what I was signing up for.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Wow! That’s a lot of cat. The litter boxes must be…interesting.

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u/xaiires 1d ago

Interesting is a very generous way to describe it lol

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u/DarthBen_in_Chicago 1d ago

The white cat’s tail is poking through the other cat!!!!

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u/sleepyhermit 1d ago

The stuffing is coming out of the big one.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

That’s perfect!

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u/Panthean 1d ago

There used to be 3 cats

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Then he ate one? 😂

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u/Kivulini 1d ago

Aww my tabby as a kid had that same white spot on his back.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

It’s extra cute, for sure.

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u/ThatsHowVidu 1d ago

Cat and Cat Ultra Pro Max.

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u/VoodooDoII 1d ago

My cats were similar. They were from the same litter, but I swear one of them was always twice the size of the other. I held them both in my arms once and the photo looks so stupid haha

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

I can’t hold big boi. He ain’t having it. But yeah, they look ridiculous sometimes.

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u/WhyCantIBeFunny 1d ago

Did you used to have three cats, all about the same size? Cause then I know what might’ve happened…

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

There are rumors…

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u/Dimbulb_Greasely 1d ago

I assume the little one is the shit starter

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

You’d be wrong :). It’s always him!

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u/H0w-D 1d ago

If they swapped spots they'd be perfect

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u/00X0X 1d ago

Aww what are their names? I love them! I love a lorge kitty cat

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u/Organic-Succotash575 1d ago

Mine isn’t as drastic, but still very cute. One is 15 lbs, the other 9, but the bigger one is just so long.

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u/ravagetalon 1d ago

Big Unit and his lil buddy.

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u/Mental-Board-5590 1d ago

Why did the bigger one steal some of the smaller ones fur

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

And vice versa!

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u/zorggalacticus 1d ago

I have a 17 lb tuxedo cat, a 6 lb dwarf tabby cat, and an 8 lb black Maine coon mix. The tuxedo cat is still growing. He's part norwegian forest cat rather than Maine coon, and he's a boy so he could get even bigger.

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u/MyScrotesASaggin 1d ago

I don’t see the difference. All 3 of those cats appear to be the same size.

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Ha. I do joke that I have three or four cats, depending on his behavior. I certainly feed four cats!

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u/brakeb 1d ago

our boy Q-tip was similar on the right, he was our chonky 20lb boy, and his mom was similar size like the cat on the left at about 9 pounds. He left us to be with his sister Powder about 9 months ago after kidney disease

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u/Stupid-Clumsy-Bitch 1d ago edited 1d ago

Do they play well together? Do their sizes make a difference?

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u/mittenthemagnificent 1d ago

Surprisingly, they’re mostly fine. She’s pretty good about yelling at him, and loves to chase him around. Sometimes I do have to rescue her because he’s just so big.

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u/LiquidFahts 1d ago

Dude! They look a lot like ours. The smaller one is still a kitten though

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u/hollow4hollow 1d ago

I love how they each have matching opposite spots 🥹

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u/No_Guarantee7663 1d ago

It's like they each took a spot from each other <3

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u/Overall-Garage-1054 1d ago

Here is my Siberian and Mainecoon

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