Does getting a kitten fixed stunt her growth?

@tanjila (548)
United States
April 4, 2007 5:00pm CST
My baby, Emma, is still so tiny!!!! Her brother however is full grown and HUGE! He hasn't been fixed though, unlike Emma. She's almost a year old, and still so small!
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@mickidmw (992)
• United States
4 Apr 07
No, it is probably just how she is. usually fixing a kitty will make them get fatter and bigger but not always. I think she is just meant to be your little baby! I had two kittens from the same batch and one of them weighed 12 lbs 13 oz on his one year vet visit! Not an ounce of fat on him though, he was HUGE! So enjoy your little baby!
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@tanjila (548)
• United States
5 Apr 07
yeah, she's so cute being so small :)
@JashleyB (1441)
• United States
10 Apr 07
I was actually wondering this too because we fixed our male cat and he has stayed so tiny...Guess it's not that though lol. Good question though!
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• United States
4 Apr 07
i once got two kittens from the same litter and the female kitten was very small. the male was twice her size the whole time...she was not the runt. anyhow i later on realized that he was terrorizing her and she wasnt eating good and he had been so rough with her while "playing" he gave her a cut under her neck threw her throat!! it got infected and i had to take her to the vet they wanted to do surgery to close it because she kept taking the scab off. eventually healed but i got rid of the male cat (gave him to a close friend) and he just got bigger and bigger. she started to grow better as well. eventually after 1 1/2 years she was his size.
@5000ml (1923)
• Belgium
5 Apr 07
Female cats will not get as big as certain male cats, they tend to stay much smaller. In my experience fixing a kitten doesn't stunt their growth at all, it just depends on the cat! Your baby might just be a small cat.
@1983tyler (507)
• United States
4 Apr 07
No, getting a cat fixed does not stunt their growth. I have two brother cats and the older of the two is quite a bit smaller than his brother. Sometimes they just don't grow as big as their littermates.
• United States
5 Apr 07
I don't think so. I got my cat fixed when he was a kitten, and he's HUGE! He's like some sort of panther! Girl cats are often smaller than boy cats, and maybe your kitty was the "runt" of the litter!