Is this normal kitten behaviour or am I doing something wrong?

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Sometimes when I'm doing some work on an evening my kitten goes a bit nutty. He jumps onto the sofa so he's at eye level with me, then when I look back at him he does his chirrup sound and BOLTS upstairs...repeat as many times until bedtime. Am I scaring him? Does he want something?? He's a very loving kitten and always sleeps in my bed with me... but I'm aware I'm out the house for time periods at a time :(

Oh and interesting to learn about the chirrup sound, so thanks for that! It's very different from a Miaow and I had wondered if it was a sound of distress.

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Would you mind putting a felt tip on your laddy and seeing if it fills about the same area as on Lilly? Here is Lilly with felt tip last night, I am hoping the difference between her and another kitty of 5 months is not all that big

Lilly does the ambush/leg grab thing too. With extra added, "you are a tree and I will use my claws to scrabble up you" thigh pain if you are really "lucky".

She's looking a decent size now, Loquace! I wouldn't worry.

She looks bigger than my 8 month old lunatic loquace. Slightly smaller than the lunatics 'brother'. Lunatic cat is very petite!

Hi Loquace - I've taken one (had to bribe him with beef juice!) It's not a very "cute" photo but have a look!

I am being nurotic aren't I?

That pic proves it, if he was curled up it would cover more or less the same area it covers on Lilly. The "errmmm, your kitty appears to be growing too slowly" problem would appear to have resolved itself.

Especially if three of you think she looks fine.

Yay! Lilly is NORMAL! So I can book her snip. Cos I think she is getting a bit....frisky. Some strange yowling going on at the mo.

Look at him getting into his beef juice. He has such lovely markings. A proper ginger boy.

He is pretty lovely (if I say so!) He has a lovely white chin but the horizontal bars on his legs are quite brown, so very striking (I think!) :)
I can't see your pics for some reason but I am certain you have a totally normal-sized kitty! I have to get mine snipped too. Poor thing. But I have been warned that Tom cat piss is the most appalling smell ever, so won't be taking any risks there...

I think she's fine, Loquace - and given her rotten start to life, I think you've done a wonderful job. (Remember those points when you thought the wee scrap simply wouldn't make it through the night?)

I'd book her snip if I were you.

Deprived of the lovely Lilly in all her photogenic supermodel kitty good looks tries to rectify the world's loss

He is geogous. I have always had a hankering for another ginger boy since I lost Jasper a good few years ago. I really like all the subtle contrasts in their coat.

And yes, boy cat pee...uggg! And it lasts for so damn long. Especially if a stray sneaks in, wees right on your Dyson so it gets soaked up by the filter which then gets heated up as your hoover ...with a look of utter horror creeping accross your face,

Remember those points when you thought the wee scrap simply wouldn't make it through the night?

It's hard to believe how it was, given how fiesty she is now. She just leapt clear accross the room from the back of the sofa chasing a sheild bug that came in on the logs. This is after I wrestled her out from inside the dishwasher while she scrabbled about to stay in her "den".

It's like she is made of bouncy rubber these days.

Oh she was so small and fragile, poor little bugger. Which is probably why she is such a spoilt little madam now.

Ah - if you're getting stray males sneaking in, I'd definitely book her snip!

(Unless you want another 6 or 7 to bring up like Lilly?)

Unless you want another 6 or 7 to bring up like Lilly?

I have a 4 1/2 month old kitten and she does a manouvre we call the flying squirrel. She will lauch herself at you from wherever she is, paws stretched out (so looks like she's flying) and cling onto your leg/chest or wherever she lands.
She also climbs the full length of your body when you least expect it and we all have puncture marks from her claws!!!
She has her mad "half hour" any time from 10pm onwards, except it can last for a couple of hours!!

Loquace Lily's size looks perfectly normal for 5 months i would say from looking at your pics, she is lovely by the way!!
And some female cats tend to be smaller than male cats anyway. Do you weigh her at all?
As i find this a better indication of size rather than comparing to other cats of the same age as they are all diffent shapes and sizes

Our kitten was tiny when she came to us at approx 9 weeks, (didn't have the best start!) she was the size of a 3-4 week old kitten. I weigh her regularly to make sure she is gaining weight but size wise she is still between 5-6 weeks behind. I am not worried as long as she gains approx 100g per week.

Do you weigh her at all?

It's like trying to wiegh the world's most pissed off octopus. I have given up. My poor kitchen scales have been sent flying so often that they have sent in a written request for wings.

I don't know what happened. She was so biddable when she arrived, and now she has an OPINION! about everything.

Can't even stick her in a bedroom if I am washing the floors and all the other animals have been shunted out into the garden for anti wet pawprint motives.

Cos if I do she SCREAMS the house down.

DH says I have spoilt her rotten. But I don't think I have at all, she was just so tiny she needed a lot of attention and as a little stress as possible. I think it is maybe just a stage she is going through. Possibly pubety.

Try inside a cardboard box, Loquace. (On bathroom scales if you have accurate ones.) Weigh her in the box, remove, weigh box, subtract.

Ohhh!

You are clever!!

Come here Lilly, ignore the box, kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitty kitty kitty.....