New kitties. Younger than we was led to believe.

[McBounty]

Hi all.

We went and picked up our new kitties today. A beautiful female and male. They're both tabby's and the most beautiful little fur babies I have ever seen.

We was told last week that they both turn 8 weeks old today and needed to go to a new home ASAP, otherwise they were going to a rescue. We arranged to collect them today since they are at the 8 weeks mark and drove over an hour to collect them.

As soon as we got there, I couldn't hide my worry about their age. They looked younger than 8 weeks. She assured me that they are and we have brought them home.

She then text me later saying that "she just had to tell me" that actually, they turn 8 weeks old next week.

They're weaned and litter trained thankfully, but we wasn't really wanting to adopt kittens this tiny as we think it's unfair. We are happy we did though of course.

So I'm just looking for some advice really. I want to make sure I'm doing the absolute best for our beautiful kitties.

Throw any tips my way.

Thanks.

OMG McBounty they are adorable, and very very like when we got our first kittens!
The same thing happened to us- they were from a friend of a friend whose cat had an accidental litter and she was adamant that they were 8 1/2 weeks when we got them. They were our first cats and we thought they were small but gave her the benefit of the doubt.

My friend was on FB though and we scrolled back through posts and there were pics of her pregnant cat later than expected; we reckoned our kittens were actually only 6 1/2 weeks when we got them
BUT we had time off work so spent lots of time with them, got them to the vet quick and made sure they'd been checked and appropriate worming etc. Lots of quality kitten food, toys and snuggles and they grew up totally fine
The good thing about 2 together is that they will also socialise each other so I think less of a worry than a too-young singleton.
Here are Freya and Juno when they were teeny