How long is your cat? (Especially if you have a smaller model).

[CatAssTrophic]

Head to end of body, not including tail?

I wish I had measured her on arrival as she was very small. I am now thinking I have a younger cat than I wanted and have been mis-sold as she looks considerably bigger and only a few months in.

She has only been fed the best, is spoiled to bits because that's what cats are for, had been in the rescue with kittens, and was underweight and flea ridden so I expected improvement but not so much extra cat for the age stated. I was enjoying having a tiny cat and feel a bit hard done by.

She is still beautiful and loving and very dear to me, but bigger.

He was asleep until DH handed me a tape measure, but Mr Madcat appears to be 61cm from between the ears to where his tail starts. This is with his head down.

She is overweight, vet said to aim for getting down to 4kg to start with, she was a bit rotund when I brought her home as she had been skinny and was bulked up with carbs. I didn't ask what I was meant to aim for after she gets to 4kg, it's already a challenge.

Her head is small, her body, well... and not helped by heaven knows how many litters but she isn't svelte. She is, however, shiny, delightful, still cute and affectionate.

I am thinking that when she is finally at the correct weight I am going to have a very long cat.

I was actually asking about the length of your cats so I had something to compare her with. She is certainly longer (and much wider) than my previous small cat in spite of being smaller to start with.

I have had a good few cats over the years, only one smaller one and one much larger than average, the rest were all regular length, varying between chunky and slim, and all adults. Not one of them has grown so fast or so much in length.

We have a tiny British shorthair. We got her as a kitten and she looked like a kitten for 3 years, around 2.5kg. She had a bit of a growth spurt at 3 but is only 3.5kg now. Our Maine coon is 18 months and is 8kg so looks massive in comparison.

Mine was a very skinny ragdoll when she came to us as an adult rescue. She has gained at least a kilogram and is impressively long when she stretches out.

She’s still a bit lean but not through lack of feeding and her coat is really glossy!

Mine’s massive. A great big Tom cat. I love his brutishness. Some breeds keep growing till they are 3 ish. He did 💕

Love it

About 1 metre excluding the tail, DH said we could get a cat as long as it was small.

Smaller than I thought she would be since she’s half main coon.

But I’m still not risking my limbs trying to measure her now

Ours turned out to be part Maine Coon or part tiger as they're huge. Probably three times the aside it a normal cat. They can stretch from one side of a king size bed to the other.

Mine tried to play with the tape measure so no length but he's 3kg so tiny
I'm not measuring the other one as I don't want to call 999

Ours is 11 month old Maine Coon and 7.6kgs will grow until he's 4 or 5. The last measurement a few months ago was 62cms without tail and 40cm tail. But he's grown since and arm chair is about 1 metre and seems to be covering it.

What a difference!! Beautiful cat

Thank you everyone that has tried to measure their cat 😸, I realise it can be a dangerous thing to attempt, I just hold a metal tape measure over mine when she is eating, after learning the hard way in the past

She would happily eat an entire 400g in one sitting and ask for more.

I didn't set out to get a tiny cat, I didn't even know she was a tiny cat until I actually saw her in the fur, I had initially reserved a 'normal' sized older one but it went badly after someone dropped a metal cat door on concrete during the visit...

So I went home and almost gave up, until I saw a sad little face on the website and phoned to enquire, whereupon she was instantly reserved for me. I arrived to find I had reserved the smallest cat they had. We met, she adopted me and that was it. She was described as small (not tiny 😄) and an older cat so I wasn't expecting her to grow so fast, or at all really.

I have had cats that have transformed from scruffy to sleek and happy, but they always stayed the same size (in length, not necessarily in girth). Even the small ones.

And, the initial question about how long is your cat - on the basis that a 'regular' length cat is about 15" - 16" I was wondering what a small or very small adult would measure, which I didn't think was such a weird question as some of the responses seemed to indicate.

Never measured Girlcat, just go by the fact she's a bit smaller than Boycat. When he's lying on his front in Sphinx pose, if my elbow is at the base of his tail then the tips of my fingers are between his shoulder blades which is about 18 inches. Any measurement to the end of his nose would have to allow for the fact he has a very long hooter for a moggy!

They are both definitely longer and probably taller than when they came home aged 2, both sinuous like a Siamese and in fact we think there's some oriental in there. I say this, but ofc Boycat seems to be shrinking at the mo due to his CKD, whereas Girlcat looks like she's going to give birth any second due to sharing his renal diet!

I think the fact they realise they are with their chosen human in their forever home can mean they do grow a bit more, plus being relaxed means they tend to stretch their spines out longer rather than being sort of scrunched up a bit.

At least 36 inches without the tail and very heavy a rescue cat

So it's more you were looking to adopt an older cat but by the looks of things she might be younger than the rescue said?

I don't think size can be an indication of age though as my cats are from the same litter and one is tiny and the other is huge. You'd never guess they were the same age.

@Toddlerteaplease @misssunshine4040

Thank you, she is beautiful, we love her. Definitely the Queen in our household!
She was also covered in scabs, probably from a flea allergy.
@CatAssTrophic my cat is an example of an adult cat doubling in length and width within a few months. We also thought she would stay teeny.
We actually now think she's a wee bit older than 4/5 as she is getting some grey in her coat.

Are we to measure from tip of nose, up between ears and down back to base of tail? Hunched up or stretched out?

Yes, that's more or less it. She was already 2 years younger than I had originally opted for (according to the rescue). My concern is that I would outlive her and no-one would want an old cat. I know the pain of losing them but couldn't bear the thought of her being abandoned or PTS before her time. It means that I will be looking to find her a good home should something happen to me. I would be doing that anyway but it is more important now somehow.

I generally go for standing still, not doing anything. Failing that, waiting for food if they stay still long enough. I wonder how the people on Google that do the guides for cat sizes do it.

19 inches nose to tail, sitting not very still.

I've just measured her like this, 19 inches not including tail. 29 inches including tail!!

"she'll never be a big cat" my eye.

Has the cat outgrown your sofa/bed? If so truly a monster....

In our vet’s professional opinion, we have “a long tom”! He must be, because he needs a king size bed to sleep on all day, and a three seater settee in the evenings! His sister is considerably smaller - she can make do on a double bed or two seater settee!