“He’s a runt. A really nice runt.”
Our cat Flower was 1/2 Maine coon and 1/2 some other fuzzy thing. She too was very small, stayed almost kitten sized her whole long life (she lived to be 19). She was really just fuzz and bones.
But the funny thing was I saw her sibs years later and they were normal sized kittehs.
I still think she stayed small because she lived with my best, original cat, Normie. All the cats that lived with him stayed real small. We theorized that Normie stole their growth hormones, that was why he got so big.
But really he wasn’t abnormally large, but all the other kittehs stayed real small.
Well, he wasn’t exactly small, just a runt for a Maine Coon, at 18 pounds. He’s quite thin now because he has CRF, but we have managed to put a pound back on him, and he’s about 10 pounds now.
He’s at least 15 years old, and Maine Coons are susceptible to CRF as they get older. Dr. Vet says that he may live for months if we watch him carefully, so we do.