Sizes

In a week, the Tempos will be six months old. I have mentioned and shown often how big they are, but I thought a visual comparison was in order. This is Allegro, the second-born Tempo, with Moxy, an adult cat of about eight years of age, a dense heavy-weight and a little bigger than medium-size.

Next, we have Coda, who is about three, possibly four, weeks older than the Tempos. I think he will be a smaller than average adult when fully grown, so he is likely littler than the average kitten of seven months.

I suspect this obvious difference is the result of both genetics and feeding. Rhapsody was fed very well during her pregnancy and while she was nursing. I didn’t stint on her food and, after her kittens started eating solid nutrition, they were served as plentiful a menu as their mother. And who knows what sort of monster their father was. Coda came to me already five months old. I think he had previously received less food than the Tempos, and his parents were probably small to medium cats.

In any case, all are perfect kittens, very active, happy, out-going with other felines, friendly with people (well, Coda is getting there) and healthy. It’s just that most of them are huge.