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[dianec42]

Today is Princess's official birthday -- our little fluffy kitten is one year old! (The big furry spaz turned a year old last month.)

Happy birthday Princess!

(So do kittens officially turn into full-grown cats at one year, or is that dogs I'm thinking of?)

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[aliza250.livejournal.com]

Kittens officially turn into cats at one year old. It may take them a bit longer to actually grow up, though. :-)

Happy Birthday, Princess. :-)

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

officially? Chessie still has serious kitten moments. :)

They can get bigger after a year too. Chessie sure did - (not fatter - he got LONGER)

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday Princess!

So does this mean a big party for all of the cats in the area, or just a quiet soirée with close friends?

Dogs, Cats, Relative Maturity

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

For dogs, it's dirt simple: multiply the age by seven. Dogs and humans have been co-evolving for so long, dogs have longer juvenile periods than wolves do.

For cats, there are only minute differences between Felix domesticus and Felix sylvestrus, so it's a bit more complicated to map from them to us:

1. For the first six months, count thirteen years.
   
2. For the second six months, count eight more years.
   
3. For the next year, count ten more years. (Thus, a two-year-old cat is the equivalent of a 31-year-old adult.)
   
4. For every year thereafter, add three more years.

So yes, Princess Fluff-Spaz is now the equivalent of a twenty-one year old adult, and is now done with that annoying adolescent stuff.

(Of course, spaying or neutering a cat will perpetuate some juvenile behaviors, but not other physical developments.)