I have to say I'm not real surprised
But I am most excellently glad to hear that his basic problem is being a week or two younger than you thought, and that he is doing well.
FWIW, one of my cats who is 9 now, I got from a rescue woman who swore to me that he was 6.5 wks old and fully weaned. It quickly became pretty clear that he was more like 5 wks old and had probably never seen solid food in his life. But after the first couple weeks of syringe feeding and all that, it was back to normal kitten management, and he has been a wonderful cat (if strange) ever since.
(I should have known not to trust what the woman said -- she lived next door to the barn wehre I boarded my horses and her semi feral pack of loose dogs used to come over and run the horses around on a regular basis, when taken to court she said 'oh but we have invisible fencing' but of course she never actually kept *batteries* in the dogs' collars as it turnd out. Hmph)
Have fun, you and Twm both,
Pat
FWIW, one of my cats who is 9 now, I got from a rescue woman who swore to me that he was 6.5 wks old and fully weaned. It quickly became pretty clear that he was more like 5 wks old and had probably never seen solid food in his life. But after the first couple weeks of syringe feeding and all that, it was back to normal kitten management, and he has been a wonderful cat (if strange) ever since.
(I should have known not to trust what the woman said -- she lived next door to the barn wehre I boarded my horses and her semi feral pack of loose dogs used to come over and run the horses around on a regular basis, when taken to court she said 'oh but we have invisible fencing' but of course she never actually kept *batteries* in the dogs' collars as it turnd out. Hmph)
Have fun, you and Twm both,
Pat
