Hi everyone,
I have not seen this myself but have been told by three different people.

Apparently very close to where I live there is a family selling kittens and puppies for £10 each.
A friend of a friend has bought a kitten, now I am not too clued up with cats but she says that the kitten is supposed to be 8 - 10 weeks old but she also says that the poor little mite can fit on the palm of her hand with room to move! now to me that sounds as if kitten has left the nest way too early??
Also when she went to collect her kitten the owner tried to sell her a puppy staffie mix for the same amount of money!  as they also have a litter of pups.
Now I am totally fuming, but have not yet found out where this house is, or indeed if the babies are leaving the nest too early, but if I do find out the place, do you think it is worth calling the RSPCA?
I just hate it when I hear of things like this going on,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
P.S. forgot to add the the kitten that has been bought has a weepy eye and runny nose?? I have told my friend to tell her friend to take the kitten to the vets, and have also told her to get some kitten milk as it sounds like the poor thing is way too young to be on solids just yet.

That almost sounds like a 3-4 week old kitten- heck my ferret at 8 weeks could curl up on my hand but not to much room to move at all- A vet def would no for sure the age of the kitten- Does the kitten have teeth, is it still doing alot of sucking and is the kitten on hard food?

Hi
It does sound as if the kitten is too young to of left its mother, you can buy special kitten milk from the vet. The kittens eyes will still be a light blue colour if it is under 5 weeks old of age.
Years ago a young girl found a kitten (what she told me?) down an alley way and was tiny and it still had light blue eyes. The best advice is to take it along to a vet for worming/flea treatment and to check out its nasal discharge problem, they can die very easily as cats only eat when they can smell with a blocked up nose it can't. Poor little mite.

About this person flogging these tiny pets- I would definitely report her to the rspca.

I'm no expert on cats but like dollface I'd say that's only a 3 to 4 week old.

Many years ago my neighbour reckoned she found a litter of kittens in her garden and she had no idea where they came from, funny how they looked spookily like her sad faced female cat.

Anyway I took one in and it too could fit into the palm of my hand and weighed peanuts, eyes barely open and blue.
With time and effort, regular feeding of preparation kitten formula and putting her with my strange neutered old male that took her under his wing she grew in to a lovely little cat still going too.

I'd report this family to the RSPCA, and if they are trying to sell Staffie mixes and at such an horrendous price what sort of prospective owners are they going to get, it gives images of dog fighting etc.

Hi and thanks for the replies,
I will try and find out more tomorrow, whether the kitten has teeth, blue eyes etc and also find out where these little babies are being sold from, it is really terrible.

As far as I am aware the person that bought a kitten is trying to feed it on normal cats food, tinned stuff I think, I have passed on to her through a friend that she really does need to take the kitten to the vets ASAP and to find out roughly how old he/she is, I have also said to get some kitten milk too.

Will update as soon as I find out anymore.  It does make my heart sink when thinking of these babies, and who they may have been sold too, :(

>  is trying to feed it on normal cats food, tinned stuff I think,

  bad tummies due I think and a very poorly kitten, you're right to encourage a vet visit to gauge the age and get some good advice.

Funny how some people think that as it's an animal the same sort of baby rules that we have for human babies don't apply. I hope for the kitten's sake that these people take your good advice.

I have a litter of 5 kittens at the moment aged 5 weeks. They are small for their age and they just fit into the palm of my hand. Kittens should be no less than 13 weeks old before sold and as has been pointed out by then will have lost their blue eye colour (unless they stay blue eyed of course, depends on the coat colour) -it starts changing at 6 weeks of age.

Feed kitten food like Whiskas cans if they can be found (bit hard to get hold of these days but the meat there mash down smaller than Whiskas kitten pouches), Whiskas pouches is easy to get hold of anywhere but it must be KITTEN, raw mince is fine if previously frozen, for milk use Cimicat or Royal Canin's kitten milk not Lactol.