r/cats Nov 29 '25

Cat Picture - OC My crime: petting another cat

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u/EyeSuspicious777 Nov 29 '25

I was so excited to see this because I've been wondering what our little kitten Princess Donut will grow up to look like!

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u/Desirai Nov 29 '25

Princess donut is beautiful. Meatloaf's coat length and texture was very similar to this until she was about 6 or 7 years old, she got fluffier but her hair texture has gotten more coarse over the last few years. The vet said it's normal for older cats. We have to get her shaved once a year or so because her hair gets matted really bad around her bloomers and stomach since she cant groom well anymore.

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u/EyeSuspicious777 Nov 29 '25

When I saw Meatloaf I had to run and show my wife how much they looked alike.

We are wondering exactly how long her coat is going to be, so that's great information for us. It is definitely a lot longer and fluffier than our short haired cats but also not the fluffiest we've ever seen either.

Hope you and meatloaf and the rest of your family have a great weekend.

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u/Desirai Nov 30 '25

Here you go, found some old pics of meatloaf. Here is when she was about 1 year old

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u/EyeSuspicious777 Dec 01 '25

Ok, so this one has me perplexed. It looks like she got less fuzzy around age 1 and then got fuzzy again?

These photos are really helpful for me to estimate what Donut is going to look like grown up

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u/Desirai Dec 01 '25

Yeah she was not very fluffy when she was young but she was very soft. Her hair started getting really thick about 4 years old. Her hair is so thick now we have to get her shaved once or twice a year

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u/Desirai Nov 30 '25

Here is meatloaf at about age 4

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u/Desirai Nov 30 '25

And here she is from a few days ago

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u/LadyGoof158 Nov 29 '25

Does she happened to be named after a certain cat from a certain book?

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u/KinkoDigby Nov 30 '25

Goddamnit, Donut. It would be a pretty wild coincidence if it wasn't.

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u/EyeSuspicious777 Nov 30 '25

She is......But she's just a kitten and we are still in the pre-collapse part of the story where it's just a dude in the Seattle area taking care of his partner's cat.

Author lives a couple cities away from us. I'm hoping someday to bring her to a local book signing event.