How long are your cats?

[Team Svartalfheims]

Mine keep moving when I try to measure them   

If I measure one of Pinball's front legs and one of his back legs and add them onto his body length (back of neck to base of tail) will that give me the same as measuring him stretched out?? If so then he is around 38-39 inches long.

[em1209]

So let me get this right, we're measuring from tips of the front pawsies to the tips of the toes whilst stretched out? Will have to attempt this once I get home later, I know Fergus is pretty long though, he looks like a draught excluder sometimes  !!

[Tiggy's Mum]

Memphis isn't willing to let me measure him ... it keeps ending up in roly polys  All I could manage was 11inches for his tail  He wasn't allowing me to do anything else.

I predict he will be... 110cm / 43" - he and Riley are twins after all 

[Den]

Memphis isn't willing to let me measure him ... it keeps ending up in roly polys  All I could manage was 11inches for his tail  He wasn't allowing me to do anything else.

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Nor does Misa and he is crambed into his filing tray at the moment 

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

I'm not even going to think about attempting that with Jaffa    Jaffa doesn't do picked up 

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

Ahh well in that case That's still a good length Zephyr can do 40 ½ inches

[Tiggy's Mum]

He's not a mutant  It was fully stretched out so includes stretched out paws and legs.  He was laying upside down in my arms and I was spinning round, he loves it and his front paws and back legs stretch out as we spin round, that's when I lent up against the mirror with him.

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

Are we talking stretched out paws and legs here (so including leg length) or back length?  If the former then Jaffa could match that I reckon  but if you're talking back length I think you must have got that wrong!!  Either that or Riley is a mutant and not a cat 

[Tiggy's Mum]

Just found the measure.....thats enormous Helen 

I know    I couldn't believe it when I measured the mirror!  Had his back foot at the left hand edge and his front foot came 10cm short of the other end and the mirror is 120cm / 47" wide    That's fully stretched but even so 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

I am sure you must have slightly got it wrong 

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

OMG that's enormous ... Zephyr is 36 inches from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail (measuring along his back).

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Just found the measure.....thats enormous Helen 

[Tiggy's Mum]

Not including tails - just the 'stretchy' length 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

No I dont think so LOL...........the birmans are very long.....now are we talking head to tail length here or what? 

I know Misa sits up at at nearly two foot...................wheres me tape measure.......and looking at Pedros relatives there tails are so long, goodness how long the little devils are 

[Tiggy's Mum]

I always knew Riley was long but I've never been able to measure him as if he's laying on his side or back in prime 'measurement position' and I go near him he'll roll over for me to rub his tummy 

Was holding him upside in my arms swinging him round and he was fully stretched so I held him up against a mirror and worked out the measurements... he's 110cm or 43 inches long    Is that a Purrs record?