Very old cat!

Re: Very old cat!

Lucy K — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:23:37 GMT

[quote user="Arlo Guthrie"]

[quote user="Chris Geddes"]My cat lived to 28 [/quote]

Pah. 28?

I'll see your 28, and raise you 31. This is Fluff, the 31-year-old cat I found as part of a competition to find the oldest pets in Britain for Novartis Animal Health in 2002. I seem to remember there was pretty good documentary evidence for the age of the cat.

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I must say, Fluff is looking absolutely thrilled to be still alive! He reminds me of my grandad who, in his latter months, used to wake up in the mornings shaking his fists at the sky and cursing the virgin Mary for not taking him during the night! :D

Re: Very old cat!

Arlo Guthrie — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:09:31 GMT

[quote user="Chris Geddes"]My cat lived to 28 [/quote]

Pah. 28?

Re: Very old cat!

Charlotte Marshall — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:28:12 GMT

And nothing from the dogs home ever seems to be more than 6 years old!

Re: Very old cat!

Bob Russell — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:30:12 GMT

In the days when I did a lot of TB testing there were many forest cows that had been 12 for years!

Re: Very old cat!

Jo Cobbett — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:41:13 GMT

When I was about 8 I had a pony on loan that the owners told us was 25. When I finished riding him a year later and he went to a different home, they were told he was 23. Never did work out how old he was!

Re: Very old cat!

Mark Hedberg — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:15:45 GMT

I have a relative who's 52; it must be true because she's said it for years! :D

Re: Very old cat!

bob lehner — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:50:46 GMT

[quote user="james herriot lied"]Age inflation is always entertaining: the dog that's 13 this year will be '15 or 16' next year and 18 the year after that. T'was ever thus.[/quote]

Whereas many horses stay 12 years old for ever.

Re: Very old cat!

james herriot lied — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:23:06 GMT

Age inflation is always entertaining: the dog that's 13 this year will be '15 or 16' next year and 18 the year after that. T'was ever thus.

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Well, I have pictures of mine (when she was my grandmother's cat) with me when I was clearly no more than 2, and she died last year when I was 30!

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Are you certain that it's the same cat, Chris? Did it, for example, change colour and/or sex a couple of times during your childhood, and then maybe once more whilst you were away at vet school?

Re: Very old cat!

Chris Geddes — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:35:18 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]

How often do people bring you a 20+ year old cat, and you look on the computer and you gave it kitten boosters 14 years ago.............?

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Well, I have pictures of mine (when she was my grandmother's cat) with me when I was clearly no more than 2, and she died last year when I was 30!

Re: Very old cat!

Dagmar Steele — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:25:04 GMT

haha, we have a rabbit patient that died aged 11, if the owner talks about it now (died about two years ago) it lived to 16, would you believe it? No way you could argue about that with the owner, let's see what the next two years bring, I bet it went up to twenty!

Re: Very old cat!

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:31:37 GMT

How often do people bring you a 20+ year old cat, and you look on the computer and you gave it kitten boosters 14 years ago.............?

Re: Very old cat!

Claire McConnell — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:13:08 GMT

The cat looks good for its age

The owner however I do not find sweet - i find it annoying - the whole "my pet cant eat pet food blah because I cant leave it down for more than ten minutes before offering chickend etc etc"

Re: Very old cat!

Chris Geddes — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:55:46 GMT

Hmm. My cat lived to 28 and ate cat food.