Posted on 08/29/2009 6:39:22 AM PDT by Daffynition
A CAT is feline fine despite being a candidate for the world's oldest moggy.
Tizzie was found dumped in a bag on a railway line by two girls in 1973 and 36 years later she is still going strong.
Owner Jim Cowell is now trying to verify his pet's age to determine if the cat is a record breaker.
Jim said: "She really is a fantastic cat and is still as fit as a butcher's dog. She still looks like a young kitten and moves around perfectly well.
"The vet said that her organs are as healthy as they would be in a younger cat."
Jim's mum, Winifred, first gave Tizzie a home when the girls found her. But in 1990 Jim took the cat in when his mum could no longer care for her.
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Unfortunately, Tizzie's vet records were lost almost 20 years ago so Jim is trying to trace the two girls who found her.
Jim, of Burnley, Lancs, said: "There is a photograph of Tizzie with my mother and obviously we would like the two girls who found her, if they still live locally, to get in touch to help verify her age."
He added: "It's a shame the vet records were lost because that would have definitely proved her age. The photograph though shows my mum aged 62 holding the cat and that was 36 years ago."
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Granpa was the longest-living cat.
He lived to be 34 years and two months but died in 2001.
The average life expectancy of cats is between 13 and 17 years and Jim says there are no signs of black and white-coloured Tizzie slowing down.
He said: "She still goes out, although not as far as she used to. She still manages the garden wall and ventures on to the street.
"There was another cat down the road who died recently which was around a similar age so it must be something in the water around here."
Agreed, which is why I prefaced my statement “for cats who have a hankerin’ to roam.”
MiMi sounds like a fine feline who knows how to communicate with her person.
My cat, Jean-Marie (male cat, French name), requested water in a particular locatioon that was inconvenient for my wife. He fell ill one day, and could not go down the stairs to his bowl. He got his wish, and acted so grateful that she gave in and put the water where he initially requested from that point on.
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LOL at cat’s expression.
Heck. Didn’t know Richard Gere posted here!
What is that, Kramer’s dad’s graduation pic?
I have a fella named CrookedTail who is colored very similarly, and he’s nineteen and still climbing trees. The crooks in his tail are a birth/spinal defect, according to the vet. Old Crook has learned a lot of words in his lifetime. HIs afvorite is still milk, and he tries to say it when the fridge opens and he sees the gallon milk jug. That meow, stretched out with emphasis on the middle sound and a sort of gutteral stop at the end instead of the “w” says milk. It even registers with his younger buddy, GooseCat, who comes running when Crook says milk.
one extra thing to mention: yes, she certainly does know how to communicate, for sure.
When I am working @ the laptop she will jump up on the chair next to me and tap me on the shoulder with her paw to get my attention- i’m serious! :):)just as ,say, another person would if they walked into the room and w/o words wanted my attention
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A cloning compnay in Texas—by the catchy name of ‘Savings and Clone’—has successfully cloned cats, so perhaps the two kitties in question are mother and clone ... the cloned cats do not match in color markings either, by the way.
You can’t see the cats eyes in the first picture because they’re in the black part.
What appears to be the cats eyes is actually part of the black streak that comes out. It’s visible in both pictures.
If you look closely you can see the cats eyes in the black.
Exactly!
From the two pictures I don’t think it is the same cat. The cat on the right has black flash around both eyes. The cat on the left the flash stops just short of the right eye.
I agree with the others. Not the same cat. We’ve been punked.
That's what I think.
Until last year I would have been doubtful also.
But a worker at my vet’s office has a cat that is 26, and when I seemed surprised at that, she told me that one of their feline patients in that office is 30.
Yes, the older they are, the more they seep into your heart. Everyone was devastated when the cat died, even me, and I hadn’t known the little darling for that long. I think it was a male, but I don’t recall.
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