21 years old, and still purring

[gogoblender 3,070]

21 years old, go Star go!

gogo

 

[chattius 2,526]

Found at many bookstores and bibletheques:

 

One can renounce plenty of things... but cats and literature!

 

Nice age, the norwegian forest cat of my wife is 18 now.

[gogoblender 3,070]

18

Wow!

lol our cats should have kids!

 

 

gogo

[gogoblender 3,070]

I just looked up norwegian forest cat now...wow... so beautiful...kind of like a himalayan?

 

https://www.google.ca/search?q=norwegian+forsest+cat&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=T0DUUefkBYj4yQGS1IHQDg&biw=1472&bih=719&sei=UUDUUbPHFoTQywHq8YCADA

 

Do you guys have any pix?

 

gogo

[wolfie2kX 528]

Indeed. 21 is a ripe old age for a kitteh. Buy that kitteh a drink (of milk!)

 

Not a record quite yet. The oldest cat on record was 39...

 

 

I just looked up norwegian forest cat now...wow... so beautiful...kind of like a himalayan?

 

https://www.google.ca/search?q=norwegian+forsest+cat&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=T0DUUefkBYj4yQGS1IHQDg&biw=1472&bih=719&sei=UUDUUbPHFoTQywHq8YCADA

 

Do you guys have any pix?

 

gogo

 

Not quite... Himalayan cats are a cross between the Persian and a Siamese. They look like a long haired Siamese with the smushed in faces of the Persian. The Norwegian Forest kitty has a more normal face and a wider variation in colors - grays, reds, oranges, whites, etc...

 

They're more like the Maine Coon which is also a big boned kitty with longer fur.

Edited July 3, 2013 by wolfie2kX

[gogoblender 3,070]

Yes, they do look awfully...wild?

 

 

gogo

[chattius 2,526]

Our Askepot, norwegian for a pot for ash = cinderella fairyfale, has 50 shades of grey in her fur. She looks as she felt into a ash pot. Forest cats are clever beasts, they don't follow a squirrel , they jump up the tree and wait for the squirrel to appear. Also they don't fear water, ours is hunting for small fishes at our reservoir for the firefighting water.

 

Her last kitties were not pure forest cats. Seems a wild cat found the way through the forests. We kept one of the blenders (how wecall mix of wildcat and housecat) and gave the others to farmers who wanted intependent rat hunters rather than house cats.

 

Ours has the 5 stripes of a wildcat between the ears, just like the wildcat in my avatar.

[chattius 2,526]

Did you know that Michael Rother did a studio album called Katzenmusik=cat music?

The first album I ever bought and I still like it.

Bought it for the background music for a photoshow about the travel to Verona/italy we did with our class when 16. Then I listened to the music while learning for highschool and later univetsity. My cat was used to it and played a purring bass while curled on my knees.

 

Instrumental music is best for learning and for cats.

 

Rother was an early member of Kraftwerk and gave concerts improvising with rec hot chiou peppers some years back.

[gogoblender 3,070]

Our Askepot, norwegian for a pot for ash = cinderella fairyfale, has 50 shades of grey in her fur. She looks as she felt into a ash pot. Forest cats are clever beasts, they don't follow a squirrel , they jump up the tree and wait for the squirrel to appear. Also they don't fear water, ours is hunting for small fishes at our reservoir for the firefighting water.

 

Her last kitties were not pure forest cats. Seems a wild cat found the way through the forests. We kept one of the blenders (how wecall mix of wildcat and housecat) and gave the others to farmers who wanted intependent rat hunters rather than house cats.

 

Ours has the 5 stripes of a wildcat between the ears, just like the wildcat in my avatar.

 

Love the word askepot, adorable, and very meaningful, just this whole write up on cats makes me so happy to read chattius, and I love how your avatar is connected to it!

 

gogo

[gogoblender 3,070]

Did you know that Michael Rother did a studio album called Katzenmusik=cat music?

The first album I ever bought and I still like it.

Bought it for the background music for a photoshow about the travel to Verona/italy we did with our class when 16. Then I listened to the music while learning for highschool and later univetsity. My cat was used to it and played a purring bass while curled on my knees.

 

Instrumental music is best for learning and for cats.

 

Rother was an early member of Kraftwerk and gave concerts improvising with rec hot chiou peppers some years back.

aw, c'mon....y er first album...really?

 

 

gogo

[chattius 2,526]

Yes. Having an older sister who wasted most of her money for music doesn't reallyforced me to buymyown albums. But intrumental or clasic music wasn't her thing.

[gogoblender 3,070]

I just caught this from your post...kraftwerk? I have one of their old retro songs! Had a bicycle in it or something?

 

 

gogo

[gogoblender 3,070]

She's still here!

And bouncy!

...kinda

the ole lady sleeps a bit longer these days, but when she's up, there's life yet in those warm, beady eyes, and these days, we actually feed her as much as she wants, we figger at this ripe ole age, the hard crackle of dry food's a little too much for her tender gums.

Her purring's gotten to be a bit hard for her, a little cat asthma seems to with her, and we can hear some labored breathing sometimes when she's excited, so we have to be careful with how many pettings we give her... too much happiness makes her purr too much, which gives her labored breathing.

lol, we were considering getting her at ventolin mask...like those puffers, but for cats?

Apparently they work!

 

 

gogo

[SX255 630]

Her purring's gotten to be a bit hard for her, a little cat asthma seems to with her, and we can hear some labored breathing sometimes when she's excited, so we have to be careful with how many pettings we give her... too much happiness makes her purr too much, which gives her labored breathing.

Ugh, you might want to run your old gal through a vet for a checkup. May be they can recommend a more efficient diet for her. Once cats start having trouble purring they loose their immortality.

[gogoblender 3,070]

We took her in just a wee while back, I don't think we'll get a agreed upon verdict on it, but yeah, it's a heart breaker. Vet just gave us come corticosteroids to see if that brings down infllamation if this is causing it, we break each pill in half and make a "meat" pill our of her food.

And...she's bouncing around a bit more lately, maybe it's cuz she's breathing better? Her eating is better, now that we've found a kind of chicken in a can kind of cat food, a bit pricey, but she'll eat it all, and loves to lick her chops after!

U got a cat sx255?

 

 

gogo

[SX255 630]

I had a cat. She died on June 6^th this year. Had 3 months to go for her 19^th birthday. Drowned in a minute from cancer buildup in her lungs – the only thing she could not purr away. I was there when it happened... It was horrible to cope with. I literally reenacted that scene from Star Wars. That’s why I brought it up as nicely as I could once I heard the symptom: “Once cats start having trouble purring they loose their immortality.”

 

Don’t feel sorry for me. I got over it eventually (though the nightmares were bad). On average Estonian cat live up to 18 years, dogs 15, so she lived an impressing long life. Over the years vets were constantly impressed on how old she was.

 

Here she is at the start of this year after her cancer surgery in her red “don’t lick there, stupid” vest playing Risk 2210 AD with me. She played red, I played black. I won, 28 to 42.

 

[Ysne58 236]

I'm sorry for your loss. It sounds like she has a full and happy life.

[SX255 630]

Oh yes. She was very... cat. Used to intimidate and chase small dogs for sport.

By the way, I found the best cure for "my cat/dog died of old age" is, after all said and done (burials and stuff), to give it a week or two to calm down and then go and get a new cat/dog/pet. I don’t have any new pets at the moment, but most of July I stayed at my grandparents, who got a new cat. That helped a lot.

[Ysne58 236]

Another option would be to act as a foster parent for homeless pets waiting for adoption. There is a critical need for that just about everywhere.

[chattius 2,526]

Tried once, never again.

Lot of paperwork and failed when they wanted me to sign that the cat would be prevented from leaving the house or hunting. I could understand that it was an institute in a big city with a lot of traffic. But they didn't even try to ask why I wouldn't sign. Living countyside and cats would have to keep the mice away in the barn...

 

Don't know for other places but this one was like signing a contract where you have to pay a lot and you wouldn't become the owner. They had the right to ask for the pet returned if there was a breaking of the stuff you had to sign.

[gogoblender 3,070]

I had a cat. She died on June 6^th this year. Had 3 months to go for her 19^th birthday. Drowned in a minute from cancer buildup in her lungs – the only thing she could not purr away. I was there when it happened... It was horrible to cope with. I literally reenacted that scene from Star Wars. That’s why I brought it up as nicely as I could once I heard the symptom: “Once cats start having trouble purring they loose their immortality.”

 

Don’t feel sorry for me. I got over it eventually (though the nightmares were bad). On average Estonian cat live up to 18 years, dogs 15, so she lived an impressing long life. Over the years vets were constantly impressed on how old she was.

 

Here she is at the start of this year after her cancer surgery in her red “don’t lick there, stupid” vest playing Risk 2210 AD with me. She played red, I played black. I won, 28 to 42.

 

I'm so sorry for your loss SX! I can completely relate to having a member of the family around for this long, and now I want to see whether I can play board games with my cat as well

Keep reading that line you wrote, estonian cats live 18 years...what a heart warming sentiment. My family has a major cat bias...we're from a tropical island (Sri Lanka) and in environments like that, with animals walking into the hut almost every day, life, such as cats, tends to get taken for granted.

This pet has been the best pet ever, and I've never been around an animal for this many years. Just the changes and atmosphere Star creates is a daily mini-miracle.

You sound like you really appreciated the gifts your cat shared with you, I'm grateful for every day ours is still here.

 

 

gogo

[gogoblender 3,070]

She's looking better than ever...I actually took this shot a few days ago, Schot was on vacay, and the cat was just pining looking up and being all cozy... or...

perhaps her secret caption was

 

"Pick me up Bitch"

 

 

gogo

 

 

p.s. lol I may have been WAY out of line with that caption (specially here on DarkMatters)... someone please complain here and I'll take it down

[Ysne58 236]

The caption fits.

It's amazing how much cats can say with their expressions. Expecially Alex when my son is dancing around while holding him.

[SX255 630]

Gogoblenders cat is awesome. Mine lived a long happy life. Playing board games with pets is fun, provided they don’t eat the small pieces. We are celebrating life here, not morning the inevitable.

[Flix 5,116]

I had a gecko for over 15 years, and I don't know how old he was when I got him (he was already fully grown). His species can live for over 20 years! You don't usually think of little critters like that lasting so long, but he was there for a lot in my life. I think old age finally got Truman, just a few months ago. For cats it may be loss of purring, but for geckos it's when they can't shed their skin anymore.

 

 

But SX255, as you said, getting a new pet is a great feeling, so a little while back I picked up Sammy, newly hatched but already tame and sweet. Their species can also live for a very long time. Here's to 15 more years!