Move over , Corduroy the Maine Coon : Your reign was shortsighted and fantabulous , but you ’re sadly no longer the world ’s oldest animation kitty . According to a statement give up byGuinness World Records , a 30 - year - old Siamese named Scooter of late dethrone the 26 - year - old felid . We ’re assuming that Corduroy , who was adopted from an Oregon shelter in 1989 and allot the oldest living cat titlelast August , will return to his fussy , pre - fame life of napping and black eye - chasing . In the lag , let ’s get to have intercourse the unexampled record - holder , Scooter .
Scooter was stomach on March 26 , 1986 , and currently lives in Mansfield , Texas with his proprietor , Gail Floyd . Over the 10 , the tricenarian cat has live through the fall of the Berlin Wall , the election of four unlike U.S. President , and the geographic expedition of Mars . However , despite his advanced long time ( and a broken leg in 2014 ) , Scooter is reportedly still as friendly and active as he was as a kitten .
The playful Siamese wakes Floyd at 6 a.m. every morning , and greets her at the threshold when she come home from work each dark . Scooter also regularly visits the nursing home where Floyd ’s female parent lives , and has even traveled to 45 of the 50 U.S. states with his doting owner . “ He care to see newfangled lieu and he like people , ” Floydsaid in a release .
Siamese guy are typically bless with long life spans , and often do n’t die until they’re15 to 20 years honest-to-goodness . understandably , Scooter is prodigious , even for his breed , which raise the enquiry : if Scooter is 30 years older in human years , what ’s his near long time in “ cat long time ” ?
Many people consider that one human class is the equivalent of seven feline years , but that ’s really wrong concord toCatster . In fact , the first two years of a cat ’s existence are equivalent to rough the first 24 old age of a human ’s life . After that , you ’re supposed to add four “ cat age ” for every calendar year . ( Purina concord . )
harmonise to this convention , if Scooter were a person , he ’d be a staggering 136 years sometime . However , the Siamese still has nearly a decade to go before he ’s award the title ofhistory ’s oldest - known cat . That accolade still belongs to Creme Puff , of Austin , Texas . Creme Puff was acquit on August 3 , 1967 , and died on August 6 , 2005 at the ripe old years of 38 .
Is there something in the water in Texas , or were both kitties just blessed with good genes ? Only time ( and a few new Guinness Records ) will tell .
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