Our 21 year old kitty cat,,,,

I forgot to say Missy's voice sounds like she smoked cigarettes for the last 20 years. When I take her to the vet and if there are other people there waiting they all have to look in the carrier to see what is making the strange sounds. She is very vocal when she is upset or wants something. Maybe I can get her on a short video when she is "talking" to me.

She is just precious. Savour this time. Take pics and yes, get some video!

Tom - she is a lovely old girl. And yes, savor the time with her. Siamese are known to have unusual voices, so that doesn't surprise me and yes, sometimes they get cross-eyed.

My boyfriends RB cat, Cato, lived to be almost 21 before he succumbed to the ravages of kidney failure. He was PTS a year ago February. My BF still talks about him as if he were alive. Sigh....

awwwww she's lovely

I had a male himalayan that lived to be 20. Tom, your cat is absolutely beautiful!!! Here's wishing her healing vibes and lots of love.

What a sweetie!! I hope you have many more years with her, Tom.

What a beautiful old girl! The cat that I've had since a little girl will be 16 very soon, and she has certainly got more loving and gentle as she's aged. Enjoy this time with your sweetheart, and I hope that you have many more years with her!

She looks like my Torti-point Colorpoint Shorthair Jasmine Colorpoint shorthairs are the "cousins" of siamese -they're pointed kitties with siamese ancestry, only they come in more colors (flame point, cream lynx, chocolate-torti, torti point (like ours) etc... ). Siamese come in the standard seal, chocolate, blue and lilac pointed coats. Colorpoint shorthairs just have a bit more color variety than Siamese do. I'm not sure about other countries but in the US they seperate them into two different breeds (colorpoint shorthair and siamese depending on the coat).

Your little girl is just beautiful!!!

Hi, If Missy does have something bad going on with her she sure has not been showing it lately. She has been acting like she is 2 years old not 21 lately, she gets crazy and tears around all over the place just like the young cats do at times. and she has been playing with cat toys which I never seen her do before. She is also much friendlier to the other cats than ever before.

What a gorgeous girl Missy is, she looks great.

Missy has aged very gracefully!!! She is absolutely beautiful! It is also amazing that she still gets the crazies!! She sounds wonderful!!

Hi, A little update, Missy is still doing good. Today I entered her in a Oldest Living Cat contest I found in my new Cat Fancy magazine. Maybe I can win some free cat food.

That is just wonderful! When I got Persi I looked up in the books how old he was supposed to live and it said 15-20 years. Then I looked at the actuary tables for men and it said I had 15-20 years. So, like your beautiful cat, Persi and I are going to show those books a thing or two!

Wow, that's amazing.

What a beautiful old gal she is...I can only hope that I have so many years with my two.

We stopped at the vets office and I asked how far back Missy file went but it only goes back to when I started to bring her in. Yvonne told them they used to see Missy years ago before Yvonne got married to me so they looked under Yvonne's first married name but they no longer have any of that stuff. So we can't verify that she is 21 years old. Yvonne and the kids figured out they got Missy in late 1989 and she was 2 years old at that time, so Missy has been with Yvonne 10 years longer than I have .

I wish we had more solid proof of her age. I need to ask if Yvonne has any old pictures of Missy from back then, If she has a old picture dated from 1989 or 1990 that would be a big help if anyone ever wants some kind of proof of her age at some time.

Your cat looks wonderful for her age!
I had one cat that made it till she was 20, and another one who made it to almost 18. My mother had a siamese cat that lived till she was 24 years old!

The older ones are so special. They have grown with you for all those years.

Awww.....bless her heart. She's gorgeous! Her little sweet "senior" habits are so cute.

She is a beauty! Here wishes for good test results for her.

What a beautiful old cat. About the "crazies..." Maybe she's getting senile and forgetting she's supposed to be stuck up and dignified?