Since joining yesterday and reading through the forums, I've noticed people talking about cats life expectancy and it seems to me like there's a difference from UK/America?
I saw someone say that the average life expectancy for an outdoor/indoor cat was 2 and a half years which sounded bizarre to me, everyone I know who has outdoor/indoor cats here have cats older than about 10 years old.
Yes I understand the dangers with roads etc, and fighting, which has a huge impact on those figures. Our cat Thomas survived until he was 15 when he sadly got Cancer, and he was an indoors/outdoors cat for all of his life.
Though saying that, he used up most of his 9 lifes! He caught feline leukemia when he was about 8, but he completely recovered from being on deaths door and ended up testing negative for it about a year later so he'd made a full recovery. He was also hit by a car at one point but thankfully my Mum and I were at the scene when it happened so we were able to get him to the vets instantly and he pulled through with a 100% recovery, maybe he was just a very plucky cat?!
When we got our kittens we planned on the basis that these kittens will be around with us for 15 or so years.
(touch wood, fingers crossed etc!!) So it seems strange seeing people talking about life expectancy in much lower terms. Is there a known difference between the US/UK? Are there more diseases or anything like that?
I saw someone say that the average life expectancy for an outdoor/indoor cat was 2 and a half years which sounded bizarre to me, everyone I know who has outdoor/indoor cats here have cats older than about 10 years old.
Yes I understand the dangers with roads etc, and fighting, which has a huge impact on those figures. Our cat Thomas survived until he was 15 when he sadly got Cancer, and he was an indoors/outdoors cat for all of his life.
Though saying that, he used up most of his 9 lifes! He caught feline leukemia when he was about 8, but he completely recovered from being on deaths door and ended up testing negative for it about a year later so he'd made a full recovery. He was also hit by a car at one point but thankfully my Mum and I were at the scene when it happened so we were able to get him to the vets instantly and he pulled through with a 100% recovery, maybe he was just a very plucky cat?!
When we got our kittens we planned on the basis that these kittens will be around with us for 15 or so years.
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