To be fair, most cats 'train' every day, they just sleep in between. If you ate a controlled diet, spent most of the day sleeping, interspersed with some stretching and running and jumping on things, you'd be I'm pretty great shape.
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Weighing only 7 lbs helps a lot too.
And being below the age of 15 in most cases
I was just about to say that if you had spent your entire life doing parkour then you too could do parkour with ease. The reason we allocate specific times to train our body is because our daily lives don't contain enough activity to naturally train us.
Also age & how much at what age different species age.
Ballparking it humans over 30 are cats over 10 or 12.
Humans just start aging after we had enough time to reproduce (bcs that's how selection works) yet have longevity way beyond our decrepit 40s - for that there was way less natural selection.
Their evolutionary path min-maxed dexterity.
We dumped int.
It really did work out for us, we just have to get off our fatasses to keep things going. Call it a fair trade.
Our big brains take a lot of care and feeding for sure.
We also adapted for endurance hunting and fine motor control in our hands. A Chimpanzee could tear your arm off, but they could not throw a curveball.
Ever seen how much your cat stretches?
Or how much they rub it in?
Thank your erect spine.
it's almost perverse, isn't it
Cats work for 15 years max. You might live until 100.
15 years is not the maximum time a cat can remain alive and suple. On average they can live up to 17 years and some live to their 20s.
"Average" is a really hard statistic considering entirely different living conditions across the world. Factor in street cats & baby deaths and the average is probably closer to 4 years.
This was for house cats.
There is literally a Wikipedia page dedicated to cats that have lived to be older than 25 years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_cats
The fact that there is a Wikipedia page for this shows that it is noteworthy when it happens. Further, most people in this thread have probably already surpassed that milestone
Ok, median expected lifetime is around 15.
I find that hard to believe too. I've never known anyone who's had a cat die younger than like 15, but I suppose it could be true
There are unfortunately some cat diseases and genetics where they don't make it that far. Feline leukemia and diabetes are two that I've seen end cat lives far too early, and when they go downhill it's both quick and tragic to see them change. A typical cat who is cared for will definitely make it past 15.
I might be biased, but my very first (and only) kitty that I got at eight weeks old is still alive. She turns 17 in July. She was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism a year ago. A couple weeks ago she was diagnosed with small cell lymphoma (cancer) in her intestines.
Money is probably the determining factor for life expectancy because figuring out she had cancer in her intestines set me back $3000. 😅 Now that she's on medication though, she is as lively as ever and is gaining a bunch of weight back which is fantastic 😊
That's a good bias to have. Situations are always different, and not only the cost or ability to catch things in time, but also the consideration of the quality of life if treatment is pursued. We had a dog and later a cat that both got diagnosed with kidney disease of some sort, both were very sudden and terrible to see an active pet turn lethargic and waste away in days or weeks. We could have thrown money at it and bought some time, but they would have been miserable with the needed operations and regular dialysis to keep them alive. The choice there was easy.
Glad to see you're on the other side of that with something controllable and a happy companion.
We've had 4 of 5 cats die before reaching 6. 😢
That sounds like a you problem, not a cat problem
Stop shooting them.
The brightest candles burn the fastest. I've had my share too, but they had good lives and made our lives better in that short time.
But cats have 9 lives
In German speaking countries cats only have 7 lives :(
I stand corrected
I didn’t mean to correct you, just wanted to add this random thing I thought of reading your comment lol
Cats often live for 20 years.
I don't wanna
"Yo, what's his problem, Boots."
"They hate us, because they ain't us, Scooter."
They hate us because they anus?
Or those dogs which are just naturally shredded. Or Kangaroos. Fuckers.