My old cat is still alive...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

I got married in 1990. At the time I had a cat, a stray that I had adopted a couple years earlier. Monty was about five years old at the time. Since my finance had a cat and neither of our cats particularly cared for the company of other cats (they were, in fact, violently opposed to the idea), my old roommate offered to adopt Monty.

Flash forward nearly eighteen frickin' years. I talked to my old roommate the other day for the first time in about two years, and it turns out that Monty is still alive. Now bear in mind that Monty was always an indoor/outdoor cat who has been in the habit of disappearing for a week at a time and then turning up disheveled and with half an ear clawed off from fights he'd been in.

My roommate hasn't taken Monty to the vet in about ten years. His wife said that if she hadn't seen the cat bleeding on previous occasions, she'd swear the Monty is a cyborg.

So when you adopt a pet, keep in mind that you might be signing up for the long haul.

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Charles Atlas (see avatar) can't fly anymore, but when we

are reunited, he'll be driven from Alabama ... no banjo jokes, please. I've been responsible for him, wherever he's been, since bringing him home in the palm of my hand in 1989. If I just get to hold him one last time before he's gone, I'll know it's been a great life.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

2. I know how you feel...

The last time I was in Ohio (where my roommate lives), Monty was crawling up into my lap and purring like crazy. My roommate remarked that he NEVER does that with anybody else, and that he must remember me. Now I want to get back to Ohio to see him again (both my roommate and the cat).

[Fredda Weinberg]

5. Charles Atlas and I have been reunited several times. I'm prepared

for whatever ...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Your finance had a cat?

I wish my cat had a finance! :evilgrin:

[China_cat]

4. We had a cat that was 23 when she died.

And right now I have 2 18 year olds...one has been diabetic for about 7 years.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. Amazingly old...

What is the human equivalent of a cat year?

And in Monty's case, he's lead a life that would have been the death of most cats years ago. Fifteen years ago, my roommate was talking about their moving from an apartment into a first home. They were packing the apartment, and the whole time Monty is off on one of his little vacations. He was afraid that they were going to have to move before Monty ever returned. He did, of course.

[trotsky]

8. It's a linear relationship, except for the 1st year.

Supposedly the 1st year of a cat's life is equal to 20 of ours. But then after that, each year is just 4 of ours.

So a 10 year old cat is 20 + (9 x 4) = 56.

[stuntcat]

7. Rock on, Monty!

This is great :D Monty's a KING.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. Actually, he's a Lord

His full name is Lord Louis Mountbatten. Named for this guy:



Why, you ask? Alcohol, I reply. Lots and lots of it...