LONG-LIVED CATS
The question as to the length of a. cat's life, recently raised in the Daily Mail, has prompted correspondents from many p'prts of England to give accounts of cats which have reached the great age— if it is 'a great age— of eighteen years. The best on record is reported by a clergyman of a Norfolk parish, where one old couple possessed a cat twentythree years old. In all records were received of seventeen veteran cats, taking eighteen as the minimum age to qualiy as a veteran. Of these three only were over a score of years. There is some ground for supposing that a red or sandy colour is associated with length of life. The secretary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals stated that cases of cats exceeding twenty years. of age are rare, but that a certain number are on record. . « It is a nice question how long_ the various domestic animals ought to live. Dogs and cats and horses all die rather earlier than they should, if we reckon the time they take to become mature, though on this- reckoning man is the_ most shortlived of all animals. It is practically proved that an open-air life, even if rough, extends the age of the horse.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 12
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