Life expectancy of cats

Domestic animals occupy an important place in the life of their owners. People are so attached to their pets that they begin to "humanize" them, attributing to the sweet fluffy four-legged creatures qualities that are inherent in people rather than animals.

For example, one of the "cat-makers" describes his cat Kostya, who takes the food offered to him by the claws of his forelegs, as if he were a man, and sends it to his mouth. Kostya is able, according to his master, to express his "cat's" thoughts, changing intonations, listening to his "bipedal elder brother" and even as if asking questions. Leonid, who has an interesting creature, claims that Constantine knows something about the world that homosepience can not know. The owner treats his kotyary humanly and demands this from his neighbors. "He, Kostya, is a man, only wool!"

Cats can be so faithful and faithful that it remains only a miracle to be given. How many legends there are in the people about how domestic cats were able to wake people up during the onset of a fire and thereby saved their lives; About how for thousands of kilometers these tailed "woolen people" found their former friends - owners, overcoming in some unthinkable way the sea and mountains ... And from those facts when shaggy fuzzy with their caresses relieved people of chronic and even fatal diseases, You can make whole volumes of books.

The only pity is that the life expectancy of cats is much less than that of humans. So it turns out that you live next to this amazing creature and you know: you will have to bury the beloved and loving God's creation one day ... The only question is when this event will happen.

Statistical tables indicate that the average life expectancy of cats is from 10 to 15 years. Those who do not have owners and lead the so-called wandering lifestyle, survive only up to 4-5 years. And, with good care there is a possibility of increasing this threshold to 20 - 22 years.

There are long-lived among them. For example, the life expectancy of a cat named Ma from Great Britain was 34 years! The same number lived the native of the United States of Granpa Rex Allen. Has blocked this record from a series "Life expectancy of cats" cat Puss. He continued to please his masters for 36 years. Slightly less lived Spike's cat.

Separately, I want to mention the cat Krim Puff, who died at the age of 38. If you try to count the cat's years in projection to the human age, it will be 266 years. After all, the cat's year corresponds to about 7 years of people's lives. Unfortunately, all registered cats - long-livers spent days of their happy life either in America or in England. For some reason, there are no such conversations in Russia ...

What determines the life expectancy of cats? Of course, from the conditions of their life. Stray cats on their way of life lie in wait for troubles, illnesses and accidents. To the great regret, representatives of mankind do not know how to coexist worthily with other creatures of nature. But do not list here those terrible details, because of which the life expectancy of cats that do not have owners is shortened.

However, owners of pets, who do not seem to want their evil pussy, sometimes commit wrong actions. For example, the maintenance of cats constantly indoors can have a negative impact on their health status. Cats, like people, need exercise, fresh air, sunlight, physical exertion. Yes, just elementary, they sometimes need to chew on grass, dig in the ground, catch a mouse.

Also, you can damage the cat's body and advertised cat food. Do not believe everything that offers us bright commercials. Often these dry "meat balls" do not contain a gram of meat in their composition. But chemical additives cause the animals to get used to the stern, force them to give up real feline food and demand again and again a harmful chemical.

Extremely negative on the mental state of felines are affected by stress. In those houses where people constantly shout, swear and cry, animals are also nervous and subject to nervous diseases. In the same place where love and understanding reign, and cats live calm, balanced, cheerful, happy and healthy. Therefore, when starting a pet, people should seriously calculate their opportunities, treat our younger brothers with due respect and be aware of the responsibility for their fate.