[BasilRathbon]

My parents own a pair of cats who are both around 15 years old (the cats, not my parents). Now I've always thought that one cat year is the equivalent of 7 human years which means that if the cats were humans they'd now be 105 years old.

Yet I've known other cats to live a lot longer - one of our neighbours had one that lived to be 21. So....

a) what exactly is 'old' in cat terms?

b) who's got the oldest cat in Sheffield?

[Merry_Legs]

My mums cat Bramble was 18 when she popped her clogs. My friends cat is about 20 and still going strong.

[2001louise]

i got my cat when i was 17 and he is still going strong and im 33 now, so that makes him 16, and he is still as cute now as he were when he was 6 weeks old

[Dark Moomin]

My mum still has 2 cats we got when I was a kid, both just turned 20 - think they are hanging on to spite her as they are both most definately senile (though happy as larry as far as anyone can tell!)

[EdnaKrabappe]

My cat was 21 when she went missing late last year. She's never returned so i presume dead but you never know perhaps she wanted a different retirement home.

[Code13]

I know someone who has a 24 year old cat. There was a story in the Metro a couple of years ago about the oldest known living cat in the UK who was an incredible 33 years old (having been abandoned as a kitten in a rubbish skip).

[den37]

hi my cats 18 though she is on tablets for the rest of her life she kept loosing weight but now shes ok and putting it on my others about 15

[xxhunniixx]

my nans is 24 dixie shes on her last legs though blind thin and runs nt be long bless her

[xxsarahxx]

wow i never realised that cats live this long..
my kitty is only 1 and a half so im sooooo glad he has got a good few years in him yet..