Don’t glorify alcohol
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Red wine seems to be important to longevity
Actually, there is another cat called Annie who is 39 and there are even claims of another cat who made it to 40. That is according to Ratboys, a source that I trust on cats.
Neat. That's not why they lived that long though. It's just a combination of genetics and a safe, domestic home environment.
Also exercise. Cats need a lot of it.
sample size = 1
That's like twice the lifespan of an average cat. That's like a human living to 140 or 150. Not sure I believe it. I need to see a valid birth certificate, not that I care. I guess I kind of care.
Cats do rarely make it to about 30 but I agree with your assessment.
Needs to be long form birth certificate
Creme Hussein Puff.
Hol’ up. Coffee and red wine OK to give cats?
New New Year’s resolutions unlocked.
Not a cat. Had a cockapoo that would flat out steal my whiskey/ bourbon from my glass. I drank it straight, no ice. Being a lap dog and being right there. If I'd look away, little prick would steel a lap or two.
That's amazing. Did it affect the bird?
I have a cat obsessed with stealing my coffee. He succeeds a few times a week and he's still alive, so probably ok?
My cats become extremely interested in any area I spill coffee in and will actively try to get a cup of coffee.
Some will also eat your weed so there’s that.
Well it is a flower, most animals would
Funny, I just watched a YouTube video about this guy and his cats. Seems like while he was a sweet guy he was probably lying about his cats age. Like, he claimed to have the pedigree papers but never actually showed them to anyone? And then after the cat died he said "oh my bad I told you guys the wrong age, he was actually [record setting age] the whole time"
This isn't throwing shade since I'm not neurotypical but I could tell by the time she finished saying "hello friends" that neither was she.
Image for reference
I don't understand academia (and I kind of hate it)... Why would you minimize your knowledge to this, and at the same time being super rigid about methodology?
Was it something about the party hat that made you take this at face value? 😅 Anyway the picture was taken at DashCon 2 which I wouldn't neccessarily call an academic event.
I believe it’s called a joke
Highly recommended channel
I had a beta fish that lived for 10 years when I was a kid, but I kind of suspect my mother may have replaced it without telling me when it died.
Yeahhh I remember we had this dying tomato plant in the garden but for some reason I was attached to it, and I told my mom she didn't need to replace it and it would get better on its own. And then I went back to the garden later and it looked really healthy, good as new!
She was trying to help. That's a kind and admirable intention.
Same with humans. Even for some with real papers, they just wrote down some birth year when issuing them.
In some regions issuing false birth papers is very common due to legal reasons (tax and stuff).
Just goes to show how much of longevity is genetic
No amount of alcohol is healthy and grapes are highly toxic to cats and dogs
Yeah, the wine is completely ridiculous.
Everyone knows the proper formula for cat longevity is tren, metformin, and a lil bit of creatine sprinkled on wet food. Keep ‘em swole.
I was under the impression it was "pspspspsps"
I've seen that 'bully' mix for dogs and have wondered if there is something similar I could use to get my barn cats jacked. We've got some pretty arrogant roosters around here.
No amount of alcohol is healthy
Until very recently the consensus wasn't reached.
I think you've missed the fact that this cat was clearly a man cursed by a witch.
Hovering four feet off the floor in the bathroom
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If it were just one 30+ year old cat, it'd be more believable. But the wiki article says that he owned two, and the other one lived into its mid-30s.
Pretty sure that I have a better odds of quantum tunneling my entire self to the Andromeda galaxy in the next ten minutes than a single person has to own two 30+ year old housecats that were born within a few years of each other.
Wonder if he's full of shit, or he has lost his cats a number of times and brought home what is most definitely not his cat. It's more common than you'd think.
Might have been from the same litter and had bangin' DNA? If they were completely unrelated, yeah, not buying it.
it's been 4min now, are you dead yet?
No response, it must have worked.
Cream Puff’s ownership of the One Ring is irrelevant.
Maybe it was mostly the eggs. More than one person that lived to be the oldest shared that they ate eggs regularly: Emma Morano, Violet Brown, and Susannah Mushatt Jones. Emma Morano said she ate three eggs every day. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/the-worlds-oldest-woman-reveals-the-food-she-swears-by/elxvgsctf
Slightly skeptical but the cited article says that he had many cats live over 30 years: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-raise-a-165-year-old-cat
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