Domestic cats – some of the most favourite people of pets. It, without exaggeration, the playful and tender creations devoted to the owners. The people who were going to start at home such lovely small animal should know why life expectancy of their favourite will depend.
How many years do cats live?If to address statistics of life expectancy of pets, it is possible to notice that the domestic cat lives in bondage much longer, than outdoors. In general average life expectancy of all cats – from 11 to 14 years. However even the real long-livers occur among these animals. Sometimes it is possible to hear that any given cat died at the age of 20-23 years! These are, of course, separate cases of the maximum indicators of duration of their life.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest cat in the world is today Lucie who lives in Great Britain. She was born in far 1972. It turns out, to her passed in 40 years for a long time!
The factors influencing life of a cat
Life expectancy of a cat and also her quality directly depends on breed of an animal and on the conditions connected with his contents. Conditions of their accommodation and, especially, food have PitanieNemalyy impact on life of these animals. If food – useful and healthy, then and problems with health of a cat arises much less. It is known that room cats live many times longer than the street fellows. UhodRegulyarnyy veterinary surveys and the corresponding treatment of cats are one of the main factors influencing duration of her life. It is worth to remember to impart in due time the cat. For cats the most vulnerable place to any given diseases is the mouth. The fact is that in a mouth at them blood supply more than rich therefore bacteria if something happens easily extend on all organism of an animal. PorodaEshche one factor deciding destiny of a cat is her breed. Depending on it the animal can live both long, and short time. So, the ordinary not purebred cat is capable to live up to 10-12 years. It is considered that most longer there live cats of Siamese breed.
It is considered that up to 5 years every year of cat's life it is equal to 7 years of human. Further after 5 years each next cat's year is equal to 5 human years.
Reproductive abilitiesIn principle, cats are capable to keep the ability to pairing till an old age. According to observations of experts, after 8 years of the life the cat though is less, but nevertheless brings posterity. However after 11 years not each its copulation is capable to cause pregnancy. If to speak about cats, then they can successfully copulate up to 15 years. By the way, average life expectancy of cats and cats is almost identical, that is it does not depend on sex. The sterilized and castrated cats live on average respectively for 4 years and 5 years longer, than their relatives who are not exposed to operation.