Quite often the owner of a cat cannot define how many actually to her years. However felinologists made quite exact scheme according to which it is possible to find out what age an animal.
Instruction
1. If you took already adult animal, or do not know how many was months to the picked-up or bought kitten, it is possible to determine his age on puberty time, and after – on dental health. Nevertheless, when calculating consider that a lot of things depend also on what conditions contained or contains an animal.
2. Define whether puberty process began at your kitten. At the majority of cats it takes place approximately in 7-9 months. For this reason if you picked up or bought rather adult kitten, you need only to wait a little. Though if you created him really good conditions, then it can occur also in half a year. Besides, consider that puberty does not say that the cat was created physically, and she can be reduced with a cat. It is the best of all to wait till that time when she is about one and a half years old.
3. Use for determination of age of an animal and the scheme made by felinologists. Accurately open for a cat of companies and find out what condition of her teeth. So, if: - she cut through milk teeth – she is 1 month old; - milk teeth change on constants – 5-6 months; - cutters in the center of the lower jaw – were erased 1.5 years; - average cutters of the lower jaw – were erased 2.5 years; - cutters in the center of the upper jaw – were erased 3.5 years; - average cutters of the upper jaw – were erased 4.5 years; - there were deleting traces on canines – 5 years; - cutters at the edges of the upper jaw – were erased 6 years; - there were deleting traces on the cross and oval rubbing surface of the cutters of the lower jaw located in the center – 7 years; - there were deleting traces on the cross and oval rubbing surface of average cutters of the lower jaw – 8 years; - there were deleting traces on the cross and oval rubbing surface of the cutters of the upper jaw located in the center – 9 years; - the central cutters – dropped out 10-12 years; - all cutters – dropped out 12-15 years.
4. If you want to find out how many you approximately to a cat of years in terms of years of human life, then determine it by the following scheme: - the 1st year of life of a cat is equal to 15 years of human life; - 2 years – to 24 years; - 3 years (and up to 12 years) – add annually for 4 years; - of 12 years – for 3 years.