Some owners celebrate birthdays of the pets and remember date of birth better than the. Others do not even guess old age of the favourite. Most often it happens from the fact that the animal gets to the owner already adult. To learn age of a cat does not make special work, but to within several months, alas, it is impossible to define.
It is required to you
- Magnifying glass;
- Small lamp.
Instruction
1. The easiest and widespread way of determination of age - the beginning of puberty. Usually it begins by 7-9 months. But puberty can occur earlier - about 6 months. Therefore to within a month to learn age it will not turn out.
2. Eyes at cats clean and clear. But they begin ""to fade"" to certain age. After 6 years on a crystalline lens of a cat's eye it is possible to notice thin lines which are the first signs of aging. Approximately after 10 years at cats gray-haired wool begins to appear. But it is very individual sign as on white cats it is almost not noticeable.
3. It is possible to recognize age of a cat by teeth more precisely. In 1 month at a kitten milk teeth begin to be cut through. If they are not visible approximately yet, they can easily be groped. By 2 months all milk teeth on the place. In 6 months or slightly earlier there is a change of milk teeth with radical. Approximately at the same age radical canines appear. At the age of 1 year all teeth of a cat white and without scale.
4. The cat is more senior, the stronger she erased teeth. By one and a half years at cats the central cutters of the lower jaw are erased, and the yellowish raid on back teeth appears. In 2-3 years the central cutters of the upper jaw and average cutters lower are erased, and to 4 them ""catch up"" also with the top averages. After 5 years on gums of a cat the pigment can appear. To the same age also canines can be erased, but it is not so noticeable. In 7 years the cross and oval surface of cutters of the lower jaw begins to change, and by 8-9 years top also joins it.
5. By 10 years, cutters begin to drop out, but it depends on food of a cat. If she constantly eats bones and rigid food, cutters can ""abandon"" her and at earlier age. At the main majority by 15 years they drop out practically all.
6. It is interesting that many try to calculate age of a cat of rather human. So, 1 year of life of a cat is equal to 15 years of human. The second year is equated by 24 years. With 3 and to 12 years annually add for 4 years. And after 12 - on 3. For example, if your cat is 10 years old, then to human measures she just only just retired. And if to her already all 17, then is the lady of very old age! But all this only conventions. There are people who in 80 run a cross-country, it is better than young people, and is and 50-year-old, sitting on a shop and is lazy the leading conversations.