compared to our human years,
a cat age chart will give you a pretty good idea... it is based on averages only and is not exact by any means.
Not exact matches
This is a question I hear asked a lot, and the consensus is that
cats are considered to be senior at
age 7 and above (although some
charts show
age 9).
The following
charts are intended to give insight into how
cats and dogs
age relevant to human years:
Read on for tips on determining your
cat's
age and check out a
cat years to human years
chart.
These days, the average life span of all dog breeds is 13 years (see
age analogy
chart), and
cats have been known to live well into their twenties.
This
chart is taken from page 27 of the IPSOS Marketing study commissioned in 2009 and 2011 by Petsmart Charities and entitled: There is confusion among owners as to the appropriate
age to have dogs /
cats spayed or neutered, with 17 % indicating «Do Not Know.»
For more information about
cats» development over the years, see the Expanded
Chart of
Cat - to Human
Age.
According to Pet Health Network's feline
age chart, younger
cats age, or shall we say mature, at a much faster rate.
Poof's app has leaderboards that rank pets of similar
age and species, and Pretzel immediately shot to nearly the top of the
charts (obviously, because he is a great
cat and is very serious about exercise).