How long will a healthy housecat live?

My asshole cat is 11, and stays totally inside. He’s healthy as a horse. I think he could live to be 20.

Average age of a cat is about 13 years.

I had one cat live to 15 years, another live to 19. Both were completely indoor cats -- loved and spoiled and now dearly missed.

Mines will be hitting 15 years with me in November. She is showing signs of health issues and I need to to take her to the vet soon once I stabilize my income.

My friend's cat lived until around 22 or 23. This was a smaller cat, dark-colored.

My Burmese cat is 19.3 now. He's still in very good health, bright-eyed and with it and thinks he's a kitten sometimes. But he is a bit wobbly on his back legs and sleeps a lot.

My sister had two that made it past 20, and I had two make it to 17 - all indoor after two years old. I now have three 4 year olds, all indoor, with better food than my husband and I eat (theirs is healthier and pricier) and great insurance, and I've had them since they were kittens (one was ten weeks old when I got him, the other two were 15 weeks) though all were rescued situations. They rule our home, and we gladly let them, and have their own personalities, each of which is unique and charming.

I was shocked when one of my cats died at 11.

The vet said that after age 10, they’re considered senior citizens[bold] : (

My pastel Calico was 17+ and my black Maine Coon mix (yet tiny) lived 'til 19 1/2. Both indoor girls.

15 years or so like dogs. Things start going wrong with them at ten.

I had one live to 25. Of all my many cats over the years, they averaged out at about 18.

While growing up my family had two cats, one died at 17 and his sister at 21. I was particularly upset at the latter’s passing, we got her when I was 7 years old so she was part of my life for as long as I could remember.

My current kitty is 18.5 years and while he now has kidney disease and is on borrowed time I expect him to reach at least 19.

People ask if I’ll get another cat after he dies but I probably won’t for two reasons. First, I’d like some greater freedom to travel without having to arrange for someone to look after the cat while I’m away, and second if it lives twenty years I’ll be in my 70s at that point and who knows what my situation will be like at that point?

yeah, easily 10, but fifteen is not that unusual.

r12, get a geriatric cat. they need the company and well, they will only have a few years anyway

I’ve had many cats during my 58 years, both free roaming and indoor only. From my experience, if lymphoma doesn’t get them between 12 - 14, they can live into their late teens and early twenties, which is when kidney failure will get them.

Wait. In the 1970s, cats were being regularly sheltered in barns?

Where was this? Rural America was not that large in the 1970s.

[quote]The vet said that after age 10, they’re considered senior citizens : (

That's my belief as well.

Once your pussy starts to stink, it's all downhill.

I read lifespan of indoor cats is about 14-16, although some can live longer. My beautiful orange boy is 15 with kidney and heart disease, he gets medication daily. I love him so much. Years ago I had a kitty who had cancer. I spend $25,000 on chemo but he died within a year of being diagnosed. Never again would I put an animals through chemo. At the time I just couldn't bear losing him, so he suffered, I just should have done palliative care..

About a minute after the sack sinks to the bottom of the river.

Our cat indoors outdoor until we realized that her mammaries we so distended she couldn't run fast anymore. She stayed the backyard with the dogs so we didn't worry, the transition was traumatic for her and especially us, she still whines to go out with the dogs, it's sad.

It's more like how long can a housecat live without developing any serious health issues. The answer for me was 12 or 13 years. Depending on what disease they had some lived for several years after being diagnosed, some didn't.

It's heartbreaking. And even when they do live for years with a disease you still have to take them to the vet regularly and medicate them. $$$$$ and stress.

If they don't get injured or killed by another animal or hit by a car, would a partially outdoor cat survive as long on average? I have a neighbor who has the most adorable black cat who is allowed to roam free, and is commonly all over the neighborhood making his rounds. He goes into people's back yards, hunts, spends time being pet by other people on the block, goes to adjacent blocks (I've seen him while driving on nearby blocks). Yet, he's at home every night and spends a good deal of time chilling in front of his own house his owner does yard work - which she does a LOT.

Average of 15 years but it can live longer if it's not average.

My niece had an outdoor cat who lived to 27.

I've outlived them all!

And with that horrible diet of yours, R26.

What ever happened to that queen, Nermal? So annoying.

My aunt has a cat that’s over 200 years old. It’s stopped playing with yarn but otherwise seems in perfect health!

My previous cat lived 20 1/2 years.

I once had a cat live to be nearly age 20. Another lived to age 16. Indoors always and very much loved.

My current boy is 7, indoors only, and doted on.

[quote]I've outlived them all!

Hold my beer, Garfield.

Is it lasagna lager, Felix?