“Caterack the Cat” is 30!
- Catarack The Cat @ 30
Way back in 1979, Alisa Morris adopted a 5-week-old feral kitten born near her mother’s house. Thirty years later, Caterack The Cat is still kickin’. Let’s see: Jimmy Carter was Prez, Village People had just dropped “YMCA”, the Beastie Boys were comin together, and Pope John Paul II visited the United States. Well 5 presidents and a passel of bad songs and world events later, Caterack is still on deck!
But at 30, (that’s 137 in cat-years!) Caterack is starting to show her age; she doesn’t hear as well these days, and has been blind in her left eye all her life. She still gets around tho. She likes to ‘dance’ to loud music, and loves the vaccuum cleaner.
There must be something about Texas state that breeds long-lived kitties. Caterack lives with Morris and her husband in Midlothian, Texas. The oldest cat ever recorded, according to the Guinness World Records, was Creme Puff, who hailed from Austin, Texas. Creme Puff died in 2005, three days after her 38th birthday. Tizzie, of Lancashire County, England, is purported to be 36.
I thought this was a great story. I hope my girls make it that far…
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