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All of us cat owners understand your pain. Sorry you lost your sweet kitty. No one on here has heard of 25 being average. That is just not true....
Be glad you had your little friend for as long as you did.....they are awesome but it is so hard to lose one. Cats are family.
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Originally Posted by transatlantic
We had to have our cat put to sleep yesterday. Big trauma in the house, the whole family's depressed - even the dogs. She was almost 17 and I thought that was old for a cat but today I have been tormenting myself trying to find average longevity for housecats and have found all sorts of claims that cats live on average to 25. Is this so? She was both an indoor and outdoor cat, very smart with car sense, a notorious mouser in her youth. We miss her!