Woman Rescues a 26-Year-Old Cat Named Thomas, Giving the Senior Kitty a Second Chance
http://people.com/pets/woman-rescues-26-year-old-cat-thomas/People tend to think of millennials as young, trend-obsessed idealists, but Thomas the 26-year-old feline is an experienced gent who’s just looking for some late-in-life care and cuddles. His former owner surrendered him to Baltimore County Animal Services last month.
The Baltimore Sun reports that fellow millennial, Laura Cassiday, 27, of Dundalk, Maryland, was scrolling through animal shelters on Facebook last Wednesday when she saw the Baltimore County Animal Services post on behalf of Thomas.
Cassiday tells the Sun she was surprised that the elderly cat was only a year younger than herself, reading the post “three or four times to make sure it wasn’t a typo.” She picked him up the next day.
Everybody at the shelter was so excited because he had been there for a month,” Cassiday, an admissions coordinator and animal care technician at Maryland SPCA, told the paper. “I know the toll that shelters take on animals, especially senior animals.”
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Millennials get a bad rap (does that expression ever age me!). Also, there is the tie that she and the pet are practically the same age!
Anyway, it is nice to read the posts on here about how old cats can live. Mine is 11 and I've been worrying about how much more time we have together. Could be a lot!
We have a cat that showed up here, a stray. She and the wife are good pals and I get tolerated (Yeah, by both! 
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We've had parrots in our home since '84. We had one bird that hatched in our house and lived to be 26 before liver failure took him from us last July. Gut-wrenchingly tough to lose that sweet, sweet bird. And now we're down to 3 other parrots - two of which are fairly young and healthy. The 3rd one we've had since the summer of 1984. I'm dreading his passing - if he doesn't manage to outlive me - which is a distinct possibility with me being 73.
Anyway, my question may be a silly one, but would one expect to be even more at a loss if they'd lived with a pet more than 10 or 15 years or so? Or is the sorrow going to be the same, no matter the age the pet lives? 8months out from losing the 26YO bird, the bouts of sobbing have all but quit. You'd have to know the whole story of him to appreciate the gravity of our loss. But it was tough - tougher than any human relative we've lost.
it was the nature of your relationship i suspect.
I have a chihuahua just turned 14. i contemplated putting him down about 5 years ago because he was in such pain and we could not seem to control it. the right doctor returned from vacation and he's doing well now, but i really think i would have been just as devastated then as i would be today.
but really i think you know the answer better than i do, because you know you. 
He's a happy sweet little guy.
Bless that woman's heart. 
just wonderful! 
I have an unintended history with senior pets.
My first cat Sheba who arrived in my home when I was six, died when I was 24. I have a photo of her with my mom in her very Mad Men hair and outfit.
I had a kitty named Freebee who was born in my house and lived to be 19. I kept him alive during kidney failure for the last five years through subcutaneous irrigation. He actually enjoyed the 15 minutes of undivided attention three times a week and purred through the whole thing.
Sunshine was a supposedly eight year old 75 pound blind dog. I think she was quite a but older when I rescued her from the pound. I only had her 18 months before she had a stroke and had to be euthanized. I like to think I gave her her best 18 months of her life.
I still have Missy, my 14 year old cat who I inherited from my my ex-husband's brother in law when he passed away in 2007. The ex has been gone since 2010 but I still have the cat LOL She has arthritis and finds it difficult to poop and move around so she gets monthly shots for that and a pinch of Miralax in her food every day.
My most recent rescue is 11 year old Pearl, my one eyed wonder who cant see too good out of the other eye either (she can smell and hear great!) She's was so matted she couldn't walk when she was surrendered. The shelter thought she was paralyzed and almost put her down. After many tooth extractions, healing of an abscess caused by the matting and the removal of the abcessed eye, she runs around my back yard like a pup and is being spoiled rotten.
I have to add I lost my beloved dog Maggie at about 12 years old to a suffocation accident in 2016. PLEASE PLEASE keep your pets away from food bags! https://preventpetsuffocation.com/
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finding loving homes for senior 4-leggeds.
http://www.lovemeow.com/super-senior-cat-turns-24-one-year-after-she-was-rescued-from-shelter-2538805425.html
Meet Dra--23 when adopted, celebrating her 24th
Ora was surrendered to a city shelter in Chicago one year ago after she had been with her previous family since 1994. The old girl was lost and confused when she was placed in a kennel at the shelter.
At 23, the super senior cat was equivalent to over 100 in human years. She was incredibly affectionate and would start purring at the slightest touch.
Shelter staff knew immediately that she didn't belong there and reached out to Facebook, pleading for help for the sweet senior cat. Within 24 hours, Young at Heart Senior Pet Adoptions (a volunteer-based organization dedicated to the rescue and rehoming of mature and senior dogs and cats) stepped up to help.