I have two cats who are 21 now and suffering a little with arthritis any ideas on a natural/homeopathic remmedy?

They are brother and sister both "neutured/spayed" and incredibly healthy;

Cleo (girl) is a little deaf but not that much that she can't hear a packet rustle ;)

Oscar (boy) Oz is just finding jumping un-to and down from the wardrobe a little difficult hence the tallboy-dressing table-chair placed in strategic places in the bedroom :D

Ideas gladly accepted.

Karen

21yr!!! did I read that correctly, and they've got <<a little arthritis>>> whatever you're doing, it must be good... or did you mean 12yr?

I know Glucosamine is very good for dogs, not sure about cats though.

liberty :D

No I am right they are 21 both of them. Honest indian. I have their innoculation papers and vet's records to prove it :D
As well as hundreds of pics spanning the years. They don;t look that different but the people do ;) I suspect that's what comes from having white/ginger and ginger/white cats they don't go grey. In fact I don't recall ever seeing a cat who's gone grey?

The vet said the last time we went which was about July that they would be healthy for 14 but add 7 years and they are great.

I never really thought about it at all really they have just got older. I got them from a local rescue lady. They were dumped in a black bin liner in a multi-storey car park, rubbish bin.

Karen

Ooooh, I'm not doubting you Karen, I thought it could be << finger trouble >> :D as 21yr is excellent, good on you !!! Still got no other suggestions, other than contact the Guinness Book of Records :)

liberty :D

I didn't think you were but people seem to say it twice before they hit 20 no one took any notice. How old is the oldest cat then????? I can't believe mine are any where near it. :D

And if they are I'm not telling them it might go to their heads :D :D :D :D (and they can't get anymore spoiled)

Karen

I'm not sure about the oldest cat, but you must be close :)

liberty

According to this site the oldest living cat is 25.

Other sites mention a cat was recorded at 34, but how true that is .... ?

This does not bode well then I mean they are JUST 21. I mean not approaching 22 at a fast rate of knots.

I know a lady who lived by my Nan had a cat in her 20's. So I didn't think they were that unusual. Well they are not really, just normal everyday moggies (who love strawberry trifle well the cream and custard only Tesco's own though)

Ocasionally Cleo still has a mad 10 minutes around the house. But she adores to sit on the keyboard when I'm using the computer, she loves being around the children and happily has been put in dolls prams when the girls were younger in fact she insisted on it jumping in "hey why walk when they will push her"

And both adore brown paper bags and boxes are only to be jumped into in their world. They play with each other still, and Cleo is the BOSS although she's half his size :D

Oscar still beats up cats in the neighbourhood, but not with the same enthusiam as he used to.
He's given up catching birds (thankfully) and is content to watch the fish in the tank, rather than fish them out of someones pond.

But other than that they are reasonably normal (as they can be living here :D )

Karen

21! That's brilliant. :)

Rhus Tox. is the classic homeopathic remedy, especially if they are stiff when they first get up from sitting or lying, then movement gets easier. Yes, Glucosamine is good too. Not sure what dose you'd give a cat though!

Kath.

Hi Everyone,

My oldest cat was 23yrs old when I took him to be pts.

When I was five I came home from school and my cat Topsy was having kittens in the kitchen, she wouldn't let me go once I was there, she tried to follow me. My Mum made me sit for hours, difficult for a 5yr old. When all 4 kittens were born I picked the only all grey one to keep.

Back then no-one spayed but my Mum decided to 'cos she didin't want a house full of cats.

I called my new kitten Smokie, how imaginative,for a 5yr old.

Anyway Smokie lived with my Mum & Dad when I left home, he was neutered at 6mths and went to the same vet until he was 13yrs. He then went to a new vet for the next ten years. The last 2-3yrs he went more often.

When I was 28yrs old I took my cat to be pts. Billy the vet who had been treating him on & off for ten years cried as he gave him the injection.

This is now 10yrs later and last year I moved to a rural area miles away from where Smokie was pts and lo and behold Billy is my vet again.
And he remembered Smokie as soon as he saw me.

We visit Billy often as we rescue cats & dogs and he usually mentions Smokie, he says he loved him to bits. Now he has a thing for my B&W queen.

We live about 100yds from his surgery and he comes up the street to speak to Scratch.

D4wn

Thanks Dawn.

I was beginning to think my two hadn't got long left but if they could have 2-3 years that will be excellent.

It's lovley having older cats isn't it. Karen

That is great Karen - my cat, Puss :D was in her 23rd year when she left us and she was great right up until the end when her legs gave in and she died at home last year. I miss her dreadfully but feel she is still with me

Gina

Thanks for that Gina my two are perfectly healthy apart from the slowness which I put down to arthritis or similar. I hope they carry on the same way.

Karen

Hi Karen - I've been looking high & low for my copy of McDonalds Homeopathic remedys for cats as I KNOW there is something you can give - then all of a sudden, on the posting for golden oldies, somebody suggested it RHUS TOX - I'm not too sure of the potency that you should use, but I'll have another look for the book - probably found that Buster has pinched it!

Our oldest Moggy died at the age of 18 - we think her heart failed her, as we found her at the end of the garden, beside an enormous rabbit - we think she was bringing it back for her "family" - as she would always do. :(

Margot

Thank you. I will go to the herbal shop and speak to them and if they are not sure I'll wait for my other vet to come back from holiday he's very good at thing like that.

They aren't too bad but want to try to "ease" it while it's still early on. And maybe build up some immunity, hopefully.

Karen