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Cats can live like 12 to 18 years ish. You don't look that old. Wtf you doing to them?
I'm going to tell myself that she's only adopting senior cats and giving them their last, true "forever home".
Makes sense. We did that once. 12 yr old made it to 17 I think. We felt good about that.
People can have multiple cats at the same time, also can adopt senior cats
Senior cats is my bet. Used to work at an animal shelter, some people ask specifically for old as shit cats because they feel bad for them
our first cat was an older one, because we weren't sure we really-really wanted a cat, but we definitely didn't want to return a cat to the shelter because "we actually didn't like it". If you adopt a senior cat, you get a calmer one AND if it turns out you're actually not a cat person, you're only a cat person for 3 years instead of 15+
"Our first cat"
So you were cat people, such cat people you couldn't stand the aching void of a catless home and brought new cats into your lives.
Oh yeah, but that was hindsight, of course.
Hola señor cat!
They're probably not her dead cats.
You mean she’s killing other people’s cats?!
That's assuming she gets them as kittens.
Old cats are often considered less desirable. Parents want to get their kid a cute little kitten, not a 13 year old cat that's going to trigger a conversation about mortality with their 5 year old human child soon.
Kittens are also a pain in the ass. Bundles of energy with no manners.
So my first thought is that she either fosters older cats or just adopts them to give them a good golden year or two on the way out.
Or if she rescues strays there's a greater risk of having health problems already.
Or maybe she is evil as the comments suggest. I have no clue lol.
Cats can live a lot longer than that now that diets are better. I've owned 2. One died at 20, due to an accident, and the other is 21 and still going strong. The oldest cat on record was 38. The current oldest is 29.
And there's recently been advancements in medicine towards preventing kidney issues. Hopefully this will give many kitties many more good years!
That made me a bit happier to read! I don't know exactly how old she is, but my cat has to be around 13 and I've been very upset thinking about how soon the end might be for us.
Feeding them to coyotes apparently by what people in the comments are saying about who she is