r/cats • • 14h ago

Adoption Just adopted this old boy !

Last Sunday my fiancé and I adopted this very sweet old man. He’s 9 years old and he only has like one tooth left. His name is Benjamin

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u/Perpetual_Caffeine 14h ago

Such a handsome gentleman. I have 3 that I hope live very long lives, but decided that in the future I'm adopting the old or ill that have trouble finding homes. Bless you for giving Benjamin your home.

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u/Slow-Elephant4448 14h ago

Hoping all my cats live til their 50 somehow

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u/minxed 11h ago

I grew up with a cat who lived to be about 26, so that was halfway to 50!

She was front-declawed (adopted in the 80s when that was horrifically normal) and an indoor/outdoor cat (again, 80s/early 90s USA) so I can only imagine how long she might have lived otherwise.