by Greg Mayer
It is my sad duty to report to you that Stewie, the Guinness-certified world’s longest cat (1.23 m, nose to tail tip; also the longest tail, 41.5 cm) has died of cancer at the age of eight. He was a therapy cat, and I’m sure will be missed by his owners and patients.
Well it would be nice to have had a photo of Stewie in all his length as the stretch mobile of cats!
Click on the links above!
Something like this perhaps:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/stewie-worlds-longest-cat-dies-cancer-photo-8968850-1-1-400×240-20130205-164604-740-003655654.html
Sad to hear that he died, at least he had a long life.
Darn, I thought I’d get a few groans for that last line, oh well.
the groan was silent…
Sad. 8 isn’t a very long life for a cat these days. 🙁
Just what I was thinking. Poor Stewie, and poor Stewie’s owners.
Diane! You KNOW people do not OWN cats! Cats sometimes see fit to adopt people.
😉
Poor Stewie – seems like he had a productive life.
He was practically still a kitten….
b&
To lose a beautiful cat is a hard row to hoe.
At that length and with those tufts on the ears, are we sure this isn’t a small lynx 🙂
He’s the next best thing to a lynx– a Maine coon cat.
GCM
That’s quite sad.
But, on the good news front, Monopoly has selected the cat as its new token, retiring the iron token.
Speaking of cats, it seems like there should be an announcement here that the cat won as the new monopoly token.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/06/monopoly_token_contest_game_makers_announce_a_cat_will_replace_the_iron.html
This may inspire me to measure our cat. Must remember to get out the measuring tape, bandages, and neosporin tonight.
I has a sad. Stewie’s resemblance to my much smaller moggie is uncanny.
Long cat is no longer.
(please forgive me for that comment, couldn’t resist)
Is there a correlation between the size of an animal and the rate at which it gets cancer? Very naively, a larger animal should have more cells, and more chances for the cells to mutate. All else isn’t equal, of course.