If you decide to take a new pet into the house, but do not suspect about his age, or just for some reason do not know the age of your adult cat, do not despair, with a few simple tricks it is possible to visually determine the cat's age.
How to determine how old a cat is?
The most universal and most accurate option, how to find out how old the cat is, is the analysis of its jaw, or rather of the teeth. The milk teeth of cats change constantly around the 3rd month of life, which means that by opening the cat's mouth and seeing white permanent teeth in it, you can definitely say that she has crossed the 3-month boundary. The one-year-old young cat has whole white teeth without a stone, but if the incisors of the fluffy pet have worn off and a stone can be seen on them - presumably to a cat in 2 years. In 3-5 years the fangs and incisors on the upper jaw are erased in the cat, and in 6 it is easy to note the pigmentation of the enamel.
If you do not know how to count how many years a cat is, then pay attention to its fur. The hairs of the young animal are thin and soft, have a brighter color, and with age become stiff and dull, later completely graying in the manner of human.
The age of the cat is also given out by the eyes, they, like people, become cloudy with age, lose their luster, they can be noticed pigmentation disorders. Publish age can and puberty. Cats at this time mark the territory with urine with a sharp smell , and cats become more affectionate and very sonically meow.
The ratio of years of cat and person
Mathematics of feline age relative to human is simple: the first year of life of a fluffy pet is equal to 15 years of a person's life, the next - 24, and then from 3 to 12 years, one year of human life is marked with 4 years of feline. Old cats who have crossed the 12-year threshold mark their adulthood every 3 years.