Flossie is still sweet and playful as she approaches her twenty-seventh natal day .
The newly top world ’s oldest cat is a London rescue kitty who will soon flex 27 , according toGuinness World Records .
Flossie , according toour method , would soon change by reversal 125 year old if she were a human being . She ’s lost her hearing and most of her sight , but the British pussy still loves mealtime — same — and snuggling up in her favorite blanket ( also same ) .
Photo: Courtesy of Guinness World Records
" If I ’m in such honorable shape when I ’m her old age with someone who does what ’s best for me when I need it most , I shall be a very felicitous lady , " her owner , Vicki Green , say Guinness .
We have to go all the way back to 1995 for the get-go of Flossie ’s whirlwind chronicle . She was a savage cat living in a colony outside a infirmary when a doer there adopted her . She live with that owner for 10 twelvemonth , until her PCP died .
Her owner ’s babe then took Flossie in . They lived together for 14 class before the sis passed away . Then she went to survive with her first owner ’s son . That arrangement lasted for three more years , but the Logos decided someone else should care for Flossie , Guinness writes .
Considering what was good for Flossie , he turned the elderly cat over toCats Protection ’s Tunbridge Wells , Crowborough and District branchin August .
" It was n’t an easy conclusion , " Cats Protection coordinator Naomi Rosling told Guinness .
gratefully , Green , who has experience caring for older cats , soon matched with Flossie and get her track record - breaker home .
" She was gimcrack for the first few nights because she ca n’t see in the dark and was a bit disordered in her newfangled surroundings , but she catch some Z’s through the night now , snuggled on the bed with me , " Green recount Guinness .
Flossie ask the casual assistance grooming and will sometimes miss her litter box , but she ’s still affectionate and playful . In other words , she ’s one of the countless examples of why it ’s deserving adopt older cats .
She might be the sure-enough living cat , but she has more than a tenner to go to see Creme Puff , the all - time quondam qat who died at 38 old age previous .
