<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><a rel="nofollow" class="outbound_link" target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/goto/9108057/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oldest-cat-uk-elderly-mog-7754591%3FICID%3Dref_fark" style="max-height: 1000000px; text-decoration: none; height: 38px; vertical-align: middle; display: block !important;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At 26 years and 21 days, Tammy the cat has seen more than 1352 Caturdays and she is not ready to stop counting yet either.</span></font></a></div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of <i>The Mirror</i> (London, England) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oldest-cat-uk-elderly-mog-7754591?ICID=ref_fark">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oldest-cat-uk-elderly-mog-7754591?ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="" itemprop="headline name" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 4.61538462em; font-family: MirrorExtraCondBold, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Is this the oldest cat in the UK? Elderly mog would be 121-years-old if she was human</h1><h2 class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 100; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.41176471em;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tammy was born on March 18, 1990 and is a whisker away from being the oldest cat in the world - a title currently held by American mog Corduroy.</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This elderly <a data-action="cats" data-content-type="section-topic" data-track="false" data-type="inline" data-word-count="1" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/cats" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">cat</a> is staking a claim to be the oldest in the UK - after reaching the equivalent of 121 human years. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And at 26 years and 21 days, Tammy, who lives with owner Anna Gough, is a whisker away from being <a data-action="7434240" data-content-type="news" data-track="false" data-type="inline" data-word-count="5" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/worlds-oldest-cat-121-avid-7434240" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">the oldest in the world.</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The moggy was born on March 18, 1990, <a href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tammy-oldest-cat-uk-11180909" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">reports Manchester Evening News.</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This makes her just seven months younger than American cat Corduroy, born in August 1989, which according to <a data-action="guinness-world-records" data-content-type="section-topic" data-track="false" data-type="inline" data-word-count="3" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/guinness-world-records" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">Guinness World Records</a> is the oldest cat living. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tammy was bought as a companion for family cat Boots when Anna was four, and since then the pair have been inseparable.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anna said: “I never thought Tammy would last this long.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Read more:</span> <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/adorable-kitten-lucky-escape-after-7708180" data-type="inline" data-action="7708180" data-word-count="9" data-track="false" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">Adorable kitten had lucky escape after swallowing car aerial</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She is pretty healthy, although a little wobbly anoint that I would insist Tammy slept with me and had her beside me on the pillow.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sometimes my poor mum and dad had to go out into the street at night to find Tammy to bring her back so I would go to bed.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anna lives with fiancée Andre and their son Theo, four.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tammy is deaf, which probably comes in handy sharing a house with a four-year-old and two dogs.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anna said: “People are amazed when I tell her she is 26 and say it must some kind of record. I will have to fill in the forms and see.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She has been a permanent fixture in my life, I love her to bits and I’m dreading the day she goes.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anna, who used to push Tammy around in a pram, added: “I picked her out when she was 12 weeks old.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We initially thought she was a boy and named her Thomas.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"But when we registered her with the vets we found out she was a girl.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She never left my side. It got pretty bad to the per time at her ‘retirement home’ with Anna’s mum Andrea in Whaley Bridge.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Read more:</span> <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oldest-rescue-cat-uk-most-7687595" data-type="inline" data-action="7687595" data-word-count="9" data-track="false" data-link-number="5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">'Oldest rescue cat' in UK may be most rejected</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anna, a sales manager, said: “Tammy has always been an <a data-action="animals" data-content-type="section-topic" data-track="false" data-type="inline" data-word-count="2" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/animals" data-link-number="6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none;">outdoorsy cat,</a> so sunning herself in mum’s garden is a great way to end her days. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We’re giving the old lady a quieter life.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“These days she can’t groom herself as much so I get to do it.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I’m repaying her for all the friendship and company she gave me when I was small.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amber-Georgina Gill, from Guinness World Records Ltd, said: “This is an incredible achievement and one to rival the current record holder Corduroy in the USA.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 26px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Guinness World Records monitors all different kinds of achievement and Tammy and her owner Anna are more than welcome to apply online via our website to submit her evidence for verification.”</span></p></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Photos</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_041616_01.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_041616_01.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_041616_02.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_041616_02.jpg</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_041616_03.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_041616_03.jpg</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_041616_04.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Caturday/Caturday_041616_04.jpg</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>