Is each cat year equivalent to 7 human life years?
Converting a cats age into relative human life years: • Allow 15 human years for the first year of your cat’s life. • Add nine years for the second year. A two-year old cat will approximate 24 human years. • Add four human years each for successive years of his life. • When all else fails, refer to the accompanying chart. A cat has a relatively short childhood. A cat with an expected lifespan of 15 years would be mature (sexually and physically) within 1 year. A man with an expected lifespan of 75 years (the current approximate male life expectancy in developed countries) would have the equivalent maturity at 15 years of age. Thus the cat reached maturity in 1/15th of its lifespan whereas the person was mature in 1/5th (15 years / 75 years) of his lifespan. Consequently, while one can say that the man is living 5 times as long as the cat, so each cat year is equal to 5 human years, the first year of life for the cat sees the same amount of development as in the first 15 or so human yea
Converting a cats age into relative human life years: • Allow 15 human years for the first year of your cat’s life. • Add nine years for the second year. A two-year old cat will approximate 24 human years. • Add four human years each for successive years of his life. • When all else fails, refer to the accompanying chart. A cat has a relatively short childhood. A cat with an expected lifespan of 15 years would be mature (sexually and physically) within 1 year. A man with an expected lifespan of 75 years (the current approximate male life expectancy in developed countries) would have the equivalent maturity at 15 years of age. Thus the cat reached maturity in 1/15th of its lifespan whereas the person was mature in 1/5th (15 years / 75 years) of his lifespan. Consequently, while one can say that the man is living 5 times as long as the cat, so each cat year is equal to 5 human years, the first year of life for the cat sees the same amount of development as in the first 15 or so human yea
