Signs Your Cat is Getting Old

  • Goes from 22 hours of happy-go-lucky, kittenish sleep per day to 21 hours of restless, fitful sleep per day.
  • All he wants to do is watch “Catlock.”
  • Tries to cash in her 8th life insurance policy for a kilo of catnip.
  • Last year: Went a-courtin’ carrying a “pencil full o’ lead.”
    This year: Goes a-courtin’ carrying a 9 Lives tuna casserole.
  • Bitches non-stop about the “bankrupt moral values of kittens these days.”
  • Trades in his Whiskas for prune-flavored Whippasnappas.
  • “You call this catnip? Hell, I remember back in the ’80s, I once scored some Meowie Wowie that would knock your friggin’ claws off…”
  • Instead of shredding your drapes, she sub-contracts the job.
  • Writes “Put me to sleep” in its litter box with pee.
  • When you strap a piece of buttered toast to her back and drop her, she lands on her hip.
  • Stops leaving dead mice on doormats; starts leaving bingo cards.
  • Spends all day on the front porch, yelling at the squirrels to get the hell out of his yard.
  • Occasionally forgets to ignore you.
  • Instead of swaggering up to you and dropping dead mice at your feet, he drives up in his Rascal and pulls them out of the saddlebag.
  • Has to drink a whole bottle of Rogaine just to cough up one hairball.
  • While his younger friends are out chasing mice, he claims a moral victory in catching the elusive dust bunny.