Kiwi cat vying for oldest moggy record dies

JODY O'CALLAGHAN

September 9 2015

Sarah the cat was filmed two years ago with her owner Fleur Ford.

 


A Christchurch cat vying to be recognised as the world's oldest moggy has died aged 33.
Retiree Fleur Ford's "matriarch" moggy Sarah was 31 when Stuff visted in 2013.
The cat died recently just three days after Guinness World Records form arrived that, once completed, would have bumped the record holding oldest cat - 25-year-old Corduroy, from America - off the leader board.

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Sarah, 33, was vying to be the world's oldest cat.

Sarah's last few years were spent deaf, easily disoriented and with up to three toilet visits during the night, but Ford said she was "pretty wonderful really" with "all her faculties".
"There was no incontinence. She knew when she needed the toilet."
The cat went into heart failure and her paws became swollen with fluid.
Her long-time vet Heather Remnant, from At the Vets, put her down with Ford and her husband, Danny, by her side.
"It was so lovely for her because she was very dignified. It was so beautiful, I cry when think of it," Ford said.
She would wait before getting another cat.
The Fords had Sarah for about 13 years after getting her from neighbours when the cat was 20 years old.
Remnant said she applied on behalf of the Fords to have Sarah mentioned in the Guinness World Records and was going through the process when the cat died.
"We were going for it, but it takes such a long time to get it through. She was a pretty special cat."

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