Cats Set Records Too

Mr. Peebles, the World's smallest cat

Oldest: Granpa, who lived to be 34 years, 2 months and 4 hours old, holds the record for longest-lived cat.

Smallest Cat: Mr. Peebles is the world’s smallest cat, standing 6.1 inches tall and 3 pounds. Oddly, he’s larger than the world’s smallest dog.

Heaviest Cat: A neutered male named Himmey, weighed a whopping 46 pounds 15.5 ounces, and sported a 15-inch neck and 33-inch waist. He died of respiratory failure.

Longest Cat: A Maine Coon Cat named Verismo Leonetti Reserve Red measures 48-inches from nose tip to tail tip makes him the world’s longest cat.

Most Toes: Most cats have a total of 18 toes, but a cat named Jake has a total of 27.

Largest Litter: Mother cats have 8 teats, and typically have about 5 or so kittens. But one cat named Tarawood Antigone had a litter of 19 kittens, of which 14 were born alive and survived. She didn’t even take fertility drugs.

Most Kittens: Dusty, born in 1935, before the concept of spaying your cat was widespread, holds the record as the most prolific cat mother. Over the course of 17 years she gave birth to 420 kittens.

Oldest Cat to Have Kittens: The oldest known cat to have kittens was a 30-year-old cat named, imaginatively, “Kitty.”

Best Mouser: Towser, a cat employed by a distillery for mouse control, more than earned her wages by catching 28,899 mice.