This Handsome Champ Is The World"s Oldest Cat

Cats are notorious for having nine lives. No matter how much trouble they get themselves into, they just bounce back — sometimes quite literally. That’s what makes cats so much better than dogs, right? Cats persist. 

In fact, I’m quite certain my gray cat Molson, who ran away against his better judgment, is still going strong out there somewhere. I can see him now, sitting back on someone’s porch, begging for food, hunting around, and just loving life as a free cat. 

But this isn’t a story about my beloved lost cat. It’s a story about another cat: a cat whose life is so fantastic, he just couldn’t give it up for the next one. 

Meet Corduroy!

Here he is looking out the window into his bright future that just doesn’t quit. 

He’s the world’s oldest living cat and has the Guinness World Record to prove it. 

Here he is hanging out on the fence in the sunshine. 

In case you want to send him a birthday gift, his birthday is August 1, 1989.

That makes him 26 years old or 121 in cat years! Here he is chilling out: 

Corduroy was adopted from a shelter in Oregon in 1989. 

Can you imagine that? This beautiful boy was once homeless!