Not all famous computed tomography are likeSimonand the otherseafaring catsI blogged about before . Some are like the cats in theGuinness Book of World Records .
The first edition of theGuinness Book of World Recordswas put out in August 1955 . It became a British bestseller by Christmas . Since then , it ’s been updated annually . It in brief describes the heavy , littlest , oldest and oddest of just about everything on Earth . It does n’t , however , record things the troupe thinks advance bad deportment , such as the world ’s fattest animals , because someone might fatten their darling to separate a Guinness disk . Still , there are lots of cats who have achieve Guinness World Records .
grant to Guinness , the oldest CT that ever lived was Crème Puff , turn out on Aug. 3 , 1967 and who lived until Aug. 6 , 2005 . She was 38 years and 3 day former . Crème Puff belong to Jake Perry , a retired plumber from Austin , Texas , who also have the previous record steward for oldest cat , a hairless maleSphynx catnamed Grandpa ’s Rex Allen . According toCat Fancymagazine , Grandpa had bacon , eggs , broccoli or asparagus , and coffee berry with cream every morning for breakfast .
Mymains Stewart Gilligan , a black flatware tabbyMaine Coon bozo , aka Stewie , is the Guinness World Record bearer for world ’s longest cat , measuring from nose to summit of tail a full 48½ inches . Stewie holds two Guinness disc ; the other is for have the longest tail , 16.38 column inch long .
criminal record holder for longest whiskers is also a Maine Coon cat , Fullmoon ’s Miss American Pie , aka Missi , who has 7½-inch - long whiskers .
The smallest living cat is Fizz Girl , a 2 - yr - erstwhile femaleMunchkin catowned by Tiffani Kjeldergaard of San Diego . Fizz Girl measures 6 inches from the level to the shoulders and weighs 4¼ pounds . The smallest guy on disk was a manlike spicy pointHimalayan – Persianmix named Tinker Toy , who measured only 2¾ column inch magniloquent and 7½ inches long when he was 2½ yr one-time .
Cats with extra toes are called polydactyl , or sometimesHemingway , cat . Normal cats have 18 toes — five on the front manus and four on the back — but Jake , a male gingerroot tabby cat cat from Ontario , Canada , has 28 toes — seven on each mitt — each with its own claw , pad and off-white structure .
Peter and Carole Godfrey , of Great Britain , rescue a kitten they list Smarty from a gutter in Cairo , Egypt . She died in February 2007 at age 17 , having earned the Guinness records for the most number of times a domestic fauna has been quarantine and the most number of flight by a computerized axial tomography . Her 40th and last quarentine was in Larnaca , Cyprus , after her 79th flying from Cairo .
The most expensive cat was a rare Californian Spangled quat , who sold for $ 24,000 in January 1987 .
And man ’s loaded cat is a British Arabian tea whose owner bequeath his £ 7 million ( $ 12.5 million ) lot to Blackie , the last surviving of the 15 cats he apportion his mansion with .
Wow !
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