By its definition a geriatric patient is one that has lived 80-85% of its life expectancy. Given the average lifespan of a cat is around 16-17 years this means that the average ago of a geriatric cat is 14 years and that of a senior cat is 11 years of age. This might be a bit surprising to some of you! At Far North Vets we commonly get people in consultation who believe the reason their 6 to 9 year old cat isn’t doing well or is losing weight is due to old age! Something isn’