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There are more than 75 million housecats in the United States. Each year, over 4.7 million of them age, go into decline and die. Each and every day, more than 12,800 people make a difficult decision—to prolong the cat’s life, to terminate it or do nothing. Sooner or later, every cat will die but you can improve both its quality and quantity of life. And when your cat nears death, this book will explain your choices.

The Older Cat: Recognizing Decline & Extending Life by Dan Poynter treats the feline in decline. The book will help you discover how to determine the real age of your cat, recognize the early signs of decline, slow the aging process and extend life.

This book describes simple ways to help your cat live longer.
—Patricia Bragg, ND, Ph.D., life extension specialist.

Good, sound, basic information for cat owners.
—Tom Parker, DVM. Cobble Hill Animal Clinic.

This book will help caretakers of elderly cats make the right decisions and to be comfortable with those decisions.
—Michelle T. Bernard, Boston, Massachusetts. BLAKKATZ Cattery.

Further, this book will help you decide if you should put your cat down, how to minimize the loss to your family and other pets and to make the choices between burial, cremation, taxidermy, freeze drying and cloning. And, finally, the book lists ways to memorialize your cat. The Appendix contains resources for treatment, grieving, memorializing and more.

This book will help caretakers of elderly cats make the right decisions and to be comfortable with those decisions.
—Michelle T. Bernard, BLAKKATZ Cattery.

Dan Poynter wrote over 30 books with his late cat Cricket who helped him for more than 20 years.

The Older Cat: Recognizing Decline & Extending Life by Dan Poynter. The 144-page book is available for $14.95 from Para Publishing, 1-800-PARAPUB or from http://OlderCat.com.

If your cat does not eat for 2-3 days, irreversible organ damage will begin. . Protect your cat now. Get this book before you need it.