Whenever clients would come in insisting they wanted their cat PTS because it was "old" at 10, 11, 12 or whatever, we would always counter with the fact that cats can live more than 20 years.

10 really isn't really old for a cat, but that's when I would begin keeping a close eye on things...namely a cat's "in's & out's" and their weight. Most cats are still hearty and young acting at 10, but some aren't. My very special childhood cat Teri developed mild renal failure when he was 9 and was miserable enough that he had to be PTS when he was 10 even with all the treatment and diet stuff. So it's a good time to begin watching and to run that initial senior panel to see what's what while your cat is teetering on the brink of senior-dom (I made that work up! ). It will give you a comparison for when they're about 25 or so.

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