Why nine?Okay they're good at survi

Why nine?
Okay they're good at surviving, but why the nine lives? Well once you start giving them magic powers, 9 is a good place to start.

An old English proverb states "A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays". This could be where the myth that cats have nine lives came from- though the proverb is not thought to be meant in seriousness. It's a statement about the hardy nature of cats and the fact that they give the most love when they are old- too old to chase mice and run away!

Nine is also a magic number- and this could be partly why cats are attributed with having nine lives, because they have been both worshipped and feared throughout the ages for being magical. The ancient Greeks said that the number nine referred to the trinity of all trinities- and is a mystic number which invokes tradition and religion.

So there are a few different sources which the nine lives myth could have come from- at any rate, humans throughout the ages have been astonished at the hardiness of the feline.

This one cat is pretty near immortal
Myths aside, this cat is doing pretty well for itself. Pinky is apparently the world’s oldest cat at 28 years old. She’s still healthy and eats well, and still has beautiful thick, soft fur.

She’s ancient and wise and is the oldest cat in existence… to our knowledge.

Perhaps all the baby kittens we see on the internet are secretly hundreds of years old and are on their ninth life.