Interactive

Body Language Lab

Cats talk with their whole body, and no single signal tells the full story. Build a cat below and watch the reading change. Try a puffed tail with forward ears, or a belly-up cat with a lashing tail.

Presets

Field guide: 32 signals

Green means go, gold means "read the rest of the cat", red means stop.

Cat-to-human age converter

A common rule of thumb used on veterinary age charts: a 1-year-old cat is roughly a 15-year-old human, a 2-year-old roughly 24, then add about 4 human years per cat year.

Your cat's age: 5 years

Life stages follow the 2021 AAHA/AAFP feline life stage guidelines (kitten to 1 year, young adult 1–6, mature adult 7–10, senior over 10). Just for fun; every cat ages differently.