Is it normal for a 9 year old cat to tear around like a kitten?

[Gwen]

Ermmmmmmm I have a mad 18 year old ginger and white cat upstairs running across the landing and back into the bedroom chasing a pen

He's definately more active than Grwndi who is 11

[maryas]

Go Willow Go Willow GO GO GO !!    I'm 10 and I like to run around and drive my mum crazy, but I was in the RSPCA from May - December 2007 so I'm making up for lost time and it's her fault anyway cos she's bought me loads of toys and I can go in every room ans sit/lay anywhere I want to - who's the fool!! 

Oh and guess what Willow?  She has a cat that's missing who is 13 and he  doesn't run around as much as me, but he did run around outside before he came in to bed.  My mummy also had a cat that was just as daft at 26 yrs old too.  Must be Human Love that does it to us.

Keep up the good work, love Bonnie xx (Mary's Boss)

[puddypaws]

One of our previous cars, Sid, used to practice his trampoling in the iddle of the night - off the bed onto windowledge, then back, then off, then .....  He was still doing this until about a week before we lost him.

[Gwen]

Our Ging still has his mad moments of running up and down the stairs,especially after a belly full of food,after food all I want to do is sleep

[clarenmax]

Oh yes, totally normal, Max is 9 and no different to when I got him age 2 

[Gail Bengal Slave]

Thai is 6 in April and she goes routing round the cupboards and opens the wardrobe doors during the night to see what she can find. Then you hear her making weird noises, next you hear a  light thump as she drops her mouse on the floor, then she gets in to bed (our bed) and goes off dreaming  . she's such a darling.

So yes perfectly natural.

[Rosella moggy]

Tom still does it on occasion at 18 despite his minnie stroke last summer altho it does tend to alarm me a little now as he ain't so stable on his paws   Like Willow, it's always during the evening.

Way to go Willow

[Kittybabe (Ruth)]

Yep. Our Sasha was doing that until she couldn't use her back legs anymore. She passed on at 20. But until she started going downhill, she was running around like a lunatic.

Its why I just  at Lexy when she does it now. She's only a near 5 year old.  I have hopefully another good 15 years of no sleep at 4am 

[Desley (booktigger)]

Molly fell off the bed while playing last week, and she is 15!! Rolo is the most active cat in my house, and he is at least 10.

[blackcat]

Bob was still doing it at 19, so you have quite while to go before that slows down 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

Definately normal 

[ccmacey]

Hey cats have cattitude till the day they die.

Good to hear Willow is having fun.

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

Jaffa tears around like a kitten a lot of the time and he's 10 (and a half)    Normal in my book.

[Mark]

They are all around the same age and have their moments but Willow is tearing around upstairs like a lunatic. She always does it at night 
I can hear her running up and down the hall like she is possessed  - she is a little runt but like a dynamo