# Oldest / longest-living pets you've had?

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**Created:** [March 6, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-longest-living-pets-youve-had/56973 "2001-03-06T18:37:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-longest-living-pets-youve-had/56973/21 "2001-03-07T19:25:56Z")

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My parents wouldn’t let me get any pets other than fish, so I got a bunch of different kinds (catfish, angelfish, kissing gouramis[sup]sp?[/sup], etc.). One of the first ones I got was a small grey catfish named Gertrude, and she was the last one of the lot to die, 4 years later. Poor thing, she was as sweet as a fish could be!

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**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-longest-living-pets-youve-had/56973/22 "2001-03-07T19:41:43Z")

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I had a cat that we put to sleep when I was 19 or 20, she was older than me at the time.

I also had a Beta fish that I got in College that lived for like 2-3 years but got killed by my current cat.

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