Go Figure

On February 4, 1994, the San Antonio Express-News carried a story celebrating Granpa's 26th birthday. "Grandpa may not be the oldest-ever cat," wrote the Express-News, "that designation, according to the Guinness Book of Records, belongs to a female tabby in England who died in November 1957 at age 34." That same year a cat magazine listed Granpa's age as 26 but estimated that he might be as old as 31.

A little more than two years later, on February 26, 1998, the Austin American-Statesman wrote, "When Grandpa Rexs turns 34 next year, he will try to qualify for the Guinness Book of World Records."