--- description: Rest in peace, Poppy title: The World's Oldest Cat Has Died image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Off to the Big Kitty Castle in the Sky: World's Oldest Cat Dies at Age 24 by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2014 2:48 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 11, 2014 2:48 PM CUT A feline named Poppy has died at the respectable age of 24 — just a few weeks after [clinching the title ](http://time.com/106148/the-worlds-oldest-cat-is-24-and-eats-kfc/ "undefined")of world’s oldest cat. > [](https://twitter.com/GWR/status/468352432649797632) Poppy, who was born in February 1990, died Friday following a complication from a water infection. “We knew she was old but it’s still very upsetting,” the cat’s owner, Jacqui West, [told ](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2654636/Poppy-worlds-oldest-cat-dies-24-falling-ill-weeks-given-record.html "undefined")the _Daily Mail_. “She had a bad week last week. She was on antibiotics on the Wednesday because of a water infection and her back legs just seemed to let her down. She wasn’t herself at all.” Poppy leaves behind four humans, four cats, two rabbits and a hamster. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2857240/worlds-oldest-cat-dies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2857240/worlds-oldest-cat-dies/"},"headline":"Off to the Big Kitty Castle in the Sky: World's Oldest Cat Dies at Age 24","datePublished":"2014-06-11T14:48:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:39.129Z","description":"Rest in peace, Poppy","url":"https://time.com/2857240/worlds-oldest-cat-dies/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","cats"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2857240/worlds-oldest-cat-dies/","name":"Off to the Big Kitty Castle in the Sky: World's Oldest Cat Dies at Age 24"}}]}] ```