Yeah, they're more likely to have kidney problems and crappy teeth commonly. Obviously, there's the cross-eyedness and the kinked tail that show up on occasion, but that's really just cosmetic.
Otherwise, Siamese cats are pretty robust. My parents' cat Michiko, a seal-point traditional siamese, has never had an issue besides dental plaque, and her blue-point brother Squiggy was also healthy as an (admittedly rotund) horse his whole life despite what I'm pretty sure was a rare kind of congenital heart defect.
Siamese have an above average lifespan for a cat breed the average lifespan for a moggy is 13 - 17 years and 15 - 20 for a siamese.
Just lost my 18 year old Balinese 2 weeks ago, which still hurts.
Teeth issues are probably the most prevalent issue, the one that just passed away had only 3 teeth left, my 6 year old black oriental has 7 teeth left & 1 of my 18 month old cinnamon point siamese has terrible gingivitis that just wont go away.
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I'm sorry to hear about your Balinese. Yeah, the teeth thing happens a lot for some reason. I only mentioned the kidney problems since the two wedge-head Siamese cats I had in high school died young because of them, but the four Siamese cats my parents have owned since have been incredibly healthy other than the genetic crapshoot heart thing.
Thanks, cancer got him in the end, funnily enough he did have heart murmur. Its.some times luck of the draw but as you said on the whole they are robust.
I have one with wobbly cat syndrome & so far he is bullet proof lol
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u/fucking_macrophages Dec 12 '19
Yeah, they're more likely to have kidney problems and crappy teeth commonly. Obviously, there's the cross-eyedness and the kinked tail that show up on occasion, but that's really just cosmetic.
Otherwise, Siamese cats are pretty robust. My parents' cat Michiko, a seal-point traditional siamese, has never had an issue besides dental plaque, and her blue-point brother Squiggy was also healthy as an (admittedly rotund) horse his whole life despite what I'm pretty sure was a rare kind of congenital heart defect.