At the time of Caterack's birth, Jimmy Carter was president and the Village People's "YMCA" had just debuted on the charts. Five presidents and a ton of bad songs later, the 30-year-old indoor cat -- that's 137 in cat years -- has died.

"I drove her to the vet wrapped in a towel," Morris told PEOPLEPets.com in an e-mail. "She purred when they prepped her and she went so peacefully."

According to MSNBC.com, the oldest cat ever recorded was a 38-year-old feline named Creme Puff. That cat died in 2005.