If both beta globin genes code for the sickle protein, the person has sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is determined at conception, when a person acquires his/her genes from the parents. Sickle cell disease cannot be caught, acquired, or otherwise transmitted.
For every year of the cat's life after age 2, one cat year equals approximately 4 human years. This is based on how cats mature - for example at around 10 - 11 human years most cats start to slow down quite a lot... This is when they're getting to about 60 years old in Kitty terms.
The many rules of thumb that are available to compare cat ages to human ages are usually based upon total life expectancy. An average catâs life expectancy is around 17 years, and a humanâs is around 84 years. This leads to a rough equivalency of five-to-one. But it is not an apples-to-apples comparison.