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.
Conventional wisdom holds that each year for a cat is equivalent to seven years of development and aging for a person. Or that each cat year is equivalent to five human years. Or that the first two years are equivalent to 21 years, and each subsequent year is equivalent to four or five years.