I'm quite new here, so thought I'd introduce my cats... the current cohort are Oscar (that's him in my avatar), Madai and Noodle.
Oscar is a 5 year old caramel point Balinese - he and Madai came via Oriental Rescue from an overstocked breeder. They are just about joined at the hip but had had very little socialisation so were nervous. Oscar still is, and true to Oriental-type form he is a one person cat, ie I'm the only person who can get near him. Madai is a red silver-shaded (read blotchy cream) Oriental longhair who is 9 now. He is far more friendly and wants to be a lapcat, when he isn't eating (he's on a strict diet and has to be separated from the other two at mealtimes).
The third one is Noodle, she came from the RSPCA and is a seal point almost-certainly-British Shorthair, though she's so dark coloured now she's chocolate brown all over. She was dumped, pregnant, and with a blockage in her gut so was constantly being sick - she was one very ill little cat. We have no idea how old she is, their age estimate for her kept dropping the more I spoke to them. I was looking for an old cat (she's cat number 13, I'm not very superstitious about that, but still wanted an old one that would quietly shuffle off after a few months... Noodle isn't it!)
The others, all gone now, were mostly old when I took them in - I seem to get given cats aged 10+, the oldest I've taken in was 16. In order they were: Tabby (brown tabby male DSH); Nermal (blue tabby female DSH, Tabby, Sid and Shale's mother); Obsidian (aka Sid, blue self female DSH); Shale (blue self female DSH, Sid's litter sister) [not in the counting Psamite/Sam later called Twinkle, blue tabby, Sid and shale's litter mate]; Purdy (white and orange female DLH); Phoebe (brown tabby female DSH); Star (black male DSH - the 16 year old, he was blind from birth, didn't slow him down much though); Boo (tabby and white female DSH); Minou (aka Min, white and black female DSH - lost her last year to a road accident, the only cat I've ever had in some sort of road accident); Cleo (seal point female Siamese). That's 1 - 10, numbers 11, 12 and 13 I still have, no 14 was Mia, lilac point siamese female, a 14 year old chronic asthmatic whom unfortunately we couldn't stabilise enough for her to have any quality of life, we only had her for 6 months
So there's the potted history of 30 years worth of cat keeping
(we also have two house rabbits, and two horses, but that's for elsewhere...)