Hugs, aw.....

I agree-- 16 is long to a cat, but short to us. It's no help we boot our own offspring out of the nest around 18-- it's harder to empty the nest of cats. I wonder if we could somehow develop a myth that they graduate from our care to a place where they can be more than they were with us, like we do with our children. Or if only they could go into true suspended animation when we are away from them-- they'd last a lot longer and be well for longer periods at the end! (The cats that is.)

I'm getting a new one today. My big fear is he will look like and act too much like the best one I ever had, and lost-- cuz I didn't do all my crying back then, and I still wake in tears from dreaming he's come home. I have a feeling this new lapcat will let all that loose. But a house lacking the catness of cat is too weird, so....

~S~