One of my cats has been missing for two weeks,his bed was full of blood stains when I came back from holiday,all enquiries have brought zilch news....it is time to accept that my little ginger lard monster( who never left the house for more than five minutes before now) is no longer with us. He was a fine cat, full of affection and madness in equal proportions, brave only in defence of his kitty bics but full of bonhomie and absurd optimism.That he will be sadly missed is a given.
That said, I still have his mother,getting up there in cat years now and not so accomodating or so spry as she was.She has been as bereft as I, so much so that she won't leave my side and is watching me now as I type ( and correcting my spelling).She's never liked kittens or even other cats very much and she's getting to the age where she dislikes change.My question to all you cat people out there is should I get another cat to keep her company or might that make things worse?