Reply #50: Oh, wow....... [View All]

I love cats and we've lost them, too--and at such a young age. It always feels awful. It sounds like she had a wonderful life with you. I don't think anybody could've loved her so much or made her so happy. With someone else, she wouldn't have had such a happy life.

It's always hard to lose one; I tell my daughter that God gave them short lives so that we could have as many as possible throughout our lives; if they each lived to be 100, we would only get a chance to have one batch of them for most of our lives. The way it is now, we get new little bears every 10-15 years--and we sure love every single one.

To honor her--I know this will be hard--make a special ornament TODAY just for her. Search out one of the whiskers she'd lose around the house and put it inside--it'll be the way you remember her, and have her on your tree, every single Christmas from now on.

I'm really sorry, but she knew how much you loved her. The Good Fairy GodCat in the sky knows what a wonderful life she had--and it was all because of you.