SH> My sympathies.  We have a cat who is now 13 and we'd miss him very much if
 SH> he departed.

My son had a cat when he lived here that he took with him when he
moved to a house not far from here and that cat returned when he moved
to the city and that one is back  here now and is about 13 years too.
Then my wife have a own cat that is about 7 and my cat is about 5.
It's so much easyer with a cat when we are on a trip. A cat can manage
on his own for a week or so unlike a dog.

//Bj”rn

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