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A heartfelt THANK YOU to all my Forum Friends, for allowing me to go so far off topic as to cry on your shoulders!

The sympathy and empathy that you have evinced here is greatly appreciated, and I assure you that it has not gone amiss.

YourCat was truly special in many ways, smartest damn cat I ever did know, while being a fine companion as many cats can be.

We lost his "brother" Mauser, also a B&W Tuxedo only a few months before, making this loss sort of a double whammy that was a bit more than I could bare alone!

Fear not, we do still have Charlie, our "Half-Cat" that actually belongs to the neighbors, but he comes and visits us almost daily, and often several times a day. We also have "Stray", a cat that was deathly scared of us all through the winter of 2022/23, which was a record winter of about double normal snow and heavy ice storms too. The poor little guy would hide in our woodshed, under the wood trailer, under our vehicles, and anywhere else he could find to get out of the weather a bit, but for some reason remained leery of us that whole winter, though not so leery as to refuse the food we set out for him. The good news is that during last summer, he finally did quit being such a scaredy cat and is now definitely a part of our household, though still pretty shy.

So please bear with me just a little longer here while I show the whole herd:


YourCat, also Yourie or Yo, where he shouldn't be, with a prism rainbow last summer:
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Mauser, Meowser or Mouser, at 21 or 22 yrs of age last summer:
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Charlie, our Half-Cat that belongs to the neighbors behind us:
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Stray, our newly "domesticated" friend:
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I think we're going to be OKAY, but your kindness and caring is greatly appreciated!!!