When our two very old kitties died, close together, 2 months apart, I was crushed. After 3 days, during a cold early January, I looked on Craig's list, and found Weezie. She was left behind from a family litter, as no one wanted to adopt her. She was timid, and afraid of people.
She latched onto me immediately and has turned into a very special cat. When Houdini went missing I was sick over that...no more cats, my brain and heart told me then last May! Then Oreo's remission of her cancer ended and we had to put her to sleep just before our vacation in late July.

This all rather piled up on me....and a friend of ours upNorth who runs a Rescue...promised me a nice kitten. And she delivered also. I do believe we need a time of mourning. And each pet IS a different personality. But what we receive from them is very important to me, so in the end, we have little Maya now. She is special too. We've nurtured her from a frightened feral baby who hid in the house, to a more comfortable affectionate cat. Watching her grow is a special feeling, not unlike growing flowers from seeds, which I also do each spring.

No matter how terrible I feel some days, or how much pain I have, it doesn't seem to overwhelm me when I have something or someone to nurture. I found myself after Houdini's loss, looking at rescue places and photos of kittens. So now we've taken the emotional plunge with another cat. Weezie has been fabulous with Maya too...helping like a big sister, from the first day! She has been instrumental in taming this frightened, lost little kitty from the Upper Pennisula of Michigan! Even when Weez was not feeling 100% herself, she was wonderful. She had a mystery illness that turned out to be an animal or spider bite on her neck. The wonderful Vet up there who is experienced with these events, saved her for us, and little Maya, who we adopted near the end of our stay up there.