Sorry to hear about Nugget's meowing. I hope he will soon learn to live without his buddy.

BTW that's how we got Pooky & Bear.

I was temporarily fostering 2 cats (Missy & Snickers) for my cousin until they finished up their vaccinations and spay/neuter. Jack loved playing with Snickers and missed him horribly walking around meowing like crazy. They left on a Saturday, by that Sunday morning we were calling to see if any shelters were open. They weren't. So we drove to the pet store that has this HUGE bulliten board of animals needing homes to see if any of them might be good for Jack. When we walked (right at opening time) a cashier said 'do you want a cat?'. Turns out that someone had left an open cardboard box (with no blanket in it) by their front door in FEBUARY before the store even opened. It had a litter of eight 4 week old kittens in it! My mom picked out Bear, and I picked out Pooky, and Jack fell in love with both instantly and acted like a surrogate "mother" to them.