Cookie, you are such a beautiful kittycat!!!! I am so glad you have a forever home!!!! When Valentino, my black cat, came to his new home with me, he didn't purr at all; I thought maybe he'd forgotten how to purr or even had never learned. The first person who had adopted him had died, and Valentino had been abandoned at about one and a half years old. It took several months for him to feel safe and to trust me; at first, he hid most of the time. Then slowly he began to do happy-cat things. The first time he jumped up on my lap, I was really excited. And the first time he purred for me, I cried. Now, he purrs constantly.