Thank you to everyone for your well wishes. I am still trying to grasp what has happened as Ricky is. Lucy was a stray that entered our lives on her own terms. When we could catch her, we got her spayed and we took her for her shots. She had just been to the Vets two weeks ago for a check up and more flea medicine. I do not want another kitty as I never really planned to have Lucy. She just showed up and would only come to Ricky. They were both born in February on 2000 and sort of grew up together. I did not purposely make her an outdoor cat, it was her choice. She hated to be indoors and the Vet said that it would be cruel to traumatize her by making her stay indoors. She was a free spirit that came and went as she pleased which is typical of many cats.