Dear Stephanie: I too cried when I read Murdy's story. I lost my beloved Lady Puffington to a sudden highway accident but I've never struggled through an illness with a precious kitty (yet), which I'm sure is much more difficult. As far as I'm concerned it's one of life's seeming cruelties, and like suffering for a child of your own, for that's just what they are to me, so loving, devoted, and dependent. My thoughts and prayers are with you both, and by the way, he's absolutely adorable.