I had one that we were SO connected that we communicate without speaking while he was with me. His name was Sambo and I picked him out of a litter the day he was born and visited him every day until he was old enough to come live with me. We lived way out in the country so he was a inside/outside kitty. When he came up missing, I grieved so bad for him that I would hear him calling me in the middle of the night and I would go to the door and call out to him every time. I knew he was not dead, he was lost and trying to find his way home....somehow, he communicated that to me. He would call me every night, waking me from a rock hard sleep and I would go to the door and call him, waiting for him to come home.

One morning about 5am, I heard him again and it woke me up. I sat up in the bed, realizing his calling was CLOSE. I sat up in the bed and called him and THERE HE WAS!! At my bedroom door!!! My husband had opened the door and let him in and he was HOME! He made one leap from the bedroom door to the bed and was in my arms at long last! He was dirty, his feet was covered with sores and he had lost a lot of weight but he was home at last. Somehow, he communicated to me that someone had taken him off in a car and he did his best to find his way back to me and he was SOOoo glad to be home. He had been gone for 3 weeks.

It was strange how we communicated and we did it often. My husband use to think I was crazy when I would say "Sambo wants ______", "Sambo don't want to do that" or act like I knew what Sambo was thinking... he thought I was crazy.......at first. But he became a believer eventually. We were really connected in a way I have never connected with another animal since. It was like we were "one".

When Sambo died at the old age of about 13 years, I was completely devisitated. My eyes were swollen shut for days from crying, I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, all I could do was cry. I had never connected with anyone or anything like that and I had truley lost my most prescious friend in the world. He was one in a million and I still miss him today...... gee, he has been gone 20 years or more. I look forward to the day that we see each other again!