Dear "KittyKatLover" (sorry, cannot remember your real name)

You will fell it when the time is right!! It is so hard to loose a beloved cat, isn't it ! I lost my sweety Sydney in 2002. He was in a cat-hotel while we were in France. He died there.... .
We found out this terrible news on a saturday-morning.
MY husband wanted to get another cat as soon as possible. He started looking on the internet and viewed pics of available cats in shelters nearby. At first, I refused to look too.
Then Sydney came home, and we buried him in our garden, in the middle of a flower-bed.
From that moment on, I felt I needed a new cat. So we went to one of the shelters, and found Maya ( correction: she found US!!).
Maya is NO replacement for Sydney!! But she sure helped me to let Sydney go to the Rainbow Bridge!!

you can read the whole story here: The Pet's House