There's a big difference between a partner and a dependent. (Even marriage used to fall into the latter category, but it's a lot less like that now.) Abandoning a dependent is a special kind of awful.
Having read your story (mebbe it's time for you to put in a link to it?) about how Mira picked you out of the multitudes when it was the right time for you to adopt a cat, I can only say that I'm glad things worked out so well for you and your mom at that time.
As I may have told you, a couple of years ago a friend of mine had his already bad health take a turn for the worse, and when he became bedridden he asked me to take care of his cat for the time being, as he felt he would bounce back from that crisis as he had done previously. A few days later, he died, and I was "stuck" with an adorable fluffy orange cat. But I was only the temporary guardian, because the person who had given my friend the cat in the first place knew of another family who were happy to take her in.
It was reported to me that she walked into her new home and took to the family right away, or as I like to think, "she landed on her feet." I was very glad to hear that.
I read somewhere on the Internet recently that supposedly the majority of cats in the U.S. change owners at least once during their adult lives. I was shocked. My family had a ton of cats throughout my childhood, and we certainly never gave any of them away except one kitten to a neighbor at standard kitten-giving-away age. What could possibly induce a majority of cats to change owners during their adulthood? There can't possibly be that many cat owners dying or being forced into non-cat-friendly living situations.
I'm 100% with you. Making a commitment to an animal is MUCH more serious than marriage. And you should NEVER give an animal as a gift like that, without talking to the person first.
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Ohhh, quite, quite! That's it!
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As I may have told you, a couple of years ago a friend of mine had his already bad health take a turn for the worse, and when he became bedridden he asked me to take care of his cat for the time being, as he felt he would bounce back from that crisis as he had done previously. A few days later, he died, and I was "stuck" with an adorable fluffy orange cat. But I was only the temporary guardian, because the person who had given my friend the cat in the first place knew of another family who were happy to take her in.
It was reported to me that she walked into her new home and took to the family right away, or as I like to think, "she landed on her feet." I was very glad to hear that.
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