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In reply to the discussion: I hope everyone who thinks it's OK to "just breed her once" or "just buy one dog" reads this all the [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)because they were "tired of it."
My cat is "second-hand" from my cousin, who found him after her mother's neighbors had abandoned him and moved away. Just abandoned him. Then her landlord told her that she could not keep him, so she frantically called around until I agreed to take him.
He's an absolute sweetheart and very affectionate, but having had at least two former owners, he gets very anxious when I pack to go away on a trip or even do some major housecleaning or laundry, both of which evidently look like packing in his little cat mind. As someone once said of another cat I knew, "He has abandonment issues."
When I travel, someone comes and stays with him, but my regular catsitter tells me that he walks around the apartment looking for me and meowing for the first couple of days when I'm gone.