When our elderly 3 cats passed, Mom just sat in her chair crying all day long - she'd had Leroy 19 years, and I'd had my two, Bowie & Missy for 17. It was a very empty house. At the local Farmer's Market I was tipped off that the animal shelter had 3 kittens - They run the house here now 5 years later. To me, those cats have kept Mom alive now at 93.