I understand. Melissa told me herself when it was her time. Happy friendly cats are fun, but it's the hissy bitch cats that truly Walk Alone, when they deign to allow us to walk a bit with them, and that is a gift of a darker beauty.

Hint - if you aren't doing it already... Melissa had an extra two or three years of relatively healthy life once we switched her to foods that are 100% free of any corn or corn by-products. Her immune system rallied, or at least failed much more slowly.