Very cool. I feel the same way about my cats. I lost one cat last year and it was literally the most devastating thing I've ever gone through in my life. I was depressed to the point of thinking about suicide. I wasn't contemplating it, but I definitely thought about it. Got to the point that I realized I don't have the guts to kill myself, but I was hoping I'd just wake up dead one morning. I ain't braggin', but it's true. I loved that cat and love the cats I have more than I've ever loved any human being.
That's cool.
I know some people kinda smirk when a guy has cats....as though only gahy guys are allowed!
We've always had cats in my family since I was kid (a couple of dogs too)....and I've personally had a few cats over the years that would be considered "my" cats. Cats are just a lot easier IMO to live with indoors, and they can handle spending the day without me.
Right now I have two indoor cats, and last year a stray came around, so I brought her to the vet, the whole nine yards....and she now spends the winter in the front foyer, closed off from the other two, since they won't get along....then she's outside for the summer, and just camps out by the front door. She was abandoned in the neighborhood and starving when she showed up.
The two indoor cats I've had for 16 and 12 years now.....the older one a male cat, I got from a Humane Shelter.
I am so attached to them and they to me.
The younger on is a female tabby, and she showed up one day at my doorstep 12 years ago, and pretty much just walked in all friendly like she belonged there, and stole everyone’s heart. Like you, I will be devastated when she goes one day. I love that cat.
These cats follow me around the house...when I go to
the studio, they both come down to hang out, and they have their spot up on top of one of the audio racks....and they will stay there the entire time I'm working.
Only drums will make them leave.
So I can understand that man-to-animal connection you are talking about. I cried like a baby when my previous two cats died....one back in 1990 and the other in 1998.