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They're beautiful. I used to have a smoky grey cat too. I called him Spike after the big dog in Tom and Jerry because he was tiny when we got him. He always seemed to be having a bad hair day and could never get his fur to lay smoothly like a real cat 
, I had to leave him behind when I escaped but he was my comforter when things were bad. He would wait for ex to settle upstairs then snuggle up to me on the sofa. If ex moved even slightly he would cock an ear, listen then go back to his cat cave so that if ex came into the room, he and I would look totally innocent (ex wouldn't allow him to be on the sofa even if he was on my knee).
He sounds lovely vampirequeen Do you have another cat now? How we miss them the ones we have lost 
We have never actually bought a pet, all have just appeared in the yard or people have landed them on us.
Even both our birds were strays.One was a rainbow lorikeet and I loved him so much.
He would come out of his cage every night for hours at a time - we had to cover all the furniture with old towels because his bowels were extremely copious.
When another friend landed us with a little yellow canary the canary became the lorikeets pet! The canary was quite horrible but a funny character.
Even the pet rat was dumped on us by a daughter but I loved him also, He used to sit on my shoulder. Got a funny look from the postman one day when I wore the rat to the mailbox!
Our greedy girl 14 yr old Milly, was my brother’s cat, he sadly died due to alcoholism 2 years ago. She’d had a rough time and was in poor condition. Now has the life of Riley. When not sleeping spends most of time trying to get more food from us and has gone from being underweight to a bit of a podge. Very fussy about which bit of her body we are allowed to stroke but we love her.
fatgran57
Your post made me smile. 
This is our current much loved cat. I tell him, he is the most beautiful cat in the world. (But I said that to all his predecessors too).
My lovely cat, who we both think the world of. Every day he does something to make us laugh. Much needed at the moment.
My lovely boy, Duke, no longer with us (died suddenly last year) but who brought us so much joy. Miss him lots.
Paddy
Out two horrors, one of them gulped their breakfast and brought it up on the landing, and walked across my seedlings in the kitchen!
This is Plato ( a thoughtful cat who sits by his plate a lot in case food magically appears)
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