MeowSpace® and having cats is pretty new for me. For the first 5 decades of my life, I was essentially cat-free. If anyone asked…and they did…I was a dog person. From birth, I enjoyed the company of no less than 16 different kinds of dogs, ranging from German Shepherds to a 4lb Yorkshire Terrier. To be fair, my mother had a way of getting a dog or dogs, and then when they became inconvenient for some reason, she’d “find them a good home,” only to miss having a dog and get another, starting the cycle all over again. To say that was hard on me as a kid would be a serious understatement. The last time she gave away my dogs was after I had gone to college. Sometime during my sophomore year, one of my friends informed me that she had told them she had given both of my beloved dogs away, and made my friend promise not to tell me. Obviously they broke their promise in favor of not betraying me, but it was still too late for more »