@pkh3381 It’s some years since you posted this. I hope you did get your cat and are having a wonderful time together?!

Please update us ❤️‍🩹🐾.

This post is so timely. I’m currently in remission from stage 4 incurable appendix cancer. With the support of others on here last year I brought home 2 littermate puppies at 9 weeks old (after researching all the potential issues around littermates). They have just turned one and are such lovable wee souls. Not to mention very mischievous with 2 very intelligent minds working out how to have fun!!

My numbers have been shifting a bit and I do worry about falling ill again, sooner than I expected.

I thought I had made all the necessary plans in advance but I hadn’t counted on behavioural issues in my little boy Benji (he’s an anxious little boy) and just how much they both love and need me. We will work through it when I do get sick again (it’ll happen). In the meanwhile I work hard on training and bringing up 2 good members of society 🐾❤️‍🩹😊

I am so blessed with very close friends who are like family as well as 2 nieces and their husbands who would bend over backwards to help, if needed. My best friend and executor offered to take them both should I pass.

In the meanwhile I am fortunate to be in a good financial situation so I get by with recurring professionally supervised dog playgroups in the park and, when I’m in hospital, boarding.

Fortunately I am still very well and fit. We love our daily long sniffy walks and playing off lead in a couple of special parks where the other dogs and owners have been lovely. They are also sort of (!) good at being left alone together a few hours frequently during the week. They have a large puppy proofed TV room so they are free to play and rough house. They can still find things to chew in there despite the puppy proofing fences etc (including the carpet on a few occasions but it already was due for replacement!)

I keep reminding myself that where there’s a will, there’s a way 🐾♥️