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Oh Dana I am so very sorry for your loss of Pilau and sorry I have only just read your post.

I'm a cat woman, and for several years adopted elderly moggies whose owners had died or gone into nursing homes or suchlike. Although they always made a niche, and I always loved the privelege of providing for them there wasn't the same bond you forge with an animal you take home as an infant. Like your little bloke.

Now I have a mother and daughter who were used as 'breeders' until the recession made them redundant and they were both less than a year old when they came to me, and oh sister, they are my girls now!

You will absolutely know when the time is right for you, and for the dog you choose and it will be the very luckiest little fella in the world to be found by you.

I'll be joining the other brilliant cellarites and keeping you safe in my thoughts. Rock on Dana x