Mark, good move. After our kitten Fritz, was hit by a car, my wife went out within a couple days and adopted a great 2 year old cat from the humane society. We still felt blue about Fritz, and when we left South Carolina, we even felt bad about leaving him behind, but Schubert (we didn't name him) helped us past the grieving part. And to help us even more, somebody dumped a 6 week old kitten, who we ended up naming Foolish, on our front lawn. Sometimes surprises are good....(although at the time I was a little miffed at the extra mouth and litterbox...)