If you grew up with your soul mate cat, a pure white cat that lived for 16 years when he passed, and he used to lick your hair, and he used to lick
your beard to comfort you and he would be a chatter box with you with these distinct meows.....Would you be happy or discontent if your mother got you another cat that looked just like your original cat, would you compare the two? If the new cat looked just like your old cat but doesn't lick your hair or beard would you be sad? Is it wrong to replace your sons old cat with a carbon copy? Or should I get him another cat that doesn't remind him of Mr. Daisy??? This is Mr. Daisy...
This is the cat I'm looking at....
Looks just like Mr. Daisy and is only 1 year old!!!! Wouldn't my son be thrilled to have another white cat just like his old cat???? Yes or No??? Please help me decide???
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Individual choice, and you know your son. I don't. I can only provide an insight from my own son. He had a cat with a similar deep connection. All through junior high and high school that cat would know just when to walk down to the corner, meet my son, and walk the rest of the way home with him. He couldn't take him to college with him which was hard on him. When he graduated and married, he took the very old cat back. It was in failing health, and he admits he spent a fortune at the vet's on him that he and his newlywed wife did not have, just starting out, and surely put a strain on the early days of their marriage.
When Gandalf, the Grey -- a solid light gray purebred Persian -- died, he chose (and continues to choose some 30 years later) cats that he rescues from the Humane Society and are mixed breeds of all sorts of colors looking nothing like Gandalf.
