It sucks, not much you can really do about it. What's done is done. It is nice to have a support group that genuinely does understand what you're going through and how you feel.
At this point, not much else you can do but be grateful for time spent, the memories and best of all... her offspring.
Hard telling with them. My old man also tries to offer the cat when I mention I want another one, I don't think he's quite grasped that's his cat now. She likes him. She barely, if at all remembered me. She follows him around and sits on his lap. She's cordial with my mother but not like...
I rescued a feral kitten and named it Gunny because it wouldn't stop yelling at me. Lo and behold it was a she and my parents didn't like Gunny for a she so they started calling her "Little Kitty." Really? I mean... really?
Every cat I've even been close to came when they were called. Maybe I have some kind of cat charisma, or I was probably just lucky.
I think I'd be frustrated if one never came at this point.
Just curious to hear about cats on leashes, I know it can be done... but I've never seen it done effectively. My ex gf shows me pics of her cats on leashes and they seem fine, but I don't know how it works and I'd assume she started her young.
I've heard good things on the interweb and I know they are in the Jewish/Kosher section of one of the local supermarkets. I'll give them a whirl, garlic dills first. Depending on what they have.