Hi Kookypos.
Welcome to Purrs - I know how you feel about Possum. We lost our black amber-eyed girl, Willow to CRF on 2nd Jan. It was such a dark time and although we do get upset sometimes, we can think of her and laugh at some of her antics now. We only have a few short videoclips and plenty of photos to remember her by as well.
I know what you mean about some people's attitude. I am a mature student and one of my smug lecturers gave a list of 'not good reasons' for work being handed in late. One of them was 'my cat died'
- she thought she was hilarious
We have a china box we keep her favourite mouse, piece of string etc in
we also planted a Camellia. I have pressed the forst flower and it will also go in the box. I don't care what people think or say