[NicknamedBob]

"Egad, but I miss that cat. There is definitely an empty hole in my heart the size and shape of my Rocket."

If you live a long life, and have a lot of pets, you probably end up with so many holes you look like SpongeBob.

[TheOldLady]

Yes, Bob. We have our little collection of ashes in wooden boxes arrayed on the stereo in the Sun Room.

The only cat we ever buried was the one who started coming around one year right around Thanksgiving.
We weren't able to get her to come in the house or make friends with us at all.

From the condition of her dead body, Bryan deduced that she had been hit by a car, and she just made it
back to her "safe place" that we had prepared for her, in time to die. Something was eating her, quite
literally, and we took her remains, wrapped her in a burial cloth, and gave her a nice deep hole in which
to sleep. She has a little headstone as well. She never got a proper name.