LOL.....great story Tann!
We had many cats as kids as we lived in the country.
One in particular was named Jethro....you may laugh now.:)
He turned feral over time. The last time we saw him he was sitting on a burm outside a window as if to say goodbye for the last time then slowly walked away....
I had cats and dogs from the time I was born until the time I was married. One dog from kindergarten through first year of college -- her name was Prince. No pets in my first two apartments. We have a house now, but no dog. The previous tenants gave us all the reasons we needed to NOT have a dog in the house. (And my son is a teensy-weensy put off by dogs, especially when he was little.)
At my mom's house, still two cats there.