Hi Sosick, I have tried getting new kittens. In fact, I only waited a few months after Gus died before wanting to give a stray a home. The allergy to it made my condition far worse and I was barely able to function or stay awake. The allergy symptoms were severe and I felt like I was drugged.

No matter what I did, wash the cat, treat the cat, feed the cat better food (raw), nothing helped. This has occured in the past and both times the cats had to be found a new home, which devastated me after bonding to them.

I do not wish to go through that again, when I am focussing on my health and trying to heal. I'd love to get a cat, but am not taking any further chances and jeopardising the little health I still have and bonding to yet another one, and then possibily having to go through the same thing. The stress to do that was overwhelming at the time.

My father is also not keen to put me through that again either for good reason, he suffered also.