We are down to 4 cats now. 3 toms and a queen. The other queen died last night and we started searching for her tonight. It wasn't uncommon to not see her all day, but for her to appear in the evening. I found her, stone cold dead. At least she died at home and not by another predator. We thought that she wouldn't last until wintertime, so we made a coffin for her last Spring. She is in it now and we will bury her tomorrow morning on top of Smokie. Smokie was my cat, she died of kidney failure 5 years ago and she is buried beside Katie the Black Lab.
All three of them will be waiting for me at the Rainbow Bridge when my time comes.