@rufustheduck @oldkephalus we seem to specialise on cats with FIV, so age is not the only limiting factor.
But I’d rather they not suffer just for sticking around in corporeal form a bit longer. The poem from https://toot.mirbsd.org/@mirabilos/statuses/01KFVQCZWB4YD6S9VCHH7PEP02 (needs Fedi client, not a browser) helps a bit. And there’s room in one’s heart for multiple cats. All different. And I’m sure they’ll stick around ethereally, as they grew to be family members.
sleeping, but he’s black with white spots, on a black mattress, in a dark room with only very very dim ambient light as I’m winding down for bed… so, a smartphone camera will not be able to pick anything discernable.