why do we love our pets so much??

A little background on the story...

We have two cats, one lucy and one cheese...lucy is 3, and we have had problems with her since she was about one. She has extremely high anxiety, and one little thing can throw her off. Most of the time when we go out of town, we have huge setbacks.. and by setbacks i mean that she stops using her litter box.

When a cat doesnt use her litter box, it is very stressful for it's owners. J and I have been constantly cleaning and trying to retrain her. We have tried EVERYTHING!!

So normally we put her on anti-anxiety meds which tend to cure the situation for a few months. This time however, i suggested that we give her away, even though i love her so much and my husband loves her even more. I have been working for days trying to find a no-kill shelter for her, but no one will take an un-adoptable cat. She is considered un-adoptalbe because she isnt very friendly to strangers and she has litter box issues.

So needless to say the past few days have been very sad, stressful, and tension building between my husband and I. He desperatly wants to try the medication again, i would rather find her a new home, or even put her down if we had to, she is so miserable.

As of this morning, we decided to try the medication one more time, i just cant live with my husband being mad at me for "killing" his cat. He knows what needs to be done, he just can't bring himself to do it, and to tell you the truth, neither can i.

So in the mean time i am going to continue my search for a nice facility that will take cats with problems, so that she can live her life without stress out in a grass field...lol!

Again i say.. why do we love our pet's so much??