I knop how it feels to lose a pet, having lost a cat to feline leukaemia, being run over, and recently, having watched my mother torture herself over causing the death of a cat in the washing maching (which was an accident).

Despite all that's been said, my love goes out to you because it's upsetting, but I still imagine all of our old pets being somewhere warm and sunny, with plenty of grassy lands to play on, and a cosy cottage to live in until I get to see them - something I was told when I was little, and I'll not let anyone take that from me.

Just remember that your pet could have had an unhappier life were it not spent with you.