Like sapper 740 we had an American Bombay, she passed away last Saturday 2 months shy of her 23rd birthday, a devastating event. like Sapper mentions she was my cat, tolerated my wife and late mother in law and had a vocabulary as well. I always objected to people calling them dumb animals as she was smarter than a lot of people. She woke us daily at 5 am precisely then proceeded to her chair next to mine talking away until I sat next to her and watched the news. They say cats don't travel well but during the spring until the snow fell in the fall she made the 5 hour drive with me to our Parry Sound cabin. She knew where we were the moment I stopped to open our gate after which like a dog she would go from window to window sniffing the air. Upon reaching the cabin, she would be first out the door and on her way to the lake for a drink at the same spot every time.