thanx everyone for your warm replies; even tho at first I had heard time accepting her, I did grow to love her very much. About 2 days before she died, we all knew she was on her last leg, so one of my sisters (not the one who had her b4) came over to see how she was doing. Oreo started purring real loudly at the sight of her, and even tried to "talk" to her a little bit. She started walking over to my sis, but kind of pooped out. But she still continued to "talk" to her and purr, letting my sis know that she was happy to see her.