Well since were showing our little munchkins...Our lab passed a few years ago and we now are left with my wife's old cat she adopted. She was a stray when my wife found her eating my labs food out of her bowl at night. My wife spent many a night sitting outside trying to get the cat to accept her. Now many years later the cat will not leave my wife's side. She follows her like a dog. You can call the cat and she comes to you like a dog would.
Last year the cat blew-out a disk. Had to have her back operated on and she now has a metal plate securing her disks. (I kid you not!)
I'm pretty sure I would be put "down" before this little 9 lb cat would!