Excluding when I was a kid the only times I can remember was when any of my cats died / had to be put down
Told myself I wouldn't get any more because of how much it sucks when you have to go through that but some black cat kept staying in my back yard and no one in the neighborhood said it was theirs when I asked them so now I have another
Still miss all my other cats over the years. I buried them in my back yard and made them their own cat sized gravestones