A best friend knows all the bad stuff about you and still loves you anyway.

They can make long days seem shorter, heavy loads seem lighter and can make you smile when you thought you’d never smile again.

It’s not just humans that have their BFFs either. When the going gets tough, everyone realizes you need a friend to help get you through.

When Golden Retriever Forsberg (is that not the coolest name ever?) met the cat his parents had brought home, he wasn’t too sure about it.

But then something beautiful happened.

Forsberg learned that cats weren’t the monsters he’d imagined. And Ginger decided that Forsberg wasn’t all bad, either.

So, Forsberg the Golden and Ginger, the orange tabby cat, ignored the stories and became best friends!

For the next eight years, they were inseparable. Where you saw one, you saw the other. They ate together, they patrolled the house together and they slept together.

As the years passed, both of them entered “seniorhood.” A lot of their playing and patrolling was replaced with just a lot of snuggling on the couch together.

Unfortunately, years are a lot harder on dogs and cats than they are on humans.

After eight years of having Ginger beside him 24 hours a day and tragically, Forsberg awakened to an empty couch one morning.

Ginger had succumbed to thyroid cancer. She had lived 15 wonderful years, but, it wasn’t nearly enough.

Forsberg immediately began to grieve, just as anyone would do if they suddenly lost their best friend.

Every day he roamed the house searching for Ginger. But, she wasn’t there.

He grew more and more depressed, and his family began to worry about him. His health was starting to be affected by his grief.

So, they did the only thing they could think of that might snap Forsberg out of his doldrums.

They adopted a new cat!

They didn’t try to replace Ginger; they knew that nothing or no one ever could.

The little long-haired black kitty they brought home resembled Ginger in only one way:

She fell in love with Forsberg almost immediately! And, the family noted that thankfully, it was mutual.

Before long, Forsberg was back to patrolling the house, this time with a little black shadow by his side.

And when it was time for a nap, the new kitten named Maxwell curled up almost exactly the way Ginger had always done beside him.

It’s been two years since the little black kitty came to Forsberg’s life and in the end, we learn once again that best friends come in all shapes and sizes. And species!

Source: The Animal Rescue Site

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