"The goal is not to make them live forever. They can't. You're supposed to love them every year, and especially on their last ...

Rachael Robertson details to PEOPLE how she took her former foster cat, Garbanzo, back in almost four years after initially taking care of the animal and her littermates.

"Food and sleep is pretty much her life!" she added. Spink, who describes the noisy cat as a "very lazy girl" — but "she's an old lady, so we let her off" —said the pet used to be a bit more ...