We have a singleton too and we're definitely very attached to our cuddly baby. But rather than planning to keep him, which I believe is unfair to a healthy animal, we're trying to figure out ways to best support him in his outside life.

I too am deathly afraid of neighbors and cars (we live in the suburbs) but if I follow that reasoning too far I wouldn't ever let my own child get on the school bus every day. I have to let Frank live the life he was meant to live if his own mama had raised him.