Congratulations! Sounds like a wonderful place for you and your kitty. It's gonna be scarey but exciting. Re: breaking the news to him: don't expect him to be helpful, supportive, or even civil. March is probably gonna be, how shall one say? tense. I'm very pleased to hear you're going ahead with your plans though. I think you're gonna find more and more often that it'll feel, as you say, like fate. Things will fall into place and fall in your lap in a surprising way.