Sorry to hear about your Ginger. We lost our Ginger about a year ago to hyperthyroidism (she was 17 years old).
I'm about to introduce a 7 week old yellow lab puppy to my two cats tomorrow
We will see how that goes. I am very excited for our new baby.
Don't limit yourself to a certain color or type of cat. I tried that once to replace an awesome grey tiger cat I had. Trying to avoid a black cat becuase I already had two black cats. Well along came Butch, all black with white on his chest and under his armpits. He was the most amazing cat I ever had, so loveable. I'm so glad that the person with me talked me out of the "no black cat rule". And here I am years later with yet another black cat Bella, and a tattoo of Felix the cat on my back.