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[JoshuaFH]

I just found out that my cat Charlie has cancer, which would explain his change in behavior and hair falling out, and my mom, who's been taking care of him for me, is going to put him down today.

He was always such a loyal and loving cat, and I regret not being able to be there to comfort him in his last hours.

I had no idea he was so sick... this makes me really sad.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I was going to tell you to eat him but that's really sad. Roughly the same thing happened to one of my friend's cats.

[Eidalac]

Aww.

My sister's cat had a tumor as well.  Had it removed and she was suddenly more like herself then she had been in years.  She had been ill for quite a while, but we thought it was just her age, and didn't have a clue about the growth till she got an ulcer on her belly.

Then it was back, and bigger, in 6 months.

Vet said he could remove it again, but it would keep coming back, so we had her put to sleep.

As far as my sister knows, her cat died in surgery.

[Neonivek]

My dog is getting creepishly close to the age where he is about to die of age (Almost at age 15)

The issue I have is that apperantly, or so I hear, that when dogs are about to die they hide themselves... and my dog hides under my bed... meaning that one of these days I am going to find a dead dog under my bed...

I love my dog but I am ENTIRELY creeped out at the prospect

[Aqizzar]

Hey, at least you know the cat went out peacefully.

I lost two cats, fourteen year old brothers I had since I was a toddler.  We moved from the suburbs out to the country, and they insisted on staying out at night as they always had.  Even with wild dogs and coyotes howling in the distance.  One night, one didn't come home.  Then a few months later, the other disappeared.

As much as I loved them and still do, after about a year I rarely thought about them.  It's sad and unnerving, but nothing lasts forever, either missing a pet or the pet itself.  This is the kind of stuff books win awards for.

[Cthulhu]

There were some coyotes out where I lived too a while ago.  Pets started going missing and the only things anyone ever found were their collars.  None of mine went missing, though.

All of the cats my family has had seem to have died in strange ways.  One got into the flooded basement of the abandoned house next door (No longer abandoned, recently bought and turned, now a couple that hates each other and their college-age son with a baby live there) and drowned, one got killed by a hawk (That one was crazy, it came into the house with a gaping hole in its side and a punctured lung), one had some kind of spinal infection, one had a brain tumor (That was the only cat I've actually liked.  He was a douchebag, but a nice kind of douchebag), and one died of some kind of aggressive infection.  That last one should have been put to sleep a long time ago, but my parents didn't want to hurt my sister by doing it.  They'd rather spend thousands of dollars on a filthy stray cat that wandered into garage one day and started eating our food.  Not even the doctors knew what was wrong with it.  There was some kind of huge sore on its side that would heal and then come back, over and over.  The cat didn't seem to have a problem with it, so nothing was done, although one vet wanted to do a paper for college on it.  Eventually whatever the infection was got into its intestines and killed it.  Good riddance, I hated that cat.

My dogs have all died much more peacefully.

EDIT:  You know, when I list all of them in one place my house kind of seems like some kind of Cat Meatgrinder.  I assure that these deaths occurred over the course of around 12 years.  It's not like this all happened last month.

[sonerohi]

In the past fourteen years we've had.. 5 hunting dogs that needed put down. One of them went berserk aggressive due to some disease and attacked 4 year old me and my 5 year old brother. Two of them had malignant tumors. 1 was getting too old and suffering from organ failure stuff. The last one just sort of ran out into the cornfields one night when we heard coyotes and he never came back to us.

[Strife26]

Losing a treasured pet is never easy. My condolences.

[JoshuaFH]

Thanks everyone. I really loved Charlie, and I'll always remember him as being proud and loyal.

[Footkerchief]

You know, when I list all of them in one place my house kind of seems like some kind of Cat Meatgrinder.

You should have thrown in "Oh, and the last one got turned into biscuits and gloves" and seen if anyone noticed.

[Eidalac]

Hey, at least you know the cat went out peacefully.

Back when I lived in Tennessee, I kept hearing dogs outside one night, woke me up 3 times before I finally got to sleep for good.

The next morning I found out that a pack of strays had attacked our cat, Princess.  My mom chased them off the first time, but then went in to wake up my dad.

They came back and... lets just say it was bad.

We've lost so many pets over the years (I could probably list off dozens), but that one is the second worst for me, because of the fact that I could have done something.  I didn't like the cat all that much (was my sisters, technically), but I was pissed that mom didn't call me down.

[Jackrabbit]

My cat died after I moved to Australia. He was very old.

Another cat of mine disappeared one day. He was a particularly fine looking cat, so I hope he was catnapped and sold to loving owners, instead of being bit by a snake in a drain which is what probably happen.

Neither of these things bothered me too much, because my first cat was 16 and I never found out what happened to the other. Still, I know it hurts a bit (in your case a lot and that's understandable) so I hope you'll accept my condolences.

Strangely, the only pet death that ever made me cry (I'm sensitive! Translation: I'm a big girl's blouse!) is a family friends. She came home one day to find her 17 year old dog, Oscar, heaving on the floor. She made him comfortable, had a shower, and cried and cried. Then she called her adult daughter to the vets so they could be there as he passed away. I liked that dog.

So, I'm very very sorry.

[QuakeIV]

I havent lost a pet a loved particularly, but i have to cats that a practically love to death.

If i find out some day that something killed them, that something is going to meet a extrordinarily painful and dwarfy end.

[Rilder]

We lost two purebred Rottweilers in my time so far... the first one I didn't like and he died painfully and fast of a heart attack.  Sucks hearing a dog wail in pain as he dies.

Our second Rottie died slowly of cancer which sucked. 

What really sucked though is fair few years ago I went to bed one night and woke up to find our barn on fire... Every animal that was in the barn died except for a couple lucky goats and our cows I think.

[Jakkarra]

I've had several pets, and most of them have died...

(Not counting fish) Hamsters: 2-3 One chewed a poisonous plant, the other decided that wiring was delicious.

Cats: One ran off, one lives up the street at this old lady's house, she feeds it salmon and other nice things, and also gave him a haircut. Earwax leaks from his ears... One died at christmas. I still have Sofia.

Dog: Kodi (pronounced cody) My Father was allergic to him, so we had to give him away. He was awesome.

Mice: two, Blackadder and Baldrick. White. Died mysteriously. Two others Nameless, larger one literally CRUSHED smaller one into pancake, we game it away.

Snakes: gave away as we ran out of space. The had 12 eggs.