Our wonderful cat, Preddie, died today after a long battle with chronic kidney failure. He had just reached his 18th birthday, and had been with us since the year after Karen and I were married.

He had always been a wonderful kitty with Jack, who grew up with the big cat.

He survived FIP, radiation therapy for two bouts of thyroid hypertrophy, and lived for a year with progressive kidney failure. Over the last weekend, he seemed to just get tired of the subcutaneous fluids, and the progressive muscle weakness, and we knew that it was time to let him go.