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Fredcat knew his time had come. Cats always do. On Thursday he'd tried to find his own final resting place in the shrubbery in the front garden, tucked up next to the small wall where it was nice and cool, but his best human friend, Cathie, was not going to let that happen without a bit of a fight. "Your instinct may be to hide away to protect yourself from predators but I am here to look after you, Fredcat, so come on inside." The kindly v*t took the same view and all day Friday he had done his best to re-hydrate the Mighty One and, indeed, by the end of the afternoon Fredcat had rallied and the humans had been told to come to collect him from the v*t's office.

But just as all seemed well, Fredcat's neurological system gave a bit of a twitch and ... he had a minor stroke which left him pretty near helpless; unable to walk or do much more than breathe and talk. Cathie cuddled him and Fredcat knew that this time he'd have to say goodbye to her one final time.

"You will remember me when I'm gone, Cathie?" he asked, a tad anxiously.

"You needn't worry, my best and only cat, I'll remember you all my life," Cathie smiled. She cuddled him closer and tried to keep back a tear or three.

"I'm very, very glad that I chose you, Cathie, to be my best human friend. I do love you so much and it will be hard to say goodbye because you've been so special to me over these FIVE long years," he said.

The two smiled at each other at this long running joke.

Fredcat continued, "I would like it if you'd keep my famous Diary on the intawebs for a while so that all my faithful readers can see it and read about my famosity whenever they want to."