Thank you everyone for your caring replies, it warms my heart.

Today, I took Fister back home, in his urn. I have him in my bedroom with a candle lit next to him.

For those of you who want to read some of the early threads about Fister, that Jonza wrote back in 2002-05, here's a link: http://petoftheday.com/talk/search.p...557&pp=&page=8

(in the beginning, John wrote under my username, until he decided to join.)