When my Pepper became very sick and wasn't getting any better I decided to have him put to sleep because he was suffering. My vet had done many tests on him and even performed a free autopsy on him. We still don't know why he was so sick. I think that he may have had early stages of cancer. He was almost 6 years old when he died which is still quite young for an indoor only cat.

When I was growing up, we had a male cat named Smokey and he was an indoor/outdoor cat. He died because he got hit by a car.

The other cat that we had while I was growing up was named Puff. She was probably about 10 years old when she passed away. I was away at college at the time. Back then there weren't any good flea products and my mom thinks she may have accidentally poisoned her with flea medication.