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Bradley Daniel Kaplan; July 19, 2012โ€“August 22, 2023

we said goodbye to bradley today. as I wrote about on his birthday this year, he's been fighting cancer for the last few months. this last weekend, we realized it was his time after he lost more weight and started having trouble eating solid food (including his pills). fortunately, we were able to do it at home. he likes his vet, but hates the car and there was no way we'd make him go through that again if we didn't have to. he went in our lap on the couch; he often spent time there to watch tv with us.

he's been @kadybat's since the beginning (9 weeks! i imagine they will write more about this, they're a better writer than me anyway) but i'm lucky he's been in my life for eight years now.

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dsy
@dsy

i'm gonna have to avoid kata's writeup if they're a better writer than you ๐Ÿฅฒ beautiful sendoff, i'm so sorry for your loss. thank you for sharing Bradley with us

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ellivanelli
@ellivanelli

Jae I thought about Bradley the other night & then thought about my own cat, HR, and just that was enough to get me choked up & sobbing, so I can only imagine how much youโ€™re going through it right now. My deepest condolences to you and yours. ๐Ÿ’œ

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R-L-Z
@R-L-Z

I'm very sorry for your loss, but yeah, let's celebrate the awesome and loved cat that Bradley was. May he rest in peace.
It's great that you could make it so he spent his last moments at home. That's really for the best, it would be great if this was always possible.

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@nago-

oh my god, Jae, I just found out about this ... I am so sorry for your loss. We had to put our diabetic cat Pico down not too long ago, just days after my mom had to say goodbye to Reese's (a cat I rescued myself from a dumpster in Baltimore), just days before Christmas. @harmonie was devastated and wrote at length about it, and a lot of the reason I post so much #maple and #luna is just ... coping with an incalculable loss.

Pico was a bigger than life kinda cat, a real good buddy and a joy to have around. He was real talkative and loved to be in whatever room we were in, just chilling out nearby and begging for bellyrubs. He was also roughly moose-sized at his healthiest. We're crying thinking about him as we read your farewells.

... all that to say ... I can tell by how you write about Bradley that you loved him dearly, and I feel and share that pain with you. (@harmonie watching me write this: "I'm glad Bradley had someone that loved him", and she's right!)

Thank you for sharing your beautiful little bastard with us. <3

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jkap
@jkap

thank you. I'm sorry for your loss with pico as well. reading @harmonie's piece now (which is beautiful, and heartwrenching, and hits so close to home for me right now) there's a little detail in there that's altogether minor but still got to me, that pico and nano had been at odds since pico got sick.

we had the same issue with bradley and website. they had been close, and then bradley got sick and he got more sensitive and website was confused and would try to groom bradley when he didn't want it and they would fight and it was absolutely heartbreaking to see every single time. on bradley's last day, we had them separated (by virtue of bradley spending almost all day in my room) or supervised (during breakfast and lunch) but we made sure they had some time together before the end. bradley was pretty zonked on the gabapentin we gave him so he wouldn't be stressed out, but he and website sniffed each other, and that was it. they were fine.

website's been in the same room as us basically nonstop since then. he knows what happened, he knows we're hurting, and luckily he got to learn from the best on how to love us, before the best got sick and started needing help with that. he's just as much of a blessing for us right now.

bradley was so, so loved, and i can tell that your little guys are the same.

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