Hi guys,
I just got off the phone with 'Shape, and he may or may not be around for the next few days. His cat that he's had for like over 12 years died in his arms tonight and he's pretty broken up. I told him to take a break and mourn and come back when he's ready.
He said that if anyone has anything they need to talk to him about directly, go ahead and PM him and he'll respond when he comes on. Other than that, defer any questions or approvals to Dedonus until he comes back in a day or so.
I know that feeling. Oldman, my dog a while back, died due to poisoning because some bastard decided it was fun to toss poisoned meat in the pen they were in. All the puppies we had started to die one by one, and there wasn't any thing we could do, which was a fucked up situation. At first, Oldie seemed to be getting better as on the day before he died, he was up and moving. Wagging his tail, eating and drinking which made me happy as a clam. It wasn't until the next morning, I was informed by mom he had died. Now, the realization hadn't quite hit me until later that night and when it did, it was hard. I literally spent hours down stairs on the couch just... crying. It felt like someone had literally taken my heart, crushed into fine powder and the hole it left as sucking me in to a world of hurt.
So tell Shape to take all the time he needs and we'll be waiting on him when he gets back. A pet is family, no matter what they look like or are classed as.
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