Oh mannnnn that’s sad. Ha. Well even so (and I don’t know anything about “Mog”) but if mog is fictional she can come back, just like Luke skywalker, and Superman and Sherlock Holmes… if the writer or rights-owners decide it. Same can’t be said for grumpy cat 
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Yikes, that’s pretty young for a kitteh.
Junior Kidd is gonna be bummed to hear this news. 
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I have thought about this as well. When you build a brand on a famous pet how do you deal with the inevitable when it happens? I also often wonder what the stress of traveling being handled by so many people must do to these animals.
In any event, 7 years is so young - and UTIs are so often treatable.
I’m very saddened at this news.
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I suppose to most of us she only existed as an image, a meme… I’m certain the shape of her eyes had nothing to do with her personality. She was always fictional on some level and to that degree the memes can just continue on. Heck look at iconic celebrities like Marilyn Monroe who have had merchandise with their faces branded on them continue for years. I’ve been seeing a lot of Kurt Cobain merch recently too.
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Herman Slept…
103… take that I.M. Pei
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Multiple Lassies?
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Heck even when they are healthy there are always multiple Lassies as they are not all trained to do the same things on camera.
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Mog might be one of those things where you need to be British to have a reaction to (or possibly European, Judith Kerr was a refugee from Nazi Germany). The Mog books and The Tiger Who Came To Tea were part of childhood for a lot of younger Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z British people.
I haven’t read it (it’s on my list), but I hear that her semi-autobiography When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is also worth reading, but that is aimed at 10-15 year olds rather than the 0-5 age range of her other books.
Mog did come back for one more story, but that was for charity and it was explicitly stated that Mog did die and this was just a previously untold story from her life.
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Mog DIED!?
At least this Mog is OK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_and_Mog
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It is. Highly recommended.
IIRC (it’s been a while), the 1978 TV movie is quite good, too.
There is a new version in the works, currently in post production; no word yet on how that one turned out.
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I read Caine Mutiny the summer I turned 17; at the time it was the longest book I’d ever read. (I had more time on my hands right then, as my partner-in-crime was out-of-town for most of that summer.) I also watched the film version, which was probably the first time I’d watched a film, on my own volition, from before I was born.
Ahh, but the strawberries! That’s - that’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with geometric logic that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist!
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This will mean much to anyone who has (as I have) followed Formula 1.
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I was coming to post that here. The dude was a tough cookie given what he went through.
And the film Rush by Ron Howard really showed some of what made this guy tick.
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The film wonderfully captured the F1 excitement of those times and the Lauda-Hunt racing rivalry. It was expected, though, that Hollywood would amp up the drama (for instance) by revising the Lauda-Hunt relationship. Niki and James were actually good friends. Tons of pics out there showing them together; here’s my favorite: Hunt trying on Lauda’s gorgeous 312T2 ride for size and happy to do so, Lauda playfully attempting to pull Hunt out, and the Ferrari mechs/pit crew enjoying the show.
PS: Pick up ‘Senna’ documentary.
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oh man that’s sad, we were just talking about Mog on this thread. what are the odds…
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My dad (for some unknown reason, having been born and raised in Jersey and having lived much of his adult life in GA), was a huge Packer’s fan. In fact, his gravestone says “Go Packers” on it…
When I was a kid, he had one of those ceramic statues of a football player with Bart Starr’s name and number on the back. Whenever they won, he faced the room, if they lost, he faced the wall.
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I have a family line with ties for 2 generations to Green Bay. Being born in Chicago has been forgiven me, because I was not responsible. My mother, on the other hand… 
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I honestly do not like hand egg, but if you’re born in Wisconsin, you root for the Packers. Must be something in the cheese. 
Starr passing away is another bit of my childhood dying.
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