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Ethan passed 06/18/26, almost three weeks ago, he was my soul cat. Ive been at a constant loss since. He injured his eye when he was a year old. At about 11 it suddenly shrank. ​ The vet we took him to eight months ago when this happened said we should leave and ignore it until it bothers him.

Well, as soon as it bothered him we took him to a new vet that let us know eye injuries had a cancer risk if left alone and that theyd have recommended to remove his eye the moment it shrank. We removed it, biopsy confirmed cancer had formed. He was gone in three weeks from the moment it bothered him. He was my reason for waking up, coming home, going to work, or going to bed at all. I dont know why I'm still bothering without him, and I miss him constantly. ​I dont know how to get over this.

Last photo of them together I managed to get

Cancer took him from us today, and I can't stop crying. I wanted to share some photos of him out of the thousands I managed to take over the years. I'll share more another day, I'm sure. How do you move on from a furry soul mate like this?

Happy Pets Remake Progress images

Reddit did not get the May update - but Patreon members did! Be sure to join the crew, even as a free member, to get the most direct updates on the project. They'll be getting more information in another post about the project just later this week. If you are a patron - this post will be familiar.

My real-life fur-baby had surgery in May and so progress slowed down. He is healing well, though we have a couple more appointments remaining to finish everything.

Regarding the Happy Pets progress that we have been able to make - we have been contacted by an awesome vector artist Berry who is willing to donate some of their time to help refine and update our visual assets. They started with getting our adult Cat and adult Dog assets updated. I've been extremely excited to get the next update out so players can see them in action, but we've got some other things that have been in the works too.

Not fun but cleaning up over 70 warnings in Godot will help debugging in the future and helped clean up the code in some spots I was letting build up. I also finally got a loading screen in game between scene swaps, and so there's a way less likely chance of things breaking and a spot the game can catch freezes or bad information. The loading screen will be way more prominent when minigames or rooms get more complicated.

I've finally started building the structure for setting up a tutorial/quest system as well. Once that's completed, we'll be pushing a major update for the multiplayer branch. We're estimating by the end of June for this. Be sure you're a deckhand in the Patreon crew or higher to get access to the multiplayer build now.

If you're interested in trying the single player version with a local save file, it's available at the link hidden below at no cost.

>!If you made it this far on the journey, thank you. You can test the semi-public build on my itch page here! HappyPets ~ Playful Paws by HobbyPirates-JazziB The password is 'h4ppyh0mes' but it wont be forever, so try it while you can! Let me know what you hated the most so I can get it fixed in the next updates!<

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I'll likely texture paint all the pets at the same time, but the place holder textures are fun to play with

I don't think I've ever made a meme before, sorry if it's been done before. Thought it was a funny idea the other day