[stomachmonkey]

Thanks all.

Jut got back.

He went quietly.

My wife found him as a kitten outside her school 16 years ago.

He had been on the loosing end of fight with something and was torn up pretty bad.

We took him to our vet and offered to split the bill. He spent 2 weeks there in intensive care then he needed rehab at home. We were only supposed to keep him a few weeks until he was healthy again. Yeah right.

He had arthritis and had gone deaf a few years ago.

He also had a thyroid condition that we were managing with meds but the meds caused weight loss and he wasted away from almost 20 lbs to 11. So 4 years ago we did the Iodine 131 therapy and it worked. He got back up to 16 lbs which is where we maintained his weight to help with the arthritis.

He was a good boy, very sociable, more like a dog than a cat. When the doorbell rang he would stroll over and greet whoever came in. Never ran and hid like our other cats. He loved dogs.

He was very chill, I always imagined his human voice would be like Jeff Spicoli's.

And yes, the name is from the Valiant Comics character. My company owned Valiant at the time and we had just released the first video game, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. We named him Turok because he was shredded like he'd gotten into a fight with a T-Rex.