# Goodbye, Fuzzy.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-fuzzy/713819>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 28, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-fuzzy/713819 "2015-02-28T01:26:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-fuzzy/713819/21 "2015-03-01T16:06:10Z")

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^^Really?  
He’s gone.

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**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-fuzzy/713819/22 "2015-03-01T18:45:32Z")

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I’m sorry.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-fuzzy/713819/23 "2015-03-01T19:09:58Z")

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Please accept this as a friendly hijack, but Alan E. Nourse wrote a Sci-fi story ca. 1950’s, [Star Surgeon,](http://podiobooks.com/title/star-surgeon/a) about a fictional Star-Trek-type medical dude who had a companion/pet, a “Fuzzy.” The Fuzzy was “only” a pet until he/it was used to solve a problem in a alien environment, where his/its metabolism was different, significant, and critically, usefully, important.

Your description of Fuzzy as a ball of fluff reminded me of this story, as Star Physician Dal Timgar’s pet, “a blob of protoplasm,” was described much the same way.

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-fuzzy/713819/24 "2015-03-01T19:27:46Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> Please accept this as a friendly hijack,

(My first thought on seeing the thread title was H Beam Pipers “Fuzzy” series.)

My tears for you both **Sarabellum**. You were both lucky; you know love and how to love. And while the pain will fade over time, the love won’t.

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-fuzzy/713819/25 "2015-03-02T11:40:29Z")

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Aw. He had a good life and a relatively easy death, and he sounds like a wonderful companion through the different stages of your life.

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