I got Chracker at a yard sale in a box with 4 other black and white sisters. He was the only Tabby-cat in the box, and also the only male. Chracker has not died, that I know of. I just remember going off to my dad's for the weekend and returning to find that Cracker was gone. My mother and I thought maybe the woman (there was a lady that picked up stray animals and might have thought Chracker was a stray, wondering in the streets and whatnot)picked him up and took him home with her. I was so sad :'(