It is with a heavy heart I am writing this post. Fred had become increasing ill over the past week, and he was shutting down. The only right thing to do was to be as good a friend to him as he had been to me, and help him out of his pain. We were with him to the end, and he went peacefully, curling up on his towel, and leaving his frail little body. I will miss my little Fredlump.