Saying Goodbye To Mitzi.

On the morning of a Sunday that was supposed to be ordinary, a 35-year-old man found himself in an emergency veterinary clinic, holding his cat Mitzi as she was euthanized. Just twenty minutes earlier, she had been fine—eating her favorite treat, purring, acting like a cat on the mend. The host of As The Raven Dreams Podcast shares this raw, unpolished account not for pity, but because his listeners have become, by his own admission, "by proxy my friends." This episode is not an interview or a discussion; it is a direct, vulnerable monologue about sudden loss, the strange intimacy of caring for a sick animal, and the quiet that follows when a household of three cats becomes a household of none.

The Cat Who Tolerated Him

Mitzi was fourteen years old and had been with the host and his partner, Patience, her entire life. Unlike CJ, the cat they lost in January of 2026, Mitzi was never particularly affectionate with him. "She tolerated me and I fed her and she liked me for that," he says, "but other than that, she wasn't huge into me." This honest, unromanticized description of their relationship makes the grief feel more genuine—not the loss of a perfect companion, but the loss of a specific, stubborn presence. She was Patience's cat, and she made that distinction known.