Pepper was such a sweet-tempered kitty. At 15, he took a freak fall and broke his left front leg. He had surgery to put a pin in it and his recovery took many months, but finally the bone was healing. Pepper was also diabetic for the last 3 years of his life. Alas, his kidney disease caught up with him just as he was scheduled to have the splint removed on his healed-up arm. We never got to see that day but I know he is running free at the Rainbow Bridge now.