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At the risk of DG calling SPAM on me, collins is bringing out "Goodbye Mog" in which Judith Kerr's Mog (of The Forgetful Cat fame) dies.

I am unconsolable.

― Alan T, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am thinking of having the Tiger Who Came to Tea shot in a fit of petulance.

― Alan T, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought you'd written 'Moz'!

― geeta, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

INconsolable.

― Emma, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Archel, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh that's really horrible! Whats the point of killing of Mog? None! Just pointless sensationalism! This book should be boycotted.

― jel --, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That is stupid. I guess the idea is that pets die and a children's book dealing with this is valuable etc etc but even so this turns the Mog books into something they weren't before, and cheapens them a bit too.

(Sorry, going out with a nursery school teacher means I take a medium- sized interest in kids books)

― Tom, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is what it says on our publicity sheet...

Mog was tired. She was dead tired...Mog thought, ‘I want to sleep for ever.’ And so she did. But a little bit of her stayed awake to see what would happen next.

Mog keeps watch over the upset Thomas family, who miss her terribly, and she wonders how they will ever manage without her. Nothing happens for some time…then suddenly, one day, Mog sees a little kitten in the house. The kitten is frightened of everything – noise, newspapers, bags and being picked up. Mog thinks the kitten is very stupid.

But then Mog realises that the nervous kitten doesn’t know how to play and just needs ‘a little bit of help’. And so, Mog pushes the surprised kitten into Debbie’s lap, where it finds it actually likes being tickled and stroked.

The new family pet is settled in at last. But Debbie says she will always remember Mog.
‘So I should hope,’ thinks Mog. And she flies up and up and up right into the sun.

― Alan T, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh my god, tears are starting in my eyes! i am such a sentimental fuckwit.

― katie, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What is the new kitten called? This is my one concession to sappiness, I'm afraid I really can't muster much grief over the death of a fictional cat.

― Emma, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

in the sun she meets the lesbian supply teacher that wendy testerburger ordered fired there, by iranian terrorist rocket

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's really sad. I love Mog.

― Elisabeth, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alan - Go and find a copy of "Badgers parting gifts", it will prepare you for the inevitabilty of mortality.
Find a nice quiet spot to read it as it will make you cry (claim hayfever or something).
I used to scoff at books like this, but if they can prepare kids (and Alan) for grief then surely it's a good thing?

― Simeon, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no i was not crying over the death of a fictional cat, more over the deaths of some much loved deceased pets (RIP timmy, simon, and ozzie the cats and byron the dog) and thinking how much i wuv the nu- kittens hank and dolly and hoping that the spirit of the deceased pets is smiling on them or something. see? sentimental fuckwittery!

― katie, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess if Mog really wasn't dead flying into the sun would pretty much finish her off.

― Pete, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw "the Badger's Parting Gifts" on "Die Sendung mit der Maus" a few weeks ago, and I was, in fact, moved to tears.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shite, it made tears sting in my eyes too. Damn it. I didn't know I loved Mog so much until I'm going to lose her!

― toraneko, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Couldn't they just have retired Mog gracefully and sent her here?

― Archel, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Waaaaaaah! :( :( :(

(Ahem. Sorry.)

― soppy fool, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh
my
God.....
Is it only a matter of time before Wendy finds Bob under a pile of bricks having been crushed to death by a freak accident with a trowel and a bag of cement? Or will Geoffrey find Bungle having been beaten to death in a Brighton alleyway by gay-bashing skinheads? Or will Bagpuss die of a heart attack because his obesity became out of control? And anyway, don't children learn that pets die the first time you have to have a funeral procession complete with matchstick cross for that goldfish you won at the fair a week ago? ` Oh dear.....why can't they leave children their innocence just a little longer??? Somebody pass me a tissue, please *sob*

― C J, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mog?

John's frog Stefan was flushed in Ally McBeal this afternoon. I nearly cried when I remembered what was going to happen.

― Graham, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course, me, if I had a choice, I'd like to see a professional hit on Tinky Winky in a Reservoir Dogs style but you can but dream.

― C J, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway this has already been done once, in The Sunshine Cat, so there is no need for any MORE wanton murder.

― Archel, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For the Americans -- Mog exactly is...? (Besides being a cat, obviously -- has this series been around for a long while?)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mog is a timeless classic, been around since the 1970s. Every child in the UK has probably read a Mog book at school.

They still read them now..........

Poor Mog.

― C J, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

See here and < ahref="http://www.moggies.co.uk/amazon/judith_kerr.html">here, for example.

― Archel, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit. I am too hasty in my typage. Here I mean.

― Archel, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Meg and Mog I remember, but Mog?

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0140501177.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Graham, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was distraught at the prospect of mog from FF3 being dead, not whatever this british thing is.

― bc, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pah, your fake Mog isn't even a proper Moogle, these are the real Moogles. (sorry BW/HW, if you ever google your way here...)

I suppose 32 is an impressive age for a cat, and I didn't even know she'd had kittens. Kittens! Swoon! After my time, I suppose. Perhaps I should have children after all just so I can have an excuse to read kids' books again.

― Rebecca, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

our muggles are better than yours

― bc, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

I am so upset and my mums even worse.

I reckon boycotting the book is a great idea.. think of all the extra publicity it will create and a whole new mass of readers!!!

LET MOG LIVE. MOG CAN'T DIE. Cant they make the next book "Mog was just dreaming...Mog is alive really" or "Mog finds the magic elixier of life?". I'm sure Mog has plenty of adventures left to do.

Is there anyway we can contact JK?

Amy (22 1/2 years old)Its nice to have a cat that doesn't snuff it.

― Amy, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

I just heard. I am devastated. Okay, 32 is a good age for a cat, even a fictional one. But still, we have grown very fond of dear Mog. I was a bit taken aback when she had kittens (was Ginger the father?) as the Thomas family SHOULD have had her spayed. Let's hope they will do so for the new kitten. Before Ginger gets to her.
The staff of Mold Library wish me to express their sadness over Mog's death -- we all got wet-eyed. Sentimental? Us?

― Terri Beckett, Friday, 4 October 2002 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps the greatest one liner of all time?

Mog was tired. She was dead tired...Mog thought, ‘I want to sleep for ever.’ And so she did.

― Engleburt Humpledink, Friday, 4 October 2002 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Mog is alive

http://www.welovethisbook.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_small/public/uploads/legacy/JK_and_Mog_0.jpg?itok=pSCJw7FC

― soref, Saturday, 14 November 2015 22:44 (ten years ago)

I was kind of unsure about the idea of Mog being brought back from the dead to shill for sainsburys, but I do quite like the advert. has anyone seen the book version?

― soref, Saturday, 14 November 2015 22:49 (ten years ago)

well this was predictable

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xmog+toy.TRS0&_nkw=mog+toy&_sacat=0

― soref, Sunday, 22 November 2015 17:36 (ten years ago)

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