One of my favorite colonies, Rimville, had a whole slew of problems that stretched on for years, and the animals were spared none of the misery. My original colonist's cat, Swampy, got hounded by a warg and lost an eye before I managed to kill the beast. She probably would have been better off being warg-chow in the long run, but I couldn't have known that at the time. As winter set in, temperatures dropped to a brisk -40C, and with so many other problems plaguing my colony (food shortages, lack of wood, and lack of warm clothes), I overlooked poor Swampy. The poor thing just started falling apart from frostbite. She lost one of her paws and her tail at first, then her other three paws when the heating went out in the shelter I put her in. Eventually the food ran out entirely and we had to eat everything - dead bandits, dead colonists, and sadly, the pets too. Swampy was served up as kitty kibble alongside the huskies. The colony went on to flourish after three hard years, but we never forgot the ones who died to make that dream a possibility.
RIP Swampy cat. X'(
RIP Swampy cat. X'(