On Tuesday, AJ Allmendinger shared a sad update on Twitter. The 41-year-old racer’s animal cat Mr. Tickles died on Sunday night at around 11 PM ET.
In his initial Tweet, Allmendinger said, “It’s taken me a couple of days to write this. It’s with enormous sadness I relay the news that Tara and I lost our sweet boy @tickles_thecat who passed away Sunday night unexpectedly. He was the best cat we could have ever asked for. He was our family and there will be a huge void…”
Four minutes after the preliminary Tweet, Allmendinger finished the statement by Tweeting, “left in our hearts. Tickles had a lot of fans and I always loved being called Mr. Tickles’ dad at the racetrack. Always made me smile. Thank you to all who followed and loved seeing his posts. Tara and I will be forever grateful we rescued him from under the dumpster #4everacatdad”
Mr. Tickles, according to the Twitter account that Allmendinger began for his animal, was 7 and a half years of ages.
According to a post from Mr. Tickles’ Twitter account, the Allmendingers, “landed in Statesville, NC after the race in Daytona, and everything was great. But seconds later we experienced extreme shock as Mr. Tickles locked up, went limp, and passed immediately.”
The emergency situation vet that dealt with Mr. Tickles says that the cat likely had an embolism and suffered little if any.
Mr. Tickles, while just living a life of 7 years, did a lot in his time on Earth. The cat, which was discovered under a dumpster, took a trip the nation with AJ Allmendinger and generated a Twitter following of 6,839 fans.
Allmendinger, who has actually gone back to full-time NASCAR Cup Series competitors in 2023, began his season off with a sixth-place surface in a wild Daytona 500 on Sunday.
The Calfornia native sits ninth in the NASCAR Cup Series champion standings after the very first of 36 occasions in 2023.
