Death

Much like BitLife, death indicates the end of your dog’s life and is signalled with blood flowing down the screen and “Toccata and Fugue in D-Minor” by Bach. Your title will change to “Deceased”, and a gravestone will immediately appear on-screen showing the type of animal, residence, mates/lovers (if applicable), offspring (if applicable), and average value. The cause of death and reaction afterwards will be seen, your main habitats will be mentioned, and two bars at the bottom will indicate your happiness and love. Following the Ribbons update, you may recieve a ribbon on your grave depending on how you lived. You may read your journal, bulldoze a grave you don’t like, or share it in social media. Ways to die include a lot of reasons.

## Surrendering

At any moment you are able to surrender/commit suicide as young as 0. This activity is available in all habitats. If you click on it you will be told “Don’t give up on [Pet name!]”. You may surrender or “continue this life”. If you choose the former option, you will die and your potention will end, and you will always get the “Wasteful” ribbon. If you choose the latter option, you will still be alive.

## Old Age

If your character is too old, there is a good chance you may die from complications of old age. Your health will start to go down quickly at the age of 15: this is when you may be diagnosed with old age by a veterinarian. If it gets too low, once you continue to age up you may die from reasons such as natural causes, sleeping peacefully, or a surprise heart attack. However, you may also die from a reason associated with old age even though you are not technically considered old. Living for 30 years or more can earn the “Old Yeller” ribbon.

## Diseases

You may contract diseases from time to time but some can be deadly enough to kill your character if left untreated. This may happen if an unfriendly owner or shelter employee refuses to pay the money to treat a deadly disease. You may also contract one on the street if you stay there for too long. The latter is usually the worst place to contract such a disease as you are unable to seek any actual treatment from a veterinarian. While a pet of yours may contract many diseases, the ones that are the most likely to end in death are diabetes, tapeworms, hookworms, kidney failure, cancer, distemper, and rabies, with the latter only affecting pets that mate with an animal with rabies and become infected, earning an achievement. Rabies also cannot be treated and you will have to be put down if you are diagnosed with it. Dying to a disease at a young age (under 2) will earn the “Unlucky” ribbon.

## Assault

When your character attacks or annoys another animal with high aggression, they may attack you. Being assaulted brings down health and, depending on how much you have left, can kill your character after subsequent rounds. Aggressive dog breeds such as German shepherds, rottweilers, and dogerman pinschers are usually likely to kill your character, but bigger animals such as big cats and apes have a much higher chance. During house burglaries and paranormal encounters, burglars and ghosts can also attack you with weapons. If it happens to be deadly, such as a grenade or rocket launcher, you may also die from that. Dying to an assault will give you the “Ordinary” ribbon if you were older than 2; if not, you will earn the “Unlucky” ribbon instead.

## Euthanasia

Most of the time, if you are taken to the vet with low health and/or you are old, the vet may diagnose you with old age and recommend that you need to be euthanized, as otherwise you’d eventually die anyway. If you have an untreatable disease, such as rabies, or ar in too much pain, the vet may also recommend euthanasia. Less commonly, vets may determine that your character is too dangerous of a pet and euthanize you anyway.

You can also be euthanized for bad behavior. For example, constantly misbehaving at a shelter will get you spayed/neutered first, and then euthanized if the staff determines you’re too much trouble. But, if you manage to kill a human, you will immediately be taken to the shelter to get euthanized, similar to BitLife’s death penalty/execution for murder, and this will happen regardless of whether or not you have already been spayed or neutered. If you did nothing in life but what you did to get you euthanized, you may get the “Wasteful” ribbon.

## Animal Encounter

Sometimes, when you encounter an animal, it may or may not attack you. Should it attack you, your health will lower, similar to a normal assault. This can happen even if you ignore it and, if you urinate or lunge at it, then it is more likely to attack you. Sometimes, combimed with low health and the danger of the animal, you can die if it attacks you. Some animals such as bears, wolves, and crocodiles have a higher chance to kill you even if you ignore them.

## Witch Doctor

If you are on the street and take the witch doctor’s treatment after paying a random amount of public hairs/whiskers, it may kill you. For example, bubbling-green-liquid-in-a-cauldron may kill you immediately even if you only take one. Either that will happen, or your stats may be cut in half. You also have a chance to be cured of a disease you have but it is rare.

## Failed Minigames

Some minigames can result in your character dying if you fail. For example, if you play the Crossy Road minigame when you wander to a new habitat, you can fail and die by drowning in a river or being hit by a car. This usually happens due to low health. In the Sewer minigame, if you fail the Flappy Bird minigame and swim into the sewer pipe, you will sustain injuries and can possibly die.

## Lightning

When struck by lightning, you will earn an achievement and your stats may either be raised to 100% or fall to 0%. You have a chance to die if the latter scenario happens. Even if you managed to survive the latter scenario, your relationship with others will be doomed and so will your respect. Dying via lightning will give your character the “Unlucky” ribbon even if you are older than 2. This event is very sudden and happens without warning.