Ella & Rusty & Stu(GA)
Member Since 2010
Hi Everyone,
I've been meaning to post a Rusty Memorial for several months and finally have put together a slide show of photographs on my Google Drive. You can view it by clicking on This Link. Edward and I both hope you will like it. The soundtrack is "Body and Soul" performed by the Benny Goodman Trio in the late 1930s (Benny Goodman, clarinet; Teddy Wilson, piano; Gene Krupa, percussion). Rusty liked to listen to classic jazz.
Rusty journeyed to The Bridge on 14 July 2018. We miss his physical presence very much, but his spirit is very strong and we feel his presence every day. He was a wonderful kitty. We don't know how old he was, but we think he was 19 or 20. He was found in November 2008 wandering the streets of Plymouth MA, picked up by Animal Control, and brought to a shelter. When examined by a vet at the shelter he was discovered to be diabetic. Claudia (@cjleo) fostered him for about two years, got him well regulated on Lantus, and he was adopted through DCIN by Phoebe (@Phoebe_TiggyGA_NortonGA). Apparently he played too rough for a household of elderly kitties and needed to be re-homed. That's where Edward and I came into his life.
In September 2010 we lost our feline diabetic, Stu. We missed him and decided to adopt another diabetic to pay forward all of the help we received on this Board. So when we saw that Rusty needed a new home and needed to be an "only cat", we spoke up. On 28 November 2010 Rusty arrived at our home via a DCIN car relay from Detroit, through Ontario, overnighting in Toronto with Linda (@Linda and Bear Man), and arriving in Kingston ON, where we picked him up from Linda and drove him the final lap-- to our home in the Adirondack Mountains of NY State. Rusty knew he was "home" immediately and that night hopped up on our bed and snuggled down between us.
We had hoped he would be a good traveler, because we had plans to take him everywhere we went. And he was! During his years with us Rusty traveled frequently to our "camp" (aka "Camp Stu"), a tiny cabin on an Adirondack lake, and to New York City. He loved to ride in the car and sat on the armrest between his beans. He observed everything with interest.
Rusty was a social kitty and really liked people. He greeted friends at the door and often honored them by sitting in their laps. He was an excellent host. He liked to go outside and explore the yard and hunt chipmunks and squirrels (Rusty was a "rodent man" and had little interest in birds). He was a patient hunter, creeping low to the ground until he was within striking distance. At "camp" he was an accomplished mouser. At home, Rusty had a perch above the radiator where he liked to sit and observe. Several pictures on the slideshow suggest that he had a special relationship with some of the deer who frequent our yard. Other favorite places included our dining room table (in later years he loved to sit there with us and drink from his own glass of water), and the living room couch, where we would sit at night and watch TV and where, late in his life, I often held his dinner bowl for him to encourage him to eat.
Golly, we miss him! But we know he is safe at the Bridge with all of his old FDMB pals, cooking up a storm in the Bridge Kitchen. We look forward to that wonderful day when we will meet again. Until then, thank you Mr. Cat! You enriched our lives and you will always be with us.
I've been meaning to post a Rusty Memorial for several months and finally have put together a slide show of photographs on my Google Drive. You can view it by clicking on This Link. Edward and I both hope you will like it. The soundtrack is "Body and Soul" performed by the Benny Goodman Trio in the late 1930s (Benny Goodman, clarinet; Teddy Wilson, piano; Gene Krupa, percussion). Rusty liked to listen to classic jazz.
Rusty journeyed to The Bridge on 14 July 2018. We miss his physical presence very much, but his spirit is very strong and we feel his presence every day. He was a wonderful kitty. We don't know how old he was, but we think he was 19 or 20. He was found in November 2008 wandering the streets of Plymouth MA, picked up by Animal Control, and brought to a shelter. When examined by a vet at the shelter he was discovered to be diabetic. Claudia (@cjleo) fostered him for about two years, got him well regulated on Lantus, and he was adopted through DCIN by Phoebe (@Phoebe_TiggyGA_NortonGA). Apparently he played too rough for a household of elderly kitties and needed to be re-homed. That's where Edward and I came into his life.
In September 2010 we lost our feline diabetic, Stu. We missed him and decided to adopt another diabetic to pay forward all of the help we received on this Board. So when we saw that Rusty needed a new home and needed to be an "only cat", we spoke up. On 28 November 2010 Rusty arrived at our home via a DCIN car relay from Detroit, through Ontario, overnighting in Toronto with Linda (@Linda and Bear Man), and arriving in Kingston ON, where we picked him up from Linda and drove him the final lap-- to our home in the Adirondack Mountains of NY State. Rusty knew he was "home" immediately and that night hopped up on our bed and snuggled down between us.
We had hoped he would be a good traveler, because we had plans to take him everywhere we went. And he was! During his years with us Rusty traveled frequently to our "camp" (aka "Camp Stu"), a tiny cabin on an Adirondack lake, and to New York City. He loved to ride in the car and sat on the armrest between his beans. He observed everything with interest.
Rusty was a social kitty and really liked people. He greeted friends at the door and often honored them by sitting in their laps. He was an excellent host. He liked to go outside and explore the yard and hunt chipmunks and squirrels (Rusty was a "rodent man" and had little interest in birds). He was a patient hunter, creeping low to the ground until he was within striking distance. At "camp" he was an accomplished mouser. At home, Rusty had a perch above the radiator where he liked to sit and observe. Several pictures on the slideshow suggest that he had a special relationship with some of the deer who frequent our yard. Other favorite places included our dining room table (in later years he loved to sit there with us and drink from his own glass of water), and the living room couch, where we would sit at night and watch TV and where, late in his life, I often held his dinner bowl for him to encourage him to eat.
Golly, we miss him! But we know he is safe at the Bridge with all of his old FDMB pals, cooking up a storm in the Bridge Kitchen. We look forward to that wonderful day when we will meet again. Until then, thank you Mr. Cat! You enriched our lives and you will always be with us.
