“RUSTY” HOEL
AUGUST 1, 2002 – NOVEMBER 20, 2004
IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS THAT WE HAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO OUR ADOPTED SON RUSTY ON NOVEMBER 20, 2004.
RUSTY CAME INTO OUR LIVES AS A BOUNCING ORANGE TABBY WHEN WE ADOPTED HIM AT THE AGE OF 6 WEEKS. HE QUICKLY BECAME A PART OF OUR FAMILY AND BECAME VERY CLOSE WITH HIS BROTHER BIG REDD WHO SADLY PASSED AWAY FROM CANCER.
WE HAVE MANY, MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF OUR SHORT TIME TOGETHER WITH RUSTY. HE WAS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL IN ALL WAYS. WE WILL NEVER FORGET RUBBING HIS BEAUTIFUL FUR, TICKLING HIS TUMMY, LOOKING INTO THOSE GOLDEN EYES, THE HUGS, AND CATCHING THE ODD KISS OR TWO. WE WILL ALSO MISS HIM SLEEPING WITH US, USUALLY RIGHT IN BETWEEN US, PURRING HAPPILY AS HE LAY THERE. SOMETIMES HE WOULD MOVE TO SLEEP ON OUR SIDES, OR AROUND MY HEAD CONSTANTLY PURRING. HE WOULD LEAN OVER THE SIDE OF THE BED WHERE HE COULD WATCH HIS GIRLFRIEND, ZYGGEE (A RED AND WHITE BULL TERRIER THE SAME COLOR AS RUSTY WAS) SLEEPING AND PURR HAPPILY AWAY AS HE WATCHED HER. IN ADDITION, HE WOULD PLAY TRICKS ON US LIKE PULLING MY BRAID AND/OR SITTING ON TOP OF OUR RADIO WHICH HAD A C.D. COMPARTMENT ON THE TOP AND OF COURSE WHEN HE GOT OFF THE C.D. IT WOULD STOP!!
ONCE HE LOST BIG REDD, WE ADOPTED ALONG THE WAY 3 MORE CATS. EACH ONE OF THEM HE TAUGHT THE TRICKS OF THE TRADE AND ENJOYED ROUGHOUSING AND TEACHING THEM ALL TO RUN THROUGH THE HOUSE EARLY IN THE MORNING AND LATE AT NIGHT WHICH SOUNDED LIKE A HERD OF THUNDERING BUFFALO.
WHEN WE WORKED AND LEFT IN THE MORNING, HE WOULD USUALLY BE THE LOOKOUT AT THE FRONT WINDOW, AND AS SOON AS WE DROVE AWAY, HE DISAPPEARED, AND WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT WENT ON!!
RUSTY HAD A VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR BULL TERRIER, ZYGGEE. THE TWO WERE INSEPARABLE. WHEREVER ZYGGEE WENT RUSTY WAS SURE TO BE. THEY OFTEN CUDDLED UP TOGETHER ON THE SOFA OR CHAIR AND SLEPT A FEW HOURS AWAY. IT WAS CUTE TO SEE THEIR TAILS STANDING UPRIGHT AS THEY WALKED TOGETHER THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE!! RUSTY ALWAYS SOUGHT OUT OUR COMPANY AND LOVED TO SHARE THE SOFA WITH ZYGGEE AND US.
RUSTY ALSO LOVED OUR BOSTON TERRIERS AND OUR GERMAN SHEPHERD. WITH THE SHEPHERD HE WOULD LAY IN WAIT AND SWAT HIS TAIL, THEN STRETCH RIGHT OUT AND WAIT TO GET BATHED, SPENDING THE REST OF THE NIGHT GETTING RID OF THAT GERMAN SHEPHERD GOOK. WITH THE BOSTONS, HE WOULD LAY IN WAIT AND AS THEY RAN PAST HIM HE WOULD POUNCE ON THEM AND THE WRESTLING WOULD BE ON.
THAT WE HAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO HIM AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE, BREAKS OUR HEARTS BEYOND BELIEF AND LEAVES A BIG VOID IN OUR LIVES AND IN OUR OTHER ANIMALS, THEY WERE ALL VERY CLOSE. ONCE WE HAVE HAD SOME TIME TO GRIEVE, HIS IDIOSYNCRASIES WILL BRING BACK THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES AND ONGOING THOUGHTS OF HIM SO THAT HE WILL NEVER BE FAR FROM OUR THOUGHTS.
WE WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS OUR GREATEST GRATITUDE AND THANKS TO DR. ALAN LAGIMODIERE, DR. SCOTT CLIFFORD AND THE WONDERFUL STAFF AT THE SELKIRK VETERINARIAN SERVICE FOR THE CARE AND COMPASSION THEY SHOWED OVER THE PAST WEEK IN TRYING TO TREAT RUSTY AND IN HELPING US TO SAY OUR FINAL GOODBYES.
MAY YOU REST IN PEACE RUSTY, UNTIL WE CAN ALL MEET UP AGAIN AT THE RAINBOW BRIDGE. HOPE THEY HAVE A SPECIAL CANOPY BED THERE FOR YOU!
PLEASE SAY HI TO BIG REDD (PFS36284), APOLLO (PFS937) AND SARA (PFS2444).
WITH ALL OUR LOVE,
| RUSTY |
| SHARON AND BOB HOEL |