WELCOME TO THE ROCKY
MEMORIAL GARDEN
All animal breeds welcome in
this garden.
This page is a way of fundraising for our feral cat program. To have your pet memorialized here send a picture and/or a story online or via snail mail to our webmaster and your pet will be added to our virtual memorial garden. A donation to the shelter is requested, but not require
Digitally: Simply
attach your digital picture(s) to the e-mail with your pet's name, tell us a
little bit about your pet and let us
know that you sent your donation through paypal. Our e-mail address is
adopt@justanimals.org and use the
make
a donation button below.
U.S. Mail: Send your
photograph(s) and a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope (So we can return your
picture) to the address
below.
Send to
Rocky Memorial Garden
c/o Just Animals Shelter
PO Box 298
Seneca, IL 61360
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Rocky the Shelter Cat Rocky was a friendly boy who came into the shelter at the age of 10. He served as the shelter's cat for six years. He greeted everyone who visited the shelter and kept a blog for the last few months of his life. We lost him on October 4th of 2006 and he has been sorely missed. The shelter office just isn't the same without him. Deeply missed by everyone at Just
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Coach Coach was a cat who had a hard life. He came into the shelter with other cats from the home of a hoarder. He was completely unsocialized at that time. Over the eight or so years he lived at the shelter he became more socialized, but never reached the point where he would have been adoptable. He enjoyed life at the shelter and getting love from the catroom volunteers. Unfortunately, Coach started going into kidney failure and, despite all efforts, needed to be euthanized two days before Christmas in 2006. He was a nice cat and loved to be petted by the few people he trusted. He will be missed by all those who worked with him at the shelter. Seneca, Illinois |
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Jethro Jethro was an active young boy who came into the shelter at the end of July 2006. During the time he was at the shelter he made his attitude known. He didn't like to be held and made sure all the other cats kept their distance. Early in January of 2007, he started losing weight. When he was taken to the vet it was discovered that he was in severe kidney failure and his liver was beginning to shut down as well. Jethro had to be euthanized on January 6th of 2007. Looking back we now know that Jethro probably had an attitude because he was in pain and it hurt to be held. His handsome self will be missed in the catroom. Post Script - We believe that Jethro was one of at least two cats to die at the beginning of the year who may have been killed by tainted cat food. Seneca, Illinois |
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Lucy Lucy came into the shelter as a very pregnant mama cat, who, once she had raised her kittens, was adopted. Unfortunately she ended up being picked up by animal control two years later. Her foster mom drove all the way to Mundelein, IL to bring her back to the shelter. Once back we noticed a small area of missing fur and skin. The regular tests were run which all returned negative. Within a week, Lucy had lost all of her fur and top layer of skin over her entire back half of her body. The only humane thing to do was to have her euthanized on March 14th, 2008. The doctor suspects that she may have been dipped into something toxic. Lucy was a very sweet natured cat and was deeply cared for by everyone who worked with her at the shelter, but especially her foster mom. Seneca, Illinois |
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Tomcat I recall the night as if it happened only yesterday. December 20th, 1997. It was miserable evening with light drizzle and temperatures hovering near the freezing mark. You were crying out for help that night. By chance and great good fortune I was there to hear it. We struck a bargain: I promised you a warm, loving home and for your part, you offered to fill a void in my life, one whose existence I wasn't even aware of, somehow you sensed its presence and responded to it with your special brand of innocent unreserved trust. With the benefit of a decade's worth of hindsight I have to wonder who was rescuing whom on that particular evening. Well, my dear Tomcat, wherever you are now, I want you to know my love goes with you. You have asked for so little and have given back so much. You truly did make the world around you a better place. So I want to thank you, my beautiful friend. Tim Anderson |
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