Gold Stars! Rohn’s Choice

I don’t know if we’ve mentioned this before, but Rohn (né Julius) was a rescued cat.  

We got him through Feline Friends, a really great cat rescue organization in Chicago with volunteer foster families that take care of the rescued cats until they get adopted.  I dare, dare dare you to click on that link and then not get a kitty.  They are so cute, so completely, captivatingly, heart-breakingly cute. 

We spent a lot of time looking at this website, and Mac spent a lot of time on the phone with Toni from Feline Friends (they’re pretty much bffs now), to find not only the perfect cat, but the perfect match for our little family.  

 

And we found him: 

 

 

 

 

Those eyes, that face… and when we met him in person, we knew, because wow, what a personality.  And over the last two months he has proven to be exactly everything we ever hoped for.  Even Amarok would have to agree… 

 

 

We’ve often wondered, though, about Rohn’s past.  Amarok is also from the streets, and was rescued as a very tiny kitty at a very very young age – we’ve often thought of this as a good bonding point for the two boys.  Unfortunately though, we don’t get in on these conversations, and we’re left to wonder, Where did our little Rohny come from?  How did he come to be abandoned?  How was he rescued?  What was he like, in those early days?  

So imagine our surprise and our delight when we awoke this morning to an e-mail from Catherine, our new friend and Rohn’s Choice for this week’s Gold Star… because Catherine was Rohn’s rescuer.  

In a brief e-mail, she told us how, with a just-rescued dog already in the car one day on the West Side, she first spotted Rohn: 

Yep.  That’s sounds just exactly like our little guy. 

In fact, it sounds so much like him, that we’ve already adopted that phrase for every day use.  For example, “What?  I jumped in the sink!”  Or, “What? I’m playing with pink feathers!”

Yes, the Gold Star this Friday goes overwhelmingly to Catherine, both for rescuing Rohn so that he could eventually come to be part of our family, and for sending us this e-mail so that we can know a little more about our little guy.  

This post is a glut of pictures of Rohn in honor of her receiving this prestigious award.  Congratulations!

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