Rainy day thoughts about Boomer

Deleted the vanity twitter account I had set up for Boomer just now. In the couple years it was active, the best tweet was typed in from my niece Isabella while he was staying in Indianapolis this summer - the first one from this screenshot:

Before deleting, I salvaged these pics Isabella took:

Sleeping!

Happy!

Keeping Nolen company

Kiersten took this on pic last Thursday

Curt's 36th Birthday Cake

I won't write the year here but it was A LONG time ago...Boomer was young too ;)

Christmas Eve 2008

Yet another difficult time for our family and Boomer mourned along with us. The day before we had to make the heartbreaking decision to let Isabella's childhood dog, Toby, pass on. I'm sure all our beloved furbabies are in heaven chasing balls together.  

Boom with Austin at Kiersten's t-ball games in 08

Boomer has passed on. Memorialize him with a No Kill Plate

On Sunday, November 18, 2012, about 6:30 pm, Boomer passed on. He had been experiencing an extreme loss of mobility which culminated today in difficulty breathing, a fast heart rate, and no mobility at all for several hours. He just set by my chair while I was writing, somewhat oblivious to his suffering until my sister Rhonda brought it to my attention.

God bless Jefferson Hospital for helping me end his suffering.

There's actually a really awesome way you can show an expression of sympathy. The reservation list for a No Kill Kentucky license plate needs 900 applications before the plate is made available. For every plate purchased $10 will go to a grant program for a shelter and rescues in Kentucky.

What was thought to be the deadline, Oct. 30, 2012, has been extended for a couple years,  so we have time to make this happen. There aren't quite 100 plates reserved, so in honor of Boomer appropriately,  we'll need 900 of his Kentucky friends will reserve a plate and get this program on the road. Here's how to do it:

COST:  $35Although all applications state a $25 fee and have a place to add to that amount, No Kill Kentucky license plates are a *total* of $35.  However, you must elect to add this additional $10 in the early stages of this process. Please see the application.  Programs to support a No Kill Kentucky will ONLY receive the $10 above and beyond the $25 cost. The $25 goes to the State of Kentucky.  $10 is the maximum allowed by the state.Send the completed application and  $35 payment to No Kill Louisville, NKK License Plate, PO Box 6655, Louisville, KY, 40206.  All checks should be made payable to No Kill Louisville.  To download the application, please click here.  The "point of contact" person on your application should be Cindy Schmitt, NKL Treasurer.  For any other questions regarding filling out your application, please email us at info@nokill-louisville.com or JessicaReid@nokill-louisville.com. 

Or for more information, visit: http://www.nokill-louisville.com/kentuckyplate.htm
Share info about the plate on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/367022473371269/?fref=ts

Boomer had been with me for the last decade, and touched so many lives through the years. His first home was in New Albany, off County Line Rd with my friends Brad, Colleen, and their kids, who I still need to contact. They had adopted him privately from a family in downtown New Albany who couldn't care for him, and I adopted him from them when they moved to California.

Through Boomer's life, he lived with me on the river for a few years. The best years of his life in many ways, because he thought of Cox's park as his yard. He lived downtown in Glassworks, the Henry Clay, and the Lofts of Broadway. And he lived in the Highlands on Bonnycastle, and Ellwood.

Most of the last 3.5 months he spent with my niece Isabella and her boyfriend Nolen in Indianapolis. They spoiled him in a way I couldn't possibly have while I was working in Iowa.

I want a place I can click to memorialize him with photos, videos and stories, and this blog, shall be that place. Easy url to remember, too: gogetthestick.blogspot.com. Here's some pictures to get started.

Boomer back in the River Rd days