This little Wonderful Man had touched the heart of everyone who has ever met him. He came into my life Dec. 24,1990. My ex-husband and I had gone to a pet store in Perry and seen him there. He was the cutest thing there. We both picked him up and thought what a cutie. When we put Ruggy back into the cage he climbed up it all the way to the top of it and cried. He no longer wanted to be in this prison and wanted to come home with us. Well right then and there he really won our heart. Since that day he had been my whole life. Nothing or no one could replace him. He was what you would call "one in a million".

Ruggy loved to lay in baskets and my pet net where my stuffed animals were suppose to be. When I would put my stuffed animals in the net he would throw them all over my floor just so he could have his net. Needless to say he won and i went out and got myself a new one. Ruggy loved to do rug bunnies and that is where he was on the ground and jump to your chest and if you ever got one that meant you were for sure someone special because he didnt give them to just anyone.

Before he got the cancer he weighted over 20 lbs. Needless to say he never missed a meal. He was always on the go checking out things and people. Love to cuddle loved giving and getting attention. He always knew he was the boss. No one messed with him.

But in May of 2000 cancer over took him and he passed on. A friend of mine well at the time was a boyfriend found a lump on Ruggy's side when we had gotten back from California in Feb of 2000. I rushed Ruggy to the vet and prayed everyday that the Vet would tell me that it wasnt cancer. The cancer was in his stomach and attached to his back leg. Well it was, I did everything in my power to keep him with me as long as I could. I spent hunderds of dollars on treatments for him just to keep him with me. I wasnt ready for him to leave me yet.

I had left to go to Ohio to see a friend of mine that was in a serious car accident and when I returned home I checked on Ruggy like I always did. (I would be gone just for one night when I did make those trips cause I didnt want to be away from him to long). Well Ruggy loved 9 lives Super Supper and when I went to feed him that but he walked away. I knew he was ready to go. He had lost so much weight he was down to like 11 lbs. I could not see him suffering any longer. So I called everyone that Ruggy had really touched and told them that I was taking Ruggy to the Vet to be put to sleep. That was the hardest thing in my life that I had ever had to go through. Cause I knew once they injected him he was gone and I could never get him back no matter what. I sat in the Vets office for over an hour before I told the Vet I was ready. I was holding Ruggy when he went to sleep. I stayed there and held him for another hour before I said my good byes. I kissed him and walked away. I so badly just wanted to walk right back into the vets office and tell him to bring him back to me. That i wasnt ready for him to leave me.

I had him cremated and when I get a house I plan on burying him in the middle of my rose garden cause of his love for them. Right now he sits in a box that is next to my bed. Ruggy you are loved and missed so much.