WAILUA — Not many cats have been around for 21 years. Even fewer have been around for 22. Hilda Cannon of Wailua Homesteads said her Siamese, J.R., took his last nap on his 21st birthday. The orphaned kitten walked into
WAILUA — Not many cats have been around for 21 years. Even fewer have been around for 22.
Hilda Cannon of Wailua Homesteads said her Siamese, J.R., took his last nap on his 21st birthday.
The orphaned kitten walked into her home 21 years ago, she said.
“We just kept him.”
J.R. — named so “because he looked like a ‘J.R.’,” Cannon said — became her companion in Wailua, luxuriating in being able to play among the many plants that dot her landscaped yard and overflow into her patio area.
“He loved plants,” Cannon said. “So we’re going to put a plant on his grave.”
Cannon attributes J.R.’s long life to the fact that she only fed him canned cat food.
Her favorite remembrance of J.R. involves her leaving the house.
“Mommy’s going shopping,” she would tell the cat. “Do you want to go?”
“He would always answer, ‘Na-a-a-a,’” Cannon said.
