F e n w a y
1986 -
1999 FENWAY
was born in around early April 1986 near Ithaca, NY. He was
adopted 20 June 1986 by then Ithaca College students Cory
Conley and Chris Coveney and took up residence at 318 E.
Seneca Street in Ithaca. Fenway
charmed his way out of the Tompkins County SPCA with his
handsome look and huge double front paws. He charmed
everyone he came in contact with and fast became a part of
the family, named Fenway because Chris missed
Boston. Fenway and
best friend/neighbor Sheri's cat Mirage (who passed on
several years ago) were fast friends. Other than the
infamous "Pookie" incident, Fenway led an uneventful
childhood.
In the fall of
1987, Chris and Cory left Ithaca and moved to Boston. The 7 hour trip
with Fenway wailing away was punctuated with a stop at a Western
Mass. Burger King for a yummy McFishwich. Dont' like that? OK, how
about my hamburger?
In 1992, Chris and Cory found a little sister for Fenway on a riverbank in upstate NY, and brought her home (also screetching all the way) to meet her very dubious and slightly annoyed brother. Their relationship remained slightly dubious for the rest of Fenway's life.
After Chris and Cory's 1993 move to 10 Bradford in the South End, Fenway really came into his own with plently of staircases to climb and his own special perch on the top of the archway overlooking the kitchen.
With the arriival of Lucas in 1995, Fenway was even more put out my the competition, so he changed his tactics from aloofness to complete sweetness and finally became the kitty we all knew he could be. He'd always been a purrer, but now there was a constant loud rumbling from his throat, and he (yike!) he started cuddling. He loved to stetch out in the sun. Kevin often called him "Luxurious Fenway."
On April 5, 1999, after being missing for several days, we found out that Fenway had died in a fall from our roofdeck. He'd been a happy, loving, loved pet for almost 13 years from college to adult life, through two daddies and a step-daddy, and 5 houses.
We will miss Fenway very very much, and hope he's happy wherever he's gone.
A $200 donation to the Tompkins County SPCA was made in Fenway's memory.
Tributes to Fenway