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Sookee in a cage. I feel like William Wilberforce. Who'll free the dogs? |
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Sookee is a Pekinese owned by Grace Rushton. Sookee was locked in the dog kennels with the other dogs. Grace Rushton is always worried about Sookee and complains to her husband.
Biography[]
Boarded the Titanic[]
Locked up in a cage[]
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Do forgive us if we've kept you all waiting. Only, I had to see where they've locked up my poor darling." |
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Grace Rushton and John Jacob Astor with their dogs
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Oh, look. There's that frightful Mrs. Rushton and her horrid little dog. |
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Grace and John Jacob Astor visits the kennels and walk the dogs on the promenade deck every day.
Sinking of the Titanic[]
Rescued by John Jacob Astor[]
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I won't go without Sookee!" |
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During the sinking, Grace refused to enter Lifeboat 3 because she didn't want to leave Sookee. Joseph said that maybe the cage was nowhere to be found or maybe she had already been drowned.
Grace Rushton took Sookee and Kitty into Emergency Lifeboat 2
When Emergency Lifeboat 2 is being loaded, Grace is still forced by Joseph to get into the boat. Luckily, John Jacob Astor arrives with Sookee, Kitty, and the other dogs.
Rejected to board a lifeboat[]
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No dogs on the boats." |
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4th Officer Boxhall rejected Sookee to board Emergency Lifeboat 2
J.J gave Kitty to Grace and brought her into Emergency Lifeboat 2, but was rejected by 4th Officer Boxhall, but was protested by Grace. Sookee remains in the lifeboat with her owner waiting for RMS Carpathia.
Trivia[]
- It seems that Sookee was inspired by a Pekingese dog owned by Henry Sleeper Harper and his wife Myra, Sun Yat Sen, who was one of only 3 dogs who survived the sinking.