My vet just called as I was browsing this site to let me know Soshi's ashes have been returned. We'll go pick them up tomorrow. I'm sad, but glad at the same time that we get her back. She'll finally be home again.
I'm going to have a memorial service, light some candles and play some jazz (she loved Harry Connick, Jr.!). Then we can say goodbye.

I am sure you will have some relief knowing she is back home with you. And all of the things you have planned will help to fill the hole that is in your heart. I know you have heard this often, but try to focus on the good and happy times. As time passes, this is what you will remember, and the unhappy memories will eventually begin to fade. Take care and God bless.

When I got my beloved furkitty and furdog cremains back I felt so much better. They are home with us and home feels better. We light a candle every Sunday for them and us and it helps tremendously to do that. My furkitty has been gone 19-mo and our furdog 1-yr anniversary is this month the 24th. I've already been crying for our D.J and I, especially, miss him. To this day at times I will get up from sitting thinking I have to take him out to potty and than realize he's not here. It still hurts really bad and the memories of his death comes flooding back with it getting closer to the 24th. Although the good memories have taken over, still the anniversary date is a bad time.......



Wanda

I, like Wanda, felt a huge relief when my Sasha was home again. I even paid extra (a lot extra!) to have her cremated the very day we had her put to sleep so she wouldn't have to be left overnight. (even with the added cost, I so appreciated the crematory making such arrangements for me. I guess the fact that I was so upset I was vomitting in their parking lot had a little bit to do with it!) Anyways, I think it's great idea to have a little ceromony for your baby, I'm sure she'll be there with you and thinking " I'm so lucky to have a mommy that loves me so much "!
I think it will make me feel better to have a little ceromony of my own. One for ALL the furbabies that have been loved and lost....better yet, one for all the poor furbabies that haven't been loved, and were lost without having ever known the love that our babies were blessed with .
Your friend in grief,
Kim

Bailey, my 13yr old ##er spaniel, crossed over 1 month ago today. Her ashes came home in a beautiful wooden box that sits right in front of the "Rainbow Bridge" poem. So I know exactly how you feel to have your Soshi back home forever. A friend gave me a small brown (Bailey was chocolate colored) ##er spaniel angel. It sits on top of her ashes. For some reason, having that lil angel there gives me so much comfort.

Take care of yourself and you are in my thoughts and prayers.

My baby is home! It feels better to have her here, where I know she wants to be. We had a small service for her, just my husband, our visiting friend (also a cat lover and friend of Soshi), and myself.
I started bawling of course, but it felt good, and we all said something about Soshi we particularly loved about her.
I know she was there listening.
She sits now in a little cedar box (I was surprised at how small it was) on my dresser. She's safe and warm now.
Love you guys!
Thanks for being there for me!
Brandy

I have my Buffy"s ashes still in the box she came home in on Dec 20,2005. She went over to Rainbow Bridge on Dec 5th. It seemed liked forever for her to come home, I had her have a private cremation. I want to share something so special with you. When I hold her box I feel warmth on my hand. I have friend that has her furry boy in the same orginal box and she told me that his box gets warm too. Its sounds crazy..but we feel it is their soul that is still with us. I recently stopped by at the vets and was able share with the vet tech that had cremated Buffy about my how the box feels warm when I hold it....she had never heard of it happening and thanked me for telling her....Well we all had tears in our eyes. I have added a little yellow teddybear angel sitting on the top with her angel wings and halo that she wore for Christmas Eve last year. I am so content that I had her cremated and she is with me along with her favorite toy and collar and pictures sitting next to her box... and also chippings of her hair in a angel keepsake tinket box .. I will not have her ashes removed from her special box....Buffy was a poodle/maltese and 12 years old when I lost her and miss her deeply everyday..(((Hugs))).Debbie

I have a curio cabinet in my dining room where I have now 5 urns and boxes with our departed cats, rabbits and hamster resting. Like everyone else who's posted here, I've always felt better having my pets home with me, and knowing that I know where they are and will always be. In these difficult times, when we've lost our pets, it can be difficult to find comfort some days, but whenever I look at that cabinet it gives me a sense of peace. Buffygirl, I think it's fascinating that you can feel Buffy's soul when you hold her box, and it's so thoughtful of you to tell the vet tech about that - that's the kind of thing that must make her feel so much better about what she does routinely.

I'm glad to know that everyone who's posted here has their furbabies back - we're really not as far from them as it seems sometimes, and to me just knowing that is a comfort.