Hello,everyone.Tonight I am feeling sad but I am getting better every day.It's been almost 2 months (Dec. 13th) since my boy Sox passed away and that anniversary has got me thinking of ways to honor his life.With the holidays fast approaching I need to hear from others on ways to help me honor my boy's life and pay tribute to all the good years I had with him.What's everyone else going to be doing in that regard for the holidays? I already made a small grotto out in our backyard garden with 16 votive candles (one for each year he lived) and that has helped me alot but what are some other ways we could pay tribute??Let's all put our minds together and come up with some ideas.........I do have one but I don't know if we could all pull it off or not, why don't we all agree to light candles in our beloved pets honor say,on the same night at the same time?Then we would know in our hearts that at that time all over the world people would be sharing in the same thoughts and remembering their beloved pets.Anybody want to try that with me? Please let me know and we can arrange a day and time...maybe it could be christmas eve,after all it's the most holy night of the entire year.I know,it's just an idea but I really want to do something for all of our lost pets.Maybe they could even see it from the rainbow bridge if we get enough people to light candles.Anyway,I guess I'm just rambling on and on but if you want to try this let me know.I'll continue to keep all of you in my thoughts and prayers and I hope each one of you has a merry christmas.Sincerely,Renee (Sox's mom forever)

Hi Ryan. Sorry about your loss of Sox.

I lost Pixie on Thanksgiving and thought I'd share some things I did that in an effort to honor her. I donated her RX food to a local shelter group and made a monetary donation as well in her honor. I also made a small donation to a pet loss hotline.

There is a candle lighting ceremony Monday evenings at petloss.com. I participated last week. The ceremony was very touching. It was also humbling to see the long list of pets being honored in any given week.

Anyway, hope this helps.

One last thing, I was inspired by a story I saw on a reality show a couple of weeks ago. This family lost their chihuahua, Peanut, and felt there was no better way to honor Peanut than to adopt another homeless dog. They did it in memory of Peanut. That helped me change my att*itude about adopting another cat and I hope to be able to do that soon as another way to honor Pixie.

Renee

I love the grotto thing you did for Sox, so sweet. I got a great personalized photo frame from 4EverInMyHeart.Com, really beautiful. They have a lot of things and they got it to me very fast. We have a permanent memorial for Moose so for the holidays I'm keeping fresh flowers on it. We will hang his sock and get him something to go in it.



I actually think this is a good idea. Like Pixie's Mom we did the candle thing at petloss.com, and it was good. One just for us, 'cause we know each other now, would be very nice. We could think of Sox and Moose and all our babies.

Love
Lori

I found a great site. It is www.christmas-decorations-gifts-store.com They have angel cat decorations (Our cats are angels now right?) You can pick one out that resembles your cat and hang it on the Christmas tree this year. I'm going to because my cat loved to climb the tree and perch herself on a branch and sit in there. I googled Tabby cat decorations and that's how I found it. There's lots of other good sites as well.

Hello ryancat, I really like your candle lighting idea as a way to pay tribute to our babies. For about 3 weeks I lit a candle for T.C. every night, now I light one every Friday night. T.C. and I were laying on the couch watching Ghost Whisperer when he just couldn't go on any longer. Just when I thought I had no more tears left here I go again -this brings back so many memories of that night. If we all lit a candle at the same time, what a wonderful way to unite all of us together -to me it would feel like you are all here with me. Take care Renee, Kathi

I have a personalized photo frame with the photo of the 3 beloved dogs I have had over 30 years in my life--cut and pasted so they are sitting together in a flowery field. I have a beautiful poem engraved underneath telling them how much we love and miss them and for them to wait for us until we meet again. When my beloved dog vomited on the grass before he died, I put flowers on the dried vomit spots until they melted away. I know that sounds strange, but to me they were a part of him.

Okay............it's settled...we are doing the candle lighting ceremony for all of our beloved animals.Let's do it on christmas eve at 10:00 p.m. eastern time.That would make it 7:00 p.m. out west. Remember that wherever you may be at that time you will light a candle (or candles whatever you prefer) and take just a few minutes to think about your lost animals life and all the happy memories you have of them.Try not to think about the sad things like how they died,were sick,etc. Let's keep it positive.Also think about everyone else's babies and send postive thoughts along to their parents and ask for strength for all of us that we have a good holiday season.I expect all of you to do this now that we've all talked about it.Anybody have anything else they want to add? Let me know how many of you want to be included in this ceremony,I say the more people we have doing this the more positive energy we will all recieve so it's a benefit for everyone to particpate.Happy Holidays everybody, and I am looking forward to our ceremony on christmas eve.Sincerely,Renee (Sox's mom)