sitting here thinking, what wondeful fur parents we are. having a sad night last night. i gathered my thoughts and began what was a journey into my memories of my girls that have passed. i miss them so. but then i started to think of everyone here. we are all going thru the same grief of the loss of our loved ones.
then it hit me. what wonderful people we are. caring and loving and all have become friends and supporters to each other (even in cyber space).

i came to realise that each and everyone one of us has bared our hearts and our souls to each other about the loss of our babies. and i realised we have gone to the ends of the earth and back again to do everything we could to help our furry friends thru ill health and even death. i guess i didnt see it clearly thru my giref and sadness.. that we and even myself. are wonderful people and that our furbabies loved us for taking such good care of them. we did what we felt in our hearts for them unconditionally , some with regret and some with not, i myself have dealt with both on that spectrum..

things seem a little bit clearer for me some days..and i know my girls loved me till the end. i have been having a hardtime coming to terms that i did the right thing about choosing to pts. but both were seriuosly ill and i knew that i had to stop the suffering it didnt make it any easier to make that choice and at times i still feel that maybe i made the wrong choice..i know i didnt cause both were so ill it was the right thing to do, i myself know if i was that ill i would want someone to make the right chioce for me. i wouldnt want to suffer.

i guess what i am trying to say is maybe i am coming to terms with all this and maybe i am healing a bit. tis a long road.. but i think i can get thru it somehow..
but i just want to say that each and everyone here is wonderful and your babies loved you with all their heart and soul..i guess i just want to say that even in my own grief i think of you all often and you are such wonderful people. and i know all the love you have for your furbabies, they took it with them to the bridge..

michelle

michelle

I think of you and Poohbear and Kitten often. It's so hard to lose two so close. Ten years ago I did it too, I lost two boy kitties just 5 weeks apart. It can be done, it's just not very easy. I'm so glad to hear that you feel like you are healing and coming to terms with your loss, that is a huge step. I hope you can find the kind of comfort I did in thinking about your girls together. My boys always slept together, I like to think they still do. Your girls are together too, along with some really special babies.

I think you are right, everyone here had a special love and connection with their fur kids. It's nice to 'meet' people like that, and everyone here is so, well just awesome. Thank you for all your help too.

Your girls love you still, just like you love them. Love doesn't go away.

Love

Michelle,thank you very much for the wonderful post. I agree with you completely..the people here are the best in the world.What binds us together is our love for our family members.Please don't ever feel guilty about putting your beautiful girls to sleep,you did what was best for them and they loved you for it.I think it's great that we've all become such good friends even if it is in cyperspace.Who knows,maybe it is easier to pour your hear out to someone you never have to come face to face with.We are all animal lovers and animal lovers are wonderful,caring and kind people.I think of all of you so often and I pray that we will all gain the strengh to get thur the pain of losing our babies.I will continue to keep all of you in my thoughts and prayers. Sincerely,Renee (Sox's mom)

Your post is a lovely tribute not only to all animals, but to your precious pets too; and if they could, they would give you a nod of approval and would be overjoyed to see that you are healing; for they would want only what is best for you, as you do for them.

The bonds that we share with our beautiful, wonderful animals is truly a special one; it doesn't need words; the love with animals is shared in the warmth of a hug, the gaze of the eyes...

People who love and cherish animals as part of their family truly understand what life is about: love and devotion. Nothing else in life means as much as these wonderful bonds that make this life so worth living.

Of course it hurts terribly when a loved one passes on, but better to have known that love and to have been able to love back, than never to have known it at all.

I recall reading an article in a magazine years ago, where a man had lost his young son to bandits while vacationing in a foreign country. Through his grief, he spoke of how he felt and, in relation to the love he'd had with his son, his words were "If grief is the price we have to pay for having known love, then it is worth it."

The grief is so hard; most definately; but it is the affirmation of our love; and the love, like the spirit, goes on forever. Only the physical part of us dissolves.

Definately, having people of like mind and heart, who care so deeply for their pets and for animals in general, certainly helps all of us, not only in our moments of pain when we lose a pet, but in helping us to come to terms with that grief as time passes - that mutual empathy is a true form of strength.