she was such a beautiful cat and obviously queen in your lives. Thank you for giving her such a wonderful life! :bunchflowers:

Thank you, Miss Tia!

She looks like one of my rescues...very pretty girl she was.
It gets easier with time, I had to have 2 put down this year.
They are God's creatures and I am their Keeper until He needs them.
I have enough to share with anyone who wants to give a rescue a good indoor life.

Thank you for saying so, Wolfy; and thank you for doing such important work for the animals who are abandoned, abused, neglected, etc.

I think they - pets especially; are God's gifts to us here on Earth and we are going to have a lot of explaining to do [collectively speaking] on the way they are treated someday.

Luke
 

My best friend Luke passed away October 19, 2013!
I miss him so so so so much!

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I am so sorry, StrongHealer,about Luke's passing. Can you tell us about him?

Hugs and love....MsTia

I am so sorry for your loss, Stronghealer.

Luke
 

He was the most gentle being I have ever known...more later-my heart hurts so so much

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:::hold tight to that grief until you can loosen, then tell us about Luke:::::rrose:

Why doesn't this process get any easier over the years? It's expected and accepted and yet the pain is still as great as the first loss. At times the world seems awash with grief. So I endure until it eases and try to remember that joy will return.

:rrose:

Have decided December 31 st.

Now it's real. omg.

Yoda is now free to roam and explore all through the Universe.

See you later at thexbeach. :bunchflowers:

SweetBliss,
I am so sorry for your loss. Warm hugs to you across the virtual universe.
I know it hurts like crazy. :(

Oh sweet bliss I am so sorry for your loss. What a sorrowful way to end the year...but it was done as an act of love and kindness. Blessings on your heart...

So sorry for your loss,hugs from a friend.

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:gimmehug:

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Thank you everyone.

Thank you from the deepest heart of me. :rrose:

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Some times they are our savior/life raft

Sometimes they are such a loss/void.

They don't live comparably long enough...among other comparables.

Unconditional love is so so unique!

My 5 darling fur-babies died 10 years ago, and I still miss them. Candit, Bandit, Sunshine, Petunia, and Ringer. Best dogs I ever had. Wonderful pets. They were great. Gosh, do i miss them.

My favorite person in all the world was a dog named Gertrude Jayne. She died last Tuesday, September 30.

She was kind enough to give me lots of warning about her impending demise and also thoughtful enough to make it undeniable that it was time to let her go.

We were together for 13 years, my longest successful relationship of any sort with any living being. She was beautiful and shiny and perfect in every way (except for that shoe eating phase when she was a baby).

The grief has been different than what I had anticipated. For the first few days I felt extremely disoriented, like I suddenly didn't know where I belonged. But, my gratitude for her life and for the grace and peacefulness of her death is actually stronger than my sadness.

I can't imagine there will ever be a day that I don't miss her, but I feel like she stuck around until she knew my life was filled with enough love to sustain me after she was gone.

Her younger brother was with us when she died. I'm not a religious person and not generally very spiritual, but he suddenly loves the water just like she did and is no longer afraid of car rides which were her favorite thing. So, make of that what you will, but it's giving me great comfort no matter how it happened.

Ugh, too late to edit. I'm bad at days but good at dates. It was Wednesday, not Tuesday. Her back legs stopped working on Tuesday afternoon, she died on Wednesday, which was September 30.

Sorry for your loss Uli. This is my 5th football season with out PJ. I miss that little white dog as much today as I did that first season without her.

Ugh, I hate this. I fell asleep crying and woke up crying, and no amount of crying will ever bring my Gertie Pie back. Why is it getting harder instead of easier? All but one of the other furbabies came running to the bed to snuggle me when they heard me crying this morning, which is so, so sweet, but my gratitude for what's good is not stronger than my sad today :(

(The one furbaby who didn't come is our youngest cat. She's not very human attached because she still has her actual cat mommy, but she's adorable and amusing nonetheless.)