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Sandi
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Loss of my friend
Replied Oct. 30, 2008
Loss of my friend
Replied Oct. 30, 2008
Loss of my friend
Replied Oct. 30, 2008
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- My website or blog:
- http://sanri06@comcast.net
- Proud pet parent of:
- Current-Tristan, a 30 yr old white dove
Past-Kiah-a German Shepard
- How we met:
- I saw her on the GSD Washington Rescue. She was going to be put to sleep in Eastern Washington at a shelter because she was too old. I got someone to drive her over to me before Christmas--she was my present. She was around 11-12 at the time.
- Pet likes:
- She liked to be with me all the time and would lay down in front of the large front window waiting for me when she knew I'd be coming home. She loved her soft squeaky toys (I had to have 4 of her teeth pulled and a root canal--she couldn't eat when she adopted me), and she would bury her squeaky dumbbell toys in the garden.
- Pet dislikes:
- She was afraid of fire in the fireplace. The dentist said since all her teeth were cracked, etc., she might have been in a fire and tried to chew frantically to get out of someplace. The vet thinks she was used as a breeder but then she was found wandering the streets in the middle of winter and when I got her, she was 52 lbs. I sure took care of that!!!
- Pet’s favorite spot:
- On her bed by my bed or on her other bed in front of the t.v., or wherever I was.
- Pet’s favorite toy:
- Her long football-type squeaky toy although she had a large toy box that she would occasionally get other toys from. She just never learned to put them back though.
- Pet’s silliest habit:
- Because of fusion underneath her spine, she would try to do a little hop when she was playing. The kids in the neighborhood would laugh with her when they would ask to take her for short walks (when she was a little younger).
- Pet’s sweetest moments:
- Always and at all times
- I crack up when my pet:
- Did not like me brushing her. When she went to the groomers (the only one who assisted her disability and would not require her to stand---which she couldn't), she would do fine but not with me. She would act as though I was trying to do something bad to her and would act very upset with me and try to look the other way.
- My pet is unique because:
- She was mine and I was hers
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Hey Ruth: I have been on here a lot. Sometimes I think I might be a pest. I have some pictures of our new puppy with her "elf"" ears to post soon. I'm not very computer savvy. You have puppies? If so, how is that going? We may try in a couple of yea…
Barbara,
In the DC Metro Area, there is a Beagle Rescue, Education, and Welfare organization (brew beagle). I don't know if are active in FL. Here's the link tor brew's webpage: http://brewbeagles.org/site/. Perhaps there is something on their page…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RainbowBridge.jpg
Can't you see the animals waiting? A lovely sight.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
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I feel terribly sorry for you, although I am certain that you made the right decision, which is the last and best gift that a pet parent can give. You need to allow yourself to understand that. So I will tell you a bit of my philosophy on this. I am not religious, but one idea I like to hold onto is the concept of "restoration," both for humans— and absolutely, for our animal companions. That is to say that, when you meet your family and friends in the "afterlife," (whatever that may mean for you, individually), they will be "restored," and in an optimal state: not "sick" or debilitated as they might have been when they died. "Optimal state" is MY word. What does it mean? Well, I don't really know, it could be different for every person or animal. Does it mean as an infant, (perhaps, the “optimal healthy state?”), or some other time? So, for my fiancée, who died at 53, I would take that as just before she became ill: perhaps 51. For a 3 year old cat I recently fostered through hospice that might mean: 2 years old. For another cat I still miss, every single day for the last 15 years— that might mean 14. But it might mean something else, for you, I cannot know. And we also probably cannot know when that period of "perfection" is set, since we are not aware of it at the time. The point I like to hold onto though, is the general one, the idea of “restoration,” that when we meet again, that person or animal will be “health” and “happy.”
So Sandi, my idea for you is that Kiah will be there waiting to meet you someday, and she will be waiting for you very impatiently, and I'm certain that her tail will be swaying straight in the air, (the way dogs do, when they are pleased and interested in something), furiously, so much so that you might expect it to fall off! How “old” will she be? I have no way of knowing, and perhaps, you do not either. But you may be able for now to go back to the day when she was stronger: and jumped up to greet you and fouled your collar with her slobbering kisses-- who knows? The "decision" on what that absolute time would be, would not be yours to make, it will already be taken care of. But what I think is taking place RIGHT NOW, is that she is returned to her beautiful self, whatever that time may be, and has doubtless made many friends on the other side of the bridge. She does not need food, she does not need to eat even-- her care is in place already and she is sustained by something larger, could we call it, for want of better, the "milk of love"? These new friends, be they animal or human (perhaps, she is reunited with "old" friends she may have met in the park in the past?) will comfort her and offer her companionship and play, and will sustain her every moment as she waits for you to arrive. She has found (indeed, they must have been waiting for her!) the animal companions you or your family may have had in the past. She does not know when that time will be, but she has no concern for that, for she is happy and makes others where she is happy too. That time may seem like ages away to you today-- but for Kiah, I don't think "time" has any meaning in that sense. She wants you to stay in your mortal state as long as possible, to be happy, to honor your current relationships, and hopefully, to give over your love when you are able to another animal companion. Because to do that, is to honor her. As hard as it may seem at this moment, today-- it may take you a long time-- she does want you to someday make the leap to give the love that you gave to her to another, and not let waste.
I do not know when this instant of reunion will occur for you, and I suppose that you cannot either. It may be that you are in a "different" restored state yourself when you meet again, how can you know? But I do feel that Kiah is content and occupied until that moment comes, and perhaps even romping about in this place over the bridge, which we cannot even describe, only imagine each for ourselves. So you can let your imagination run free, and contemplate your happiest environment for her, and surely, if you knew, it would even soar far above that! Trust me, you did your best for her, the right thing at the right time, and had she been able to speak your "human" language surely would have told you so. But you are to know that, on your own, as means of comfort and support to you in these hard days. I truly do believe, that she is happy. You should be too, as you can look forward to meeting up again someday, when you are ready.