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By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 28 May 2012 10:28:23 +0000

Over the Rainbow bridge there is a picnic spot with my name on it. Waiting there, when they’re not out dancing in the breeze, are more loves than I can count. Some I owe for not knowing thier needs as well as I should have and others have taught me more than I could ever teach them. Raven, you were the dog of my dreams, the one that went everywhere with me and taught me all about dogs and how to love them and care for them. What a huge, beautiful beast you were. What a crazy time in my life you witnessed and stood by me….Winston, I’m sorry I left you behind, you were a little crazy and probably dangerous but you were so dang cute and almost human in your crankiness. I was coming back for you but you couldn’t wait … Miss Tessa, you loved me more than life itself. You tolerated all the dogs that came after you with a grudging acceptance that you would always be 2nd, 3rd or last. But you hung in there for 15 years. Always watching me and waiting for your turn to fetch the ball. You trained me and you trained each one that came after you….GOOD DOG Tessa Rae.
Ahhhh Spencer. You are/were what loving a dog is all about. Somehow every dog and human I ever loved came together in your handsome face. My little man. Happy and fun loving in your youth, loving us with such unconditional love. Ruling the roost with just a glance and a curl of your lip. You even stole Daddys heart from me and I didn’t care a bit….We miss you horribly, Haze misses you…perhaps even Nyah misses you….This one brings tears to my eyes each time I think of him. This one taught me the true meaning of LOVE.
And to all the dogs I’ve had that are not mentioned here…I wish the circumstances had been different for us all. That I’d gotten to know you better, been in your life longer or known what I know now. I miss you all.
And should I pass today and cross that bridge, there are three more to join you…each loved differently and seperately. Each one a lesson in love all it’s own!!!!

By: Russell Miller

Russell Miller — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:30:22 +0000

Thanks for this sad but wonderful post. I have to say I often have stronger feelings for animals than for humans. They love unconditionally. We mean everything to them! I feel responsible for my pet and consider it a failing on my part when they are sick, and especially when they die. This is foolish, I know. But I have cried many tears over pets I have lost, and felt a grief more pure than any other grief I’ve had. If there is a God I can only hope she feels the same love for us as we feel for our pets.

By: LTrane

LTrane — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:44:09 +0000

If I remember correctly, Ralph was a rescue, that thanks to MC had a happy life, and a warm place to sleep.

Do what you can to stop animal abuse. Rescue, donate what you can to a local animal welfare agency that you like.

A heart breaking number of dogs are thrown away and abandoned.

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:42:45 +0000

Ooh, the precious, precious boy! He’s so handsome.

My daughter and I were just talking about my familiar this morning over breakfast. I had to stop before we got to the hard part, because I didn’t want to have the memory of losing my MingNa to hang over me all day but it was too late. I’ll be giving her sister extra loveys this evening.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:08:51 +0000

Those who live with and love animals (and learn from them) are a special breed (no pun intended).

I came to my business later on in my life; doing pet portraits that are FAR FROM CUTE. These images combine a significant phrase that represents something from the shared lives of each animal and their owner. (I do hate the term “owner,” since we do not OWN these creatures, but should be honored to live beside them….).

I have found a great many of my clients come to me for portraits after their pet has died, often many years after….perhaps in part because the people in their lives have stopped asking about their pain, and if they mention it, they are chided into either “getting another pet” or shamed into silence (as in “how can you still be carrying on about that dog when there are people dying in Iraq?)

Ralph has the kind, wise, dreamy eyes of a soulmate.

Not fair, not fair at all….

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:07:12 +0000

Those who live with and love animals (and learn from them) are a special breed (no pun intended).

I have found a great many of my clients come to me for portraits after their pet has died, often many years after….because the people in their life have stopped asking about their pain, and if they mention it, they are chided into either “getting another pet” or shamed into silence (as in “how can you still be carrying on about that dog when there are people dying in Iraq?)

Ralph has the kind, wise, dreamy eyes of a soulmate.

Not fair, not fair at all….

By: Jude

Jude — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:58:30 +0000

I’m polyanimalous — I’ve had several animals who’ve left their marks on me like this, two of whom I’m right now dreading losing because they’re elderly. I remember losing my Hex when I was 13 — finding him suddenly and without warning gone too soon, and being completely shattered by it (the one time in my life I think my parents opted to medicate me because I just *lost* it) — and losing my Pebbles while I was away at grad school, so quickly that I couldn’t get home to say goodbye.

Thinking of you, Margaret.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:20:59 +0000

animal soul mates are the bestest

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:04:10 +0000

I will be you in (fingers crossed) several years. Our Scooterpooh will be 8 this year …I rescued him on a rural road in Tennessee while visiting. He was 1 pound and my first dog – he is 13 pounds now. I got married in March of this year and for the two plus years my wife and I have been together we consider him our son. Just the thought of what will come scares us both. It is not fair that these souls stay so briefly but their purpose is to love us unconditionally and hopefully teach us a few things – for me it’s patience. I confess I fear the pain his loss will cause us both.