A sad week for our family. ETA:Thank you so much for the kind posts.

[Lunachick]

I'm so sorry you lost both your boys.....I'm also a cat person. I will always have them. They are unique little creatures aren't they?

You know what this means don't you? You have to adopt more!

I have 3 cats now, and looking for another to adopt soon! I hope the pain of losing them starts to lift for you, your wife, and your other cats.

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

Any chance you have pix to post of these two great cats? Would actually be kind of nice to have a thread here to use as a "wall" for our departed companions...

Know what you mean that it never gets easier. Big hole in our lives whenever one of our pets moves on. Very sorry for your loss.

 

[ChooksChick]

Jeff, your post made me cry- I'm a big baby, though, so it doesn't take much...

I'm so sorry you had to go through that alone- and sorry your wife wasn't there to share in it...it's a horrible thing to lose a friend, but to be separated at the time must have been very tragic.

We have loved and lost cats around here, and are down to one for now- can't have more animals than we do, because I get attached to each the same way, regardless of species!

Bless your family and I hope you can love on each other enough to make it through this well.

I'll share a little story that a friend who recently lost her husband shared with me- we lost our daughters' 2 guinea pigs within a week of each other and it was great for my girls.

The Dragonfly

Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads,
there lived a little water beetle in a community of water
beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond
with few disturbances and interruptions.

Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of
their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a lily pad and
would never be seen again. They knew when this happened; their
friend was dead, gone forever.

Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge
to climb up that stem. However, he was determined that he would
not leave forever. He would come back and tell his friends what
he had found at the top.

When he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the
surface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so
warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept, his body
changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful
blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body
designed for flying.

So, fly he did! And, as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole
new world and a far superior way of life to what he had never
known existed.

Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking
by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them, and
explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been
before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended.

But, his new body would not go down into the water. He could
not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he
understood that their time would come, when they, too, would
know what he now knew. So, he raised his wings and flew off
into his joyous new life!


~Author Unknown~

 

[Serrin]

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Oh ChoocksChick! That is so wonderful! Thanks for sharing it. No matter what your age, it's a beautiful way to look at the passing of friends and family. We're not dying, we're going on to something so much better that mere imagination can't hold a candle to the reality of it!

 

[Sissy]

I am so sorry you lost your little Friends.
here sits Lucy n Ethel. twins, part Mau,,
we adopted and love
. three years ago.
plus Boots who was dropped on our road.
3 darling cats that are so much part of our lives we too would be lost without them three little clowns that make our day with smiles.
Time to get more. it will help your hurt.