Tamra, I'm so sorry for the loss of your beautiful boy. He looks like he was a very special guy.
I have a very special boy too. Four of them in fact. And there isn't enough money in the world to make me part with a single one of them.
Look back with fond memories always of the special boy you had. And I hope for you that someday, somehow, you find another very special roo to share your flock with. Roosters really are such amazing and magnificent creatures!
I've lost many pets in my near half century of life. It never gets any easier. They all have possessed a special chamber of my heart. Each of them has had their own special personality traits or quirks. My memories of them are all special and many. Someday, when all I can do is sit in my big chair, and rifle through the old memory files, it will be my memories of my pets that I will pull out the most often and cherish every last one.
YES! Animals have souls! They say that the eyes are the window to the soul. If you ever doubt whether an animal has a soul, you have but to look in their eyes. It's right there, up front and honest!
Rest in Peace, my beloved friends. Someday, I too shall come to the Rainbow Bridge. And when that day comes, we shall never again feel the sorrow of loosing each other.
In loving memory of:
Gimpy Girl [BO hen killed by a neighbors dog]
Lacey [GSL hen, also killed by a neighbors dog]
LizzyBeth [BR hen, killed by a hawk]
Molly [GSL hen, died by misadventure with a flower pot]
Mayvis [LB hen died by misadventure with a newt]
Mildred [BO hen just simply went to sleep one night and never woke up
]
Rachel [BR hen, killed by either hawk or dog. Not sure which. All we found was a pile of feathers. ]
Alice [GSL hen, died by misadventure with a feed bag string.]
Rita [GSL hen, passed away of old age two months ago]
Going back a few years now:
Babe, my mutt dog that I had for just shy of 21 years!
She was my constant companion as a kid, and more than once kept me out of serious trouble in the forests surrounding my childhood home.
Sandy, our yellow lab, a.k.a. Big Dumb Brute, Sandman of Nisqually, Stupid, and LoverBoy. He was an incredible boy! Should have been a field trial champion if we had just had the time back then. He certainly had the smarts for it!
He passed of old age at 13.5
Lou, our chocolate lab, big, dumb and lovable to everyone but me, but that doesn't change the fact that there are still days that I miss her. She died of old age/heart attack [we think] at the age of 12
BugBug the cat. Oh how I miss you Bug! 16 years wasn't nearly long enough!Sweet and quiet, never bothered anyone and was one of the best little mousers the world had ever seen! Sadly, she passed away of inoperable, untreatable cancer.
Humphrey Penelope, my #1 cat of all time. She was trouble with a capital T, and I loved every single moment of our lives together. She passed of old age at 18.
Worf, son of Humphrey Penelope, and just an all around neat guy. He passed of God only knows what. Probably a raccoon. He just didn't come home one night in the spring time. I had heard and seen the raccoons out and about that night, but never dreamed that Worf would let himself be cornered by one. He was too smart for that...or so I had thought. Maybe not? He was an absolute sweetheart though.
The list goes on and on folks. As I said, after nearly a half century, I'm sure there are friends that I have forgotten to include. Some I haven't forgotten, and there in lies the problem. Even years after their passing, it's still too painful to put down on paper so to speak.
Peace be to all of our feathered, furred, finned or scaled friends that have gone before us. May they all be waiting for each of us at the Rainbow Bridge!
It doesn't get any easier with each successive pet and we all grieve & heal in our own way.
