I am very sorry for your loss. I believe you will be reunited someday in the future.
I have a Cocker Spaniel named Sammy who is not doing very well right now. He will be 12 yrs. next month. It is very hard to loss a member of the family.
I’m sorry for your loss. I love animals. I’ve always been a shy and somewhat lonely person. Through my loneliness, there is always a constant, my pets. It started off with one dog, Buttons. She is 12, and I worry with each passing year. She has been there through everything, and I just can’t imagine life without her. We now have 4 dogs and 2 cats. It would always seem another one would come along in need of a home or a loving master. I’ve only lost 2 pets. I’ll share one story.
Back when I had just 1 dog and the 2 cats, a little cat started coming to our house. She was a tiny little cat, and she was not friendly. I coaxed her with food and time. Finally, one day, she let me pet her. Instantly, she seemed relaxed to know that someone was nice to her, that someone cared. My Dad and I would walk the dog, and Sheba (as I named her) would follow. As soon as she saw us, her eyes lit up. She would run and rub all around our legs. She would follow us wherever we went. When the weather began to grow colder, we decided to keep her, and we took her to the vet. I remember putting her in the cage and her looking away with a sense of betrayal. I promised we would be back after the vet checked her out and she was spayed. When I came home from school, my mom told me she had feline AIDs. It’s not contagious to humans, but it is extremely contagious to other cats. We couldn’t take her, and vet recommended having her put to sleep. She was apparently in advanced stages of the disease. She was put to sleep while I was at school that day, and I never got to say goodbye. I still feel guilt like I betrayed her, but I cried for a couple days nonstop.
Anyway, you post made me sad. I know the pain you must be going through, and I also know the pain that I went through and will go through when I lose my pets. It is makes you feel better, I read an article in the paper written by a Catholic Priest. He said that all God’s creation is good to him, and God would never throw his creation away never to be seen again. I read a quote that said, “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went”.
A few other dog quotes:
Gloria Allred
“The more I know about men the more I like dogs.”
Charles De Gaulle
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
Diana Black
“If dogs could talk, perhaps we’d find it just as hard to get along with them as we do with people.”
Alexander Pope
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
God Bless!
He’s working on 200 holes in heaven, waiting for you to fill them.
As I’ve told myself in my own grief:
“better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”
Brought a tear to my eyes....
God was very benevolent to mankind when he created man’s best friend.... And cats are very cool too.
May the God of all comfort keep your heart at peace. Losing a pet you love is very difficult, I know.
I know what you’re feeling! My pets are all getting old. Not looking forward to that. Find someone new to love! So many critters out there need a home.
Hugs,
AuntB
The Power of the DogSorry for your loss
Rudyard KiplingTHERE is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet’s unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find it’s your own affair
But . . . you’ve given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!).
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone wherever it goes for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear.
We’ve sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent.
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we’ve kept ’em, the more do we grieve.
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long
So why in Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
Buddy was a lovely dog. RIP Buddy.
~~~Tears~~~
If tears could build a stairway,
and memories were a lane,
I could walk right up to heaven
to bring you home again.
No farewell words were spoken
no time to say goodbye
you were gone before I knew it,
and only God knows why.
My heart still aches in sadness
and secret tears still flow,
what it meant to lose you,
no one will ever know
I’m really sorry to read about your loss. You were blessed to have such a good friend .. and he was lucky to have you.
My screen fogged up too much to keep reading.
I had to stop and go hold my own special buddy, Romeo, for a few minutes.
I finished reading the tribute and am very happy to have read your whole story.
We are well served by our dogs, when we well serve them.
Congratulations on the fine job you did...Master.
Buddy was a lucky little guy.
I’m glad you’re holding on to his blanket and toys. When the time is right, I spect Buddy will send a new companion into your path.
It hurts to read of your discovery that your pal was gone - like my coming home from work to find my collie in much the same way. But there are many good memories too, and that’s fine. I guess that’s why I now insist on keeping a pair of dogs of staggered ages, so that when one passes on, there’s still another entrusted to me for love and care. That doesn’t lessen the heartache, but it adds a whole new dimension to the relationship as the formerly low ranking dog grows into an alpha - almost a new dog, really.
Hold on to your memories. He was a beautiful dog. Someday when the time is right ... it won’t be disloyal to love another.
I’m so sorry.
Well said.
From a fellow dog lover who shares your perspective on their role in our lives. My old dog Beauregard lived 17 and a half years. Dumb, sweet Jake just passed 13 years. They love well and remind me of how much I should cherish the Lord.
Did you hear the joke about the agnostic flea? He wasn’t sure there was a Dog :-)
Sorry to hear of your loss.
Sorry to hear of your loss.
Good Dog... go Home, boy.
There, at the bottom of the stairs leading up the Pearly Gate, lies a dog who waits. Live every day knowing that at the end of all things, someone waits for you...
all hard days will eventually come to an end, and they will welcome us Home.
Prayers to your friend and to you.
Buddy was so loved and he knew it, trust me. I can’t bear the thought of losing my “buddy”. I smother him with so many kisses every day it annoys him. I just want him to know how much he means to me. He’s my baby.