Posted on 04/30/2013 5:34:30 PM PDT by Salamander
Halla the puppy has crashed
So sorry for your loss. :(
She is with the Lord. She is free and happy and oh so healthy. She will be there waiting.
Amen and amen!!
Salamander knows she has our prayers one and all.
I am so sorry Salamader. Prayers
Thank you for the video of feisty little Halla. I’m still crying. I’m thankful that I was able to help
a little with her, and I regret nothing but that I couldn’t save her for you.
I think “I Am Made of You” is my favorite of Alice’s songs, mainly because of all the spiritual
levels that can be heard in it, as you have mentioned so astutely.
Be comforted and heal, my dear friend. Don’t second guess yourself, and don’t think for one
second that Halla resents a moment of her life with you or the decisions that you made.
Hey Sal,
Not as if you have the time or patience to deal with this just now, but I posted something quite insensitive on this thread not so long ago and I am sorry I did it. As an explanation I can only say that I posted quickly and wasn’t even sure what the thread was about. If I hurt your feelings, and if I didn’t, I’m sorry for being a jerk.
I wish for you love and peace - and by the way always found solace throgh the loss of many dogs on the farm over the years in Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece, which I posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2968429/posts
golux
So sorry. God bless you and her sweet little soul.
Shari, I am stunned to read this and know how you are suffering. Please take comfort in the fact that you gave her nothing but love and she returned it in full. Dogs love with all their ‘being’, you know that. Sending you prayers and ‘hugs’ of comfort. I care.
I feel so raw...like I don’t have any skin.
Everything hurts.
I just let the other dogs out in the yard and the rain falling on me hurt.
Now I’m staring at my other dogs, wondering if they look like they’re breathing ‘right’...is their heartbeat ‘normal’..are they really okay?
I think I might be falling apart.
Once again, you and others gave me time with her that I would not have had, otherwise.
We got another 22 days with her.
We got to really ramp up the spoiling and loving to ridiculous levels.
We barely left the house except to get her whatever she wanted and one of us was with her all the time, with only a couple of exceptions..which I will always regret.
I cannot get back those 20 or so hours that we could’ve been here with her.
I only had 5 minutes with her yesterday before she seized.
I wish I’d had 5 hours so I could’ve given her my daily showering of love..but I missed the chance.
So many regrets.
I’ve jumped the gun on threads and made an ass of myself, at times.
Never on a ‘death thread’, though.
I’ve learned the hard way to skip to the end before posting, lest I crush someone’s heart.
But stuff happens, I reckon.
I understand. The hurt is so intense at first. You should cry and cry, it does help. I’m glad you have the other dogs to help occupy you.
Potlatch was the name of my last little dog. He loved me above all, and would lie by the door if I was gone. I had to watch him get sicker and sicker when he was 13yrs old and I had to take him in to be put to sleep. I thought I’d never get over it......but it eases with time.
Try to sleep and do things to occupy your mind. Go somewhere and don’t just dwell on it constantly. I know words are easy to say, but most of us have lost loved pets and know what you’re going through.
A person on the Doberman forum said this:
“Losing a young dog is just ... Different. The pain is different. The loss is different. They are never with us long enough, but this is just different.
You know you did the right thing, and all the pain you feel right now is pain you saved her from.”
Yes, it is different.
A very bad different.
I would love to get away from here for a few hours but I know I’ll end up bawling like a fool in the middle of Best Buy or something.
I wish I still had a horse.
I’d go into the woods and not come out for a long time.
There is truth to what they told you. Length of time does make a difference. I lost a baby boy at 4 months when I was young, and then lost my adult daughter 6 months ago. There is no comparison. Memories are all we have and the more memories the harder it is.
I wish you still had your horse, I used to have horses when my kids were growing up and the riding, the wind in your hair, just a lovely feeling.
Each day will get easier and sometimes I’m amazed at how fast time passes. Time waits for no one and you never get over the loss of loved ones. I’m keeping you in my prayers.
This is not great quality but the love in it is strong and true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVNBaOQg7ak&feature=youtu.be
I’ve been told she was here for a reason.
I can see at least one reason clearly, now.
The song is very special to me, partly because it’s Alice doing another very moving “God” tune but mostly because I realize now that I am truly made of all of *you*.
In the 12 years I’ve been on FR, I’ve found the friendship, the love, the loyalty, the compassion, the acceptance and understanding that I never had before.
The story of Halla is my story, in a way.
Like her, I was a damaged little stray and I found people who would take me in and love me anyway, just as I am, with all my many flaws and quirks.
I didn’t think people could ever love me unconditionally like my dogs do but I was wrong.
I am very humbled by what I have found here...my chosen family.
I am made of you.
Shari
[Joe and Slings, could you please ping your ginormous lists for me?]
I am so sorry but so glad Halla had you.
I’m glad ~I~ had her.
She was a blithe spirit.
That. Is. Scary.
I am so sorry, honey. She is no longer wobbling and dizzy and in pain. Please know she will be waiting for you on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge.
‘Face
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