Pet-Loss

A Parting Prayer
Dear Lord, Please open your gates and call St Francis to come and escort this beloved companion across the Rainbow Bridge. Assign him/her a place of honor, for he/she has been a faithful servant and has always tried to please me. Bless the hands that send him/her to you, For they do so in love and compassion fr... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

A Fragile Circle
We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan. --Irving T... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

Cat Lullaby
I�ve watched you sleep so many times before Your fur and whiskers gentle to my eye I used to wonder where you went in dreams Lie quiet now and hear my lullaby You�ll go now where the dish is always full Where water always shimmers in your bowl You�ll go to where the winter sun is warm You�ll go to where the su... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

About my pregnant queen
She went into labor Mon. night and had the first kitten at 1:00 am Tues. morning. At 10:00 am Tues. morning she had the second. After that things went bad. She tried to birth 2 kittens at once. I managed to maneuver one around so she could have them easier. Then a stillborn kitten. Then last night she was pushing a... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

And some things about me (for the few regulars who still hang around)
My life isn't going well. My mother died in September 2006. After that, my father was incapacitated. Both his hip sockets were shot, and needed replacing. I spent the next nine months being his sole caretaker, as none of his other kids wanted to help him at all. In June of last year, I was feeling stressed... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

Rainbow Bridge - the origins
For years, the Rainbow Bridge story has been attributed to that most prolific of authors, "Anonymous". One WWW source claims it's based "on an old Norse legend." Possibly so; according to Norse mythology, Bifrost, the sacred Rainbow Bridge, connects Midgard - the realm of humans - with Asgard - the realm of the... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

A Little Requiem for a Little Cat (from craigslist.org)
best of craigslist > s.f. bayarea > A Little Requiem for A Little Cat Date: 2002-04-17, 4:57PM PDT I adopted a little 7 month old grey Siamese mix kitten from Hopalong Rescue last June. He had been previously adopted but returned because the first owner's landlord did not allow pets. I named him Tao. He blend... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

Spunky and Pepper - Krakle
I'm so sorry for your loss. I know what a hole and the pain of losing a beloved furkid is. http://www.petpics.net/memory/ I hope you can open this link with your computer, it is a site of candles that we can light for our beloved lost furbabies. Darlene ... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

Do They Know?
"Noon Cat Nick" <chatdemidiSPAMBEGONE(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eTzBj.71313$yE1.9992(a)attbi_s21... Do they know, as we do, that their time must come? Yes, they know, at rare moments. No other way can I interpret those pauses of his latter life, when, propped on his forefeet, he would sit ... 18 Jun 2008 23:47

Four Feet in Heaven
Your favorite chair is vacant now... No eager purrs to greet me. No softly padded paws to run Ecstatically to meet me. No coaxing rubs, no plaintive cry Will say it's time for feeding. I've put away your bowl, and all The things you won't be needing; But I will miss you little friend, For I could never mea... 6 May 2008 22:31