Heartwarming article and video
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Thanks for all the care everyone. Blitz can be a pretty lovely place at times. Donāt forget to hug your dogs.
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Hereās one you just shouldnāt miss:
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My condolences @HP1 on the loss of your beloved pooch. (what a cutie)
Itās so hard when you lose a beloved friend.
I know it doesnāt make it any easier but am sure you gave you him a great life.
Take care of your broken heart.
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This helped me a few years ago. Hope it gives you some relief.
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge togetherā¦
Author unknownā¦
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Iām not religious but always said that if there is an afterlife I want to go where the dogs go.
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Rainbow Bridge, for me it always brings a tear and touches my heart.
Whoever the author was/is a good human.
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So so sorry for you, it is so hard. Words just cannot help, it breaks our hearts.
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I keep this on my fridge but cannot read it again, too hard. My little man not going too well after some improvement. Endoscopy next week.
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Google the poem by Rudyard Kipling āThe Power of the Dogā
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Had dogs all my life. If Iām lucky enough to get to the rainbow bridge Iāll have a pack coming at me!!
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I just had a look (didnāt know it)
It brought a tear. Deserves posting.
The Power Of The Dog
By Rudyard Kipling More Rudyard Kipling
There 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 lieā
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 vetās unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will findāitās your own affairā
But ā¦ youāve 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 goneāwherever it goesāfor good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear.
Weāve 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 weāve kept āem, the more do we grieve:
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a longā
So why ināHeaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
Source: The Power Of The Dog By Rudyard Kipling, Famous Friendship Poem
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sorry to hear the sad news. always hard to know what to say
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Weāve had many dogs also, each beautiful and special. Losing them is beyond heartbreaking but I still feel sorry for people whoāve never had that love and connection. Some are just not dog people and some just never connect with their dog and treat it as such.
We are all so lucky to have known a dogās love and been able to share that unconditional love in our lives.
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And then you come home and find his bed dragged out from the porch again and it has come off second best in another epic struggle and one more pot plant has had a hair cut. This sorry for the mess pose lasts about a minute, tops, but yes they do get to you and you can always buy more plants.
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What a lovely Lab. Looks very like one of mine - and has the same tricks, it seemsā¦
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Heās beautiful. We had 2 golden labs - similarly destructive (if not more) but small price to pay.
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