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BPO Rainbow Bridge Forum => Remembering those no longer with us. => : SPIKESMOMMY August 16, 2005, 12:38:03 PM
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Tonight me and my boyfriend (Pierre) are going to do the hardest thing we have ever had to do. Our dog Cronics I think I have talked of him before has a tumor in his stomach and in his liver and he is close to heart failure and the Vet said he is only holding on for us cause his body is failing. So when I get home we are going to let him go and rest till we see him again when it is our time to be with him again. I know it is the right thing to do but I want him to stay just a little longer no matter how long he would live I would always want a little more time. Please pray that my sweet guy has peace now that the people that had him before us never let him have that hurt him I can only hope that the last 5 years with us helped make up for that a little.
Rachael, Pierre, Spike and our special boy Cronics
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My heart goes out to you, being all too familiar. It is a tough thing to do, but the right thing.
Prays and hugs to you all.
Your Pets In Heaven
by Ken D. Conover
To have loved and then said farewell, is better than to have never loved at all.
For all of the times that you have stooped and touched my head, fed me my favorite treat and returned the love that I so unconditionall y gave to you.
For the care that you gave to me so unselfishly.
For all of these things I am grateful and thankful.
I ask that you not grieve for the loss, but rejoice in the fact that we lived, loved and touched each others lives. My life was fuller because you were there, not as a master/owner, but as my FRIEND.
Today I am as I was in my youth. The grass is always green, butterflies flit among the flowers and the Sun shines gently down upon all of God's creatures.
I can run, jump, play and do all of the things that I did in my youth. There is no sickness, no aching joints and no regrets and no aging.
We await the arrival of our lifelong companions and know that togetherness is forever.
You live in our hearts as we do in yours. Companions such as you are so rare and unique.
Don't hold the love that you have within yourself. Give it to another like me and then I will live forever. For love never really dies, and you are loved and missed as surely as we are.
Your Pets In Heaven
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:'( My prayers are with you
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Our prayers are with you too. :'(
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I am sorry that his s adecision you have to make. I know, as does your sweet boy, that this is being done to give him comfort he doesn't feel right now. Know that your heart is in the right place. Our prayers are with you.
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it is the hardest thing to do. But the most peaceful and humane thing to do if he is sick. :)
I'll be thinking about you.
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May he have peaceful crossing to the bridge. Where he will play while waiting for his loved ones.
Lisa
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I am so sorry...I am crying right now...so very sorry for all of you....
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Please know that you are doing the kind and gentle thing. I had to put two of my big, ole gentle Newfs down last year and it was SO peaceful. I was the one who had such a hard time! (and still am....I miss them!) I know, for sure, that they understood and they wanted to be released from their suffering. We will all be together again at the bridge!
Our hearts are with you all!
Cowboy, Chester and me!
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I'm so sorry :( It's such a sad day :'( Gentle hugs to you all and Godspeed to Cronics :(
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There is no more loving thing that you can do than to keep him from suffering any more. When you let go even though your heart wants to hold on, you are doing something bigger than yourself. I find it comforting that we can allow our pets to be free from their broken bodies and I too believe that they will be waiting at the bridge!! God bless you, you are in my prayers.
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I think we should all give our fur-babies a very special hug and kiss tonight as a tribute to honor Cronics.
Lisa
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This is by far the most loving thing you can do , but I well know it's also the hardest. May you feel surrounded by all the cyber hugs we can send you at this time, I think most of us know exactly what you are going through and you are THE most loving mom to be able to let your sweet dog go.
Please know that I'll be thinking of you and your boyfriend.
(((((((((((((((((((((((hug)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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Your whole BPO family shares your pain with you tonight.
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." -Mark Twain
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Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Just know that your baby will feel no more pain! He knows how much you love him.
Love,
Tasha and Tonka :'(
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My heart and prayers go out to you tonight... I can just imagine how you are feeling... very soon we are going to put our Samson down... it is very hard on all of us... I've known him since I was 3 and hold him very close to my heart... we seem to take advantage of our furry friends being there every day and greeting us with that cocked head and wagging tail...
I pray that everything will go well and that God will grant you peace through this hard time
<3
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Oh, I am so sorry. I have had to put 2 dogs to sleep, and it is so heart breaking! Miko, my lab-blue heeler mix needed to rest in February '04; and Dona, my golden retriver in April '05. My heart & prayers go out to you.
hugs,
Laurie
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Hello everyone I am taking the day off and am at my boyfriends house on his computer.
Well it is done. The only time I have ever hurt that bad was when my Shadow (GSD i had from 15 to 22) moved on. Cronics was so weak that when we were givin the little time to say goodbye to him in private he kept trying to lift his head off the streatcher and it kept dropping back down and hitting his face on the metal part I put my hand under so it would not hurt and we talked to him and told him what a good and pretty boy he is and how much we love him and are going to miss him everyday for the rest of our life and we promised that we would see him again when it was our time to rest too. He was trying to give kisses but he kept missing god I hated seeing him like that and he sniffed our shirts I think to smell Spike on last time before he slept. And the doctor came in and gave him the shot and we hugged him and I rubbed his ear like he like us to do when he was relaxing and then he was gone and we stayed for a couple min. with him and we had to go cause we would have stayed. I did not want to leave him alone I felt like we were abanoning him in that room all alone waitin for them to come and get him. He is being cremated and we left 2 pictures with him to be cremated with him one of me and Pierre and one of Spike that way he will always have us with him no matter where he goes. We sat in the car for a little while cause neither one of could drive and we sat there and held each other. We went back home and somthing happend that I am not sure what it was but we were just sitting there and all of a sudden I realized I was not crying anymore and the pain was a little muffled and I had a feeling that he was still with us and everything was going to be okay and he was at peace and I felt at peace too.
Well I am going to get off here.
Thank you all for your prayers, thoughts and hugs. I really feel like home here on this board and before I came here I never thought there was this many people who felt the same way about their animals as I do .
Rachael, Pierre, Spike and Cronics who will always be missed.
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I know it's really hard. I hope you're feeling ok (as well as you can). I'm sure he is at peace. You will be too soon.
I lost my Missy in February. I had hoped she would pass at home on her pillow, but she was getting worse with her heart problems and it was the best to have her put to sleep quietly. I knew I was going in the room with her and seeing her through this. I hated seeing her at her last moment, but it was all part of having her and loving her so I wanted that last moment to be with me and me with her.
I was so scared and I had heard stories about how they drift off slowly. I didn't want that. But she was so old and sick she left in less about 10 seconds.
That was hard...hard not having more time. If I had had more time I would have spent it wanting more time...and more time.
And like you...when I got home it was quiet...hardly any tears and I wasn't "upset". I have my moments still (kinda like now) where I miss her something awful and I think about her all the time and talk about her and remember her and the silly things she'd do. She's only physically gone in my mind. She's always here somehow. I can still remember her bark and how it felt to touch her head and scratch her ears. :) no one can take her from me. And that's part of loving them too...Keeping them with you forever in body or spirit.