Sad decision made this morning — Page 3

Aww, I wish you the best of luck. It must be a very difficult situation to be in. But at least you know you had 17.5 amazing years with a loving animal :)

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Oh Elphie dear, I'm so sorry. It's just terrible to lose a pet, especially one that has been such a longstanding part of your life.

I really feel for you, and all three of you are in my thoughts and prayers...

Love,
Doxy

That is a very difficult decision. My thoughts are with you Elphaba. Your pet is very lucky to have you.
And that Rainbow Bridge poem makes me sob everytime I read it.

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I just saw this, Elphaba.

I am very sorry and cannot imagine how hard it must be to deal with this.

My two boys have become like children for us and I am sure you feel the same way.

Our thougths are with you.

SOOO many huggles Elphaba. I've been there. You'll always always ALWAYS miss him in someway, but eventually there will be room in your heart for another.

When I lost my most recent cat, I gave money to the shelter where we had adopted him from in his memory, I was also a volunteer there. Knowing I was helping other cats who were in his situation really helped me grieve.

Then a few months later I went and adopted two kittens from the shelter, and knew that though he was gone there were two more lives that had been saved.

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I remember when our Rottweiler was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer. I hung up from talking to the vet and knelt over him on the carpet and just bawled my heart out. He was such a sweet gentle huge beast (144 lbs) and he layed thered just wagging his tale a few times and brushing me occasionally with his snout. He was trying to comfort ME! It makes me cry just to remember.

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The tribute page made me lose it, Scott.

Again, I am so sorry for your loss and I know two little boys who are going to be annoyed at their daddy hugging them for the next couple of hours.

Will you all please stop making me cry at work!

Scott, I have images of The Pea and Gorky (my first cat) conspiring together to find ways to drive us all a bit nuts!

Next time it rains, watch out!

Your favorite chair is vacant now
No eagar purrs to greet me
No softly padded paws to run
Ecstatically to meet me
No hungry meow
No plaintive cry
Will say its time for feeding
So i've put away your bowl
And all the things you won't be needing.

For i will miss you little friend
In earthly joy and sorrow
And i'm sure they'll be a place for you
In heavens bright tomorrow.


My gramma sent it to me when my cat died. So sorry to hear the news, i'm sure you did the right thing, as you would not want your cat to suffer for any reason. 17 years is quite a long time for a cat, you should be very proud you gave him a long happy life :)

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OK....delayed reaction here....I am starting to become a total wreck now!!!

I'll tell you what amazes me, not only all of the support from BWW, which tells just how great this group it. But I am now receiving emails from people I don't even know who have been to the site and read his thing........they are so supportive of each other.
Total strangers, emailing me and just offering a kid word.......amazing.

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I'm sorry to hear this, Elphaba, but I know what you're going through.

A few weeks ago I put my 14 year old dog to sleep. 2 weeks before that she had a stroke, and while she was still eating and drinking and the anti-vert pills we were giving her were helping her be more coherent...she was just going down hill. We couldn't let her in the house anymore because she couldn't control her bowel movements so she had to stay in the garage during a week straight of rain, and then she had all these tumors on her back that opened up. Once that happened there wasn't anything we could do. The vet said they wouldn't heal. So my dad and I took her to put her to sleep.

It was really hard, but it was the right thing to do. It was so much easier to deal with than coming home to find a pet dead, like I did when I was 16 and came home from a horseback riding lesson to my cat unexpectedly dead at the top of the stairs. Well, he had been sick but we didn't know he was going to die that soon. He was only 10.

His sister is 16 now, and I almost lost her two nights ago. My sister had let her outside which she normally doesn't go out at all, and she got in a cat fight. She ran away because she was terrified and was gone for 20 hours. I didn't know about any of this until Tuesday night when I came home from work and my mom said, "Jill, we lost Mia" OMG don't greet me like that EVER. I was hysterical but thankfully my sister saw her around 10pm and I was able to get her to come to me and bring her inside. Thanksfully she's unscathed but lost a few pounds so I'm a little worried she won't bounce back.

It's really hard having eldery animals...having to let go....but I'm glad your cat got to leave this life with his family around him in a safe environment.

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Updated On: 6/15/06 at 06:03 PM