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    My Sympathy To All Who Have Lost

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    Losing a pet is so hard when you really have made them part of the family. It's really good to know that there are people who care and understand. In my daily life, I don't have anyone who really knows the depth of pain that I feel for Joe, so having you guys makes a difference and I cry when I read about your losses. It's nice to have people here who can truly sympathize.

    Some Days I Don't Know What To Say...

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    He had another little crying jag in the bathroom later last night with my DH. He wanted to know where the urn was, and touch it.

     

    Then he was hugging SM, and calling him his baby...so I definitely think that scared him - SM having surgery. He didn't know that he was going in, and didn't hear about it until it was over (he was in school, and apparently he didn't hear about it yesterday.)

     

    I know that I was feeling emotional and teary, and I can imagine that kids just aren't as good as holding it in as we adults have learned to be.

     

    I, too, am glad that my kids have so much love and caring for the dogs. It'll make them good adults. :)

    Some Days I Don't Know What To Say...

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    We went to pick up SM at the vet today, and I asked my 10 yo son to put my earrings in the little jewelry box that I have in the car (I don't usually - long story). When I came back to the car, he was wearing my memory anklet that I had made with Joe's name, racing name, and a little charm of a greyhound with wings. I said, you can wear that, but you have to be really careful, okay?

     

    Anyway, it really opened a floodgate of emotion from him to have that. He was just SOBBING and SOBBING. We talked about Joe for awhile, and remembered him. It's just amazing to me that it can be so fresh in his heart after two years. He was weeping as if Joe had just died.

     

    I think maybe having SM so sick was hard for him, and made him worry and feel the pain of losing Joe all over again.

     

    My other son kept asking us to please stop talking about it because it was making him sad.

     

    I just don't know what to say sometimes. I think it's good to remember him, and talk about him, but then maybe I'm just upsetting my kids more...

     

    They're fine now, btw, and he put the anklet back in the box.

     

    He said he wanted to talk about him because he feels like he starts to forget him - what he looked like, and what he did.

     

    Ah, sigh...

     

    We miss ya Joe.

     

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    Gone One Year

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    I know how much it hurts. When Joe left, we were devastated. But I really felt that the best legacy I could give Joe was to continue what he started - our love of greyhounds. I don't ever feel that our dogs replaced Joe - they are here because of what Joe meant to us.

    My Sweet Kitty Is Gone

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    I'm so sorry for your loss. She's free and not in any pain now. I know it wasn't the death you wanted for her, and I'm sorry for that. Unfortunately, life and death are not always in our control.

     

    Hugs to you all.

     

    Tami

    My Missy Passed Away Sept. 23

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    Posted · Edited by joesgreypoupon

    I'm so sorry. She was a lovely girl. Here's a sonnet that I found when my first GH, Joe, died. I hope it brings you some comfort:

     

     

     

    Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,

     

    And all the flowers that in the springtime grow,

     

    And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow

     

    Rising of the round moon, all throats that sing

     

    The summer through, and each departing wing,

     

    And all the nests that the bared branches show,

     

    And all winds that in any weather blow,

     

    And all the storms that the four seasons bring.

     

    You go no more on exultant feet

     

    Up paths that only mist and morning knew,

     

    Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat

     

    Of a bird's wings too high in air to view,--

     

    But you were something more than young and sweet

     

    And fair,--and the long year remembers you.

     

    --Edna St. Vincent Millay

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