Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

[Nomilynn]

Originally posted by Aspen and Misty


I see us more as a family who is scatered through out the world.

Ash

That is a beautiful way to put it. Maybe that should be Pet Talk's new slogan - "The Pet Family that extends throughout the world"

[Fuzzy317]

Originally posted by Nomilynn


That is a beautiful way to put it. Maybe that should be Pet Talk's new slogan - "The Pet Family that extends throughout the world"

How about this as Pet Talk's new slogan


The Global Pet Family

[Nomilynn]

I like it!!!

T-shirt people... we have a suggestion

[Vio&Juni]

I also cried for every pet that died and the first one for me here on PatTalk was Lut's Sydney. I was sad about a week. In the evenings I just wanted to go home and spend some more time with my kitty, give her a hug so she stays with me forever. I understand it's not possible, I only hope she'll stay here as long as possible.
When Lut took her second kitty so soon - Maya, I asked myself what would have I done if this were to happen to me. The same, I am sure. This kitty existed, it's not that she created her for her own sake, just to comfort the loss. And this kitty needed desperately a home, a lot of love and she had even more love to give.
As Edwina's Secretary said - "it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all..."

[popcornbird]

WHAT!?!?!?! Gabe?!?! Did you say Gabe?!? OMG! Don't tell me something happened to Gabe while I was busy in Eid celebrations. No No No!!!! It can't be Gabe! Is this SAS's beautiful white and grey with gorgeous blue eyes, beer and Edwina loving Gabe? Oh no! Now I'm going to cry. Which thread is this on? No no! Please don't be the same precious Gabe. Nooooooooooo !!

[Vio&Juni]

I think it's another Gabe.

[jenluckenbach]

popcornbird, it is SAS's Gabe.
and now I'm crying again

But it IS a good thing. We need to be there for one another, and I can see that we are. It is a shame that I had not been here last April when my special Y.Lee passed.

[lynnestankard]

D'you know just reading through this thread (bit late finding it), I've found everyone's said what I was thinking.
We are pet lovers - everyone of us. As Logan said maybe things get a trifle 'spikey' on some threads. But let one of our pets be ill or die and we're all here pulling in the same direction - loving, caring and crying together. That's just as it should be - even familys argue - thats what we are......... FAMILY. the most scattered family in the world - but we all belong together.
Long may we continue giving support and love to each and every one us of.

{{{Hugs}}}

Lynne

[Barbara]

Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
Soledad...I will admit that one of the reasons I did not get a pet until my husband psuhed so hard was the fear of the inevitable loss. I have cried for every loss on Pettalk.

An age old question in any case...."tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all..."

With us it was the same. After the death of my beloved Meo (after a bad story of accident and surgeries and finally having to put her to sleep) 25 years ago I made up my mind never to have a pet anymore. My husband pushed -and so we got Tigris and Filou whom we love both as if they were children.

Now after seeing here how much support comes from all the others, I think I am a little less afraid of the moment. Here there will be people who don't say it was just a pet. I had never known how close the communication between the cats and us could get and here are many people who have that experience.

On the other hand it is true that in days like these in which so many kitties have been going to RB I cry my eyes out for them and for their purrents whose feelings I can understand too well.

[Vio&Juni]

Yes, I was wrong, but I couldn't even think that could be him

[All Creatures Great And Small]

I use the "ostrich theory" about my cat's inevitable death - I refuse to think about it! I said the exact same thing when my girl kitty Leticia Ratt died - I'm not getting any more cats, there could never be a replacement for her, etc. And fate stepped in and gave me a wonderful companion anyway, and I'm grateful every single day. I don't think about my inevitable death either, or that of my loved ones - nothing I can do about how and when it happens, so I just enjoy being alive while I am. I always feel so useless when a pet here dies, and I don't even know what to say when something so awful happens. (I'm just as bad at human funerals; totally at a loss for words.) I agree though, that "non PT-ers" don't understand or appreciate a lot of the things we do, so I'm glad I have this forum to come to and share with such a great, diverse, multi-national bunch.

[Cataholic]

I knew I shouldn't have come to this post, cause here I am again at work crying about 'our' losses. Gabe broke my heart, and Pop I am sorry you learned about it this way. Sometimes I don't even want to go into Cat Health, cause of the sadness there. But, I do, for as someone above said, I, too, will need/ have needed comfort. I only find comfort in knowing they are all at RB together. What is that saying about sharing the blessing, and you double the joy, and sharing the grief, you halve the burden??

[ramanth]

It's hard to lose a love one, but as someone stated earlier, I too wish I had Pet Talk when I lost previous furbabies growing up.

My parents and I joke that the boys (the cats I grew up with that still live with my parents) will out live us all just to spite us.

I just try to not think of the inevitable. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have Kia. She's my baby.

And Zam... she got out one day and was gone for 7 hours. I was in tears calling all the shelters and on the phone with MoosMom when Zam came to the door asking to come back in.

You'd think I was going to squeeze her to death!

Edwina's Secretary is right... It is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all...

[neko1]

I really love this place. People here always make you feel better and give great advice. Animal people truely are the best.

[HayleyRosie]

Originally posted by Nomilynn

Soledad - I've thought about that too.. will it be too hard when a pet passes. But I look at it like this: isn't it more selfish of me to NOT take in another animal who needs a loving home, when I have the love in my heart to give? Sure it hurts, but look at the life I can provide for an animal in need! It's those thoughts that keep me going, even when my heart is breaking.

I agree with you 100%