YOUR DOG

[CRABBY]

A Prayer For Animals

Hear our humble prayer, O God, for our friends the animals,
especially for animals who are suffering;
for animals that are overworked, underfed and cruelly treated;
for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars;
for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry;
for all that must be put death.

We entreat for them all Thy mercy and pity,
and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion
and gentle hands and kindly words.
Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals,
and so to share the blessings of the merciful.

- Albert Schweitzer
Because you will not be forever,
Hope against time though I may,
I paint your picture in my memory,
Eyes blue with age, muzzle gone gray.

Because you walked with me in Springtime,
Puppy-clumsy, running free.
As you grew, we grew together-
You became a part of me.

Because you shared with me my sorrows,
Not understanding- simply there.
Often spurring me to laughter--
My friend, you know how much I care.

Because the years have slowed your fleetness,
Though your spirit still is strong.
I promise I will take more time now,
So that you can go along.

Because you do not fear the future,
Living only in the now,
I draw strength from your example-
Yet time keeps slipping by somehow.

Because the day will soon be coming
When I will no longer see
You rise to greet me-but in memory
You will always walk with me.

- Gayl Jokiel

[sweet tooth]

ks im so sorry for your loss max was 7years 7months and 7days old (vet records) the grandkids done better than i thought they would but my girls have me so concerned me and hubbie are tough but when your kids hurt you hurt we put him in our family plot at the towns graveyard when things calm down will take them to get a small marker for him =sounds like im crazy dont it ?

[CRABBY]

sweet tooth Wrote:thanks guys for your prayers and concern ,yes we are all hurting but what hurts most is my girls one wont even come out of her room and thers nothing i can do to make their hurt go away im concerned please pray for us

His Journey's Just Begun

Don't think of him as gone away-
his journey has just begun
life holds many facets
the Earth is only one

Just think of him as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years

Think how he must be wishing
that we could know today
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away

And think of him as living
In the hearts of those he touched
For nothing loved is ever lost-
And he was loved so much.

[jayne]

sweet dont think your crazy at all.......

[sweet tooth]

thank you crabby

[CRABBY]

sweet tooth Wrote:thank you crabby

not crazy at all sweet, all my beloved pets are in urns and will be placed with me when I'm cremated and we will be placed above my husbands heart.....they really are our babies too......I hope the poems help you and your family.....I've been sitting here crying while sending them to you...and ksgirl....a few years ago I had to put Jim's and my baby "elmo" lab/ridgeback down by myself...we got him when he was 3 weeks old, someone had throw him and his brother from a moving van and tossed them into a snow bank...we had just lost our australian terrier 10 days before, and I wasn't sure I wanted another dog so soon, but we took him and my friend's neighbor took his brother...he was such a great dog...trained fast and well behaved, except for the chewing of our furniture, but he was really JIm's baby...he held him first, and when Jim died, Elmo sat on the deck and cried for months waiting for his truck to come home....it broke my heart and then about 18months later Elmo got really sick, wouldn't eat weak and dyhdrated....I took him to the vet and they thold me he needed a pacemaker and to just put him down....I couldn't, not at that time, so I found a specialist in Northbrook, who was able to get his heart regulated, but not the kidneys...so he sent him home on a friday, after being in the hospital for a month, and the whole weekend he kept escaping from the fenced yard and I would find him down by the lake and he would lay by the boat launch, where he and Jim would sit for hours, and I couldn't get him to budge, and I knew then it was time he wanted to be with jim, so I got him in the car and drove to Northbrook and they took him from me and prepared him, and wheeled him into a room I was waiting on a cart...and he jumped down and layed on the floor by my feet, so I layed down with him, and I cried and held him so tight in my arms until he closed his eyes to sleep....it was so hard for me to do by myself, but I had to realize he wanted to go....and I would have been so selfish in keeping him here for me....but now I have "theo" who is the same mixed breed and lookes just like elmo and acts just like him, his parents didn't want him anymore after 3 1/2 years, and he and Hekaya are godsend....they were both rescued by the ridgeback organization....Hekaya was found in Kentucky and Theo is from Indianapolis....as much as my previous animals I miss, I know in my heart they are with my husband in heaven and are happy and care free, and I look forward to the day when I will be reunited with them forever.....I know your pain, but his spirit will be with you for always....believe me...if you feel you need to talk please feel free to call me....

[ksgirl]

Crabby, thank you for all of the wonderful poems and kind words. You have made me cry (in a good way) and that is something I very rarely do.

Sweet, you are not crazy. I wish I could get my animals markers when they pass, but there is no way my hubby would let me do that and I usually get to do whatever I want.

My daughters try really hard not to get attached to our animals. We usually end up selling the larger farm animals and we sell the pups we breed. The girls have also faced the deaths of several of our pets. I wish they could understand that as hard as it is to loose someone you love, loving them is worth the pain. I am an adult and I get attached to everything that comes on our little farm. Of course I wished none of our pets would have to die, but dying, as sad as it is, is part of living. I just hope my girls won't grow up never getting attached to anything.

Sweet, please tell your daughters that I am sorry for their loss and I will be thinking of them.