I am truley sorry to hear about your cat. may I also offer this to your famley.

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

Author unknown...

"They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching,
They have soaked you in convention through and through;
They have put you in a show case; you're a credit to their teaching--
But can't you hear the Wild? -- it's calling you.
Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betides us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling...let us go."
Robert Service - The Call of the Wild

If we can't grieve for our pets we don't deserve the title of human, nor if we can't help them go peacefully when its their time. I'm sorry for your loss.

Thank-you for your words. That is the most meaningful thing I have heard on this subject in I don't know how many years.

Jeanette Isabelle

My cat Sunset has been missing since November and it is only very recently that I have done so.

Jeanette Isabelle

To all of you, thank you.

To those who are luckily enough to know the love of a pet followed the pain of his/her loss, I hold you in my heart.

Oz fought the effects of the drugs. He wouldn't close his eyes. He wouldn't fall asleep. But in the end even a heart like his couldn't keep beating. He died in my arms, which was as it should be.

He lays now under a wax-myrtle bush. It's leaves smell like vanilla. It's a good place to rest.


Oz, my little buddy.

-Blast

I've had to go thru only having to put down one pet, my dog back when I was in college (Norwegian Elkhound with bad hips). My dad went with me to help me thru it. We went thru a fifth of bourbon that day.

I know how ya feel blast.

OGRE

Blast, I'm sorry to hear that. I've "been there and done that" and it was terrible. Now that time has passed I just remember what an incredible little cat mine was. Time does not heal all wounds, but it makes them more bearable.

Take care,

You feel they can never be replaced. And you are right. But getting another cat really is a good idea. You'll feel differently when you see the kittens.
The Sock

I'm sorry about your missing friend.
Stu

Oz was a good looking cat.

Sigh - my 2 are getting OLD, Coquette is 18, Tux is 16. I make sure before I leave the house I always give them a little "extra" attention.