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runningplace
post Aug 6 2013, 01:11 PM
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My sweet pug/chihuahua mix died last
Friday. He was 15 years old. I know that he is at Rainbow Bridge and that he isn't suffering anymore, but I miss him so much. I am numb with grief.
Sometimes I arrive home, and I still expect to see him. My other 3 chihuahuas are mourning him, also. the house seems so empty without him!


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Until one has loved an animal, a part of their soul remains unawakened - Anatole France
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moon_beam
post Aug 6 2013, 02:16 PM
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Hi, runningplace, please permit me to offer you my sincerest sympathies in the physical loss of your beloved Pooh Bear. Losing a companion is never easy regardless of the circumstances or how long we are blessed with the privilege of their company.

Runningplace, this grief journey is one of the most painful experiences you will know on this side of eternity. It is a journey that is filled with many different emotions that can overwhelm us all at one time - - it is a journey that is frequently referred to as a horror roller coaster ride. It is a journey that cannot be resolved in a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, or even 6 months - - for you are now on a journey that is filled with all the "first withouts" and the memories of "this time yesterday, last week, last month, last year" that right now are all too painful to endure. And multiplying the deep sorrow that is in your heart is seeing your precious companions who continue to share your earthly journey grieving for their beloved housemate, too.

In the midst of all this painful deep grief, there is the comforting reality that the love bond you and your beloved Pooh Bear share is eternal - - it not restricted to the physical laws of time and space. Your beloved Pooh Bear's sweet Living Spirit continues to share your earthly journey as he always has and always will for he is always and forever a part of your heart and memories - - he is always and forever a heartbeat close to you.

One of the many things you need to remember as you travel your grief adjustment journey is that you are not alone. Each of us here do understand what you are going through, and we are here for you for as long and as often as you need us.

From first hand experience I do know so very well that when our hearts are burdened with the deepest sorrow we will ever know there really are no adequate words in any language that can soothe the deep seering pain that seems to have no end. Still, I hope and pray that the words I share with you will be able to offer you some measure of comfort, support, encouragement, and hope as you travel your grief adjustment journey.

Runningplace, thank you so much for sharing your beloved Pooh Bear with us. Perhaps sometime you will feel up to sharing a picture(s) of him with us - - but only when / if you want to. Please know you are in my thoughts and prayers, runningplace, and please let us know how you and your precious companions are doing.

Peace and blessings,
moon_beam


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In heaven's perfect garden there is no grief or pain, and all of God's creation join the angels' sweet refrain.

The most blessed way I have of knowing God's comforting love and grace is to look into the eyes and heart of God's creatures' sweet angelic face.
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Gretta's Mom
post Aug 8 2013, 06:38 AM
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Oh Pooh Bears mom

My heart is crying for you. To have a Pooh Bear leave this world and go the the perfect World is the second worst heartache on this earth. It happens because you two are soul mates - and have been ever since the beginning of time - and will be until time ends. Pooh Bear looked for you all over this universe, looking everyone he passed in the eyees and saying, this one looks kind and loving but she's not the one. Until he found YOU! You were his one and only. And then he put himself in your path so you would recognize him and the rest is the greates love in the world. Soul mates exchange pieces of each others souls. You carry a part of his and he carries a part of yours - never to be lost or changed until your reunion at the rainbow Bridge.

It's the Pooh Bear-shaped missing piece of your heart that makes you hurt so much when Pooh Bear goes home to the Perfect World from which he came. Pooh Bear's mom - he hasn't left you. He has just shed his physical body. As MoonBeam says, we human live in a sensory world - if cant see or hear or touch something we say its not there. But that is so not true. Pooh Bear is right where he ever was (spirits can do this - be in many places at once) - doing his job protecting you, guiding your steps and most important of all, loving you. Because you cant sense this your heart breaks.

Youre in the shock-and-awe period. To protect your heart, your mind has gone on autopilot. just R2D2-ing through the absolute necessities of life. Sometimes it seems like youre moving through molasses or even lard. That's your brain protecting your heart. Some of us experience a shattering of the heart before becoming robots, some feel this after the robot starts lifiting, some never. Your heart feels like its been shot with a hig powered rifle and is splattered over the whole world. After many weeks or months the razor sharp pain dulls a little and becomes a rock-like ache that, I think, never goes away. We grieve as we have loved. I'm crying even as I write this over my chocolate lab Gretta, the kindest lab who ever lived - who live swith me for 5 years and has been in the perfect World for a year now. And Rufus, my black lab-Newfie mix, a big goofy dog (who once chased a STATUE of a rabbit) who loved me with all his heart and who truly does have eyes that see into infinity.

Please know FOR SURE that Pooh Bear CAn see you and know what your are doing, even while he lives the perfect life you wanted for him. Some people get little signals from their animals in the Perfect World, some don't. I caught a glimpse of an Irish setter just as I was waking up one morning after sleeping on Grettas bug therapeutic dog bed. I knwo that even though the breed was different, it was gretta telling me she was OK. Rufus passed when I was half a continent away helping my criticall ill sister. i still feel horrible that he passed alone - with no one to comfort him and reassure him how much he was loved and what a truly GOOD dog he is. But I know he knew this anyway and he has forgiven and forgotten this, even though I haven't done this for myself.

Right after he passed, I kept sensing that there was a dog lying beside me while I was working on the computer but when I'd look there wasn't anyone there. I knew it was Rufus sitting gently by comforting me. Pooh Bear will do the same for you.

Pooh Bears mom, you have come to the right place. This is BY FAR the best site on the web. We are a brand of brothers and sisters who share a love of animals, a believe they have souls and live on after their earthly death, and who suffer the incredible heartache when they go home before us. We're here to support and care for you when you are down. Alone we fall, but together we stand strong by sharing our love for each other. And we have BIG safety shield against callous people who tell us things like, "Hes only a dog" or "get over it" or any sentence that has a 'should' in it.

Welcome to our loving brother- and sisterhood. please come here often. You will always find a friend who understands and cares.

Have the most peaceful day you can, Pooh Bears mom (and remember, theres a book about him - for a reason.

Gretta and Rufus's mom
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