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Lightning-Strike Pet Loss Support Forum _ Pet Memorials, Tributes, and Eulogies _ I Love You, Gretta

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 1 2012, 09:32 AM

Hi Baby G

Here we are in our new house. There will never be enough tributes for you, you miracle dog. Please sniff around the neighborhood and find all our friends. I just know they've been waiting for us. Let me know if you can't find someone and I'll send a message to his or her mom or dad. Take a nap and let's settle into our new house ..... this one will last until we DO meet again.

I love you, Baby G

Your Mom

Posted by: Bobbie Sep 1 2012, 10:39 AM

Hi Gretta!!!

Welcome to your new home!!! It's definitely not as busy here, but the words are ever more precious. We pay tribute to you and your many talents at loving and understanding the human population (or should I say tolerating?).

We just have to tell LoveMyMickey that you are here now, too. She posts a lot on Mickey's original site, which is fine because your mommy can always check over there and Bejamin is there, too!

I'm going to go tell all our friends that you're here! Talk to you later!

Trevor and the mom wub.gif wub.gif

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Sep 1 2012, 12:39 PM

Hey Miss Gretta, wub.gif

I also welcome you and your mommy to the Tribute forum. Since I already have a tribute here to my babies, I will still talk to Mickey in the support forum.

I will be back later because I have something to find for Trevor and his mommy.

I LOVE YOU GRETTA and your MOMMY!!!! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif


Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 2 2012, 09:31 AM

Hi Aunt Bobbie and Aunt "Mickey"

I'm so happy you found me over here. It just seems like the right place to be - especially since you two are here. Doxie and find us, too and we'll be the same old Musket-dogs we always have been.

Gretta

Hello Babyface

See, our friends found our new house right away. Friends always find you, even when they don't know they're looking for you. Gretta, my sspirit dog, would you do mommie a huge favor? (I know you will.) You made it to the Perfect World. What was the trip like? I think I know something about the destination and I know what the trip looked liked from t his side (something every single person here knows only too well) What did it look like from the traveler's point of view? The reason I'm asking ... well ... you know what it is. Could you do me another one, too, please? Would you make an appointment with the Big Father, please, and ask Him to help your mom with something? He knows everything, so He'll know what you mean.

Thank you so much for choosing me as your spirit-mom. We'll make it and be together.

I love you Gretta-Girl.

Mommie (and little brother)

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 4 2012, 11:09 AM

Oh thank you SOOOOOOOOO much, My Doxie. Your poetry goes straight to the deepest depths of my heart. I do kneel and weep for a friend, two friends actually - Gretta and Bobbie. And of course two more - you and Love My Mickey - who do so much for the first two. I'll try to view the You Tube vdo later today.

Eternal thanks to you, our heart-knowing poet. Rest and strength to you in your grief journey as well.

Gretta's mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 4 2012, 11:11 AM

Dear Gretta baby

Bobbie's cousin Mark gave us some tremendous words today and I need your help in acting on them - because this is what you did for me every day we shared on earth and are keeping on doing from the perfect World. "Let's all do our parts to make today a good day." You do your part just by being.

I love you sweetie.

Your Mom

Posted by: Bobbie Sep 5 2012, 01:48 PM

Hi Sweetie Pie!!!!

Just stopping by to remind you how much your mom and ME LOVE, LOVE, LOVE you! foreverand ever and ever, etc!

Have a super duper day with all your friends!

I LOVE YOU. GRETTA! wub.gif
XOAuntie BobbieXO

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Sep 5 2012, 06:23 PM

Hello Sweet Gretta,

I know you, Rufus, and your Mommy need a butterfly hug too.....I LOVE YOU ALL!!! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

XOXOXO Auntie LoveMyMickey XOXOXO



Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 6 2012, 10:22 AM

Oh thank you SO much Love mY Mickey. I don't know where you find these beautiful, always-on-the-mark pictures or (even more difficult) up load them to LS, but they are SOOOOO greatly appreciated and helpful. And all the while YOU are going through so much heartache yourself - you are a living saint, my friend.

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MOM NEEDS HELP! THANK YOU MY BABY!

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 7 2012, 06:22 AM

Hi Baby-Doll

Thank you for asking the Big Father to send blessings Aunt Bobbie's way. There's a long road ahead, but we can do it with His help - and the love of our human and animal packs.

Have a nice warm day, Babyface.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

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Your mom and little brother

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 8 2012, 07:00 AM

HI again, babyface

It looks like it's just you anad me here for a while but we KNOW that's not true - look at how many animals you have in your heavenly pack and how many people have yellow bracelets on their writsts and love in their hearts for Trevor's mom. Please send a couple of strength rays to your mom today and tomorrow. We're going to see the dad.

Love always and forever,

Your mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Sep 8 2012, 11:42 AM

Hi Sweet Mommy,

Auntie LoveMyMickey helped me find some Strength Rays for you. I hope they help you to feel strong.....I LOVE YOU, MOMMY!!!! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

XOXOXO Your Babyface Girl, Gretta XOXOXO


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 10 2012, 02:11 PM

Oh Gretta, you asked the one an only person, Love My Mickey, who could help you find a picture that went right to Mommie's heart. Thank you, my sweet babyface. Never forget that you have a mommie (and a little brother) on earth who will NEVER EVER stop loving you. Go see Trevor and encourage him in sending strength rays to his mommie (your Auntie Bobby) cuz she's going through some very hard times. Ok, baby?

Dogs are miracles, and our one- and - only spirits dogs are one-and-only special miracles.

Thank you for looking for me, finding me, and choosing me.

Your mommie who loves you.

XOXO Mommie and Little Brother

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 13 2012, 07:04 AM

Hi Babyface

Mommie's heart is full of tears and fears for you aunt Bobbie this morning. Your cousin Trevor is her spirit-dog and came to her at exactly the right time in her life. Please round up the pack and think some good thoughts about her today.

Your little brother Rufus has claimed the loveseat so mom's going to sleep on the dog bed this morning - she has a little headache today.

Gretta, I love and miss you and am back relying on you for strength and love - just like while we were living together here on earth.

Please say hi to Mickey and his cousins and all the doggies and kitties and bunnies (like Hermie) and all our other friends up there.

How I wish I could stroke your velvet ears, Babyface. I'll do it in my memory.

Love you always, my dear Gretta the Great.

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Sep 13 2012, 06:29 PM

Dear Sweet Mommy,

All the animals here in Heaven are praying big prayers for Aunt Bobbie. Mommy, I know you need them too, so you will have big prayers too, also for all your family.............Say hello to my brother Rufus for me and to be good to our mommy....I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Your Sweet Girl, Gretta....



Posted by: LoveMyMickey Sep 26 2012, 06:34 PM

My Dear Mommy,

I heard through the angel-vine that certain people and furbabies miss you around here. They hope you and Rufus are okay.....I LOVE YOU, MOMMY! wub.gif

Your Cute and Loving Daughter, Gretta..... wub.gif

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 26 2012, 07:41 PM

Thank you Gretta the Great - and Love My Mickey, too. Your brother is enjoying himself back on the farm where he was fostered and can run around free and play with his friends and get the love of his first mom and dad. But when I get back, he'll come back. Wish mommy and Anut Bpbbie well - tomorrow we're going back to that hospital for her to get that very very strong medicine in her veins.

I love you.

Your mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Sep 27 2012, 06:31 PM

Dear Gretta and Gretta's Mom,

Mickey and I and all the Spirit Animals are saying prayers for Aunt Bobbie. We hope that ole strong medicine helps her get well and won't make her so sick.




We love you all! wub.gif

Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 28 2012, 03:52 PM

Oh thank you SO much, Love My Mickey.
Bobbie did go for chemo yesterday. They gave her some extra anti-nausea medicine by IV and a $240 each pill to take the mornings of day 2 and day 3 after chemo. She's been sleeping all day and drinking juice, eating a little chicken noodle soup and just now ate a bread and butter sandwich. I'm hoping for a good night and then an early morning return trip to Hopkins for a cehk-up and possible rehydration and remedication.

Thank you for sticking with us during this awful time. All we have is our family and friends (YOU at the top) and God.

Only He knows what the outcome will be. The rest us of must keep praying with belife and confidence.

Thank you again a million times, Love My Mickey. You are truly a living saint.

Jeanne B (Gretta and rufus's mom)

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Sep 28 2012, 06:46 PM

Thank you, Jeanne for letting us know how Bobbie is doing. I hope the extra anti-nausea medicine helps. You're right, only the Good Lord knows what the outcome will be, but I pray for her many times each day.

When Bobbie feels like it, would you tell her I finally found just the right butterfly stakes for Mickey's gravesite. They have little springs in the wings and they move in the wind. I went on and ordered them today and when I get them set up I will send her a picture in an email.

Tell Bobbie I said "hello" and that she is in our thoughts and prayers....Jeanne, you are a wonderful sister for the care and encouragement you are giving your sister.


Hi Gretta.....You can look down on the little butterflies too, with Trevor and Mickey.

Love to You ALL!!! wub.gif

LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Bobbie Oct 1 2012, 09:57 AM

Hello Ms. Gretta!!

Don't tell anyone, but your mommy is working way too hard right now. I won't tell you what she is cleaning now (NO, it's not the oven. That's only been cleaned once in 25 years! for real). But if she treated you any way that she's treating me, you had it made!!!!!

I hope you have a fun, fun day playing, running, jumping and eating lots of treats!

I LOVE YOU, MISS GRETTA!!! wub.gif
XOAuntie BobbieXO

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 10 2012, 02:26 PM

Hi my sweetest babyface

I'm sorry I haven't written a letter to you for such a long time. I know you can see right into and through my heart and so you know how much I love and miss you and how much I have been counting on you to help me through some very very dark days. You are the kindest dog who ever lived. Thank you for giving me all that kindness every day - even now. And thank you for sending some to Bobbie and Love My Mickey and Shane - especailly Bobbie cuz she really needs it so much now. If you're not already there, go over and nuzzle Trevor and let him know that you know how much his heart is aching and yet how much love he's sending to dear Bobbie - his other half.

On Baby, just one stroke of your velvet ears would give me enough strength to last a month. I know I'll be able to do that some day. Meanwhile your picture and your memories and your pillow give me what I need to get by day by day and still have s ome left over to try to help Bobbie and Stan.

I love you, my sweetheart - with everything I have.

Goodnight, my darling. Rest peacefully and give some of your wise, kind and patient help to newer and younger doggies and all pets up there so they can help their momies and daddies down here.

I can't say it enough times - I LOVE YOU GRETTA!

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 14 2012, 05:08 PM

Hi my love of all time

You know my heart and mind and soul so you know how much I need your love and strength and courage right now. Thank you fof coming into my life - for choosing me from all those other people at the adoption event to be your forever mom. Someday we'll meet again, my love. Always remember your forever mommie loves you, my Miss Velvet ears.And please tippoff Little Brother that I'm coming back to town next Saturday and will pick him up next SUnday. I hope he still remembers me and loves me - He's a dog, a lab like you, so I knwo he will.

Thank you my beautiful friend.

And I can fell your tongue wiping away the tear dripping down my cheek. I love you babyface.

Your forever mommie.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 15 2012, 07:25 AM

HI Gretta

Mommie is a little sad today because after five wonderful weeks, she's going to have to leave Aunt Bobbie's house and go back home. It's a little lonely there without people around 24 hours a day and without the preaching of a wonderful pastor who first helped me when Aunt Bobbie was so sick many years before you were born. Just Little Brother and me (and your spirit, of course). This little three-some will have to (and WILL) make it - with our love for each other and with the help of God - whom I'm sure you see every day.

I love you, you little munchkin.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 16 2012, 02:53 PM

Hi Munchkin

I look around here at Aunt Bobbie's house and the whole house is full of pictures of doggies she has loved and who (all but Dreamer and Kelly2) are all up in heaven with you. IN just two more days "the dad" will be here and then just two days after that I'll be going home. Please let me lay my head on your beautiful neck and weep a few tears because I have to leave my little sister. And then give one of your very rare barks to let Little Brother Rufie and me that we'll be OK. That's what the Glorious Man says, right?

Love forever,

MOmmie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 19 2012, 02:11 PM

HI Baby Gretta

Mom always has a heavy heart these days - for little sister, for myself, for missing you. Every once in a while maybe you could whistle that song "The sun is shining on me today, I found the answer, I learned to pray. for me. Some of the doggies up there with you bound to know it.

Thank you my sweet sweet heart.

Mommie and (soon)Rufie

Posted by: Bobbie Oct 20 2012, 07:27 PM


HI MOMMY!!!

I HEAR YOU ARE COMING TO PICK ME UP AND TAKE ME BACK TO OUR HOME IN THE MORNING!!!!!! YAY!!!! I'VE MISSED YOU AND TRIED TO BE A GOOD BOY, BUT THINGS WILL BE MUCH BETTER NOW THAT YOU ARE HOME AND WE CAN PLAY AND PLAY AND PLAY SOME MORE!


I LOVE YOU, MOMMY!!!!!!!

Mr. Rufus

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 21 2012, 09:40 AM

Thank you so much, Bobbie and Trevor!

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 21 2012, 06:25 PM

Babyface - you're home! How confusing it must be to be shuttled around between your former home with a wonderful foster mother and lost of doggies to play with to your forever home (here) with just us two and PLENTY of walks around the neighborhood. Today has been a big change for both of us - and we've done the same thing: slept most of the day. It's so good to have you back, Rufie. Your foster mom obviously treated you well - looks like she gave you a bath and cut your nails and brushed you a lot. You're all "puffed up". I hope you still like it here - I love you. Let's take a couple of days to settle back in.

Welcome back Rufie.

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Oct 21 2012, 09:46 PM

Summer winds Hold are hearts as falling leafs cover are friends Paw prints within are mind
Only to be seen in are dreams that carrie us through time...As summer winds end Fallen leafs
Bring Memories of friendship..As friendship falls by are side and we sing for a friend as if on a Branch..


As a Song bird sings within are Reach i hear a stroy of a friend that teaches...For a friend that gives her last breath as she whispers...
I hear heart felt words for a friend..I wish for a walk a tale that will tell me how Gretta Began i remember a poem long ago only the words i chose
where with pain as are love blinds us,Will you take us through a walk as Love holds us close as you look into your friends eyes;

When Summer leafs bring winds of fall that cover are friends Path..If we look close we can see the inprint of Life still Teaching and holding
are Hearts as we sing in the morning lights as we speak for are friends...We see true as Hearts filled with the ones that sit by are side as love
inprints Memories as we hold them close they speak without Words. We hold them...As Angels hold are Head and we kiss them good.....We fall into night
and tell a beautiful story that other wise might fade into time...To have a friend sit by are side so polite and quite as only a tail
will thump through the night as when we wake we see pure light that shines from a friends eyes as we Cook Meatballs for the ones
that lay by are side;..

With Angels Touch...

So to my friend and My thoughts please forgive me i still see a Angel that walks the long corridor to find a friend that has so much to...
With each passing only one stops to say i will....As you cook for a friend and say all will be right as you sleep without fear i hold you close
as no more Tears will fall and each word you speak will be heard for a cage will hold you no more... i hear you my friend for the love you
have givin me I give to others as i speaks for you and tell a storie for all to see my friend......

Water runs from a river that brings a single Fallen leaf of Summer...Colours of life float with waters that hold are Thoughts
A speacil Leaf Sings to all as this Leaf travels down stream as she passes life and friends colour starts to bring
life as this river brings a beautiful Leaf that sings as a frozen branch lays a Song bird that will sing in the winters
of the night so a friend might sleep without the grief that we hold and hide for others to listen to are heart
as are friends begin to depart;.. Heavenly father hold my friend as she takes her journey from this earth....



Poems at The Poetry Showcase

My heavenly father,I just want to thank you.
As the sunrise to proclaim the dawning of another day,
I lift my humble cry heavenward to thee.


My heavenly Father,I just want to thank you.
In spite of my many sins and numerous transgressions,
I must realize that i am blessed by you.
Through them, You taught me some valuable lessons.

My heavenly Father, I just want to thank you.
As the sunshine cascade down upon my awakening frame,
I just want to thank you, my heavenly Father,
One more day, I can rise to sing praises to my Beloved
The one lost at your Hand.


My heavenly Father, I just want to thank you.
I am divinely blessed to be in the land of the living.
I truly thank you,my heavenly Father.
I am blessed to be with my best friend

As she rest her head in my hands
i see Angel wings that catch the winds
that carrie the one that holds my last breath
When white light blinds us from are sight
we forgive as we wait for Father to hold are hand....

A single Leaf carries waters stream as Life brings us Hope as River carries
On Angels Wings as we take breath we lay are head in the running waters
as are faith holds us...As angels sing as they brush are feet we kiss are friends
as they pass through are Heart we believe as we....Forgive...


To my Friend Forgive me for my Thoughts


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 25 2012, 07:04 PM

How can I thank you enough My Doxie! Bobbie (Trevor's mom) needs something you wrote a while ago - hop over to her post and see what you can do, OK? Thanks so much.

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Oct 26 2012, 09:41 PM

To my Friend Thank you in finding some comfort in my broken words or Tears as are thoughts carrie are Hearts...Your Care for Gretta has givin me
some common ground where i might reflect with some form of hope in this light you shine for a friend as my own tears form a reflection
in which i kneel infront of a window of life as i beg for forgivness within myself i see my own Pain that brings me whispers of thoughts of a friend...
The little white dog sits with Angels kiss as are friends wait to see the ones that care and speak for are fallen... as we hold there pain... they run free;


Each passing day with Morning shadows pass by my friends place i still stand in hopes to see my broken heart a familiar face
if you look close as the grass bends to light as bright white brings pain as this care for a friend so others will hold peace in their
Hearts as a simple reflection we can see each tear fall from are eyes as words go unspoken as we speak so others can chase the
Fallen leafs as we sit on a bench in a park at a special place when morning light warms are heart we close are eyes as we see an Angel
Sing as this little white dog has so much to say...

An old man sits at a bench after a friend has passed he see's nothing more then sorrow in this sorrow a friend sits within reach;..

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 27 2012, 04:14 PM

Beautiful, oh so beautiful, My Doxie. Thank you more than I can say. Someday I will write a poem, too. For now my heart is consoled by your beautiful words.

Jenna is truly behind them.

The little white dog - I cannot even think of him without tears falling from my eyes. Tears of sadness. Tears of loneliness. Tears of gladness to see him. Tears of happiness that I can pet his sliky fur. Tears of warmth that he lives and loves - me - and everybody who sees him.

Thank you so much My Doxie for giving so much of yourself to Bobbie and me at a time when you own heart is shattered. That is true love - the kind animals bring to our human word and once in a while a human - like you - learns how to do it.

My heart thanks yours.

Gretta's mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 29 2012, 07:31 AM

Hi Baby G

I can feel your soft sweet ears. I can see you with your head by the door, over on your back playing "who wants to be a wolf?" with me. Gretta, you are teh best dog in the universe. I miss your physical presence but I know you are in the Perfect World where your back does not give out on you and where you have a full body of beautiful soft fur. Little brother and i are getting along as best we can. He's sleeping upside down on the couch. Auntie Bobbie is very sick. Please asl the Big Man to make her well and let her live a long life with us here on earth. Eyes are always leaking, but with your help, the help of my friends here and especially with God's help I know your mom will make it. Thanks for choosing my, Babyface, and thanks for sending Little Brother to me.

Gotta go for now.

Have a heavenly day, precious dog.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 30 2012, 07:22 AM

Hi Babyface

Another day here on earth where, like you, we try to keep one foot moving in front of the other and get through it. Someday we'll be together. Please find Jenna and Yodi and while you guys are romping around, ask them to send a sign apiece to their dads. Ther daddies are SO sad and need a ray of sunshine from them. You are my sun shine, Babyface, and noe one can take that away. Please stay by my side during these next weeks and months. YOu know why.

I love you Baby.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 31 2012, 08:46 PM

Gretta Baby

Would you please do mommie and Auntie Bobbie a huge favor? (I know you will smile.gif) Would you get ALL the animals you can (and then have them get all their friends, and their friends and their friends ..... until all the animals in the Perfect World are facing God and ask Him to see that Auntie Bobbie gets good news tomorrow?

Thank you Baby. You know how important this is.

I love you Gretta-girl.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 1 2012, 09:19 AM

Good morning Gretta-Girl

Thank you for organizing the animal army. I could hear your prayers in the wind all night last night. Thank you so much, you lover, you. I give you news as soon as i get it.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 2 2012, 07:01 AM

BABY G!! It worked!! Auntie Bobbie got good news AND you guys got a new friend - COusin Mark. Run up to him and play wolf. He'll get it for sure. He's a great guy and you guys are lucky you can now have him for a for-real member of the pack.

Thanks beautiful.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 3 2012, 04:22 PM

Gretta

How can it be that in the midst of some good news (finally) yet another blow lands? Our Dreamboat has suddenly and mysteriously come down with heartworm aafter not having it for a year and after your mom having given him his medicine faithfully? What does God want from us? I guess he thinks we haven't given and given up enough. That we're still too connected to earthly stuff and not enough to heavenly stuff. Well, we're human and we want to live HERE and have our doggies live HERE with us and be WELL. We know that when we leave here we go to the Perfect World and we know that alll things there are good. But we know that with our heads - and we HOPE that with our hearts. Our human hearts believe what they see and touch and hear (and smell!). He's called on us too change our hearts by BELIEVING - and we're not very good at it.

Gretta, baby, please send down some rays of BELIEF and COURAGE to us. Your cousin Trevor knows all about courage and so do you, almost starving to death on the cold streets of Minnesota. We know how your story turned the corner: on the very day you were due to be executed, you cahrmed a kind lady's heart and although she only had permission to rescue one dog, she looked into your kind eyes and just couldn't leave without you. That's courage. That's belief. Thank you for showing me the way, Gretta girl. May mommie's heart learn your lessons fast - they are needed now.

I love you, Gretta-girl.

Your mommie

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Nov 9 2012, 06:06 PM


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 10 2012, 02:08 PM

Hi baby-face. Mommie loves you and sometimes mixes up you and your brother's names! I miss one thing especially that you used to do - sit up on the couch at night and watch out the window for me to come home from work. Then wwhen I'd wave at you I could see you get down from the couch and I knew you'd be right there at the front door to meet me. Do you think your litte brother could learn to do that? His trick is to lie down on the couch with his head on one of the arms - UPSUDE DOWN with his feet sticking straight up in the air. Boys!!

Please send some light and strength and love down to Auntie Bobbie. She needs as much as we can gather up for her.

Thank you Gretta-girl.

Mommie loves you - more than ever.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 11 2012, 08:56 AM

Hi Gretta baby

I hope you know that even if mommie doesn't write to you very often, I still love you more than anything!! I miss my little heart-piece. Thank you for coming to me in a dream the other night. Telling me that you and Rufus were really the same dog.

I love you, baby-face. Have some fun in heaven today. OK?

Mommie

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Nov 11 2012, 06:05 PM

Hi Sweet Gretta,

Just stopping by to say I haven't forgotten you and I still love you too. That was a nice dream you gave your mommy.
I hope you, Trevor, Mickey and all the gang are being good, but of course everything is good in Heaven.

XOXO Auntie LoveMyMickey XOXO wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 12 2012, 08:50 AM

Hi auntie Mickey

Thanks for sending me a message. Creatures likes us (you, me, Bobbie and all our beloved doggies and birdies) know each other in our hearts and feel each other's presence every minute of every day - then sometimes we get a letter - which is an extra blessing.

I hope things are well with you, Love My Mickey.

Gretta and Rufus's mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Nov 14 2012, 07:49 PM

Hi Sweet Gretta, wub.gif

I want you to know I still love you. Take good care of your mommy too. We're all in this thing together and need to help each other.

Auntie LoveMyMickey


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 16 2012, 11:11 AM

HI gretta-baby

Yup - the three earthly musketeers are alive and well and fighting (not among ourselves) but for each other). We know we have an army of fur-musketeers up there in the perfect world fighting with and for us too.

i read a very touching book yesterday and had to lie down with Little Brother and rmind him how much I loved him and how much he meant to me - just like you. I know he knows that- I was really reminding myself. You two both have the softest, velvetiest big triangular ears. Just what's needed to wipe away tears. Thank God for bringing you two into my life. And for our FOUR earthly musketeers.

I love you babyface.

Your mommy

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 21 2012, 12:35 AM

Hi Gretta-girl

The day after tomorrow is Thansgiving Day here on earth. I want to tell you that you are one of the people I am most thankful for. Thank you for choosing me at that adoption event. I'll never forget your sweet face lying in my lap and your gentle paw on my leg saying, "Please take me home." I got it, Baby. And I did. And we had five good years together on earth here - and now you and all our doggie and kitty and bunny friends are waiting for us in the Perfect World. Did you know that there are two books out that say exactly what mommy has been trying to tell other people about animals and the perfect world.

And I'm so thankful you senet little brother Rufus to live with me. Someday we'll all be together again/

I love you, Gretta. You're the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Your mommie wub.gif

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Nov 21 2012, 01:25 PM

Hi Sweet Gretta, wub.gif

I want to wish you, your mommy, and Rufus a Happy Thanksgiving and I love you all.....Have fun with all your angel friends and don't chase the turkeys. smile.gif


XOXOXO Auntie LoveMyMickey XOXOXO

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 21 2012, 01:53 PM

Thanks for the picture - of Gretta chasing heavenly turkeys. And thank you for remembering us on Thanksgiving.

Gretta's mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 22 2012, 08:29 AM

Hi Beautiful Girl

Happy Thanksgiving (that's what day it is on earth here)! Auntie Mickey is sad today because it is her second Thanks giving without Mickey on earth - just like us. I'm sad, too, but every day I love and miss you and I tell everybody about the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. Yesterday I saw a picture of someone's dog who looked just like you. She used it as her little picture here like I use yours.

Thank you for choosing me as your earthly mom, Babyface. Thank you for showing me that kindness is something you ARE not something you DO. Kindness shines out from your beautiful eyes, Gretski. Thank you for always running or walking by my side. Thank you for sleeping beside me on your dog bed - the best that could be had. Thank you for standing on the couch in the evening so I could see your beautiful face in the window when I came home from work. Then I'd wave and I'd see you jump down so you could meet me at the door. Thank you for bringing me the missing piece of my heart. Thank you for forgiving me for all the mistakes I made - you were my first dog and you could see into our future to know all the times I didn't understand or put you through something uncomfortable or just plain nuts. Thank you for making my love for my baby sister even stronger than it was - as she taught me how to care for a dog properly.

Thank you for bringing me Auntie Mickey - whose poem explained to me that, even if I didn't realize you were sick unto death and then left you at the hospital on your last night on earth, it was OK. Her baurtiful poem still makes me cry. Thank you for MoonBeam who got me through this first year of not having you with me on earth. Thank you for my LS friends Shane-of-the-Gentle-Heart and Doxie, who writes the most incredible poetry. And thank you for sending me a "little" brother, Rufus, to live with me and teach me some more lessons. See him right now in his usual morning place - the couch. He really knows how to relax!! Did you see him the other day sleeping totally upside down - head hanging over the side of the couch and all four feet in the air?

I could go on and on - and will when we see each other again in the perfect world. For today, just one BIG THANK YOU, Babyface.

Your mom


Posted by: LoveMyMickey Nov 22 2012, 07:16 PM

My Dear Gretta,

What a sweet and heartwarming love letter your mommy wrote to you. You and Rufus have a good mommy. That was quite a picture of Rufus's sleeping position, wasn't it?........I love you too, Miss Gretta...... wub.gif


XOXOXO LoveMyMickey XOXOXO

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 24 2012, 08:30 PM

Gretta-girl

Isn't it wonderful having such loving and true friends here on LS? We never met each other's dogs yet each dog has influenced all of us. Each dog has captured some of all of our hearts. It seems that souls and soul-mates are much bigger than just the duos we always think they are.

I love you more every day, Beautiful Girl. What would I do without your velvet ears (and now Little Brother's BIG velvety ears) to cry into? There's a song here on earth that says, One glad morning when this life is over, I'll fly away." That's what you and Trevor and Mickey and all our other heavenly friends did and what we will all do someday - and be togehter forever.

Thank you for being you and staying with me even though we're in different universes temporarily. (I finally realized that the giant chocolate lab that Rufie and I captured on Thankgiving Day - and later returned to her owner - was really you coming back to remind us that we DO have something to be thankful for - YOU!

Our love for you is more than the number of stars in the sky.

Rest well, my girl, you've earned it.

Please smile on Auntie Bobbie. She needs it a lot right now.

Bye-bye and sweet dreams.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 25 2012, 08:03 AM

HI Gretta Baby

Mom's got a job for you, OK? Round up the cousins (and Mickey and Jenna and Hermie the Bunny) and sing a chorus of the old song "Everything is gonna be alright" nice and loud so Auntie Bobbie can hear it in her heart. (Hey, you're in heaven, somebody up there will know the words!).

I love you baby. My heart is sad all the time now but I just heard some words in a TV sermon that encouraged me to get up and FIGHT for my blessing if it's in danger of being taken away. ONly you (yeah, and my ex-husband) know what a nag I can be! Heaven's gonna hear from me over and over until it happens.

I'll be OK.

Love,

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 27 2012, 07:57 AM

HI Gretsky

Boy, you guys did a GREAT job in the Heavenly Choir!! It really helped Trevor's mom. Could you guys stay together and do some more songs? I told Trevor I would send a play list - but today every give a big loud howl, cheep or nose wiggle, OK

Thank you with everything I have , Babyface. Just another example of your kindness lesson. I love you, Tippy-Tail.

Your mommie wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 28 2012, 08:24 AM

Hi you big breautiful brown dog (that'd be you Gretzki)

Thank you for being one of God creatures and for searching and finding me and choosing me to be your mom. Once we have become one of these, we are foreever. You are. I am. Bobbie is. Mickey and his mom are. All the cousins are, Doxie is. We have a saying on earth here when we're praying to the Big Man in Heaven: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death ...". Many of us are doing that now. I am. Bobbie is. Shane is. Doxie is. LoveMy Mickey is. Everybody here on LS is. The next line is "I will fear no evil." Please help me to do that, my soulmate. Please help me to look upward - like you must have done so many times on eearth before we found each other. Please help me to nourish hope in my heart, also like you must have done for so many agonizing years. And please help me gladden the life of someone else while I am doing that - like you did mine, my dear heart. Please asl the Big Man to make Bobbie well and to take care of all those who love her.

Thank you Babyface-with-the-soft ears. Mommie loves you SO much.

Posted by: Bobbie Nov 29 2012, 04:40 PM

And your Auntie Bobbie LOVES you soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much, too!

No fancy artwork or words today. I can't do that stuff, anyway.

Just pure love and thanks for all you have been and still are for your mommy and me and everyone else.

WE LOVE YOU, GRETTA!! wub.gif

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 2 2012, 08:47 AM

Hi Gretta-girl

I'm just stopping by to say hello and that I love you. You know what's in my heart even though I don't write it. MY tears are falling and this time they're not for you because I know you are safe and happy and healthy and waiting for me. They are for Trevor's mom - and you know why. Please send down some rays of strength and love to her today, OK, Babyface.

Mommie loves you.


Posted by: LoveMyMickey Dec 3 2012, 07:22 PM

Hi Sweet Gretta,

Nothiing fancy here either, just three little words, "I LOVE YOU!"........Take good care of your mommy and your auntie Bobbie....We all love them too....

Auntie LoveMyMickey wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 4 2012, 07:28 AM

Hi Gretta

Look at all the wonderful friends we have -- just like you guys have a club and a choir up there, we have a club down here, too - the Musketeers. We started at three years ago and now we have six - including the special Love My Mickey!!

Please call your club together, Gret-zky, and sen ddown so PEACE AND QUIET rays to Auntie Bobbie today, OK?

I love you, girl.

Your mommie

P.s. Little Brother sends a "hi" too - from his place on the couch. You would laugh when he takes over the couch and mom has to sleep on your dog bed!!!!

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 5 2012, 07:36 AM

Hi Gretta-baby

You know my heart so you know I cannot write much without tears falling like rain. Thank you for being my other half - and looking the world over until you found me. I love you Babyface.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 6 2012, 07:52 AM

Hi my sweet Babyface,

There's trouble brewing in "Dodge" - everyone's getting under everyone else's feet and yelling and all the other stuff that goes on when there's a crisis and too many being are locked up under one roof. I'm sure you saw this kind of uproar many times while you were on earth. It's the exact opposite of loneliness - in a way it IS loneliness - everybody locked up in his or her own soul, crying for help, but each action of each person just makes everybody else sadder and madder. It's a mess that only gentle, loving dog spirits can help. I've asked Trevor to round up the troops and send down loving and gentle, soothing energy to the house.

Gretta, please forgive me for always aksing you to do something. You should have a chance to rest, run, sleep and play and be done with the troubles of the world. But the troubles of the heart are something only the gentle, patient, unconditional love of animal-spirits can help. And I know you have a HUGE store of it, Babyface.

Thank you ... for everything.

Mommie

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Dec 7 2012, 07:15 PM

Dear Sweet Mommy,

I have more energy now than I can use, so I have plently to help you as well as do the things we do here. Mommy, I am happy to do everything I can for you like you did for me while I was with you in my earthly body.

Trevor sent his mommy an Angel of Peace and Rest. I hope it helps. I hope all our doggie prayers help too......I love you mommy. wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Your Gretta

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 9 2012, 07:26 AM

HI Gretta-baby

Guess what! It's snowing here - remember that cold white stuff that falls from the sky? remember getting an A in socks and then an A in boots when we put them on your back feet cuz they got so cold? Is there sonw in the perfect World? There must be because it's so pretty but I know it must not be cold enough to make all the darling animals there cold and shivery. Your little borther - what a clown! He's lying down on the love seat with his head upside down over the edge and all four of his feet in the air. Just so he's comfortable.

Again, please send some peac and strength and love down to Trevor's mother - it's an all-the-time thing right now. And the love of animals is SO much more powerful than human love - where words get in the way.

Mommie loves you and misses you. Sometimes I think of how we counted the days on your last winter here and it makes me sad, but then I remember that up in the Perfecct World where you are, every day is a beautiful, comfortable day and then I'm a little happier again.

Have fun today, Gret-ski!

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Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 10 2012, 05:10 PM

Hi Babyface
Mom needs a little help for the next few hours. I'm going to get a test on my stomach and I have to drink a half gallon of PowerAde with some powder that makes you ... well... that stuff I used to pick up in bags when we went on walks.

Looks like I'll be in the bathroom full time tonight. Oh well, it's only for one night.

Too bad Little Brother had to go sleep at the vet for two days. Mommie can't take him out on walks with this medicine!!

Thank you Sweetie!!

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Dec 10 2012, 07:09 PM

Oh My Dear Mommy, wub.gif

I hope you will be alright. We three Musketeers will get all the prayer paws together and say lots of prayers for you. Little brother might not get to sleep in his favorite position, but he will be okay.

Be careful in all that snow......I LOVE YOU MOMMY! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Your Babyface, Gretta....


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 11 2012, 09:12 PM

HI Love My Mickey

Thank you for all the good wishes. I turned out OK - just a little stomach irritation which I'm sure is due to a statin drug. I should have stopped that drug when it first started giving me heartburn but I am surely going to stop it now.

Little Brother is at a place where everybody loves him - where the heritage of Gretta has gone before him. He won't get his miles long walks - but then for a couple of days I won't have to walk miles in the FROZEN weather!!! I do miss him, though, his body and spirit fill the flat with warmth and life and love.

Gretta, thanks for getting mommie through this. You should have seen att eh horrible green stuff mommie had to drink - and drink - and drink. And then some awful clear stuff that tasted like acid. But mom's OK and just resting now. I'm going to get Little Brother tomorrow morning.
Sleep tight, my baby. You've earned it - you made it to the Perfect World. And Aunt Bobbie found a wonderful counselor at her big hospital and both her and Uncle Stan go together. It's good for her and for him. Thanks for your help in making this happen.

Just gotta sleep and go mack to work tomorrow.

Love ya' Babayface - and I can NEVER EVER thank you enough for searching the world over until you found me - your soul-mate and then choosing me to be your real-live mom. OH, honey, Mom loves ans misses you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much.

For now ......

Mommmie

Posted by: Bobbie Dec 11 2012, 10:24 PM



I LOVE YOU, TOO, GRETTA!!!!!!!!! (if I knew how to get hearts on here, I'd make a million)



Love,
Auntie Bobbie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 12 2012, 07:52 AM

Good morning Babyface

Mom's OK but very tired this morning. I think my boss is getting alittle tired too of my working so slowly and slovenly. OH well, it's only this world. I'm going to get little brother this morning and maybe I change my mind and actually go in for the meeting my boss wants this morning. Thank you for being you, Babyface.

Your mom

Posted by: Bobbie Dec 14 2012, 07:48 PM

FROM: Auntie Bobbie

TO: Gretta the Great

RE: I LOVE YOU!

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Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 17 2012, 07:05 AM

Hi Gretta, my baby

Did you see all the hugs and kisses from Auntie Bobbie? Isn't she the BEST! Send her some love and strength rays today OK?

it's winter here = cold, snow, ice. Every time this season rolls around I remember our last winter together - how you suffered from the cold, but that we HAD to go outside four times a day. How we put your pretty pink sweater on. (One time I put it on Little Brother and it was so small for him I had to CUT it off! Sorry, girl. I still have the pieces, though. I'd never throw then away.) How you always got an A in socks and in boots. Didn't we go through a lot of boots? Even the best ones were eventually worn through by the ice and cement sidewalks. If only I could put on your little sock and boots just ONE more time! But you're in a place where boots aren't needed, arent you?

Please round up the "gang" and sing a doggie and kittle and birdie and bunny song as you all send down love and strength rays to Auntie Bobbie, OK?

Thank you for being - yes, just for being, my baby girl/

Your mommie

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Dec 18 2012, 12:51 PM

Hi Sweet Gretta,

Sounds like you were "cool", errr, "warm" in your winter outfits. I bet you were cute and got "bark whistles" from other doggies.......Mickey didn't like anything put on him, not even his cute sweater or raincoat, (which I can't find anywhere.) Wonder if he hid them, hmmmmm.....He did have his own thick winter fur coat.

Gretta, as your mommy said, round up the gang and sing some songs as you send down love and strength to Auntie Bobbie. Do the same for your mommy because she needs lots of love and strength too......I love you and your mommy. wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif


XOXO Auntie LoveMyMickey XOXO

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 22 2012, 08:28 PM

Hello my sweet Gretta-girl

It's winter again here. Remember your socks and boots? We sure went through a lot of boots, didn't we? I think Little brother is going to need some, too. Today on a walk one of his feet got cold and he tried limping along on 3 legs. I bought him some boots today but I think I'll try them on another day.

Gretta, can I ask you a favor? Whatever it took for you to remain loving and hopeful when, after you were no longer of any use to your so-called owners and were conveniently "lost" or worse....could you send some down to mommie, please? After all that suffering and being scheduled for death and then rescued from the jaws of death and fed and cared for by a wonderful lady, you still had a heart full of love and gentleness ... and kindness. Remember on our walks .... people we didn't even know would come up to us and say how kind you were. Remember that adoption event when you slowly walked over to me and laid your head in my lap and pawed my leg and hopefully said, Please take me home?

Well, mommy needs some of that strength and gentleness and love right now. I'm lucky, though. At least I'm inside and not freezing to death and starving like you were. But I've been tossed out by someone I dearly love, I don't know why. Maybe there is no why. I just need your help, my Babyface. I love you like never before. My heart is crying, please can I pet my Gretta just one more time? I'll feel your rays of strength like warm sun on my heart, my Heart of Hearts.

Thank you, my Gretta-girl.

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Dec 22 2012, 08:58 PM

Forgive me for the interruption as i speak we have never meet yet i see your love for a friend
that sings so loud as your voice carrys with kindness as Gretta leads your words she has so
much to say as you hold her close..you wish for all to hear her silence..as i speak out
of turn i watch as so much love passes through your Heart..I must say a few words..

As the passing of time brings words to light as we all sit by the window of life we ask a friend
Have we done enough...Have you taught me the ways to see..to bring your thoughts to light
I kneel to wish you a Happy life..As we sit in the window of life and ask why...My friend with
such kind words will bring light as a path we all follow in search as we sit where friends look
through a window of are loved ones will come once again..I wait for the true love only you
have within your Heart i gaze within the Snow that falls within reach...I watch you in silent
words as you sleep...

My true friend that has saved me i wish Heart felt words so others might see..As i wait in the
Window of life..I listen to the silence of your Whispers that await my Greeting i shall give to
a special Human as my paw print holds your heart..Each Tear that falls from my thoughts you
shall hear as I sit within the frosted glass i see within..As you speak my name i'am
forever yours..As i only know the life of a shelter that hides my pain...
A kind Heart holds my Sorrow as Jeanne brings life with each breath
i speak only to a friend that holds my thoughts...

When i play in the fresh snow fall you truly see my Happiness as my tail lays still until the Angel
holds my thought within each word i hear you speak as she saved my Life i have touched a Human
and she will never be the same... I speak without words.. yet only the purest of hearts will understand
With thought's of childhood dreams as each breath i can see your Love for we are forged with
each thought that brings pain as we see are friends play within are hearts...

As we stand at waters edge We bring blessing of are fallen with each brush of are hand..
A layer of fresh snow reveals true love where doudt lay within are passing we kiss the breath
that fades within are self and pray to are friends that we bring kindness to there hearts for we weep
as the passing brings us to are knees only to listen to are friends speak with silent words....
as each Tear falls a life time of memory holds are empty heart till we speak once more..

Forgive me i have nothing to comfort you or to say magic words..what i can give you is my Heart felt Thoughts
as an angel lays a paw upon your head..you did not choose yet you where choosen as you watch great snow fall
with happy tails that have never seen the true beauty of a golden heart as few can see..I watch from a distance
with tears as i find hope in your words...As Gretta looks out the window as she will see a true Angel
that shines within her heart As each foot step brings peace as she lays her head within your reach....

She will always be by your side to make sure you speak for her as Frost covers her every Breath as sight brings a picture of your heart...
She has a picture in her mind as you walk the stairs you can hear her speech...As Angels Weep...
Jeanne please forgive me as i fight back my words seems i have little fight as i speak...I hope you understand my words..

From Jeanne
Beginning of winter and the wisps of memory we wish we could hold in are hands as we hold them in are hearts...You brake mine...
as the words i knew you could speak come to life...Thank you for the Heart felt Speech my friend;I fight my words yet i speak with
no thought tonight as your Good will is overbearing as my friend and i kneel as the kind heart you hold offers Hope...

 

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 22 2012, 11:56 PM

OH My Doxie

Thank you for the beautiful poem and the wonderful pictures of Gretta. They have reached right into the center of my heart and I can feel that soft velvet of Gretta's ears and the light weight of her muzzle on my lap. And how she used to lie down and I'd have to roll her over on her side to put on her baby sox and doggie boots because it was so cold outside. As you say, someday she WILL hear my voice and I will hear hers -as we meet on that great staircase to the perfect world.

God bless you My Doxie for your soothing balm of words and pictures on a weeping heart. I understand a little better and weep a little less because of your gift.

Gretta's mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 25 2012, 07:43 AM

Merry Christmas my beautiful girl. Remember all the beautiful shiny houses? You are the best gift of all. I'll neer stop loving you, Babyface.

your mommie forever

P.S. Could you ask Little Brother not to threaten to bite me when I'm trying to get his boots on, please? We got the one on the foot tat got cold yesterday and he did OK walking on it.

Thank you baby girl.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 26 2012, 07:07 AM

HI Baby G

It's cold. I love you. So does Little Brother and Auntie Bobbie.

XOXXOXOXOOXOX

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 31 2012, 10:43 AM

Hi Babyface

It's the last day of a year here on earth. Thank you for the four + years you lived with me and shared a special, one-of-a-kind love with me. Thank you for choosing me. (Lots of people here say that .... because it's true, isn't it Sweetheart?) Thank you for your kind and beautiful heart. Everywhere we went people said what a kind dog you were and how much I loved you. Both true, true, true.

Walk slowly around the perfect World and say hello to all your friends up there - the ones who met you when you arrived, the ones who came about the same time you did, and especially the ones who are new to the place. I think sometimes they must think they will have to leave someday. Reassure them, Babyface, that the Perfect World is forever. Stop and sit and talk with the doggies and kitties and bunnies and ferrets and birdies and all the animals of people we've known either on this earth or through Lightning Strike. Go ask Jake about his Grandpa - not so many people write about their grand-animals! Have a warm, sunny rest with Love My Mickey's brood, with Peggy's beautiful golden, with the poet's Doxies, with Shane's Yoda, with your cocker spaniel cousins ..... and so, so , so many more.

Remember, Baby, that mommie loves you and thinks about you every single day. Tears still come to my eyes but they don't flow down my cheeks like they used to. That's because you've been so faithful in sending down love rays and they have helped heal my heart. You never stop giving, do you Baby? This year, help me to be a little (no, a lot) more like you, OK?

I love you, "Dude"

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 4 2013, 08:26 AM

Hi Gretta baby

I'm sorry I haven't written to you for so many days. You can see all the stuff that's been going on down here. But you can also feel how much mommie loves you (Like Love My Mickey said in her beautiful poem) and misses you. You'll always have a piece of my heart - and I of yours.

I love you, Gretta.

Your mom

Posted by: Bobbie Jan 4 2013, 12:07 PM

Hi Miss Gretta!

I, too, haven't stopped by to say hello in quite awhile. We humans seem to get so caught up in our own little worlds and many times, that is not the best approach.

I hope you are having the time of your life in Heaven - how could you not? Keep track of Mr. Trevor, Rudy and especially Birney. I'm sure by now you know all about Birney's escapades. Did you know that he would crate himself if he did some mischief while we were gone? If we came home and couldn't find the boys we knew exactly where they were! Down the basement, in their crates! The only two dogs I've known like that. Have Birney tell you of his adventures, or Kelly will for him!

Gotta go get daddy a shake!

LOVE YOU!
Auntie Bobbie


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 4 2013, 09:24 PM

Hey, thanks Aunt Bobbie - two letters in one day ..... better than a chew hoof!!!!

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 6 2013, 01:19 PM

Hi Babyface

How are ya? Yeah, I know, it's always Perfect in the Perfect World. You made it, Baby, you made it! And if anyone deserves to have made it, it's you. Remember Jeannie, the lady that lived behind us, who got mommie connected with Second Chance so we could meet? And Margie, your foster mom who just couldn't leave you behind that day, which would have been your last day on earth, in the pound? Well, they're taking care of a white shepherd dog and four little fuzzy black puppies who survived a house fire and had to go to the pound because their daddy didn't have a place to live and had to live in his truck. Jeannie and Margie rescued them and all of them are VERY, VERY sick. One of the puppies might be coming to the Perfect World. Please be there and snuggle up to him and love him and show him around the Perfect World and introduce him to your "clan." You're just the one to do it, Babyface. You're the kindest chocolate lab who ever lives.

Thank you beautiful star.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 7 2013, 07:24 AM

HI Gretta

Please help mommie today. She's really sad. Please send some love rays to me today. Thanks Baby Girl.

I love you, Girl.

XOXOXOXOX

Your mom.

Posted by: Jake'sGrandpa Jan 7 2013, 09:18 AM

Gretta's Mom, I hope the sadness passes quickly and that you feel the love rays from Gretta soon.

Posted by: Bobbie Jan 8 2013, 07:44 AM

Dearest Gretta,

I am sorry to report to you that there is nothing in the universe better than a new chew hoof - even 2 letters in one day.

However, keep up the good work in sending love and happiness rays to your mommy. She's my favorite person, you know!

I LOVE YOU, GRETTA!

XOAuntie BobbieXO

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 9 2013, 07:37 AM

Hi Aunt Bobbie

Yeah, and I'm in the perfect World now so I can HAVE chew hooves! You know how my mom feels about them - at least in her house. I love you Aunt Bobbie and it looks like my mom is a little happier these days.

Catch ya' later,

Gretta (that's my real name, you know)

Posted by: Bobbie Jan 10 2013, 10:40 AM

Dear Ms. Gretta!


RE: chew hooves - YIIIPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEE!

I LOVE YOU, MISS SWEETNESS AND KINDNESS!

XOAuntie BobbieXO

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 12 2013, 07:40 PM

HI Baby-Dude

Stay where you are, Babyface, cuz it's COLD in here! ONly one night has been cold enough to make little brother wear dog boots. I cut up my old blue sweatshirt for a coat for him. When it's cold, I miss you. When it's sunny, I miss you. When the moon is out, I miss you. When the sunshines, I miss you. All the time, I miss you, my beautiful, kind, velvet-eared baby.

Your mommy (and your little brother)

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Jan 15 2013, 07:30 PM

Dear Sweet Gretta, wub.gif

Just stopping by to let you and your sweet mommy know I didn't get lost anywhere, just been busy. I hope you, Mickey, Trevor, and all the gang are enjoying your heavenly home. And don't forget to play with Jake. He looks like he is a fun and loving boy.

I love you, dear Gretta, and your sweet mommy. wub.gif


Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 17 2013, 08:13 AM

HI Gretta

Please round up your cousins and go to see the Beautiful Man and ask him to help your Auntie Bobbie. rivers of tears are being shed for her on earth - I know they are healing diamonds up there in the Perfect World. Thank you Beautiful Girl.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 18 2013, 07:00 AM

Hello My Lovely Girl

Well, the Musketeers' love rays and talks with the Big Man did it again. Thank you Babyface. All this must look pretty different from up there in the Perfect World.

Mommie loves you. (And Little Brother is fast asleep - on the couch!

XOXOXOXOXOX

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Jan 18 2013, 07:00 PM

Auntie LoveMyMickey here, sending some love to Miss Gretta!!!

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 24 2013, 03:47 PM

Hi Marvelous Baby Girl

Mom's in a little trouble. Yesterday when walking Little Brother Rufus I slipped on a patch of ice and shattered my right ankle. People have their ankles down very low on their legs. The ankles join the leg to the foot. Mommie went down real hard and completely crushed and shattered her ankle. Sort of like taking your foot and yanking it outward. All of the big bones that run through the leg to the ankle snapped in two and the big one - the one with the little knobs on the end moved away from where it was broken. Aa very kind lady (was it you in human form?) stopped to help me. She had someone living in one of those big, rich-people's houses on Summit Avenue call the ambulance ( the vee-oo, vee-oo red car) and then they drove Little Brother Home and then she came to the hospital to give me back my keys. I KNOW that was you - the kindest Chocolate lab who ever lived. They pulled and pushed on mommy's foot and leg and took a lot of pictures of the bones and then made a hard thing around mommy's foot and leg.. Then they gave me these walking sticks (people call then crutches) and I've fallen about 6 times using them. I have to have an operation next week to fix my ankle. The doctors will put in little pieces of metal to hold the bones together.

I am SO sad about all this because Auntie Bobby finally got a date for HER big operation - Feb 1. And after alll The getting ready and going to he house to help her with her poison medicine and your two cousins, Dreamer and Kelly, Now I can't go because I have to have my own operation. Gretta, my baby, will you please tell the Big Man that I know He must have a plan going here and whatever He has, I accept it.I love Him - He made us and He gave you to me. He loves us and He made the Perfect world for all of us to live in. He made th earth that we live in first. He did EVERYTHING good for us. He even made the big, strong love we have for each other. I'm SO glad I have you to love, too. I know you siffered A LOT before we met each other. Please get your animal troop together and send down some love rays to Mommie, Auntie Bobby, auntie Mickey, My Doxie, Hermy's mommy, Uncle shane and all the other people who know and love us.

We'll make it Baby Girl. The Big Man isn't done with us yet.

I love you My Beautiful - forever and beyond.

Your Mommie

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Jan 24 2013, 07:10 PM

Dear Jeanne,

I'm so sorry about your fall and broken bones. I got tears when I read about it. I know you want to be with Bobbie during her operation, but seems like the Good Lord has other plans. They must be good ones, I hope. We all here will pray hard for you and Bobbie. Loads of Love and (((((HUGS))))). wub.gif



Miss Gretta,

You round up all our fur angels and send rays of hope and love to your Mommy and Aunt Bobbie....Love you all!!! wub.gif

Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 29 2013, 04:49 PM

Hi Baby Face

I have a very important job for you and your cousins: round up all the Musketeer animals and any others that want to join, demonstrate your little brother Rufus's I-want-to-go-outside "funny noise" ( the gentle hum), and then organize or (I suppose in the Perfect World you can stay up all night and not feel it) just keep it going for 24 hours straight - on the earth it will be this Friday, three days from now. Please keep that hum going from midnight on Feb 1 until midnight Feb 2.

Your heavenly humming will fill the universe with prayers and care and strength and hugs and kisses and every other kind of gentle love for Trevor's mom on the day she most needs it. The earthly Musketeers will be humming along with you.

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much, Gretta the Great.

Your mom with the leaky eyes

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Jan 30 2013, 06:48 PM

I

LOVE

YOU

GRETTA! wub.gif



Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 2 2013, 08:54 PM

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Gretta-baby

IT WORKED!!

The prayer-hum for Trevor's mom worked!!

Please wander on over to the Big Gentle Man up there and put your head on His lap to thank Him. He understands.

Thank you my baby girl for organizing all the Musketeer animals.

Mommie loves you more every day - and littlebrother is having a blast on that farm in Wisconsin where he lived before he came to live with me.

I love you Gretta-girl.

Y0ur mom

Posted by: Jake'sGrandpa Feb 4 2013, 08:09 AM

Hi Gretta's Mom, how's your ankle doing?

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 5 2013, 02:52 AM

Hi Jake's Grandpa

Well, I've spent 14 days in a recliner and they couldn't do surgery last week because the leg was still very swollen. Actually it looked like something from a horror movie. I'm scheduled for a plate-and-pins repair tomorrow morning at 7:30 AM. (have to be at the hospital at 5;30 AM so naturally I have insomnia tonight. I'm not worried - just can't sleep. You don't get very tired by sitting with you leg over you heart and typing on a computer for a couple of hours a day. I'm going to Baltimore (finally) on Feb 15. By that time Bobbie's hospital stay will be half over and I won't have lifted a finger to help her. And I'll still be non-weight bearing for 6 weeks. That should be good: 3 floors, 2 manical dogs, 1 more than slightly senile dad - and a GIMP to take care of everything - FROM ANOTHER RECLINER!!

How are YOU doing? The heartbreak of a friend, a soulmate, a companion, a love going on before us is indescribable. And because we each carry a piece of the other's heart, the ache never really goes away. I'm getting "leaky eyes" just writing this. But the sharp, shattering pain of the first few months does eventually ebb somewhat. For some people it may go away completely and be replaced by happy memories, but for others, like me, I think the hole in my heart will ache until I see Gretta again - as may yours until you see Jake again.

I think I heard him in the prayer hum choir. I know I did. A great basso profundo! Please remember, Jake's grandpa, that we LS'ers are a special family. We are united by a bond of an exceptional, rare union with an animal - that of true soul-mates. And we will be there for each other until we all meeet our soul-mates in the Perfect World. I think sometimes Jake may send signs that he is OK and that he loves you. They're very slight and it takes a while to notice them, but they'll be there. I promise.

Good night, Jake and your grandpa too

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 5 2013, 03:06 AM

Hi you beautiful Baby-Face

You, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

You, whose face and heart I see in every picture of a dog and in every dog walking with a soul-mate person.

You, who opened up my heart, took a piece of it and gave me a piece of yours - forever.

You, who organized the unversal prayer hum for Trevor's mom.

You, who never complained about the heat or the cold - or about the sox and boots you had to wear in the depth of winter.

You, who understood that I made you do that because I love you.

You, whose beautiful white face shone out with hindness that even strangers could see.

You, whose velvet ears I would give anything to stroke again.

You, who would always turn all the way over on your back for a tummy rub.

You, to whom the best vet in the world gave the name GrettaTheGreat and said hed' never seen a dog so loved by a person.

You, who never barked (except one or two time when mommy paid attention to Benny the Chessie next door. I'm sure you guys are fast friends in the Perfect World.)

You, the most beautiful creature on earth.

You, who despite being thrown away after you couldn't make any more money for your people, still shone out with love.

You, who almost starved to death on the cold November Minnesota streets, but were always willing to share you bones with other dogs.

Gretta - mommie could go on forever - because she loves you so much.

And it was you who sent Little Brother Rufus to me when you saw how sad I was alone.

Thank you, Gretta, for showing me how to truly be loving and kind, for giving me something to live up to.

Thank you, Gretta, for choosing me at that adoption event. I could hear your tiny voice through your paw saying, Please take me home. I'm your true love. You know you changed my life and my heart that day.

I love you, Gretta. Be safe, warm, happy and healthy up there in the Perfect World. Mommy will be there someday.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Your mom


Posted by: Jake'sGrandpa Feb 11 2013, 08:22 AM

Thank you so very, very much, Gretta's Mom. Your words are a comfort to me. And you nailed it; the sharp pain is subsiding somewhat, but the aching hole in my heart will last forever, until I can see my Jakie boy again.

I hope that your surgery went well and that you are now feeling better. Good luck with your recovery, and say hello to Bobbie for me and Jake.

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Feb 14 2013, 12:54 PM

HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY, GRETTA!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!


Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Feb 19 2013, 07:45 PM

Hello Sweet Gretta!!!

I hope you are doing well in your heavenly home. As I told Trevor, keep those prayer hummmmmmings going. I hope your Mommy is doing better too....Send her some love rays and lots of encouragement....

I LOVE YOU, MISS GRETTA!!!! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif


Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 1 2013, 09:47 AM

Good Morning my beloved Gretta.

No, I have not forgotten you because I have not written to you for such a long time. Did you see the fall that Rufus and I had that morning when there was just a TINY bit of snow covering a small patch of glass-smooth ice? Mommie hurt her foot pretty bad that day. Some kind people helped us by calling the "sick people's car" (you know, the one that goes vi-oo vi-oo and that we sometimes saw coming out of the firehouse when we took our morning walks). Thye don't let dogs ride in the sick people's car, so two kind women brough Little Brother home and then came to the hospital where mommy was and gave me back the keys. My foot was BROKEN pretty bad and I could not take care of Little Brother so I brought him to Dr. Hinson's (you know, the one who gave you your name GrettaThe Great) and then his foster mom picked him up and brought him home to her home in Wisconsin. She loves him as much as I do and he'll have another dog to play with.

I had to have an operation on my foot (you were lucky here on earth, you never had to have an operation). The bones inside were all smashed so they had to put some metal plates and pins inside to keep my foot together. I can't walk on that foot for another three weeks. But that isn't why I'm writing to you today.

You already know that your cousin Trevor's mommie is very sick. She had to have a HUGE operation two weeks ago but she is getting a little better. She's in a BIG hospital - like Dr Hinson's only this hospital is as big as the whole college we lived by!! Her operation went pretty well, but her stomach stopped working because of a sickness she had many years ago. So today they are moving her to a smaller hospital for people who aren't quite so sick and who need to get stronger so they can come home.

She is very frightened about moving to this place. It's an good place but she doesn't know any of the people, etc. I think it must be a lot like the first day you came to live with me. We didn't really know each other but we were both kind (and you HAD chosen me at that adoption event) so we fell in love very fast, didn't we?

I've asked Trevor to go lie under the My People Need Special Help Today tree and send down strength and love rays to hs mommie. I also told him he could invite his brothers and his cousin (that woudl be you(. Gretta, people who didn't even know you said you were kindest chocolate who ever lived. I know your gentle, kind, strong spirit can really help her today.

Thank you my BabyFace.

Don't forget who loves you!

Posted by: Jake'sGrandpa Mar 1 2013, 10:20 AM

Gretta's Mom, please let Trevor's Mom know that she is in my "Special Intentions" prayers every day, and that we need her here as soon as she can get back.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 5 2013, 09:19 AM

Hi Precious BabyFace

It's been a long time since mom wrote to you but I know you understand. I have another labor of love for you and your cousin Trevor: go to the entrance of the Perfect World and look for two doggies who have just arrived. They both came from a place called A Loving Goodbye. They've been through some horrible suffering here on earth. One burned to death in a fire and one froze to death ourside in the winter. Give them some gentle licks. Hum to them in your encouraging way. Let them know that they have arrived in a Perfect World and will NEVER, EVER by cold, hungry, burned, hated, abused or anything else like that. Let them know that all that is behind them and that in just a little while they will forget that it even happened to them. Show them the warm fields of grass and let them watch other animals playing in the sun. They might be feeling a little weak still, so show them the big love tree where animals can rest in the sahde and bask in the happiness they now enjoy in the Perfect World. And let them know - although they won't REALLY believe until they've seen it for themselves - that this Perfect World never ends and that thousands of people on earth love them and are sending kindness to tham.

Thank you, BabyFace - you're just the girl for the job - the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 9 2013, 07:08 AM

Hi Baby-G

First, let me tell you outloud how much I love and miss you. I'm taking care of your two cousins, Dreamer and Kelly, right now and they are great dogs, but they are not you - or Little Brother.

Then let me ask you - AGAIN - to send me some love and strength rays today. You know why. Baby-G your are my heart. You carry a piece of my soul and I carry a part of yours. The ache in my heart will never go away until I see you again.

Please have a peaceful time in the Perfect World today. And God bless all animals both on earth and in the Perfect World.

Love forever,

Your mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Mar 9 2013, 06:43 PM

My Dear Sweet Gretta,

Keep sending those love and strength rays to your mommy. You and all the Spirit animals keep sending prayers for Aunt Bobbie to be healed. Send her all the love, strength, and encouragement you can find.

I LOVE YOU MISS GRETTA! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 19 2013, 04:58 PM

Hello My Doxie

BY now you probably know that last Thursday Rufus went back home. It's on the Death and Dying thread.

My shell is very hard because I have always had to be the Rufus - the brave one, the smart one, the one who would take action no matter how my inside heart was crying. And now it's crying so loudly that the world can almost hear it.

There'll never be another Rufus, just like there'll never be another Gretta or another Doxie. Rufus and I were together only 21 months. What a horribly short time. But when i think back on it, I think that Rufus taught me how to be good at the same time as being strong.

Someday we will all be with our beloveds and we will never have to separate again. And I'll get to see you and your beautiful Doxie.

Thank you for remembering me and for your beautiful and meaningful poetry and pictures.

Gretta and Rufus's mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Apr 2 2013, 09:25 AM

Oh my beautiful Gretta the Great

Mommie has not forgotten about you - never, ever. From where you are you can see all the horrible things that have been happening to me. Now even your little brother Rufus has gone to the Perfect World to live with you and like when you went, mommy is crying. Crying for Rufus, crying for you, crying for everything sad and bad and dangerous and mean and hateful and you name it that has happened to your mom in the last two months.

Gretta, you are my first dog. I will never forget the way you chose me at the first adoption event I ever went to. You had a beautiful white muzzle and walked slowly over to me, laid your head on my lap and pawed my leg saying, "Please will you take me home." Of course, my baby, of course I would take you home. There was such a sad look in your eyes then. It broke my heart.

Now your little brother Rufus has joined you in the Perfect World and my heart is breaking again. Please sen a drop of cool rain to my heart so I know everything is not hopeless. Someday we'll be together and there won't be all this sorrow.

I love you Gretski! Romp and play and lie in the cool grass up there where you are and someday you'll see mommy walking toward you neveer to part again.

I love you, Gretta.

Your forever mommie

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Apr 21 2013, 05:21 PM

Hello My Sweet Gretta, wub.gif

I'm sorry I haven't written sooner, but I will never forget you and your mommy and Rufus. Please send your mommy some rays of comfort, love, and encouragement. She is so heartbroken that Rufus went to be with the angels. We know that you, Rufus, Mickey, Jake, Jenna, and all the others are in a better place, but we miss you all so much.......Little Quincy, the Maltese, joined you all yesterday. Please welcome him.

I love you, Miss Gretta! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

One of the Musketeers,

Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 5 2013, 09:13 AM

Hi Gretski

Have you met little Quincy, the little white mop-dog? Isn't he a sweet heart? His mom is named after a flower - can you believe that? A few of us who really REALLY love your mom have become a special group. We call ourselves the Musketeers. There is a famous people story about three musketeers many many years ago. A musket is a old gun, but in those days they hadn't been invented yet - people, how goofy!! They did good deed and protected the weak. That's what we're about. When one of our people, or dogs or other family members, gets sick or is in some trouble we come close and help each other. We had to evict someone from the group because he started being cruel to another member and we try only to love and help each other.

Gretski, right now I'm back home here all alone, just like I was after you went to the perfect World. This time I've hurt my foot in a big way and it will be many months before I can walk well enough to adopt another brother or sister for you and Rufus. My heart is breaking and you two are my consolation. I try to remember that you two were hurt, hungry and abandoned for long times in your life and still you kept up hope until we found each other. You went through much worse things for a much longer time that I have, and you emerged as what everybody who saw you siad, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Please live your perfect life up where you are and once in a while hum some prayers and good wishes for the Musketeers and for eveyone who is crying today because their soul-mate has gone home.

I love you, Gretta-girl. Forever and ever.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 10 2013, 11:37 PM

Hello Babyface

Just a short note to remind you that I love you and miss you and will never forget you and that I am waiting for the day we can all be together in the Perfect World and never have to be separated again.

I miss you SOOOOOOO much, Gretski. I know you love and miss me too. You are my first dog-child, the one who opened my heart to the love that only animals can give. Thank you so much my baby girl.

Your mom.

Posted by: My Doxie and Me May 18 2013, 06:54 PM

My Friend Thank you for the invite to Rufus Life after Birth party.. The Acknowledgment of my True friend touches my Heart and I Truly appreciate your soft spoken words as why
I speak.. In my own words for Gretta and my Friend Rufus you have givin me light when I have none... your simple words at times brighten my path so I can see a friend as I say
my goodbyes...as you hold the power with Angel Wings as they are keeped tucked within... As you care for... another shall pass This is your true gift to Help others
as you blink Moments of time pass by as you Hold all that is close without asking why.. I said before I knew from far away as I speak your Angel wings sweep are feet...

Thank you for the update on Bobbie I still hold a piece of chalk in hand wishing for a moment of life as my own travels many directions as I find myself within the LS
community and I thank my friend as she still leads me to Beautiful People as I see so many write for a friend...

Bobbie and Mr. Trevor
Jeanne and Gretta/Rufus/
LMM/Sending Lots of Love to my Babies Tonight....
Mr. Jake Once Upon a Time a Great Man Kneeled for a True Friend and Found Pure Joy to share with...
My self my friend of past brings my Heart felt words so I might have peace as others speak my friends name.. Priceless...
Mr. Arnie the Great Shepherd that watched over us as we sleep;...
Leejay for all the kind Heart felt words that holds are friends close to are Hearts as we.. Try and Heal<True Gift you have Given another>Thank you..

Jeanne words from the Heart I can see your Wings even if you Tuck them close to your side your true self imprints on so many as you
have been given a kind heart.. How do I know as I part the sea of Tears let me show you..

As I walk down a Corridor a Lone Wolf sits at Cage End and Whispers a life to a Friend so she might Hold his Big Head in her Angels Wings and Bless
a new life so He might be set free... Jeanne you Set Rufus Free within your own love for others.. You are a Angel to all.. As we the new Members of LS
One Special friend will Touch are Heart as we speak with are True Heart that Forms when we Kneel and ask for....

Jeanne the Beauty you bring shines so bright as I have seen as you take care of Bobbie a special friend that you Kneeled before and spoke words of...
The Beauty of life Lies within Gretski ; you owe me a day in his life.. Only if you wish.. Seems i'am new to LS as my Heart Breaks for my own...
As I sit within myself.. By myself.. With my friend Watching me....

 

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 20 2013, 06:10 AM

Oh Gretta

My Doxie and written a beautiful poem for us. I hope he doesn't go away like he said one time he would. He asked for a day in your life and we are going to give him one - your best day. Should we give him the day we met and you laid your head on my lap and pawed my leg as if to ask, "Please take me home."? Or should we give him the day we had our pledge talk and gave our hearts to each other for real? Or should we give him one of the days we joggd down a mile on the median of Summit Avenue, running in the sun like two gooy oldsters? Or should we give him a day when you so patiently wore you pink sweater and boots and sox and trudged through the winter snow?

I've got an idea: Let's give him ALL those days, OK?

I knew you'd say yes. You are thie kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

I love you Gretta the Great. I miss you every day. Take care of Rufus for me. Sometimes he needs a loving hand to pet him and tell him he's a GOOD dog.

Until we meet again .....

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 29 2013, 06:53 AM

Oh Gretta

MOmmies tears are falling down for all the people who are missing their babies today - including me. I miss you so much. I miss your kooky brother so much, too. You are an angel, my Baby-G. Thank you for coming to me.

I love you Baby G.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 31 2013, 04:55 AM

Hello my Gretta-girl

Yesterday was one of THOSE days. I went to pick up Rufie's bag from the big animal hospital - like the one you got. Like the day I got yours, I cried all the way back to work. I learned from you that sadness and loneliness never leaves. Thank you for being my soulmate, baby. Thank you for choosing me at that first adoption event. You knew me. From all eternity you knew me. And then you found me. And gave me happiness I didn't know existed. I miss you and I'll never stop loving you and waiting for the day I see you again.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 2 2013, 08:00 AM

Hi Babyface,

Mommie is BIG-sad today. Your auntie may be coming to join all of you in the Perfect World in not too long a time. Could you and Rufie find Trevor and organize another prayer-hum, please?

I love you, my sweet and kind Gretta girl.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 10 2013, 05:45 AM

Good morning Gretta-girl

Thank you for your spirit in my house so powerfully these last few weeks. I love you babyface.

Your mom


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 13 2013, 06:10 AM

My darling BabyFace

Please don't think mommie has forgotten you or loves you less. You are my first dog. You opened my heart to the love of animals. You led me around the world noticing things at a dog's height.

You are in my heart forever. You know how to comfort my heart. You taught me how to sing - outloud - with made-up words. You taught me how to run again. You were so kind that strangers remarked on your kindness.

You always were willing - even anxious - to play "who wants to be a wolf?" and roll over for a tummy rub. What I wouldn't give to have you here beside me at this stime of immense sadness. You know what I mean, don't you, Baby.

Thank you for choosing me at that adoption event. Thank you for being my white buffalo. Thank you for sleeping on your big ortho dog bed, right at my head so I always knew you were there.

A big thank you and the most love for the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Your mom


Posted by: My Doxie and Me Jun 13 2013, 07:02 PM

To my Friend Gretta and Rufus and The Great Caretaker; that sits in silence and whispers words of Hope as the light
pierce the shadows given from the windows above.. as Wolf dance in the light that bring songs of joy so one day New
breath taken brings Dreams of seasons with an old friend that holds are Heart so others my speak words of are
Teachings.. as I read your thoughts and smile for your Honesty and pure Kindness it helps me on days when strength
is less then... as I sit by my window with shadows that pierce the light as I kneel within my whispers...

Thank you for The Great White Buffalo;


























Wishing you and your family safe Journey into the Harbor of Life...
<Did someone say Belly Rub;)>
Thank you Jeannie for your Heart felt words to Honor your Friends life as she touches the beauty you
hold within a whisper pierce the light of a stranger... Forgive me for my words as i watch you write for a friend...

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 15 2013, 06:17 AM

Good morning my sweet

Thank you for the help I feel you sending to me to meet this crisis with at least SOME grace. If You could go through what you had to go through, I can go through this. Thank you for sending your love and courage to me and for being a part of our little remembrance family here at home.

I love you, Babyface. You are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 19 2013, 06:29 AM

Hi Gretta-girl

Mom sends love to you and thanks for standing by in our little group here at home. I love you Babayface.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 29 2013, 03:22 PM

HI my Gretta

Thank you for sending your spirit here to stay with me for so long. You know how much Mommie's heart is breaking and you know why. At night when I go to sleep I have you and Rufus and the Big Bear and the Spirit Dog and the Baby Lion right over my head protecting me from all hurt, harm and danger. Gretta, in life I loved you so much. Now that we are separated by our senses, I love you still and I am waiting for the day when we will once again be reunited in the Perfect World, where I can see your happy tail wagging. I SO miss coming home at night after work and seeing your head through the window cuz you're sitting on the couch waiting for me. As soon as I waved to you I could see you get down off the couch and come to the door and meet me.

Gretta, you are my first baby. You're heaven sent. Please let me remember the terrible things that happened to you before you came here. That way I won't think my own troubles are so bad.

I love you BabyFace. Have a good rest in the Perfect World tonight. As the sun goes down, gather up all your cousins and friends who know Trevor's mom and just sit and hum gently for a few minutes. Send down your soothing spirits over her, OK? I know you will. Everybody who met you said you are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

I love you, Gretta.

Your lonely mom


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 1 2013, 06:32 AM

Hello Gretta-Girl

I can seee you just getting up and walking around in the eearly sunshine of the Perfect World, wondering what fun and companionship you'll have today. Thank you for always getting the hum-group together in the morning and sending a prayer-hum to Trevor's mom and dad. You always thought of other people before yourself. Even though I can't see you, I know you walk beside me every day as I try to make my way in this world. Gretta, can animals in the Perfect World see the burdens that people still on earth can see? If they can, could all the hummers and all the "forgotten ones" each take a little bite from people's burdens so there won't be so many tears down here?

I just can't say thank you enough, Baby, for choosing me at that adoption event. The most loving picture in my heart is of you slowly walking over to where I was sitting, laying your beatiful, white-muzzled head in my lap, and gently pawing me, saying, "Please, Please take me home."

Someday I'll be where you aree, I promise. I love you Gretta-Girl.

Your mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Jul 6 2013, 06:01 PM

Hi sweet Gretta Baby,

Always remember I still love you too! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 9 2013, 07:04 AM

Hi Gretta Girl

See what a bunch of love and hearts that Love My Mickey has sent you! She loves you, too. Gretta, your beautiful pillow sits on the back of mommie's sofa (my bed in the living room). Your picture is right here beside me in the big front windows. The only thing missing is YOU. But I TRULY believe that you are safe and healthy and happy and relaxing in the perfect World.

Thank you for walking beside me during this time of sadness and fear and worry. I know you know what I mean. I know you felt that way for many months when you wandered the streets of our city, thrown out of your home because you'd had all the puppies you were going to have. I still cry for you when I think of how sad and lonely and cold you must have been in November in our northern city. Then somebody caught you and put you in a cage and in three days you were going to be sent home, nobody even knowing, nobody even caring. All alone. Dog tears in your eyes.

But then a miracle lady, Ms M, your foster mom, went to the place all the lost dogs were and even though she was looking for another dog when she saw you and just couldn't leave without taking you, too. And nursing you back to health. And then bringing you to that adoption event wher you chose me to be your mom. I'll never get tired of telling that story.

Please be with Trevor's mom today and with his dad, too. You know why, Baby.

Here's a "who wants to be a wolf" stomach rub and a ear scratch, form mom.

I love you, Gretta the Great.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 11 2013, 08:20 PM

Gretta-Girl

Mom needs your help very badly right now. You are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived, despite having a hellish life and coming minutes away from starving and freezing to death. But love lifted you. We loved each other on earth and we will always love each other, wherever we are.

Trevor's mom is very very sick. HIs dad and me are very very sad. Just like I was when you left the earth and went to the perfect World. I think Trevor's mom might be coming to join all of you in the Perfect World soon. It will break Trevor's dad's heart, my dad's heart and my heart, too.

I need your help. I need your quiet, gentle, kind strength to carry on, even though I know I will not see Trevor's mom for very much longer. I need to remember how you slowly walked over to me at that adoption event. How you lay your head down in my lap ever so gently. How you pawed my leg, very gently, asking hith so much hope in your heart, "Please take me home." That was the best decision i ever made. You were my very first dog. You taught me how to love. Like the Little Prince who said "you are responsible forever for what you have tamed." And we tamed each other, didn't we baby?

Tomorrow we're all going far, far away. To Trevor's house. We are going there to take care of Trevor's mom. Just like I took care of you and Trevor's mom took care of him and many cocker spaniels before him. We'll do our best to make her happy but I know she will be sad. Gretta, please help us not let sadness freeze us. Let us be alive and not frozen by fear or sadness or loneliness. Please let us show the kindness you showed while on earth.

Gretta, mommy loves you with all her heart. I need you now like I never needed you before. Together all of us can do this.

I love you, Gretta The Great.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 18 2013, 06:42 PM

Hi Gretta the Great,

After two days of driving, I made it to Trevor's mom's house. Gretta, you have the kindest heart in the universe. it has room for everyone - with all of their sadnesses and worries. You just keep walking along or sometimes trotting along. You and your beautiful white muzzle. Thank you for giving me so much love. It has sustained me through many narrow roads and that's what it is doing now. You would have been a perfect therapy dog. I can just see your beautiful head lying on some sick child's bed, looking up at them and sending your kindness and love to them.

Gretta, you know what's happening to Mommie. Please be with me in spirit. I need your strength. I need your will to endure - when you were almost dead from starving or freezing. I need your hope - even when you were put in the "death room" and were just hours away from having poison gas send you to the Perfect World. I need your trust - when, even after that, you could become a happy, loving dog, whom even strangers on our walks recognized you as the "kindest chocolate who ever lived."

Good night, my love. Sleep tight and have some gentle dreams of your humans left here on earth.

XOXO

Your mom forever

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 22 2013, 07:14 PM

Gretta, my Gretta-girl

Where are you, my soul?

Here on the table in a picture, eating your bone beore we even had your huge comfy dog-bed. Your dog bowl set, your dog bed, your basket of toys, your pink winter sweater ..... everything is in the same place it was when you left. Everything .... except you.

I'm happy that you are in the Perfect World where there is no sickness, no aging, no stiff joints, no stupid person like your mom who didn't realize that you walked so slow because you were tired and hurting. and yet you loved me in spite of it all. And I love you too - forever and a day.

Sleep well, my baby girl.

your mom

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Jul 24 2013, 07:31 PM

Gretta and my friend Rufus

This is to my friend Gretta I hear your mommy speak of you often well;.. sometimes I hear her calling your name from mountain tops; good thing
as I sit listening to all the wonders of your world through the eyes of your true friend Jeannie.. Gretta she speaks with her heart sometimes the bare
truth blinds as I read and understand.. Jeannie will always provide a soft an silent comfort as you sit in the big chair while the sun bathes you in ever
lasting love Your friend sits in silence looking over you with heart felt emotions that cares for others...

Gretta your life still shines bright to this day... I can explain Gretta forgive me for my words today as I lost my best friend and walk ... As your
Friend Jeannie speaks from her heart and with these words light my path as I sometimes find myself without sight I kneel and touch the ground that
my friend walks as I listen to words of others as I reach for moments of my thoughts that bring peace.. The kindest chocolate lab who ever lived Gretta
I can hear every word of your humans voice she speaks your name from Mountain tops;...

As I kneel for a friend I can hear your thoughts as I listen to the words of a Beautiful person sing songs from the heart.. Gretta i'am moved to tears
As Jeannie gives life to strangers As Gretta the great white buffalo gives life to others in search of light to find the shadows that have passed beyond
are touch... Gretta I have something to tell you my friend your human is greater then she might see as words she brings to me I will speak..

Words of Jeannie

Tears are falling for all the days that will not be
We believe as fall leaf that blows away
To push us through another day...
Until the days run out as we send
The soul-mates waiting on the plane
My true friend Gretta I bare your unforgiving pain....

Jeannie forgive my words as they come to mind as your friend has touched my heart in search for...
And my #1 fan Mr. Rufus First and foremost as you put your Boots and Pink sweater on wink.gif it's for
your own good;... Your friend has always carried more then one should as she speaks for your life as
many listen it's clear as Jeannie kneels beside your cage you have taught her to speak with a kind heart
to others as she is the same as her sister carrying for others with words from Jeannie love ones...

Gretta I thank you and others that help in are True friends passing I shall name a few with the path you have given..
Mr. Rufus I thank you
Mr. Trevor I thank you/ Bobbie
Miss Penny the Doxie I thank you
Mr. Arnie the Great Shepard that watches over us.. I thank you
Mugsy, Annie, Mickey.. Thank you for your kind words.. I thank you
Mr. Jake walking alone until you found.. An Angel Beautiful story awaits... I thank you..
The Great Purszi your friend helped me in a time where time stands still.. Thank you Leejay..

To my Friend Jeannie your words of today touch my heart as of your friends of yesterday sing songs of
a Beautiful Human that takes care of the forgotten ones.. Never doubt your true intentions as the gift
comes from Gretta to bring a moment of peace to are minds as are friends speak within are heart to
care for others is a true gift.. My friend it shines within and I heal with your words that speaks for others...

Jeannie I thank you for Grettas words that path leads me to Mr. Rufus and my Rufus leads me to....

 

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 28 2013, 07:37 AM

Oh My Doxie

Once again your poem has gone straight to the innermost part of my heart. It is so powerful that it has taken me these few days to answer. The picture oe me sitting on the mountain top expresses exactly the way I feel.

Oh if only I had your gift with words. Once I wrote to someone here on Lightning Strike that we grieve in proportion as we love. And now these words come back to me and I find they are more than true. Both of my beautiful dogs had my entire heart. And they still do. And now Trevor's mom. The dearest person to me on earth. How I try to cry in secret and to always be a strength, even when I don't have any of my own. But your poems have brought understanding to me. This is what I was put on earth to do. And I AM strong enough to do it. And only share my true hear sparingly - with my two big four-legged soul-mates and with you. And my few and poor words carry exactly the message they mean - right to your heart.

And beautiful poems come back to me - mirrors of my soul.

Thank you, My oxie. Thank you for life.

Gretta and Rufus's mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 30 2013, 05:26 PM

Hello Gretta-baby

Can mom call on your spirit for some kindness, softness and comfort? You are the light of mommie's life and the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. I don't know how or when I'll ever be able to get another big grey muzzler dog of my own again. It would be the greatest gift of my life if Trevor's mom got well enough for me to go back home and wait for you and Rufus to send me another wonderful grey muzzler. I miss the places we used to go, the places we used to walk, the dogs we used to see, the people who used to say how kind you are. I miss walking past the library and dropping books into the slot. Remember that satanic animal we saw sitting on the sidewalk on Marshall Avenue once in the winter. Who ever thought oppossums could be so horrid looking and SO COLORLESS!

Gretta, I need you now like never before. I'm in a tough spot right now and my heart keeps breaking apart and I have to keep putting back together with thoughts of you and Rufus and Jake and Doxie and a cute little Rottie and all the animals that have helped me along my pathway. Stop by and give me a touch of your silky soft ears some night. Just a touch will be enough because I love you so very much.

Forever yours,

Your mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Aug 1 2013, 06:23 PM

Dear Sweet Gretta,

Stopping by to say hello and to send you and your mommy lots of LOVE!!!! wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif


Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 2 2013, 06:15 PM

Thank you SOOOO much, Love My Mickey.

I think of you and your beautiful white mops often/

Here's some love and energy for you and your family.

Gretta and Rufus's mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 5 2013, 08:50 PM

Oh Gretta, my baby

How can I thank you enough for organizing the prayer hum for Trevor's mommie this morning. IT WORKED!!!! I know all of you animals, the ones I know about and the many I dont, stood up there and watched it work!!

Gretta, you were my very first soul mate. You opened my heart to true and complete love. You are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. I ahve a picture of you and one of rufus right beside me on this table as I work to thank everyone who helped pray to the Big Man to help Trevor's mom.

I can't begin to tell you how much I miss you and how much I love you. More every day, Babyface, more every minute. Someday we will all be together and there will be no more tears - only happiness. I long for that day when we can just sit together and share love.

Sleep tight precious baby.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 8 2013, 03:32 PM

Oh my Gretta-the-Great!

How can i tell you how much I love and miss you? Please don't think I have forgotten you because I'm still grieving for your brother Rufus. You were my very first dog. Everything I learned about dogs and dog love, you taught me. If i tell this story a thousand times I'll never get tired of it: how you chose me at the very first adoption event I went to. I had no idea what to expect as a "helper." As I was sitting on a folding chair you wlaked slowly up to me and rested your sweet head on my lap. It was love incarnate. And then you gently pawed my leg as if to ask, "Please take me home." I never knew a dog could be so loving and could ask so directly for a "person." Since then I've heard many people say that they didn't choose their soul mate animal, that their soul mate chose THEM.

Dr Hinson told me you had almost starved to death and since you were found wandering around the streets of Saint Paul in November, you must have almost frozen to death, too. Every time I think of how much you suffered, I cry. Even now. Someone threw you out on the street because you were to old to have puppies any more and you couldn't earn them any more money. Baby Girl, how NOT about moeny is true love! On the very day you were to be "put to sleep", the kind lady from Second Chance, Miss Margie, went to Animal Control to pick up another dog for rescue, saw you, and just couldn't bear to leave you there. You touched her heart, too - and she saved your life. Miss Margie and sweet Doctor Hinson nursed you back to health and soon you were well enough for second Chance to look for a forever home for you. When you chose me at the adoption event, they hadn't even put you up on their web site yet! And I snatched you up because I instantly recognized the love in your heart and in your eyes.

Gretta, we had five years together - the five best years of my life. Remember your big, thick orthperdic bed? I got that for you because I knew your bones were old and had suffered cold and must hurt when you slept on the floor with only a couple of quilts under you, so I got you the best bed there was - because you are the best dog there is! And remeber hoow it wouldn't fit in the bedroom so I moved to the couch in the living room to sleep - and I'm still sleeping there. I even slept right ON youur bed for a week after you went to the Perfect World because I was so sad and by doing that I felt closer to you.

Remember how we walked so far every day. Four times a day, every day. And how I made up Gretta-verses to almost every song I knew. While you were in this world, they were happy songs. After you went home to the Perfect World, they were very sad songs about how sorry I was because I had not understood how sick you were and about how much I missed you and about how I hoped you could forgive me for all the pain I had put you through because I didn't know how sick you were and about how sorry I was - and still as - for letting you spend your last night on earth with strangers in the University Vet School because I was too afraid to take you home because I was so afraid I wouldn't be able to take care of you. And how Love My Mickey wrote me a wonderful poem reassuring me that there was nothing to forgive and that wherever you were you could feel my love.

I know you can feel it now, in the Perfect World. I've called on you so many times for prayer hums and to welcome animals into the Perfect World and make friends with them. As so many people said while we were on our walks, you truly ARE the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

I love you, my baby. Someday we will be reunited and never have to part again. We will have the love and protection of the Big Man forever. Until then, I know you love me and I know you know I love you to the stars and back, my Gretta-the-Great. Doctor Hinson said hed' never seen in all the years of his practice a dog so loved as you. And he's right!

And I SO miss your sitting on the couch looking out the window when I was coming home from work at night. How I would wave to you and then see you g etting down from the couch to meet me at the door.

I love you, Gretta-Girl.

Your lonely mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 11 2013, 07:27 AM

Hi Baby G

Trevors mom is sick from the "good" medicine she got on Thursday. Of course your mom, with my small and fearful heart, is worried and sad. besides being the kindest chocolate who ever lived, you have SO much hope and courage and patience in your soul. Could you lend mommie a little of it today, please? Thank you Baby G. Mommy misses you and loves you more every day. I don't know where my life is going to take me - so I remember you and the months you spent on the street with nowhere to go and the cold winds howling and your stomach starving and still you had love and courage in your heart. Thank you for being the example for mommie to follow.

I love you, Baby-G - more every day.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 19 2013, 12:54 PM

Hello my beautiful babyface

Today is the day for thanking all my doggies for all they have done - for me an others.

Thank you Gretta for choosing to leave the Perfect World and take a chance on a life on this earth.

Thank you for the confidence that somewhere on this earth your soulmate lived and you needed to find her.

Thank you for your years of service to an cruel, unauthorized breeder who thought of you only as a puppy making machine.

Thank you that when you got thrown out of this horrible person's place in the colld, wind and snow of a Minnesota November you didn't just lay down and die.

Thank you that you had enough love and kindness in your heart that you didn't bite the person who picked you up and brought you to the pound.

Thank you for living through the closest thing to starvation that our wonderful Doctor Hinson says he's ever seen in his practice.

Thank you for again not dying of sadness in that pound, even though it was your day to be killed.

Thank God for sending Miss Margie to the pound that day to pick up another dog.

Thank you for looking at her with your gentle, kind eyes, showing your love that made her take you, too.

Thank you for being patient with the people who were taking care of your body and your spirit.

Thank you for making such good friends with the other three dogs in your foster home.

Thank you ......... I'm going to have to continue this thank you letter after a while. Trevor's dad and I have to take Trevor's two brothers to their docor for three shots and to get their ears cleaned. And Gretta, thank you for never, EVER losing patience with my no matter how much medicine you had to take or how many times I had to rinse your ears trying to keep them from infections.

I love you, Baby Gretta. I'll see you in a few hours.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 20 2013, 12:42 PM

Wel, the few hours have stretched into days as they always do. And you, Gretta, thekindest chocolate lab who ever lived, are on the couch sitting up looking out the window and here I am, coming back, waving to you and then I know you have seen me because you get down from the couch so you can meet me yet one more time at the door and we can reassure ourselves that we have had another day to be together.

More thank yous to you my baby.

Thank you for your patience with me as I slowly became a dog mother and a dog friend.

Thank you for not telling me you wanted to go back to your foster home where you had doggie friends and a mom who knew how to take care of you.

Thank you for not crying that first night, no matter how much you felt like it. you knew my heart would break, so you stifled your own heart.

Thank you for the love that shows.

Thank you for all those thousands of walk we took together, Each and every one of them is precious to me.

Thank you for trying so hard to trot all the way up to Lexington Avenue the last year of your life, even though you were sick and, really, could hardly make it.

Thank you for your gentle eyes - the eyes that told everyone you met that you ARE the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Thank you for being so gentle with little Frieda, who always wanted to pet you and hug you around the neck.

Thank you for always gently accepting treats from the old man we used to meet on our noon walks. That made him so happy.

Thank you for teaching me to play "Who wants to be a wolf?"

Thank you for chasing tennis balls in our long hllway and in the school yard next door.

Thank you for being patient when we had to sleep at that other house with those wild dogs.

And thank you for sleeping by yourself the next night when you got to stay at our house.

Thank you for playing "You get an A in socks" when I had to put on your baby sox in winter because your boots chafed your feet.

And then thank you for playing "You get an A in boots" when we got the boots on.

Thank you for telling me your feet were cold and you needed to wear boots, even though you didn't know what they were.

Thank you for that funny prancing dance you did the first time you put those boots on.

Thank you for counting down the days of winter - down from a hundred on year when we had to add 20 days twice because the winter was so long.

And thank you for counting down the days the next winter - when it finally came spring and then you went home.

Thank you for all the evenings you lay on your super dog bed chewing on your bone.

And thank you for letting me save your life by sticking my hand into your mouth to get a bone fragment out.

Oh Gretta - there are so many many thank you's for you. Once again I'll have to continue later. I have to go out and do some grocery shopping for Trevor's mom. She's still very sick and I'm so afraid that soon she will join you in the perfect World. Gretta Girl, will you take care of me then? I know you will, Baby. That's what souldmates are for.

I love you more than there are grains of sand on a beach.

Your mommy.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 24 2013, 06:55 AM

Thank you for curling up on your dog bed and hearing me say "night, night doggie" and shut off the lamp.

Thank you for making the night cozy and safe.

Thank you for pawing me at some outreagous hour in the morning and waking me up to go walking.

Thank you for accepting the rule that we didn't go out until the hour had aa 4 in the first place.

Thank you for turning out to be the most perfect dog on this earth even though, according to the "experts", I did everything wrong in taking care of you.

Thank you for thriving under the no-rules life we led.

Thank you for knowing I thought that your life had already had enough rules to last a hundred lifetimes and that you deserved a rule-free life.

Thank you for accepting the indignity of puppy pads under your blanket when you became old enough to suffer the consequences of all that cruel overbreeding in your earlier life.

Thank you for not just giving up, lying down and dying of sadness when you got turned out of your house for being too old.

Thank you for helping me get through this horrible time.

Thank you for the example of your quiet dignity.

It all boils down to two things, Babyface. Thank you for being my dog and thank you for loving me.

I'll love you forever and a day and someday we will be together again.

Your mommy - with a perpetual tear in her eye.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 28 2013, 06:58 AM

Hi Babyface

I rufus and you and I walk together as a pack, Your mom can make it with a smile on her face today. Thank you Gretta-baby, the kindesrt chocolate lab who ever lived.

I love you to the stars and back.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 10 2013, 06:31 AM

Hi Sweeetie

I haven't forgotten you - NEVER! I feel you in my heart - especially influencing me to be kind to someone who is being VERY bad to me. But how much worse was your suffering - being thrown out into the cold Minnesota November, homeless, hungry, cold, and above all, broken-hearted. And then someone picked you up and brought you to the place they put homeless animals for a few days to see if anyone comes to pick the up. And even more sadness for you, Babyface. It looked like nobody was going to pick you up. And then on the very DAY they were going to send you to the Promised Land, gentle Margie looked into your eyes and even though she'd come for someone else, she just couldn't leave you behind. The she and wonderful Dr. Hinson nursed you back to health. And then we met at the very first adoption I'd ever gone to -- and we fell in love. Your head gently rested in my lap. Have I ever told you that that was the very first time a dog had ever laid his or her head in my lap. And then you pawed my leg as if to say, "Please take me home." And in a few days we were together - for five glorious years. Then sickness took you - but even in that there was a blessing. You were only sick for less than a day and then, while I held you in my arms and wept like I've never wept before, I had the dotors gently send you to the Promised Land.

I love youBabyFace - Gretta - the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. Please go 'round and say hi to your brother, all your cousins, all the loved ones of our friends here on LS, and gather all the animals who have no one remembering them together and give them a great big hug from your mom.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Your loving mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 12 2013, 07:05 AM

Good morning, Gretta my baby

My very first dog. The kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. Gretta, could I ask for some help today? Could you send a little bit of your pisit of kindness into my heart? Please help me to be less self-centered. To expect to get something back from a person whi is on their way to heaven. I need to give, give, give ... and not expect anything in return except the privilege of being in their presence ... being ALOWED to be in their presence. To be given the gift of time with them, no matter what their heart or mind or mouth may think. TO understand that everything in their life is now outside of their control - even their very lives, which are slowly easing away. I have been selfish - oh so selfish. I HAVE my health. I expect to have many years of life left. (OF course I know that only today is sure. Tomorrow is not guaranteed to anyone. But now is the time to summon all the love I have and show it at many times. Every time I think I can think to do something, I need to do it. You are the most loving and kind spirit in the universe. And you and I are soulmates. Now I know why our soulmates select us - it's to teach us a lesson that our soul needs to learn. Learning is hard, Babyface, oh so hard. But it needs to be done and I am SO thankful that I have you by my side, whispering suggestions and your love into my soul. Please be my teacher, Sweetheart. You watched me for five years and saw everything about me. Where there are rough spots in my heart, would you pleease help me soften them out. I want to be like you. I want to be the kindest person who ever lived.

I love you Babyface. Thank you for choosing me as your soulmate. Thank you for leaving a piece of your soul here with me to treasure, Thank you for never giving up hope when you were in so much pain and hunder and cold that you almost died. Thank you my Gretta-girl.

Love forever and way beyond.

Your mom with tears in her eyes.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Posted by: Jake'sGrandpa Sep 13 2013, 07:18 AM

Hi, Gretta's Mom. Hope you are feeling better today. Don't put yourself down, your heart is already full of kindness and caring for your loved ones. Sometimes it's just hard to express it properly, but it's there just the same. The special ones in your life may be filled with their own concerns, but they know that you love them and they love you, too. Take heart, Gretta's and Rufus' spirits are with you.

Posted by: Bobbie Sep 14 2013, 06:28 PM

Hi Gretta!!!!!!!!!

How are you doing, Miss G? Are you and Rufus and Trevor, et all having a good weekend? I HOPE SO!

When your mom and I were talking today I remembered how you would hear me go into her kitchen during the night to get myself a snack and you would, ever so softly, pad into the bedroom after me. Of course, I shared whatever I found with you. Why not??? That's what I would say. No matter when I did this, on whatever visit, you'd hear me and follow. hee hee Your mom never knew this........................until now. great secret, huh?

I miss you, sweet doggie and will always remember you, OK? Rufie, too.

I LOVE YOU, MISS GRETTA!!!!! wub.gif
XOXOxoxo
Auntie Bobbie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 17 2013, 06:52 AM

Hello Jake's grandpa and Trevor's mom,

Thank you for understanding this dog-to-be ( I hope) who is just learning how and when to bark - and then get over it. Gretta-fril, the only time I ever heard you bark was when I went next door and took Ben-Ben the Chessie for a walk. I'll bet you thought I was leaving you but I would NEVER, EVER leave my "best-dog". We went through a lot together , 99.99% happy and loving. And you taught me that one day you would go back to the Promised Land before me, but that you would leave me with a part of your soul and would take a part of mine withe you. We were so in tune with each other. If only I could see you waiting for me on the couch when I came home from work and then I couldl see you jump down and meet me at the door.

Gretta, you are my heart. Always were, always will be. I love you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. Have a good day in the Promised Land. Mom can feel you gentle breath on her soul today, Gretta the Great (remember dear Dr Hinson who gave you this name?).

Say hi to all the animals who don't have anybody remembering them. Tell them that my heart is big enough to love all of them too and that if they aren't carryin a part of a human heart, they can have a part of mine.

Say a big hellp o your brother Rufus, too. He's got what I need rightt now. You are a pensive, thoughtful dog - like me. Rufus is a fun-loving, active, happy dog .... which I'm trying to ne, We'll n\make it, Gretta-the-Great, we will. (remember dear DR. Hinson who gave you that name?)

I love you today and every day. xoxxoxoxooxoxoxoxox

Your mom with the leaky eyes.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 20 2013, 07:20 AM

Good morning Baby Gretta the Great - there in the perfect world.

So much is not perfect down here, You had to go through that, too, almost starving in the cold November snow and een worse, being thrown out by people without any reason. How this must have hurt your heart. But you never let that dim the shin of the kindness in your heart. Your were kind to EVERYONE! No matter what they did, they couldn't kill the kindness in your heart. Please help you mom's heart be more like yours. Horrible people come again mommie every day. I have a "hot heart" and I come out biting and snarling. Please help you mommy become a gentle dog like you - forgiving and forgetting everything one of the awful things that was done to you and still being kind to every one you met.

Gretta, you were my first dog. You opened my heart to the love between dogs and people. You and I are soul-mates and there will never be a past tense with us. We will be forever. I'll be there with you someday. And then we can hug and I can pet your velvelt ears and we can play "Who wants to be a wolf?" And no one, NO ONE, will put fear into my heart by calling you a "cush(ing)oid". Wonderful Doctor Hinson proved you weren't - he saw that you were and are Gretta the Great. And you live in my heart that way - forever.

I love you Babyface. More every day. And I miss you more every day,too.

Please let all the animals in the Perfect world who don't have people to remember them. Let them know that our love is huge enough to cover them too.

Thank you my baby. Someday we will be together.

Your mommie

Posted by: xxForeverxx Sep 23 2013, 06:34 AM

Hi Gretta's Mom

Thinking of your Gretta today.

xxForeverxx

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 27 2013, 07:56 AM

Good morning my Gretta-Girl

Mommy is so happy that you are in a Perfect World where everything is ... well ...perfect. But in my heart is still that hole that fits the piece of my soul that you took with you and sometimes I miss you so much that my voiice shakes and ifi I am in a place where people who don't understand aren't around, two big tears fall from my eyes Gretta, my very first dog. The dog that taught me how to live with and LOVE with a dog. Gretta, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived, my soul need to grow up a little bit and you are the one who can help me. To people I like, I am kind like you. but to people I don't like, people who have said or done bad things to me, have hurt my heart, I am NOT kind. I want to be more like you, Gentle Gretta. To be able to be kind even to those who deliberately try to hurt me (and succeed). I want to be patient and bear the hurt and still be gentle and kind like you are. Please help me with this, my Babyface. You are truly the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. Thank you Babyface.

[size="6"][/size]Mommy loves and misses you SOOOOO much!

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 28 2013, 07:38 AM

Hi Gretta-the-Great

Can I just lie with my head on your soft back and then turn over and cry onto your gentle head? Sadness is in my soul today and I know who cah make it all better .... you sweetie ... the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

I love you BabyDoll.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 30 2013, 07:43 AM

Good morning Gretta The Great

I love you, Babyface. And I have a little job for you. Could you help Rufus round up all your relatives and friends (I know that's a big job because you must have thousands by this time, but maybe there is a signal up there in the Perfect World) and ask for a prayer hum about mmid afternoon where we live? Trevor's mom is having a picture taken of her whole body to see how much good the new medicine is doing? Also, please go to the Big Kind Father and ask Him for a "ridiculous miracle"? He'll know what that means.

Thank you my dearest darling Babyface, the kindest chocolate lab who ever loved.

Mommy XOXOXOOXOOXOXOOXX

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 1 2013, 07:00 PM

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It Worked, Gretta Girl!!!!!!
Trevor's mom is getting better!!!
Now all of you animals please go over to the Big Kind Man and hum like crazy to thank Him, OK?

I love you, girl, and OH HOW I MISS YOU!

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 4 2013, 06:46 PM

Good evening my Gretta Girl,

My heart is full of sadness today about how your cat-aunt is treating the dad and all of us. But Trevor's mom is much better and I am slowly earning a friendship with Kelley, Trevor's mom's dog. He has such a hole in his heart from something in his past. I feel so sad for him, so I am trying to put all kindss of love deposits into his little heart so he KNOWS he's loved.

I miss you very very very much, Gretta the Great. And I love you even more than that. Thank you for choosing me to be your soul mate and opening my heart to true love.

Love everry day and night,

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 5 2013, 09:15 AM

Good lovely and sunshiny morning, Gretta Girl,

Could I ask a favor of the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived? I know I ask you for a lot of these but mommie's life is a little hard right now and I need your help. I asked Rufus to do this, too.

Could you go up to the Good Man up there and ask him to help your Auntie M stop acting so crazy and give her just a tiny bit of a loving and kind heart like yours, please? She does hateful things to Aunt Bobbie and me and right now Aunt Bobbie needs to have a peaceful mind so she can fight her illness. And please also thank him a million times for the wonderful report we got from her doctor last Monday.

I love you, Gretta. So much that I can hardly stand it. It makes me so happy to have you up in the Perfect World to love just like when we lived together down on earth here - and to have you and Rufus and all your cousins and friends up there to call on for help when I need it.

I love you, Babyface.

Your mommy

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Oct 6 2013, 06:37 PM



AND RUFUS




Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 10 2013, 12:58 PM

HI Babyface,

Mom's just about collapsing under all the bad things that are happening right now. I've got to do all of the Dad's paperwork because he can't do it by himself. And Aunt Reen is cursing at me when ever I call here for some information. I wonder how many more horrible names she can call me.

But no matter what, I know your sweet, kind love is still all around me just like when we lived together. And I will NEVER EVER forget how you chose me to be your mom and soul mate at that first adoption event either of us had ever gone to.

I don't know what I am going to do, Ms Beautiful. I think I'm going back home about the first part of next month. Auntie Bobby is doing very well - much better than anyone expected her to, including her doctor. Her "sickness" number has gone down from 160 to 60 in only two months and the medicine the doctors are giving her isn't even very strong. She has gained some weight (although I think It's mostly her clothes!)and is giving me some hints that it's time to go and let her and Uncle Stan live their lives together for a while. So I think I'm going to go back to our house - and that's going to be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sad without you or your brother Rufus there. I'll pack up all our stuff and either move to a smaller place in Saint Paul or move here to Baltimore. I know Aunt Bobbie will need me at sometime not so far from now, so I think Baltimore is the place. But the dad is sick and old and Aunt Reen is again living off him - that's why mommie is so mad and sad all the time. That and I miss you and Rufus so much that it feels like a big knife is cutting up my heart.

Right now I'm listening to a CD of my absollute favorite groups of singers - the Holmes Brothers. Aunt Bobbie gave me four cassettes for my birthday. Uncle Marv and I used to go see them all the time when they came to our town. One of them lives here in Baltimore. But they never come to our town any more and I miss them a lot.

Beautiful Gretta, when it's night where mommie lives, would you go and gather up Rufus and all of your cousins and just lie down and send some gentle rays down to Mommie, please? I love you, Sweetheart, with all my heart. You're my very first doggie and I'll never forget that. I always tell people that you are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. And you are, babyface.

I miss you.

Your mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Oct 10 2013, 05:50 PM







My Dear Mommy,


Tonight when the sun sets
And the moon begins to rise,
All of us Spirit Doggies want
You to look toward the skies.

Just let all your worries melt away,
And soak in our love rays
Which forever they are
There to stay.

Dear Mommy, I'm not a very good poet,
But my love for you
I'll always know how to show it.
Rufus is right here by my side.
You know he can never hide.

We love you Mommy!!!!! wub.gif

Gretta & Rufus

Posted by: Bobbie Oct 10 2013, 06:11 PM


And I love you, TOO!! Auntie Jeanne!!!

Trevor wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 11 2013, 06:49 PM

Oh thank you so much LMM for the tree photo and the lovely poem from Gretta. I know our love will always be strong and that she will always be there for me. These days are just kind of a struggle for me.

And thank you Bobbie for your heart that loves me. I love you too.
Gretta

Posted by: Jake'sGrandpa Oct 13 2013, 07:22 AM

Gretta's Mom, I'm sorry to hear that you are having so much trouble lately. Jake and I are praying for you. This bouquet won't change anything, but maybe it will cheer you up for a little while. Hang in there, kiddo; you can do it.


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 16 2013, 07:40 AM

Hi Babyface

Isn't this a beautiful bouquet of flowers that Jake's grandpa sent us? He is a very good man with a very good heart. When you see Jake, will you tell him what his grandpa did for us and thank him? Thanks my babyface.

Mommie is very sad andd worried and angry these days. The "dad" - I know you remember him, the kind man we used to go visit all the timee, the one who loved you even when you knocked over the kitchen garbage can and there was garbage all over the kitchen. The Dad has one of the best hearts in the universe. He's very old now and can't live by himself so he's gone to live in that big place where he used to work after the Mom died.

I'm still here in Trevor's mom and dad's house, trying to give them strength so Trevor's mom can get as well as she can. She's doing very will - both inside and out. She gets stornger every day and the pictures the doctors take of her insides and the blood they take out and test (remember when our good friend Dr. Hinson did that to you?).

Gretta baby, please have a little hum prayer for the dad. He is being controlled by some very evil people, one of them you sort of know. They are trying to keep him in the big home where he lives like it was s ome kind of prison and the Chief Evil Doer is trying to steal all his money. Honey, the dad was very very poor for many many years - he slaved to keep us fed and clothed. And I never, ever, heard him complain even once. The one you sort of know - and almost bit at one point because you sensed the bad spirit - is doing all this to him. Because the "king" of this world - as you know from you hard early life - is a very bad being, the worst in the universe. Here on earth, as you know, bad people have an easy time and good people (like Margie who saved your life, and Trevor's mom and dad, and Dr. Hinson and many others) have a very hard time. The evil kind of this world set up a system that if we didn't work VERY VERY hard ALL the time, evial would slowly take over again. All our work to be good and loving was like putting your paw into a bucket of water and then taking it out again. It makkes no difference. But the "King" of your world is a good King. In fact, He is the one whe made everything and who loves everything and every body. If we are good on this evil earth, like you were - the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived - you get to go to the good King's world, the Perfect World where you live now - and get to live there forever. You and all your cousins and our many animal friends and the people who showed kindness and love no matter how much the evil "King's" forces tried to beat them down - if we kee p on doing that and never give up, we'll get to come to where you are and live together in the good "King's" country forever. Isn't that great, Babyface?

I love you every minute of every day. When my heart is crying, I think of you lying beside me, keeping me warm and keeping my heart safe. I fight as hard as I can against the evil king of this world, even though I know it is a hopeless task. And I do that because MY mom and dad and many others since then taught me that that was the right thing to do. Every animal has that good spirit in them. The only way it disappears is that the terrible evil people, the evil King's army, beat it out of them and damage their hearts and minds. But one thing about you animals that we people don't have - you forgive and forget. You can be healed by the power of peope who love you and care for you - like Marsha, Dr Hinson, and me.

Gretta, please stay close to me today. My heart is breaking because of the way the dad is being treated by the evil King's soldiers. I know if I ask you Good King for help and then listen to His answer, dad will come out of this and the evil soldiers will fall. Please lend me a little bit of the hope that sustained you through your long years of rejection and suffering. We're soulmates after all, tight Baby?

Let's see what the day brings. I love you and that is part of what makes me strong.

Have a "Perfect" day, Babyface!

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 19 2013, 07:36 AM

Hi my Gretta the Great

Remember that was the name our wonderful Dr. Hinson gave you? You are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. You opened my heart to the love of dogs and all animals. I so miss our games, like "Who Wants to be a Wolf?" where you lay on your back and your lips flopped back to show you very (non-)scary teeth. I know those teeth could have done some serious damage to anyone who would have threatened me, though. But everyone was "gentled" by your gentle spirit.

Baby, mommie loves you so much and misses you every day. The gentle courage you put into my spirit, every day, drop by drop, have truly strengthened me for these difficult days. Help me to remember to be kind to everyone - just like you.

I love you babyface.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 26 2013, 06:57 AM

Gretta the Great - It's a great day!

Love has overcome some GREAT barriers. Trevor's mom is going to see her dad today!! Love has prevailed! Neither very dangerous health problems, not distance, not money, not airplane rides, not old age .... nothing ... NOTHING could stop these two people who love each other more than any daughter ever loved her father and more than any father ever loved his daughter from glimbing over all the mountains that were between them to gaze into each other's eyes and give each other the most loving and powerful hugs on this earth.

Gretta, you are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. Thank you for teaching me that kindness was SO much more important than having a fat retirement account. You kept up hope through all the months of cold and starvation on the streets of the northland city wiinter. That gave us courage to keep up hope that the good Lord would keep your Auntie and the dad alive and well enought to see each other again - in person.

Gretta, the sweetest, most loving, most powerful hugs we gave each other will be the kind that Auntie and th dad will give each other. No father on earth has ever loved a daughter as much as the dad loves your mommie, and no daughter on earth has ever loved a father as much as you mommie loves the dad. Its a miracle that they will be able to see each other in person at least this once while they are both living on this earth. I'm so happy that my heart is bursting. THIS is truly what I have worked for all my life - to be able to make it possible for your mommie and the dad and other people I love to experience these momentous gifts in their lives.

Gretta, I'm SOOOO thankful for our lives together. We are still soul-mates - forever. And once in a while something spectacular like this happens and it makes me realize how much your kindness taught me and how thankful I am that you searched the whole universe over and chose me, ME, as your soul-mate. Soul-mates are forever, just like love.

I Love you Gretta. Today is a great day for all of us. Please thank God (the Big Kind Man in your Perfect World) for allowing this to happen.

Your mommie always,

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOOX

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 29 2013, 09:23 AM

Hello My Sweet Gretta

Thank you and your brother and your cousins and all your friends for joining in the hum-prayer-party for Trevor's mom and dad. Trevor's mom's dad gave her the biggest hug ever. They really love each other - but not as much as she loves you. They are coming home tonight and they will be TIRED. But the Big Good Man in the Perfect World has given your mom a HUGE SPECIAL gift - to see her father once more.

I love you, my Gretta. Please keep teaching me kindness - you are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 30 2013, 12:20 PM

Hello my most beloved Gretta!

I love you and need you. And I know you love me.

Thank you Babyface.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 1 2013, 09:24 AM

Good morning babyface,

All I can say today again is that I love you and miss you without end. And thank you for searching all over the universe for me and choosing me to be your soul-mate and opening my heart to the love of dogs and their people.

Darling Gretta, I will NEVER EVER EVER forget you.

I love you, baby girl.

Your sorrowing mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 2 2013, 06:20 AM

Hi beautiful Gretta,

Your eyes - I'll never fotget them. Like you could see all the way into the universe. And your head on my lap ... I had never had that warmth and love experience before. Thank you for your heart - all the love you gave, even after that horrible life you led before lovely Margie rescued you. You glowed with love and kindness that even strangers could see. And people who passed us on the street would even say something about your kindness. I know you are lighting up the Perfect World, too.

I love you, babyface. Always or forever.

Your mom forever

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 6 2013, 12:49 PM

Hey Gretski - you might be getting a little sister!!!

Rufus's second mom told me that the same group where I got you and Rufus had a 7-10 year old yellow lab. wouldn't that be nice!! Then we'd have all the colors of labs in our family. She's going to get me some information on her. She's very thin but not starving - sort of like you but not so starved.

My heart is always hurting because I miss you and Rufus and I thought that if I moved to Baltimore to be with my sister I could never have a dog because she already has two small ones. But when i asked her --- SHE SAID YES!!

Please go and thank the Big Good Man up where you are and keep your hopes up that that new sister can be in our family.

I love you Gretta. I miss you every day. That's why I so want to adopt another dog - and a lab at that.

Thank you for opening my heart to dogs and all their love.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOX

Your mom

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Nov 9 2013, 12:16 AM

Please forgive me for my words tonight as I honor the Great Gretta Rufus and another in the distant light hello Jeannie whishing well within new hope
I look forward to a picture of your new friend you have such a kind heart. i'am looking to add to the family aswell Sandy a 21 pound Doxie;) Big girl
indeed she went to a very loving family.. I will not be walking in the same path yet as I wish her well in life.


One day I will have to ask Bobbie how do you share the time with only one friend or do you stand by and watch how much happiness and joy they bring
to one another when they run together as one we watch from distance... Once again from the one that kneels to feed her best friend meatballs as they
spend time infront of a fire as life takes note I can only tell what might be.. Once again forgive my words...


When you meet a special person you have to listen and when they speak they have hidden kindness within a beautiful place where only special friends play<Gretta....
As Gretta rests on your heart you look to care for an Elder as I... you found Rufus as you look into a cage of another that was taken.. Within a few steps you find
A big Newfoundland friend as you search your Heart you have chosen to walk to the shelter as you see the one that is taken as you move forward to another cage
to see Rufus as you kneel and whisper < My Angel wings will hold your last breath so you can run free My friend..


Your kind act is more then Heart felt as I watch from a distance I see a good Human take care of the many as I listen to Mountains Cry..
Jeannie your kindness to help an elder is.. As I read the words of Rufus my heart breaks as he has passed yet filled with joy that you both
sit infront of a fire as you hold his big head you set each other free....

Thank you for being a friend and speaking for others your words to dml66 where so touching... So true as I hear someone within Mountain Reach sing songs of past Lessons
<Gretta the Kindness Chocolate lab that ever lived> I took interest in the Human that speaks for a friend in my own broken words to find my...I see your friend...
waiting to kiss Joyful Tears from your face to say.. Thank you for having faith.. Thank you for Believing in me as you hold me... Thank you for allowing me to share..
My last breath as I know this will hurt.. My Friend.

Mr. Rufus
Please put your hand Upon my Head as we connect I listen to words you speak of my last day and I'am so happy to be in your arms to share a moment
of peace is a lifetime of happiness with a friend as we walk home... Together we walk a path to heal each other as your kindness will always be apart
of my life as I sit...I watch an Angel walk down a corridor I so loved that she kneeled infront of my cage as she sets me free.. we walk as one and stories
of my life are told as I watch from above.. Mr. Rufus is a King As Miss Gretta My friend a Queen..

My friend Gretta I see you asleep on a chair with the light that shine from my heart that reaches so many speak the stories told as your Human sits within a window
waiting for a friend she extends her wings to heal all that tell stories of a past friend that lay within thy heart as they speak for us.. to heal so we can...Care for others..
As Mountains cry your songs have given strength to so many as < Gretta> will always kiss you goodnight as I tuck you in as you dream of are last night I kiss dreams of flowing
words to a Human in Need as my lesson to you are complete.. My friend.. My Angel what Beautiful wings you have this night...As I sit in windows sight waiting
for my friend to come home and tuck me in for the night...

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 17 2013, 10:50 AM

Hello my babyface,

A dear person whose Doxie is up there with you in heaven sent my the sweetest picture of a young chocolate lab sleeping on an overstuffed chair. Of course it made me cry because it reminded me of you and how much I love you and how much I miss you and how much I am thankful (Do you know that people in this country have a special day for people to give thanks for the good things in their lives?) to the ends of the universe that you searched it all over and chose me to be your soulmate. If only .....

There are two doggies whose moms are so sad they can't move. Their names are Emma and Smokey. Do you think you can find them and have them let their mommies know that they are still living and are waiting for the day they can be reunited with their moms, never to part again?

Oh thank you, my darling Baby face. You truly ARE the kindest cholcolate lab who ever lived.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 19 2013, 06:32 PM

Hello sweet baby
Sweet babyface

The kindest chocolate lab
Who ever lived.

My first dog
Like a first love
Will always be extra special

We walked, we ran,
We played
Outside and in
Who wants to be a wolf?

Gretta, my lovely
Your precious face is captured here
In a photo
White muzzle, reddish eyes
Should I worry?

Just chewing on a bone

And smiling.

XOXOXOXXOXOXOXOXOXOOX

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 23 2013, 01:55 PM

My first dog
The one who opened my heart
And my eyes

Gretta the Great
the vet called her
Because she was a miracle dog
I should have seen pictures
I thought he meant x-rays.

Gretta the Kind
Strangers on the street stopped us
To say how kind she is - not was
She is still kind today
They just cannot see her
And I cannot walk her
Good thing, too
The terrible freezing weather is coming
That froze her feet and chilled her bones

Gretta my Lovely
I am leaving our house
And going far away
To live with Binky and Funny Face
And Uncle S and Aunt B

I can only take the most precious things
With me
Last night I cried myself to sleep - again
I packed up all of your swweet baby socks
And dog boots
And your raincoat
And your two snowsuits
And your blaze orange cover
And your collar and leash
And all your toys
Even if you didn't play with them

I'm leaving large parts of myself behind
But I am taking every single thing that was yours
The tinest scrap
Even a label from a piar of baby sox.
I am taking ALL of you
So we will be altogether one
No matter where we go.

And one day we will meet again
And hold each other forever
And never cry again.

I Love you, Gretta.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 25 2013, 07:06 AM

Gretta, baby
My always and forever babyface.
Where are you?

I know you are in a Perfect Place
And part of my heart
Is glad.

But part of my heart
misses you more than anything
And my evenings are filled with longing
For you, my beautiful chocolate
The kindest who ever lived.

The absinthe of time is doing its awful job
As sharp images blur around their edges
And meld into a single, simple heart of love
For you, the dog who opened that heart
And taught me what the heart of a dog
Was really like.

Thank you for teaching me all those things
And thank you even more for the love we shared
While you were on earth
And the knowing about soulmates,
Taking a piece of each other's souls
And that that missing piece of soul
Hurt more than anything imaginable
But that it was only for a time
A time that drops by ever so slowly
But that each time drop brings me closer
To the time we will be together again.

I love you, baby Gretta.
Forever and a day.

Mommie

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Nov 26 2013, 07:25 PM

Beautiful moments in time bring..


Beautiful words of your own Jeannie look through the eye's of your friend you speak for them yet what do they see...
Once again your words to others are if your another person to the ones that have lost your perfect words ring true...
Looks like Gretta has touched your Heart and in return she has touched others to find there friends; Angel Wings..

Looking forward to more stories of the Boss she reminds me of my;... What a beautiful Heart she has; and a gift of
Beautiful words you give as you speak as Jeannie and another Gretta;.. What a gift you have my friend;)..

Hello Gretta Thank you for the Human that brings kindness to your life she continues to help others as the one
that lights the morning sky's is the one and only The Great Gretta The Luckiest chocolate Lab in the World...
I hear you my friend as I watch my own pass by we have something in common we have good Humans to
watch over us,.. to speak for us.. To let others know in time of need ;.. We must go as whispers carry are
friends dreams when we sleep beautiful colors fill special pictures of life we hold in are memories..

A light shines upon a special being within thy trust they instill are Beliefs the care for all the compassion of are sadness that brings us to are knees;..
to see a friend in pain as Angel Wings brush the ground to heal thy Heart that set;s us free as the beautiful light shines down upon us...

Words from a Friend that sits listening to many I seem to always hear Gretta and the great Human that walks up the stairs to find a friend
fast asleep on a chair waiting for her friend to come home... Forgive my broken words I wish you well in your journey and look forward
to your new friend that takes the path you walk how Blessed he or she will be I have seen beautiful colors of life come from the many words
you speak from mountain tops...

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 27 2013, 09:05 PM

Good evening my beautiful babyface, Gretta.
Do you see the beautiful poem Jenna's dad wrote for you?
And that extraordinary picture of you under a shaft of heavenly light?

Babyface, tomorrow is the day that here on earth we set aside to give thanks for the blessings in our lives.
You and your brother Rufus are at the top of my "thank you" list.

For opening my heart to the love of a dog
Gretta, I thank you.
For sitting every evening on the love seat looking out the window for me to get home from work,
Thank you.
For jumping down from your perch when I waved at you,
Thank you.
For always being there at the door to welcome me with a wagging tail,
Thank you.
For our tummy-rub game of "Who want to be a wolf?"
Thank you.
For walking and running those hundreds of miles with me,
Thank you.
For being the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived,
Thank you.
For greeting every good person we met on walks
Thank you.
For helping me prove that i COULD jog a mile - and so could you
Thank you.
For being so willing to put on your baby sox and dog boots in the freezing winter
Thank you.
For looking so beautiful in your little pint sweater
Thank you.
For teaching me to keep EVERYTHING off the kitchen counter
Thank you
For gently laying your muzzle on my lap at that first adoption event
Double thank you
For gently pawing me leg as if saying, Please take me home - which you were
Double thank you
For searching the universe over to find me
Double thank you
For teaching me about spirit animals and White Buffaloes
Double thank you
For taking a piece of my heart with you when you left this earth
Milllions of thank you's
For leaving a piece of your heart for me to care for and treasure
Millions of thank you's
For welcoming new animals into the Perfect World
All of them and their human parents thank you
For being completely happy in the Perfect World
Thank you - because it comforts my heart just a little.
For being my first-ever dog
I can never thank you enough

I love you Gretta. I'll never stop loving you. And someday we'll be together in the Perfect World. What a great gettin'up morning that's gonna be!!

I thank God for giving me the gift of my Gretta The Great.

XOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOOXOX

Your mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Nov 28 2013, 07:46 PM

My Dear Sweet Gretta,

Your mommy writes such beautiful words to you and Rufus.

I love you too and will never forget you and your mommy.


Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 1 2013, 06:41 PM

Hello Baby G

It's coming around another winter and I miss you more every day. But I am so happy for you that you are in the Perfect World where you are never cold, never hungry, never thirsty, never sick, never sad, always, well .... PERFECT.

I love you Baby G - today, tomorrow and forever.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 3 2013, 07:28 AM

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Gretta! Jump up and help your brother Rufus organize a BIG party for Trevor's mom!

She had a wonderful report from her doctor yesterday!

Ask the angels for lots of treats and noise makers and tell eveybody you know to romp on over to your house and make LOTS OF NOISE!!

And then all of you go over and bow your heads and thank the Good Man for doing that for Trevor's mom!

Thank you Gretta Girl.

I love you again today - and every day forever!

XOXOXOXOOXOXOX

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 4 2013, 09:04 PM

Hey Baby G!!!

We heard the bark party for Trevor's mom!!

Thank you and your brother Rufus for organizing it.

I could hear your voices distinctly among all the praising and playing.

Gretta, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived, could you please do another little favor for me? Walk slowly over to the Great Master, bow your head and quitely thank Him one more time. He's done SOOOOOOOOOOOO much for us.

Thank you, my gentle one.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 6 2013, 08:33 AM

Hi Baby G

You are the sweetest, kindest, most wonderful dog who ever lived.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 7 2013, 09:12 PM

OH my Baby G

Mommie is crying tonight because she misses you so much. But in a way I am so glad that I don't have to drag you outside and make you walk all those long distances in the bitter cold. You're in the Perfect World now, where everything is nice and warm, the water is fresh and cool, and you always have friends around to play with or just lie in the sun.

I love you, Gretta, the kindest choclate lab who ever lived.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 8 2013, 11:40 AM

Hi Baby G

Do you want to play wolf with mommie? Please bring your spirit here to be with me today because I am so sad missing you. Thank you Gretta the Great.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 10 2013, 07:37 AM

Good morning, my precious

It is so cold today down here, it's one of those days that it hurts to go outside. I miss you sooooooooooooo much, but I am so happy I don't have to drag you outside in this stinging, dangerous cold. Bask in the sun of the Perfect World today, my lovely Gretta, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 13 2013, 08:13 AM

Good morning Baby G

G - for Great, the name you got from the best vet on earth

G - for Good, the goodness the shone from your eyes so brightly that even strangers could see it

G - for Goofy, when you played "Who Want's to Be a Wolf?"

G - for Gentle, around everyone,, young and old

G - for Grand Avenue, where we turned around on the coldest morning walks

G - for Golden, all the golden memories that bring tears to my eyes but a tiny smile to my heart

G - for Gone, from this earth but never, ever from my heart

G - for God, who made us, brought us together and someday will bring us together again.

M - For mommy who loves you more every day

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 19 2013, 07:43 AM

Hello Baby G

Every day I love you and shed a tear for you. I'm so waiting for the day we can be together again.

I love you, Baby G.

Your mom

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Dec 20 2013, 09:22 PM


Hi Gretta sorry I missed the party I thought to
add to your True friends Poems; Thinking of you..

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 24 2013, 08:24 AM

Merry Christmas Gretta-Girl!

It's supposed to be a happy day but in my heart I miss you so much that my eyes are leaking. Gretta, I love you so much. You looked the world over and found me, just me. Thank you for choosing me at that adoption event. Once I felt your sweet grey muzzle on my lap I knew it was you, that my dog had found me. Thank you for all those days of so many walks and playing wolf and just curling up on the floor. Gretta, you are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. I love you so much. I am glad that you are in the Perfect World, where you can wait for me in a place where everything is perfect and where when you crossed the bridge, everything bad was washed out of your mind.

Gretta-girl, I love you and miss you. But I know you are waiting for your mom and then we'll be together forever.

Have a beautiful day and tell all the animals up there who have no one to wish the Merry Christmas that your mom says Merry Christmas and sends love to them

I love you, Babyface.

Mommie

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Dec 24 2013, 07:50 PM

MERRY CHRISTMAS, Gretta and your mommy!

Love Ya'

Auntie LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 27 2013, 10:33 AM

Gretta, baby

See the BIG message Auntie LMM sent you?

Merry Christmas my true love.

This year Mommy is going to try to have a heart more like a dog and less like a person. When you see m slipping, would you nip my heel? Really! It will help remind me. I would be the happiest person in the world if when I left this earth, I had the soul of a dog.

Thank you Babyface.

I love you so much.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 29 2013, 10:28 AM

Dearest darling Gretta,

Her comes another year rolling around with us still separated. I miss you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much and am trying to be faithful to the things you have taught me. That there IS a being for every person in the world. That that being and the person share the same soul. That the being (you( seaches the universe over to find the person on earth wh shares her soul (me). That you make a way to put yourself in my path. That you CHOOSE the person because you know she is the one. That the two recognize each other at once and a huge love bond forms instantly. That we live in love for a time on this earth and that one of the pair goes on before the other to the Perfect World. That the physical separation is the worst suffering of all. That in leaving, you take part of my soul and leave a part of your for me to treasure. And I have treasured your soul-piece because it is the most precious thing to me. And that someday I will come home to where you are and we will be together forever.

Gretta, a person has hurt me deeply. She has sliced my heart into more pieces than I thought possible. Just like yours when you were turned out into the cold Minnesota weather adn left to freeze or starve to death. Somehow, the dog in you, made you not bitter or angry but even more loving. That's why I am going to try this year to remake my heart into the heart of an old dog. One thing you did was to move on, not to stay with the people who didn't want you and didn't love you. You didn't attack them, you just walked away in sadness. And you almost didn't make it. But you found some loving people who saved your life and nursed you back to health so you could find me. This is a lesson for me.

Don't attack the people who are cruel to you.
Don't stay with people who don't want you.
Walk away in sadness but in dignity.
Carry on as best you can, even if you come near death.
Have confidence that someone will find you in time and love you and rescue you and feed you and doctor you back to health.
And after all that, you will find your true home.

I love you Gretta. This year I will try to learn all your lessons and become a better Dog.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 4 2014, 11:03 AM

Good morning my sweetheart

I love and miss you more every day. Soon we are going to go back to Trevor's house - the house where we lived for a while. And we are going to live there forever. Please ask Rufus to help you organize a prayer hum for Trevor's mom. She needs some healing right now.

And then wait a few days and organize another one for "the dad." You know why.

I love you so much Gretta. My first dog. My heart opener. The kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

Your lonely mommy.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 7 2014, 07:13 AM

Hello Gretta the Great, the Kind, the Wonderful,

Even though I miss you with all my heart, I am so happy that you are safe and warm in the Perfect World. It is SO cold here. Yesterday was the coldest day in the last 15 years - even before you were born (I hope). YOu always got an A in socks and boots and never put up any fuss even when you had to wear the snowsuits I tried to alter for you. Your pink sweater was a hit in the neighborhood but I always felt so bad when I had to make you go out into the freezing cold.

Our house is so empty now. yesterday some guys came and picked up all the bookcases and the dresser from the bedroom we never slept in after we got your great big dog bed. You know we're going to live with Auntie Bobbie and Uncle Stan and your two new cousins, Dreamer and Kelly. I call them Binky and Funny Face. The room where you ate and drank is all empty now.

Thank you for coming and staying with me, Gretta-Girl. When I go into the kitchen, I always look at the door because I think I'll see your face coming around the corner looking for something to eat. Oh, Gretta, how can I ever say how much you did for me and are still doing? Never. Aunt Bobbie is sick, the dad is sick, your other aunt is very sick in the head - like some dogs get sick in the brain and it makes them mean and they bite. Please go the the Good Shepherd and ask Him to look down on our family and make all those sick people a little (or a lot) better.

Thank you my baby girl. My heart-opener. My sweetest. You, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

I love you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much.

Your mommy



Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 9 2014, 07:38 PM

Hi Babyface,

you and me and Rufus are going to have to make a "parent" group for the people in our life who are having big troubles and try to control the one who is making all the big problems. Rufus and I can kick butt -- but that's not enough. We need your kindness, your gentleness, your calmness, your living-in-the-present acceptance-with-alertness.

We need you strength and your love and your beautiful face to remind us that everything isn't darkness and sickness and cruelty. That by looking in your beautiful eyes we can see the beauty and the love that also is part of life - a bigger part than the bad parts. And that's because the Good Shepherd has more power than the king of evil.

Thank you for being, Gretta. Thank you for being my furbaby. Thank you for being my soul-mate. Thank you for everything you are.

I love you more than there are stars in the sky.

Sleep tight tonight.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 11 2014, 01:58 PM

Hello Babyface, ny first dog,

Thank you for your life - for reminding us that even when things look and are very bad and we're almost at our mind's end trying to figure out a way to survive and to fight someone who wants to kill us, someone else will appear at the last second and rescue us from all that pain and hurt and fear and hunger and bring out the enormous love that is in our hearts.

That's what you did Gretta. Gretta the Great, Doctor Hinson always called you. And you ARE great. You are the living being that proves to us that hope exists and that we must never give up.

I miss you so much, Gretta. My very first baby. When I look up at the stars, I know that the brightest one is you. And someday I will join you in the Perfect World and we will be together forever - under the loving care of the Great Shepherd.

Until then ....... we'll be a two-species pair: you a spirit and me an earthling.

I love you, Babyface.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 13 2014, 07:19 AM

Good morning my Greatest Dog of All Time

I need you with me today - reminding me to stay gentle and kind - and unafraid.

Thank you babyface.

Your mom who misses you

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Jan 13 2014, 07:19 PM

Dear Mommy, wub.gif

I'm always with you!....You, Rufus, and I will all stick together and stay strong no matter what comes our way.

I LOVE YOU, MOMMY!

Your Girl,

Greta

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 17 2014, 09:01 AM

OH Gretta,

Look at the BEAUTIFUL picture and touching message Love My Mickey has sent me from you through her. I was just about to ask you to walk by my side today and every day as we continue our move to Trevor's mom's house. MY heart is sad because I will be leaving some very good work friends - especially the people who don't speak English, the Hmong, and my adopted son Abdirizak. Most of all I'm sad and worried because I will be leaving the dad far away and being cared for by a person who has, let's just say, a lot of problems. Dogs know hearts so you know what I mean.

With Rufus on one side to give me courage and strength and you on the other side to give me kindness and joy .... we WILL all make it.

Thank you for finding me Gretta. You're the best!

I love you and miss you SOOOOOOO much.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 20 2014, 07:22 AM

Hi Baby G

I'm still blown away by the beautiful picture and message that Love My Mickey sent me from you. I miss you SOOOOOOOOOOOO much. Thank you for coming with me to our new house. We'll be together there just like we are here. Rufie and all our other friends are going withus too, so we'll be together no matter where we are. I love you SO much, Baby 6. if only time could stand still and we could all still be together. But someday, Baby G, someday.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 22 2014, 08:26 AM

Hello daring Baby G

Please take my heart into your soft fur and take care of it today, OK, Baby?

I love you forever and a day.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 23 2014, 08:06 AM

Hello my Sweet-Face,

I'm SO happy I don't have to take you outside on the colder day of the year. Your were always so patient when I had to put on your baby sox and dog boots - and you looked so sharp in your pick sweater!

Please go and find your brother Rufus, and Mickey's relatives and Trevor's brothers and the new doggies and kitties coming in the door and curl up in a relaxing ball and just reminisce about your moms and dads who love you.

No matter how hard we have to fight battles on earth, we ALWAYS need your kindness to remind us that we need to fight these fights with honor and kindness.

I love you Baby-G.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 25 2014, 07:17 AM

Dear Gretta

Would you ride with me today as I go to visit the Dad? Roads are pretty bad but I need to go anyway. You are so soft and warm and cuddly - and since you are in your spirit form, you won't have to put on your sox and boots and go outside. Remember how you always got an "A" in sox and then an "A" in boots? Even though I would give my right AND left arms to have you back, I'm happy that you are in a land of complete happiness and comfort.

Gretta, you will always be my heart.

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Your mommie

Posted by: xxForeverxx Jan 27 2014, 06:05 AM

Hi Gretta's Mom

Stopping by to let you know I am thinking of Gretta and Rufus.

I hope all of our babies are together playing happily and eating everything they love!

xxForeverxx

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 27 2014, 07:08 AM

Thank you so much xxForeverXX,

Yes, I know our babies are playing and enjoying having friendly brag sessions about their moms and dads. Thank you for thinking of us.

Rufus and Gretta's mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 27 2014, 07:21 AM

Hi Babyface,

When you get time, romp on over and have a play session with Mr Chew Chew, the big English sheepdog. Theey're so covered with hair that they look like huge dogs but they're mostly hair so he should be really fun to play with.

I saw the dad over the weekend. Saturday was wonderful but MF spoiled Sunday, as usual. And the Director of Nurses was a full scale battle axe - making all kinds of unfounded accusations about dad's special friend Krissy - who definitely didn't deserve it. I'm trying to decide what to do - to let the administrator know about her conduct or just swallow it. WOuld you please go to the Good Shepherd and ask him what I should do - and then whisper in my ear, please, Babyface? Thank you so much for helping me - again.

Right now I am an angry and hurt dog - like you were during those many cold, hungry and lonely months when you were all along on the desolate streets of Saint Paul. But you kept you beautiful, kind heart through it all and chose me to share it with. I will try my hardest to do what YOU would do. Accept it a go on. There's a wonderful person just up ahead - like you, I don't know who or where s/he is, but I saw you find me despite everything, so I believe that I will find someone or someone s who love me, too.

Thank you for choosing me to be your soul mate dog. I'm taking good care of the piece of you heart that you left with me and I can always feel the love and care with which you are treating the piece of my heart that you hold.

I love you Gretta. Always and everywhere. And forever.

Have a sun-filled day, my Babyface!
XOXOXOXOX

Your mom (with a tear in her eye)

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 2 2014, 08:05 AM

OH baby-dog

Thank you for helping me. The situation got much worse and I found out that MF and three organizations were going to put the dad into a mental jail. Baby, you could see how crushed mommie was, just like you when for no fault of your own, you were kicked out of your house because you were old and just put out into the freezing cold.

People get like this when they are on the bottom of the professional scaele and have nobody to kick but the very people they are supposed to be hellping. The MOM, whom you never saw, used to say the peopple worked in nursing homes and government jobs because they couldn't get job in regular places where they had rules about what people could and could not do.

A wonderful woman, we call them lawyers, is going to help me. She costs a lot but she really KNOWS what to do. After talking to the two women most involved I learned that the situation was not as bad as it had been first told to me (these people lie a lot, so it is sometimes hard to figure out what is really going on). And I'm more hopeful now. BUt that is exactly what evil people do - they try to lull you into thinking they are being good andthat's alla lie and when you're not looking, they take out their swords and stab you in the back.

Gretta, my baby dog, thank you for helping me so much through this crisis. People were so cruel to you that they put you out of your home because you couldn't make money for them any more. They threw you out into the cold and snow of a Minnesota winter where you almost died - and they didn't care a bit. But some loving people helped save your life - even the dog pound helped you by snatching you off the streets while you were still alive. The beautiful Margir rescued you from there and took you into her house with her other beautiful dogs and nursed you back to health. Jeannie, my namesake, invited me to the adroption where we met - and a love was born.

I love you SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much Babyface. And I miss you that much, too. But I know you are alive and that we share a different kind of love now and that we will meet again in the Pperfect World, where we will be together forever. Our hearts and souls will again be complete.

Gretta, Gretta, Gretta, ..... the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. Thank you for choosing ME to share your life and your soul.

Your mommie

Posted by: joyo Feb 2 2014, 12:14 PM

Gretta's mom. You have helped me with my loss of Anna and she and Gretta are together now and helping you.

All the best from a fellow mom, Joy

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 6 2014, 05:01 PM

Hi my sweet babyface,

Thank you for welcoming Anne into the Perfect World. Her mother has such a beautiful name: Joy. Thank you for reminding me to be kind like you are while I fight this battle for "the dad." I miss you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much, Babyface. I miss playing "Who Wants to be a Wolf?" And who was LESS like a wolf than your are?

YOu know what? I'm going to move soon and all the stuff that was in our house has either been given to poor people or shipped to our new house - Trevor's house. So ..... I'm sleeping on your and Rufus's bed! AGAIN. Like I did after you went to the perfect World, because I was so sad and missed you so much. I still miss you exactly that much ..... no .... even more. But now I know you are right here with me in spirit form and that one day we will be together in the Perfect World - with Rufie and Bingo and all your cousins and all the friends we've made here on LS.

I love you, babyface, more than there are stars in the sky.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOOXOXOXOOXOX

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 7 2014, 07:28 AM

Hi my sweet babyface,

I need you more than ever now that I'm fighting a battle to save the dad. I need to remember that it is about LOVE not VENGEANCE. You, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived, keep my heart fixed on this when I'm tempted by thoughts like "I'll show HER." I need your kindness reminders more than ever, because I usually go into battle with all guns blazing and go straight after the one who has hurt me. You've taught me that kindness MUST be a part of everything I do. This is SO much harder than learning to be strong and brave, but please be patient with your mom - I will get it - slowly but surely.

I love you Babyface.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 8 2014, 08:50 AM

Hi beautiful

Mom is having a tearful day today - just like SO many of your days must have been before you rescued me. Thank you for the best five years of my life. I love you more than anything, my wolf.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 10 2014, 07:27 AM

Good morning sweetie,

It's still SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cold here. Even though I am very very sad and miss you more that anything in the world, I'm glad I didn't have to make you go outside in all this gosh-awful weather. I know you're in the Perfect World where everything is always warm and the shade is cool. You're the best, Babyface.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 12 2014, 07:29 AM

Hi Babyface,

Mom is calling on you to do a special job today. There is a baby giraffe who just arrived at the Perfect World. A man did something that is so bad to him I can't even talk about it . You'll recognize him: he has VERY long legs and a VERY long neck. He has big spots and he always looks like he is smiling. We call this animal a giraffe. His name is Marius. He needs you, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived, to be with him and be his friend. When things this bad are done to someone, they may have a few tears left after they cross the bridge so would you and Rufus take him to the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd will change any tears left, they will be changed into cool, sweet water for him to lick up with his giant tongue. Please stay with him for a while until he finds his relatives and makes some friends. Take him into our Musketeers group, too, OK? Your gentle heart and loving words will be like gold to him.

Thank you my baby. I love you more than enything in the world.

Your Mom.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 13 2014, 06:59 AM

Good morning my Babyface,

Thank you for taking such good care of the baby giraffe. We can see him smiling just a little bit after finding his aunts and uncles and grandmas and grandpas and cousins. He's completely forgotten anything that bad that happened to him in this earthly world. All he feels is the love of millions of people and that warms his heart and broadens his smile.

Gretta, my life has been SO enriched by you. Whenever i think of you, I remember the power of gentleness and kindness. Would you help me be kind to myself in a way only YOU know? Thank you Wolfie! Have a perfect day in the Perfect World.

I love you more than there is air in the universe.

XOXOXOXOXXOXOXO

Your mom.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 17 2014, 09:28 AM

Dearest Baby Gretta

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOO much for walking with me on this grief-filled journey. Thank you for reminding me that strength is not the only thing needed - that kindness and gentleness i equally important. I see picture on you chewin on your bone or lying on the dog bed with the blue and white blanket over everything but your face. And, oh Gretta, how is miss my chocolate baby - the kinest chocolate lab who ever lived.

God bless you my eternal friend.

Your sorrowing mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 23 2014, 09:06 AM

Oh Baby G
I need your help today. Trevor's mom is very very sick. Could you help Rufus organize a prayer him for her today? Gather up all the animals you know and that know her and go to the feet of the Good SHepherd an plead for her life - by humming. That's what we've come up with since animals can't speak human words. Hum, or cheep, or moo, or whinny, or grunt or sqeak - and sound is good. Thank you baby girl. You mommie'ss heart is surely broken today.

Mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 25 2014, 08:52 PM

Oh Gretta, you truly ARE "the great" like our wonderful Doctor Hinson named you. Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much for organizaing the prayer hum for Trevor's mom. Many many people and animals joined in. The Good Shepherd hear our prayers and hums and gave the doctors an idea to help Trevor's mom.

Gretta, you are the best. The kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. I love you up to the sky and back.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 7 2014, 12:54 PM

QUOTE (Gretta's Mom @ Feb 25 2014, 08:52 PM) *
Oh Gretta, you truly ARE "the great" like our wonderful Doctor Hinson named you. Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much for organizaing the prayer hum for Trevor's mom. Many many people and animals joined in. The Good Shepherd hear our prayers and hums and gave the doctors an idea to help Trevor's mom.

Gretta, you are the best. The kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. I love you up to the sky and back.

Your mom


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Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 12 2014, 03:58 PM

Oh Gretta

I am so sorry about not talking to you for so long. I drove all the way to Trevor's old house and then this site acted up and i couldn't get on it.

You know all about what is going on with Trevor's mom. We are all SOOOOOOOO sad. I need your love rays, doggie. A LOT!

Thank you babyface. I love you.

Mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 24 2014, 09:12 PM

Hello Babyface,

I need your help, Trevor's mom is very, very sick and I am the saddest I have ever been in my life. Mrs Waggietail, could you send down some of your gentleness to soften my heart? Only you, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived, and my very first dog, can do this for me. I know if you were here with me in physical form we would lie on the floor and curl up together or you would lick my face. From the Perfect World, you can do even more - your love is so much more powerful now that you have reached the Perfect World. Please ask the Good shepherd to help me, OK?

I love you, Gretta the Great.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 27 2014, 11:36 AM

Hello my Babyface,

I will never stop thanking you for choosing me to be your mom. You were the first dog I ever had as a big person. I cried many tears over the life you had led before wonderful Margie took you in. And some more tears because I wanted you always to feel love in the heart. Somehow I think you were - and you sure are now.

Your beautiful chestnut color, your soft soft coat, your waggy tail, your sitting on the couch every night when i came home from work and saw you up there and your graceful getting down and meeting me at the door. Oh Gretta how I miss you. When tears fall, they are for everyone.

Someday I will join you in the Perfect World. I d on't know when but I do know that I am coming there. Then all of us will be together and we will never have to part again. Please put in a good word for me to the Good Shepherd.

I love you, Babyface - always and forever.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Apr 24 2014, 06:09 AM

Dearest Baby Gretta,

You know by now that Trevor's mom Bobbie has joined all of you in the perfect World. I wish i could have been there when she walked into the giant parade of doggie, kitties, bunnies, turtles - and even baby Marius - waiting to welcome her into the perfect World.

All of you could see how much she was suffering down here on earth and was headed to the Perfect World to join all of you. I know Trevor was at the head of the welcoming line as the Good Shepherd carried her in His arms into the Eternal Paradise. I know you have been curling up with her as she rests in the cool shade and basks in the love of not only God but all the animals whose lives she touched - and they are many.

Gretta, you have a heart as big as the universe despite suffering of your own here on earth and so did Trevor's mom.. She loved you on earth and now you can loved each other in the Perfect World.

My two dearest loved beings can be together - forever - where as an old song says, "in a land where we never grow old." I'll try my best to live so I get there, too, someday, so I can join your pack.

Gretta, How much I love you, How much I love Bobbie. How much I love Rufus. Thank you for bringing all that happiness into my life.

I love you, my precious Babyface.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 13 2014, 06:45 AM

Good morning beautiful Gretta,

For the past month I have relied on the Great Shepherd and Rufus's strength to get me through the days and weeks since Trevor's mom left us and went to the Perfect World.

Now some cracks have formed and tears are escaping. They are a sign that now I need YOUR help. Because you were thrown out of your family as no loner useful. And then you wandered, starving and freezing, through the streets on Minnesota until you were almost dead.

I need your help to go on with the broken heart of living without a family

I heed your help to go on even though you can't understand what you did wrong to have this happen to you

I need your help to go on even though you tried your best to be the best dog possible and they still threw you out

I need your help to go on even though my heart is completely broken

I need your help to find a place to rest my head at night when my home is completely gone

I need your help to get up every morning and start the search for life, for warmth, for a place where there might be people who loved me

I need your help to endure freezing cold and a starving stomach

I need your help to keep that spark of hope alive in my heart

The spark of hope without which you would surely have died and we would never have found each other.

Life and hope, that's what I need your help with.

Year's ago when Trevor's mom was so sick that everyone thought she would surely die, a doctor gave us a plaque that said "Where there is life, there is hope."

That must have been your motto, my Gretta, and now I need you help to make it mine.

I love you sweetheat, the kindest Chocolate lab who ever lived.

Thank you my precious. And when I see you again, I promise we'll play "Who wants to be a wolf?" so you can roll over on your back and show your big teeth that never in your life hurt anyone.

Have a great day in the Perfect World, Babyface. XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Your mom.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 22 2014, 05:35 AM

Good morning Babyface,

I bought a book called "Beautiful Old Dogs" and of course went directly to the "anonymous" poems written from the old sogs' points of view aand I read the saddest poem I have ever read. Because it was about you. Because it was about a dog apologizing for having grown old. Because it was a dog asking "Please don't throw me away." My heart was shredded. I am still crying over that poem and over another one asking where all his favorite things were and where the family he had lived with all his life had gone and why he was living in a shelter cage where nobody wanted him and they all wanted the cute small dogs.

Gretta, thank you again a million times for choosing me that day so long ago at the adoption event - the first for both of us. For walking over to me ever so gently and laying your white muzzle in my lap and softly pawing my leg saying, "Please take me home." That was the kindest thing any creature of God has ever done to me. My life was changed in that instant - when I chose to hear the voice of your heart, the hope in your eyes and take you home, to your forever home. I did my very best to give you the best life possible. Thank you for forgiving me for all the mistakes I made. You are my first dog and you taught me how to take care of you. We lived in a very cold place so you had to go through the indignity of dog boost and baby sox so the boots wouldn't give your blisters. You always got an "A" in socks and an "A" in boots --- and an "A" in my heart.

Please be with me as my heart breaks for the loss of the dearest person onearth to me - Trevor's mom. I know you lost everything when your cruel people threw you out into the snow - you almost lost your life. We'll never be able to thank our wonderful Dr. Hinson for saving your life and your mom Margie for nursing you back to health and for giving us five wonderful years together. Will you walk over to Trevor's mom and tell her how much I miss her and love her? Even though I know everyone can understand each other in the Perfect World, Just look in her eyes and if she's sitting down, lay your head in her lap and tell her how much she meant to me and how much my heart is breaking with loneliness.

Someday, like you and I, we will all be together in God's Perfect World. I love you Baby G - forever and always.

Mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 24 2014, 11:35 AM

Thank you for joining in the prayer hum for Trevor's dad two nights ago when he took so long to come home. He was buyinng a new car!! Thank you beautiful, kind girl. I know you will pray-hum whenever I ask you. Someday we can pary and hum together.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 8 2014, 05:51 AM

Good morning Gretta the Great,

Today is need YOU especially. I need your gentle smile in the face of loneliness. I need your quiet persistence, mixed with tears and the not knowing what will happen next. I need your soft velvet ears to stroke. I need you to play "Who wants to be a wolf" seeing your lips drop back and expose a full set of teeth that could have looked frightening but because they were yours, they were kind and gentle. I need to hug you and just lie quietly on the floor. I'm looking for an house as much like our old house as possible in a neighborhood that is like our old one. My heart is strengthenedd just to know you are alive and well in the Perfect World. I love you, Gretta the Kind One. I love you.

Your mom

Posted by: LoveMyMickey Jun 8 2014, 06:20 PM

My Dear Gretta,

Aunt LoveMyMickey here. I hope you and Rufus haven't forgotten me and Mickey. We will never forget you......Gretta, I want you and Rufus to gather all your relatives and friends together in your Perfect World and have a prayer hummmmmm for your mommy.
Pray and guide her to the right house that will help her feel at home. And maybe you all could guide her to a nice big doggie so she won't be so lonesome.

I love you all!

Aunt LoveMyMickey

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 19 2014, 05:29 AM

Hi Gretta Girl

Can I curl up with you and cry into your soft, sweet fur? The dad, who loved you so much no matter how many times you spilled his garbage all over the kitchen, is very sick now and I think he may be joining you soon. Do you think you could organize a prayer-hum for him, Sweetheart? I love him so much anad there is not a thing I can do to help him - except writing him little letters every day. When he shows up there in the Perfect World, please gently take his hand and show him around. Take him first to the Good Shepherd because He is the one who made all of us and who loves all of us and who made the Perfect World possible. Then take him over to the Irish section, where even though the people might not be his actual relatives, he will have the time of his (eternal) life singing and partying with the Irishmen. Did I ever tell you that the town he lives in had a parade for him on Saint Patrick's Day once?

Please be with me in spirit today, my Babyface. I need a kind soul around me and a nice pink tongue to wipe away my many tears - for everything.

I love you, Gretta the Great, and please tell our Rufie that I love him, too, OK?

XOXOXOXOXOOXOOXXOOXOXOXOOXOXOX

Your mom who loves you forever

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 25 2014, 05:50 AM

Good morning Baby G

Mommy loves you and misses you more and more every day. You are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. As always, I need your help in adopting a kind heart (and you, now that you are in heaven, know how far away I am from that) and standing still and letting the Good Shepherd help me instead of always trying to do His work for Him. You can see now how wonderful He is and hoe He takes care of all His creatures and loves every one of them. Please put in a good word to Him for your mom and ask Him if He will help me release the burden of the evil sister.

I want my heart to be completely gentle and kind like yours is. Now I am carrying around a big rock where my heart should be because I get "fished in" by her ugly behavior. She's got complete control of the beautiful and kind dad. He's the only being besides you who has a completely kind heart. He loved you so much. He missed you when you went to the Perfect World. I love you, Baby, and like always, I need your help to fix my heart. I've tried so long to fix it and it just keeps on being shredded by the actions of the evil sister. I need to write a letter to God and try as hard as I can to leave it in His hands and He will eventually fix it.

I'm sure by now you've had some wonderful times with the WONDERFUL sister, Bobbie. Please stay by her side with her beautiful Trevor and tell her that I love her and miss her every minute of every day. There will never be an end to my sadness until we are all together in the Perfect World. You made it baby. Now I need to shape up and do what needs to be done so I can make it too and spent eternity with all of you.

I love you, Baby G. You are my first dog and always will be. Say hi to Rufus for me, OK? I'll write to him tomorrow.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jun 30 2014, 07:01 AM

Baby G,

Can you do me a big favor, please? Organize a prayer hum for Trevor's brother Dreamer? He's got a gut problem and it doesn't seem to be going away. Please ask the Good Shepherd to touch him with His loving hand and make him well. Thank you so much, Babyface - the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived.

I love and miss you more every day.

P.S. be sure to invite Trevor's mom. She can explain more about doggie's health problems and maybe send us a hint as to what she did to help them get better.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Your mom who loves you and will never stop.

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Jun 30 2014, 07:51 PM

always my first stop on LS

Hello my friend I hide my feelings to this day I miss my friend... I miss Gretta... I miss Rufus as you kneel by his cage with hope of... I know my friend.. Believe..
Great shepherd pass by are dreams.. Or do they can you hear... Angels sing for the love of... Walks in past dreams bring mind to run with... Jeanne what to say
and what might be the gift of life I have crossed in this wake of.. Heavy heart brings us to see...

I'am lost in my thoughts as I hear a whisper Mountians tell a story as I run with my faith in hopes to find a friend that passes as we speak without words...
Shepherds lay within as we believe.. In search of the ones we love.. With willows lay within each breath we stop.. and listen to the great tree that sings
with the little girl that plays on the swing... As she speaks each word paves a runway for others to see as we hold arms wide as....
I miss my Gretta..
I miss my Rufus...
I miss My.. I miss..

I my friend lost and in my... Thunder is so loud tonight I hold my friend as I write letters to show a gift of love to others... As the great shepherd guides us
we find life as we fill are hearts so others my pass through to hold and live life as we watch the sun shine on are dearest friends...


Dear shepherd watch these steps in are life as they mean so much to so many that reach for the love of are... Gift of life starts with the purest of hearts
as I watch the great gretta sleep in peace...

Jeanne i'am...yet I seek a paw print in time as I weep... you my dear friend lift my head to see great beauty as I watch a perfect Tree..

Stay strong my friend as you have given me strength as I... And always will be the light that shines...Within the beauty that kneels for are friends
is so bright I cant leave without a shower of emotion for all the love and good deed;... you have brought to are hearts.. see the beauty for yourself...

Thy shepherd speaks of great love that whispers in all are hearts that we see as bright light brings clarity as we kneel....








Forgive my words as I see with my heart I speak to my friends....

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 5 2014, 05:16 AM

Dearest Baby Gretta

Do you see the beautiful poem that My Doxie has written for us? His beautiful words always bring tears to mommie's eyes. Tears because the words are so beautiful and because you have to look behind the words to see the true and lasting love behind them. He who can write these beautiful, woven messages can truly understand how truly you have woven yourself into my heart. I am no longer just Jeanne, trying to make my way in this world as best I can - helping the people I can, when I can, and loving all of God's precious creatures, especially dogs, and most especially senior dogs, my precious white muzzlers. Baby Gretta, you are my first dog, You are the one who opened my heart. You are the one who gently showed me what a dog with a broken heart needed. Remember the night we make our promises to each other? Every time I though about you - freezing, starving, soul dying of sadness and fear, I wept for you. And I know you wept for me, too. A solitary soul. A steel heart - one needed to support a family of my own - half of whom loved me and half of whom hated me, but all of whom needed someone to go out into the world and do what was needed to feed them and house them and care for them. Just like you did with all your many puppies. And then suddenly we're turned out. What did we do wrong? We were worker, strugglers, providers. We didn't have the luxury of tending to our our needs, let alone our own hearts. But then we found each other. We spent oh so many nights telling each other our stories. And in the telling and retelling, our love for each other grew until it reached the heavens. At the time, the day I held you in my arms as you gently passed over the rainbow Bridge to the Perfect World was the saddest day of my life. Now the beautiful Rufus, whom you sent me to lighten my heart, is gone from this earth and has made it to the Perfect World, too. And the day of sadness which will NEVER be surpassed is the day I watched as my beautiful, incredible sister Bobbie struggled for breath, body eaten up by cancer - undetected in time by the best doctors in the mortal world - and finally came to the end of her strength and just stopped breathing. It was and always will be the saddest day of my life. That's what it looked like on THIS side. But on the OTHER side, what a day of rejoicing it must have been. Carried into heaven on the arms of the good shepherd. Perfectly free - free of pain, free of illness, free of medicines, free of hospitals, free on fear, free of sadness. Only health, happiness, strength, youth and infinite blue skies stretching to forever for her and all her friends - her dogs and her people. Love all around. And just like when God first created the earth, everyone speaks the same language, the divine language of love. God bless you Gretta Girl, for opening my heart to this Perfect World. Someday I will be there to join all of you in perfect, unending love and peace. Some bright morning .....

Until then, I love you more than there are stars in the sky.

Mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 10 2014, 08:32 AM

Good, good morning Gretta Girl,

Would you go with me to the dog sanctuary in a few minutes? My heavy heart would just like to curl up in bed and not get out and cry, but that's not going to help anything or anybody. And I know when I get there it will be OK. I'll probably get to clean the big dog room again today. That's OK, I love the big dogs and there arent' too many of them.

I'll write when I get home.

I love you from here to the sky and back. Are you taking care of Rufus and Georgie?

Maybe you could ask Georgie to send down some real strong love rays to his mom. She is still VERY VERY sad about not having him with her.

I love you Baby Gretta.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 19 2014, 06:02 AM

Good morning my first doggie forever!

During the next week I an going to visit the dad and I will need your gentleness and kindness more than I have ever needed it in my life. I know you know why. Gretta, you opened my heart to dogs and to love. Now I need to grab hold of your bravery in the darkest of your days when you wandered the ice cold streets of Saint Paul and almost starved to death. But this horrrible experience and the even more horrible one of being thrown out by your people for nothing you had done but love them and keep on making puppies they could make money from. I hope your heart healed during the years we had together. I would have done ANYTHING for you - and still will.

Please walk with me very closely for the next week. I need you, Babyface.

I love you more than ever. Someday we WILL be together.

XOXXOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 21 2014, 05:22 AM

Good morning Gretta Baby,

Today all I want to do is hug you and cry into your soft. velvet ears, OK? You know why. Thank you Baby for searching all over the universe to find me. I love you. And please say hi to Bobbie and Trevor.

Thank you honey bun. I love you.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 3 2014, 05:45 PM

Dear Baby Gretta,

First Trevor's mom dies, now just two days ago the Dad died. Your mom feels the way you must have felt when you were turned out into the cold November weather to freeze or starve. Now I am a pack of one, just like you were. I know that My little sister Bobbie and my dad are up there with all of your guys, probably relaxing by a campfire, all you guys filling in the Dad on how the Perfect World works. i can just see you guys up there relaxing by an evening fire, swapping tales of when you lived on earth here. Would you please have a "welcome hum" to The Dad? You know, like you always do - gather up all the animals and people you know and just hum as loud as you can - and we will hear it down here on earth and feel our hearts lighten just a little bit to know you are all OK and in perfect health and happy.

Now I have finally seen for myself why the old people call this earth a vale of tears. And why they live the last part of their lives longing to go to the Perfect World. it just made sense to me today. It's sad, but in a way it's not, because I know we have something much better to look forward to.

I love you, each and every one of you, each in your special way. Never forget that, OK? And I will try to live my life in such a way as to honor YOUR lives - and before we know it ....... there I will be, too.

Thank the Good Shepherd for sending you and your little brother to me. You are spirits to guide me on my way. Your hearts are part of my heart.

God bless you Baby G.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 15 2014, 05:27 AM

Good morning my baby Gretta

I know you are loving "the dad" SO much. He is such a gentle and patient man. Remember that time we forgot to put his kitchen trash can in the bathroom and went out to breakfast? When we came home, you had garbage strewn all over the kitchen. I was horrified but the gentle dad just said , "Don't worry. She's a dog and that's what dogs do." Then he reached over and petted your head.

Gretta, please stick by him as closely as you can. Walk with him as he ambles around God's Perfect Garden, meets all his friends - the ones that call themselves "Irish" are kinda loud but they laugh a lot. Listen carefully and you will hear them talk a lot about a softball team that most of them played on when they were young.

I love you Gretta. You taught me how to grieve when a part of my heart left me and went to the Perfect World. I learned all about how you were still with me in spirit form and many times I could feel your spirit around me. I never knew I would need to use what you taught me so often in this past year.

Please say hi to the dad and to my best friend and little sister Bobbie. Tell them I love them and there are now many pieces of my heart missing. Someday I will be with you all and all of our hearts will be whole.

I love you baby, my first dog!

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 23 2014, 05:11 AM

Hi my beautiful babyface

Remember how you moved from Margie's house to mine? Well mommie's moving today from Trevor's dad's house to a house in the middle of the big city of Baltimore. They don't allow any animals in that house so I will be all alone at least for a while. The city here is MUCH bigger than Saint Paul where we used to live together. There are houses stuck together called row houses and there aren't any yards to play in. Mom's apartment is on the third floor so in a way I'm glad that I can't adopt a dog right now. You know my favorite dogs are big white muzzlers and I surely wouldn't want to make a white muzzler climb up 48 steps four times a day. I can hardly do it myself! Oh well, I trust the Good Shepherd that He will someday make it possible for me to have another beautiful white muzzler like you and Rufus. Please say hi to the dad and little sister and your brother Rufus, who is probably already out playing with his friends. Please bring your spirit to mom's new house because now I am completely alone.

I love you, BabyFace, and I'll never stop. Your ashes are with me but it's your spirit that is important.

XOXOXO a million times.
Your mo,

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 4 2014, 05:46 AM

Good morning Baby G

Today your gentleness is needed in two places: here with me and with a little kitty named Blanca, who is the baby sister of a beautiful cat named Princess who is a newcomer to the Perfect World. First, would you tell Princess and her mommy misses he so much that her heart is crushed - just like I missed you for so long until you sent enough love rays to me that My heart began to unfold? Then could you help me organize a pray hum for Princesses little sister Blanca. Princess's mommie took her in when she was only 4 weeks old and they are both going through some of the worst suffering of separation, Princess's mom from Princess and Blanca from her mother. We'll need to go to the cat section and find Princess and a lot of older mommy cats so they can send down some powerful love and reassurance to Blanca. And Princess will have to be in the center of the circle, sending love rays back to her sister and her mommie. It might be a little while until this happens but I know it is SO needed.

Thank you my beautiful chocolate dog - the kindest chocolate who ever lived. Mommie loves you every minute of every day and misses you like we miss the sun on rainy days here on earth.

I love you, Babyface.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 19 2014, 08:02 AM

Good morning my beautiful chocolate dog,

I never have and never will forget you. I'm trying to take good care of the piece of your souls that you left with me when you went to the Perfect World. I feel you taking care of the piece of my souls you took with you. Because of our soul-mate-hood, I have been able to help several people here on LS by explaining how soulmates work and what happens when they have to go to two different worlds. The soul-piece exchange is what I tell them to explain why the ache in the heart and the empty part in the souls never goes away - until we are reunited in the Perfect World.

I hope your Auntie Bobbie is happy with how i am trying to keep her dear dogs Dreamer and Kelly's hearts filled at least part-way with love. When she left them, their little hearts were so confused they broke. I'm trying to keep them feeling loved in the heart. Kelly is a new dog! He and I are best-pals. Even Stan plays with him - "Gimme that toy" - and just holds out his hand like a claw pretending to try to get whatever Kelly has in his mouth. We laugh at his "giving lips" lifting his lips which, in a real situation would be threatening but is funny in play. He sleeps downstairs every night, whether I am there or not. Dreamer is the dream he always was. He's so gentle. He never protests when Kelly tries to steal his toy on the way to "going outside". He has the most beautiful spotted face I have ever seen on a cocker spaniel. His face looks like a miniature Harlequin Great Dane. And he is SO sunggly. He's a real comfort to Stan's heart.

Just like you are to my heart, my darling brown babyface. You are named after my absolute favorite food: chocolate. You are so gentle and kind. I know you remember the old man who first called you that - the old man who always met us on walks when we were walking our one block across Fairview avenue and he was walking toward us with his daughter. He always gave you a treat or two. He didn't even know you but you two were fast friends. Your gentle heart and trusting eyes bring out the best in everyone.. Thank you for choosing me to be your mom, Baby Gretta. It truly opened my heart to the miracle of unconditional love.

Until we meet again, please take care of all our friends in the Perfect World.

I love you and miss you SOOOOO much, Babyface.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 4 2014, 11:39 AM

Dear. darling Gretta,

Here I am in a strange town, in an apartment that is ten times as high up as the one we lived in when you were here on earth.
My day yesterday and today must feel like the day your first family threw you out in the snow because you were too old to make any more puppies for them to make money on.
Are you sure there isn't a way you could come back for just a half
and we could take a short walk and then play "Who Wants to be a Wolf?"
and then I could just hug you and cry into your fur like we used to?
I miss you and Rufus and Bobbie and The Dad so much that I have been crying all day.
But now I can feel your lovely spirit on one side of me and Rufus's on the other so I know I'll make it.
I'm so sad I don't even know what to ask for - just to let you know that I will love you every day of my existence.
Thank you for choosing me to be your person, your mom. It is the greatest gift of all - the love of one's spirit dog.
Say hi to your brother Rufie/ I'll write to him tomorrow.
God bless you, you Most Beautiful and Most kind.

With unending love .........

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Oct 18 2014, 07:29 AM

Good morning my beautiful chocolate baby.

Gretta, my first dog as an adult.
Gretta, who opened my heart to the love of a spirit dog.
Gretta, who slept on the dog bed and always waited for me to wish you good night before we turned off the lamp.
Gretta, who was always greeted by little Frieda like you were her dog
Gretta, who taught me that the "responsibility" of caring for a dog was really every minute a joy
Gretta, who I always protected with clothes and boots and lighted leashes and collars to make sure all the cars could see you
Gretta, who would go out with me four times a day, rain, cold, sun, heat, ice - the ever faithful.
Gretta, who always let me put on six and boots in the winter and you always got an A in both
Gretta, whom a public vet poisoned my mind and made me worry that you had Cushings disease.
Gretta, our inestimable Dr Hinson who always reassured us that you did not have Cushing's even though your blood work was always a little off.
Gretta, who always eventually cooperated in my early morning urine collections comedies - and Dr. Hinson was amazed that I had sterilized the containers I brought it to him in.
Gretta, named Gretta The Great by the best vet in the world.
Gretta, rescued by wonderful Margie as skin and bones, starving in the Minnesota November winter after you had been thrown out because your breeding days were over.
Gretta, thank you for choosing me to be your mom by meeting me at my very first dog adoption event and putting your head in my lap and pawing me to day take me home.
Gretta, I did and you gave me the happiest years of my life.
Gretta, there is no way I can thank you enough.
Gretta, I am taking as good care of the piece of your heart that you left with me.
Gretta, whose spirit is with me wherever I go, leading me on, guiding my paths - and most important loving me as I love you.
Gretta, I know we will meet again someday. It's God's promise.

I love you Gretta Girl.


Posted by: My Doxie and Me Oct 18 2014, 05:52 PM

Forgive me in my interruption of your Beautiful words of life as I read your post I can't help but see...
Who slept on the dog bed and always waited for me to wish...A Beautiful life with a Beautiful friend..

Miss Gretta as you speak to tell a life long story that gives hope to others as i'am one of the many you have
given the courage to take a chance and help myself find a new friend when I was broken.. To listen
to your story and Bobbie that has truly touched my heart...As puppy pads line are floor as Trevor..
Cannot climb stairs... well without his mommy...

as I walk a path in Honor of my friend..when I have read your story you have given me strength to travel and
find a new friend that teaches me more about my self then I could have known as my best friend... Gretta
by walking in your words of the beautiful care.. As I feed her Meatballs with Horse size pills..
As you take care of the reflection of your best friend....

Gretta, Who slept on the Dog bed and made a wish for a special human to tuck her in at night...

Miss Gretta was just thinking of you and stop by as you write it helpes me move forward as you lay
a love one to rest they teach you more about yourself then you could have ever...

Smile;)








































































Gretta, I know we will meet again someday....

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 4 2014, 06:06 AM

Good morning, Gretta Baby

Look at the beautiful thought and pictures that My Doxie has sent us - again. Don't his words go straight to the center of your heart and say exactly what you think and feel? He is such a good friend. And have you met his beautiful little brown dog? Be sure to look down when you're looking for him or play with him. He's VERY short. These dogs are called dachshunds - when I was a kid I used to think it was "dash hounds".

Thank you for being the first dog in my life. Thank you for opening my heart to the love of dogs - a love that goes both ways and chains you together with chains of love and caring for each other and protecting each other and taking care of one another - forever. The only way I can take care of you is by keeping in communication with you even though I cannot see you or hear you or touch you smooth fur. And by remembering all the things, small and large, that added up to a life together. Npw winter is coming and I remember how you wore both dog boots and baby shoes to keep your feet from chafing. You always got an A in socks and another A in shoes - and if helped a lot. I surely thought I would lose you during that last winder we were together, but you held on through the winter and into the warm spring when you waited for a warm day and went home in one day. I know you did that to spare me from having to watch my beloved dog from a long, slow, painful decline. It was your last gift to me on this earth and I love you for it to this day.

Gretta, sweetheart, could I ask you a favor? When you come across a dog who doesn't have people of earth who love them, ask them to join our family. We have enough love to share with all of them and more. Thank you Baby-G.

I love you and miss you more than the stars in the sky - and I think I know which one you are.

Until we meet again, don't ever forget who loves you.

Your mom forever.

Posted by: xxForeverxx Nov 4 2014, 04:57 PM

Hi Gretta's Mom

Just stopping by to say I am thinking of Gretta and Trevor and all our babies playing together up there. I just imagine a sunny place where they have as much food as they want and they can just run freely all day together.

xxForeverxx


Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 18 2014, 11:22 AM

Hi Gretta Girl

I love you and miss you every day. You were my first dog as an adult. You showed me how to love a dog and you gave the most wonderful and warm love to me. You picked me out of all the people in the world to be your mom and best friend. I can hardly imagine. Every night when I came home from work and drove the car up to the front of the house I could see you sitting on the love seat waiting for me. Then when I walked up the sidewalk I waved at you and I could see you jump off the love seat so you cold meet me at the door. Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end. But new phases came all the time. First my heart was broken by you going home to the Perfect World. You really gave me a huge blessing by going in a single day, not lingering on and suffering. That was my first heartbreak as an adult. I realize now that it was practice for the MAJOR heartbreaks I have had this year. I had to for my beliefs in soulmates and their search for each other and their finding each other and then when one goes to the Perfect World, their spirit is still with the one left behind in the physical world. I did see a glimpse of you one morning a few days after you had gone home. I was so sad I was sleeping on your dog bed and just when I opened my eyes I caught a 1/10 of a second glimpse of a dog, an Irish Setter, between the dog bed and your dog "restaurant." Although this dog wasn't exactly like you, I knew this was a sign from you that you were OK.

Remember I bought that beautiful soft brown pillow with Doctor Hinson's name for you embroidered on it. It was supposed to be for you ashed but they were too big to fit into it. Now I am in a town far away and don't know what will happen to me, but I sleep with my head on your pillow every night, with Rufus's book right beside me.

I don't know what I am supposed to do now, Gretta the Great. Could you please ask the Good Shepherd to guide my steps into the path He wants me to go? I am a lost dog now, Gretta, sweetheart. Will you come and find me?

Thank you so much for finding me the first time.

Your loving mommie


Posted by: Hermy's Mommy Nov 18 2014, 06:40 PM

Dear Gretta's Mom,

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I've been away from this forum too long. Just catching up now. I am so very sorry for your loss of Bobbie. Her kindness, her compassion, and her love for others are unparalleled. My little Hermy is probably giving her bunny hugs and kisses every day. wub.gif

Sending you warm hugs too,
Hermy's Mommy

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 21 2014, 07:27 AM

Oh what could be better than bunny kisses! Bobbie loved Hermy so much. Can you see them in heaven right now - all together in a big mass kiss and hug!

Thank you for sharing and caring, Hermie's mommie.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 4 2014, 09:27 PM

Gretta, dear dear Gretta,

I love you SO much. I miss you SO much. You are the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. I know you are in the Perfect World with your brother Rufus, Trevor and his mom, the Dad, all your cousins, all our friends we've met here on Lightning Strike. I'm so happy for you. Someday I will be with all of you there. I believe it - I KNOW IT.

Gretta, baby, I need your help. I need some of your gentleness, kindness and hopefulness right now. Like you, someone I know and love has turned me out. My heart is broken like yours must have been. What did we do that made that person hate us so much that they threw us out? We'll never know. But we found each other for a reason and this is it. A girl and her dog - together. Together we will make it. And if I can learn your kindness, we will not have to fight anyone or any thing so we will survive.

I love you, Gretta. I wish I could curl up with you and sleep on the dog bed. Or look behind me on the sofa and say good night doggie to you just before I turned off the little lamp. And we could sleep peacefully all through the night.

Gretta, with your image always before my face and my heart I WILL survive and I promise I WILL join you someday.

With tears and love,

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Dec 24 2014, 06:38 AM

Dear, darling Gretta, the dog of my heart

It's Christmas here on earth. Remember all those times we went to visit the dad and there were presents and singing and, although we had to leave you at home, the dad and I went to church and then to a church dinner?

This year, with Trevor's mom gone from earth and the Dad also gone from earth, done here we are very sad. Would you tell each of them how much I miss them and love them? And your brother Rufus, too.

Thank you, Gretta the Great. for teaching me how to always have hope, always to have courage to go on, and in the process of all that suffering and almost starving and freezing to death, you never lost your good heart. I'll never forget the people we met on walks, people who didn't even know you, would say what a kind dog your were. They could see it in your eyes, but I could see it in your heart. Remember the kindest and most capable dog doctor in the world? The one who gave you your name "Gretta the Great"? When he saw you after you had lived with the blessed Ms Margie who had rescued you the day she went to pick up another dog at Animal Rescue and "just couldn't leave that lab!" he said I should have seen the pictures of you that they took right after you were rescued - and I thought he meant the X-rays! How he laughed when I told him I sterilized the pill bottles AND the ladle I used to collect your samples to bring to him? We must have looked like mad beings with me running around behind you with that crazy ladle and eventually finding the stream and getting some into the ladle, only to have it all spill out when you moved! Sometimes we didn't get enough sample until we got to Summit Avenue.

I love you and miss you SO much, Babyface. Thank you for choosing me at my first adoption. Thank you for teaching me about courage and about never giving up. Thank you for teaching me how to grieve, so that when I REALLY needed it, I would be at least halfway ready, Please tell my mom and the Dad and Trevor's mom (especially) and your brother, Rufus My Big Black Dog, all your cousins and all the people and animals I know that I love them and miss them all and that if I am good like all of them were, I will be there with them one day.

Merry Christmas, Gentle Gretta!

Your mom.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 14 2015, 06:11 PM

My dearest Gretta,

My first dog as an adult. The dog of my heart. The kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. You kept me grounded, kept my feet on earth and gave me a reason to get up in the morning and create an orderly life for you and even walk around the block just before we went to bed. Sometimes it was SOOOOO cold. I really felt bad for you, having to go out in that freezing cold weather, but you never once complained or resisted, Even when, to keep your rear paws from accumulating show and ice and your not being able to walk on them, i made you wear dog boots. Then to keep the seams from rubbing on your feet I got you some baby sox and we played "You got an A in sox, Sweetheart." and "You got an A in shoes." you were so patient. I loved you so much. I hope you felt love, too. Wonderful Dr. Hinson, your doctor, said he had never seen a dog and person who loved each other so much.

Now I am in Trevor's mom is gone from the earth to the Perfect World where you are. The Dad is gone there too. And your Brother Rufus. And Trevor-Forever. I miss Trevor's mom so much. We were kids together and when we grew up and became adults we were SOOOOO close. I came here to try to help her husband take care of her and to be with her when she was suffering. Now the Good Shepherd has taken her home and she, like all of you, are perfectly happy, young again, and in perfect health and youth. But, Baby G, someone is acting like a total fool and that is Trevor's dad. He professed to love her more than anything else in this world, and I believe he did. He stayed by her side during all the months and years she spent in hospitals over the years. I used to see little notes that Trevor's mom had left for him telling how much she loved him. And now he is disrespecting her in the worst possible way. Just a few months after she went to heaven, he couldn't stand the loneliness so he started looking for a girlfriend. After a few false starts, he's glommed on to a woman and he acts like he has completely forgotten about Trevor's mom. My heart cries every times I come here and see fewer and fewer signs of Trevor's mom here. And the crowning blow was when I was taking some clothes I had folded upstairs to his bedroom and saw NO pictures of Bobbie but instead a double picture of the new woman - AND he had turned the picture of Birney face down so he couldn't see it. My heart broke for the hundredth or thousandth time. I didn't say anything because it's no use talking to him, he's just going too do what he wants, which is disrespect the most wonderful woman on earth. He's not even thinking straight. Every night he writes this letter to Trevor's mom and puts it on the computer. In it he tells her how wonderful, one-of-a-kind person she is and how much he loves her and how she'll always be first in his heart, etc. etc. and then he turns around and gets a girl friend. Gretta, please send me some courage rays, 'cuz I need them.

Right now he has gone to meet this girl friend in a town about 15 miles away and he is very impaired and unsafe to drive.He's taken some narcotic pain pills his surgeon prescribed for him because he is in pretty bad pain from something that needs operating on a week from today. He also drinks a lot of wine on top of it and is still feeling the aftereffects of his day yesterday when he spent the whole day getting various medical tests that are needed before surgery. First he nodded off twice today for hours at a time, couldn't remember what prescription he was supposed to fill, forget we had breakfast at IHOP, forgot to buy flowers for Trevor's mom's grave, went to the gas station to get gas but he had forgotten his wallet at home, then looked everywhere until he found the wallet, changed pants because while trying to pump gas he got some salt on the pants he was wearing, then lost his keys and looked all over for them until I suggested that they were probably in the salty pant he had just taken off. I confronted him about it. I told him he was not safe to drive bit that i wasn't going to do anything like call the cops or anything like that.

Gretta, I know your life was filled with heartbreak. I tried to give you some happiness while you were with me. We had a lot of fun, didn't we? And I just couldn't part with your dog bed and your food-and-water stand when I moved here so I brought them with me. Please ask the Good Shepherd to send a little beam of cool water to ease my anger and sadness about the despicable actions of Trevor's dad.

Thank you for being my dog,, Gretta. Thank you for finding me at that adoption event. Thank you for coming up to me and gently laying your head on my lap. I keep thanking you for doing that, for choosing me, for finding me, for coming to me and bringing with you a whole universe of joy and love and reason for living with you. You changed my heart and my life, Baby Gretta. You are my heart and soul. Soon and very soon I will be with you forever.

Rest well, my sweet. Your mommie loves you.

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Jan 18 2015, 07:27 PM



Forgive me Miss Gretta;) Human request as iam sure you sat with you'r head upon an angels heart listening to many hours of Popsy Dixon.
Jeanne good luck on Friday and it's good to hear you moving forward in your life as your story's reached many people along with all of
LS people that have come forward as when you speak of your friend they have a way of healing others..

Jeanne when you attend Sing Loud;) as your voice carry's a beautiful story of your life with all your friends and my Angel Bobbie...




















"When he was finished singing and was signing autographs, a lot of
people would ask, 'Where did you get such a beautiful voice?' His
answer to everyone was,'It was a gift from God.' "

By Ellen Robertson Richmond Times-Dispatch

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 19 2015, 03:31 PM

Dear My Doxie

Thank you for the beautiful tribute to Popsy Dixon. You met the Holmes Brothers once on this thread. Now one of them is gone on to the Perfect World, playing around the Golden Throne. And in the first row is a beautiful girl named Bobbie surrounded by her wonderful cocker spaniels that she loves so much. And Right there beside her is an older man, clapping ON the beat but having the time of his life listening and clapping along.

You have a heart of pure GOLD!!!!!!!

Jeanne

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Feb 10 2015, 07:39 AM

Good morning my precious BabyFace
Gretta, the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. Remember that old man who gave you that name? The one we used to see on our noontime walks along Fariview Avenue. The one who always carried treats for you and once he had asked me whether it was OK to give you treats, gave you some every time he saw you. He's maybe in heaven with you now, Babyface. I guess in heaven it would be possible for you to find him even though we didn't know his name here on earth and he didn't know ours.

Gretta, so many people's worlds had a little (or a big) hole in them when you went to the Perfect World. The great big Husky from across the street and his mom and dad. Frieda, the little girl from the house behind us, and her mom. And blessed Jeannie who connected us in the first place and went with me on our saddest day. The couple in the little stucco house down the block with the Jack Russell. And Eigen and his mom - the most giant chocolate lab I ever saw. And our neighbors the other way across the street with the Yellow lab that you went to play with once in a while. And the man with the gorgeous white Shepherd that we couldn't get too close to because he was kind of skittish - and when a Shepherd gets skittish it's good to be careful. Remember Duke's dad? Duke went to the Perfect World about a year after you came to live with me and his sorrowing dad never got another dog as long as we lived there. And the three incredibly beautiful Bernese Mountain Dogs, a mom and her two children? And the two older ladies with the two older beagles. And then the little pit that moved in across from Frieda's house who used to charge us all the time. And the big dog that got loose and followed us home that Thanksgiving. I was sorry I had to put him in the basement, but at least he had a tag with his family's phone number on it. And remember when I finally did get a hold of her and told her I had her dog, she said, "Which one?" That made me sad.

We had some adventures, didn't we? And we had so many friends - friends whose human names we didn't know. We knew them only as some animal friend's mom or dad. Isn't that beautiful? And to think that it's even more happy and beautiful in the Perfect World where you are. I'll be there some day, Baby Face. I guess the Good Shepherd still has some work for me to do.

Please say hi to all our friends, animal or human, and tell them I'll be there when the time comes.

Look down at the stars, Baby Face. Each one is a tear that I have shed for someone whom I loved dearly and who now is not on this earth any more.

I'll never stop missing you and loving you, Gretta. You taught me to be a dog's person.

XOXO

Your mom

Posted by: xxForeverxx Mar 1 2015, 03:35 PM

Dear Gretta's Mom

Just had a look at your older posts as I have not been on here for a while and my those photos of your baby sure did make me smile. So beautiful!

Thinking of you all today.

xxForeverxx

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Mar 21 2015, 11:01 AM

Hello my beautiful baby!

My first dog! The dog who captured my heart at the first adoption I ever went to. The sweet, sweet dog who walked slowly up to me and lay her head upon my lap and gently pawed my leg a couple of times, saying "Please take me home. I'm yours, you know." You are the dog of my heart. I have a Gretta-shaped hole in my heart. That piece is the piece I gave you when you went to the Perfect World. Every night when I lay my head on your pillow, I think of us together and tears fall out of my eyes as I remember you and how beautiful and kind you were. And you still are. The kindest chocolate lab who ever lived. That's what the old man we met on walks and who gave you treats said - and with his beautiful soul, he could not be wrong. Even if he hadn't said that, I would have know it. I lived with you. I was the recipient of your love and gentleness and kindness. There are no words I can ever say to tell you how thankful I am for you. I'm sure that old man is now in the Perfect World with you and Rufus and Trevor's mom and the Dad, who loved you so much, and all your cousins and all the animals we knew on earth. Trevor can tell you about his cousins Dreamer and Kelly, dogs who are also rescued and dogs who I take care of for a few days every week.

Gretta, my heart will never be whole again. You have a piece of it. Rufus has a piece of it. The dad has a piece of it. Trevor's mom has a piece of it. Trevor has a piece of it. And I am so happy that the pieces of my heart are so treasured by such unbelievably wonderful beings. Someday I will be with you and we will all be whole and together - forever. Please put in a good word for me with the Good Shepherd.

I love you Gretta, the dog of my heart.

Your mom forever

Posted by: Gretta's Mom May 23 2015, 06:11 AM

Good morning, Babyface

[size="5"][size="3"]I just stopped by to tell you how much I love you and miss you and need you. I am here in a big old city and I love the city and the beautiful old red brick building I live in and Trevor's mom's best friend gave me some beautiful old furniture so it looks like a person actually lives here. But with Bobbie's mom gone and me not knowing a thing about this city, my life seems like it has come to a halt. I spend almost all my time in my apartment, just like the typical little old lady hermit. I do go to church twice a week and, during the school year I take Hindi lessons. I did join a special gym called a "y" and I am going to just MAKE myself go there three times a week. Please, Baby Gretta, help me to be as kind and gentle and outgoing as you were here on earth. I need to know that you are at my side when I go out and come in.

I love you Baby. Every night I sleep on your beautiful pillow. Someday we will be together in heaven.

Your mom missing you.

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 9 2015, 07:58 AM

Oh my darling Gretta, the kindest chocolate who ever lived. I know you think I have forgotten you because I haven't written for so long. But I know too that you can see into my heart and you know that it has been empty for these months that I have been silent. I told you once and a million times that I loved you and would love you forever. And I meant it. I know you know my heart through and through and I thank the Good Shepherd for creating a universe where we can exist in physical form OR in spiritual form. And as complex and beautiful and exciting as He made this physical world, He has promised that the spiritual world where we go next after leaving this world is a million billion times better. I know this because you are there and one day we will meet again and never be apart.

Thank you for finding me out of the billions of people on earth. Thank you for choosing me to be your mommie. Thank you for loving me WAY more than I could ever love you. Even our dear Doctor Hinson said he'd never seen a pair who loved each other as much as we did.

I'm back now, my beautiful chocolate lab. My spirit is always with you and I know your spirit is always with me.

I love you.

Your mommie

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jul 29 2015, 09:31 AM

Hello you - the most beautiful and the kindest dog in the universe.

Gretta, every day I discover more and more ways that you have brightened my life.

Do you know that I sleep with your pillow every night. I have a stuffed baby lion that Trevor's mom gave me and we all sleep together in a bed under the window in the living room high up off the streets of the big city I moved to when Trevor's mom was so sick and then went to the Perfect World where you are now. I know all of you hang out together a lot and there must be SO much love going among you all.

I say hello to all the dogs I see being walked downtown here. Their moms and dads are happy and most of the time they let me pet the dog. Just like that wonderful old man we used to meet on our noon walks on Fairview Avenue. Remember how every time we met him he gave you a treat?

Please stay close to me in spirit, My dearest. Life with so many loved ones, humans and canines, is difficult, lonely and sad. But I know there is another world coming where we will be reunited and be perfectly happy forever. Meanwhile, please say hi to every one I know up there - be sure you amble over to hear 2/3 of my favorite group, The Holmes Brothers. Brother Popsie and Brother Wendell. Take the dad over there to meet them. I know he'll like the music as much as I do.

Thank you for being my first dog as an adult and opening my heart to the incredible love of a gentle, kind dog.

I love you, Gretta. Always and forever.

Your mom

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Aug 9 2015, 05:42 AM

Hello Beautiful

Every day it's something. But every day is a gift of the Good Shepherd. When you see Him today, give Him my thanks.

Today I am going to sing again in church. I'm in two choirs - I went to one by mistake but then I just stuck with them and sang.

I'm in a little pain these days, especially at night. I have a tooth that is almost all gone and it aches a LOT when I go to bed. Because I gave so much money away to Trevor's mom's friend, I don't have much right now but this is an emergency so I had to send in my deposit to the dental school of the University here. It's like the big school where you used to go to the doctor when Doctor Hinson's office wasn't open. They have a special school for teeth. I hope I can hold out until they call me for an exam.

Babyface, you showed me so many things about how to live and I'm still learning the hard ones. Trevor's dad is easing his way back to the Dragon Lady he went out with right after Trevor's mom went to the Perfect World. I worked SO hard to help him get away from her and this time I have to put the problem into the hands of the Good Shepherd and LET HIM TAKE CARE OF IT. The Good Shepherd tries to teach us people lessons while we are here on earth so we can make it in to the Perfect World. I have always taken charge of things, made decisions, made changes, been responsible for myself. This "letting go" stuff is very hard for me.

A thought just popped into my head: that's what a DOG does when he comes to live with a person. He depends entirely on the actions of the person for his home, his food, his health, his happiness and ...... LOVE. So, I am practicing to be the Good Shepherd's dog. You did it. Margie your first mom brought you back from almost dying to a healthy, happy dog. Then you and I had five years together - the happiest years of my life and, I hope, the happiest years of yours.

I love you Babyface. Every minute of every day. Oh how I wish you were here physically so we vould play "Who wants to be a wolf?" or take our long walks, or I could sleep soundly with you sleeping beside me on your dog bed.

Run, fun, rest, eat, go with friends up there in the Perfect World. I can feel your spirit around me.

Your loving mom.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Sep 18 2015, 06:40 AM

Good morning Baby Trevor,

I'm sorry I have'nt written for so long, but I had to start a page in another place for your cousins Dreamer and Kelly. I don't want to cause you to worry or be unhappy, so I will not tell you the details. Only that you so-called "dad" has gone completely crazy and I am no longer able to even see your cousins Dreamer and Kelly. My heart is broken but I know I have to keep my heart strong, because I know that his behavior is completely against the nature of the universe and so the Good Shepherd will eventually make the situation right again. Even if I never see these beautiful, sweet dogs, the dogs who have saved my live, again, I know that when they leave this earth, the will immediately fly on up to join you in the Perfect World where they, like you, will be perfectly happy in both mind and body .... forever. No one can stop this, no matter how crazy or hurtful they act on earth,

I LOVE YOU TREVOR! PLEASE ASK YOU MOM TO SEND PRAYERS DOWN TO DREAMER AND KELLY.

Your "Auntie Jeannie"

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Nov 27 2015, 07:12 AM

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving, Gretta the Great! I'll always be grateful for you, my first dog.

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Dec 26 2015, 08:55 PM

Hello Gretta it's one day after Christmas and many years after your passing, Yet you have touched many as to this day still saving life's with all the love
that you have... As you walk in the cold looking for your special person, One that will understand and speak your words awaits a great gift...

Thank you Gretta you may have been left out in the cold that day you where all alone... Yet a Beautiful human tells your story by flames. As you lay
your heart on Angels wing and dream in the warmth by fire dance upon are everlasting Thoughts in each person that reads your words
Life is born from Tear;s that fall from your true friend as these tear;s Build a bridge so others may cross to hold a loved one as they Whisper;....

Mom my heart and soul are always with you, Each tear that falls from you to me is a bridge of friendship that will connect us in this life and the next;...
You saved me from that cold..You held me as your own;...As I sit with eyes closed... I will always Love you;....

You saved my life that day...The Great Gretta I speak my name; How could I not be proud.. Your efforts as you lay by my side; as whispers reach around
the world;... I whisper my thoughts onto you.... And I can hear the calls on Mountain Tops...
as I place my paw within your Dreams... I whisper... I Love you...

Are friends carry a Beautiful message, Sometimes it's hard to see in the endless tears that darken are path they lead us on after life...









































Forgive me my friend I did hold back.. Seems it just lasted one day;) I had to say thankyou for this Christmas was joyful... Thanks to you;)

<What Child is this- Maddie Wilson#ASaviorIsBorn>

Posted by: Gretta's Mom Jan 12 2016, 06:42 AM

O My Doxie

What wonderful images these are and what beautiful and touching poetry accompanies them. Though my eyes are filled with tears as I sleep with the beautiful, soft pillow I had made for Gretta, my heart is always warmed and grateful for you and your tributes to the greatest chocolate lab who ever lived and loved.

Gretta and Rufus's mom

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Mar 13 2016, 08:39 PM

Pillow of Tears of a friend I have lost...

















Please contribute if you have lost and if another has helped In your healing....

this is my way of saying thank you in behalf of those who have touched my heart.

<This is just the LS friend's Organization I have Healed from;)> Because of this site I Have made many donations and in doing
so it helps me;.. yet brings me closer in understanding why I lost my best friend in that moment;.. she was not mine to hold;..

So I help others in her Behalf and in doing so I have healed my path....

<Thank you for allowing me to be apart of your best friends <Moment in Time)>

Gretta you have changed many lives, And you have touched the Hearts of thousands with your kind act..
Helping a Poor Human;) as you rest your head eye's close; a life story is told for a friend as we sit by flames and listen..



Lighting-Strike.com
I have Donated in behalf

Alley Animals
I have Donated in Behalf
for Trevor and Gretta

It's a Pettit Rescue
I have Donated in Behalf
for the Ambassador

Cache Creek
I have Donated in Behalf
For my Jen....


North shore animal League
I have Donated in Behalf
My Bully friend;... As he Lay's by are feet as we type are heart felt;....
Love ya Mr. Jake;..








































LS would love to see a special place so others can view a wall and donate in Honor of...











The Great Gretta in Honor of...
Mr. Rufus in Honor of...
My dear friend in Honor of...




<Heart felt words>

















Donate in behalf of...Your friends Beginning...

Hello...My friend...Can you hear me....From the other Side..






































 

Posted by: My Doxie and Me May 1 2016, 09:09 PM

Missing my LS friend..


Posted by: My Doxie and Me Dec 13 2017, 08:29 PM

Hello, my friend the ink in my pen is running out...
Or is it the Tear's drying from my eye;s...
As i approach my last stop I am thinking of...
I can't thank you enough for reaching out...

<I can see a reflection of your Heart>

The Great Gretta standing behind the one she loves most as her friend cooks for her:)...
Mr. Rufu's In many tales and looking down a row...<He found his Angel>
Your story has changed my life...

Now to my Friend Bobbie;

I wish i could have opened my heart sooner as you reached out as i was so broken;...


So i sat and listened and we talked and i watched Mr. Trevors picture riding next to you in a glove compartment
sitting on many thoughts and unable to reach you with all your kind doings as you listen to children play
in a Hospital room as you have such a warm smile....

I cant think of a better way to listen to your journey....

<<Tom Day Lost and Found>>

Posted by: My Doxie and Me Dec 24 2017, 10:00 PM

<Carol of Bells - Spaced out Studio & Vizzwar - Barlow Girl>
Happy holidays my Friend that bright shining star is a great attraction a beacon of light
that sits high on a tree With a Glow of a Beautiful Heart for others...

By telling you're friends journey with pure heart others follow and remember the beauty
and pain in ones... As i must kneel for a friend with a beautiful voice that echoes in time
with memories that sing within the shadows of pure light...


You asked for a poem I give you a Song for Mr. Trevor and my Friend Bobbie....

I remember and i kneel for All my friends...with joyful tears;...

I have memories for a lifetime and friendships that have passed that have great meaning
with lessons that still teach to this day as iam a better person for reaching out on LS as i piece
together my own journey as we all walk together...

Best Wishes my Friend a very merry Doxie Christmas;)

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