Can Alex fly fast you're wondering? Well: Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Errr ... Yeah, it's a bird. But! It's SUPER ALEX!!!!! Ta Da!

Talk atcha later, Dood. Oh, I want to send another PM to you but ... It sure makes me sound like a horrible person and I kid you not. Nooo, nothing to do with you and yours, Bubba. I'll have to give some thought before I decide whether or not to share with you. Oh, it does have to do with pet loss. Mmmkay. 'Nuff said about that. How ya doin' Pal?

Big Hugs to You and Yours!!!

Always,
Dottie xoxoxox

Things pretty good here--------Sounds like your up and about.CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! C U later-------------Bubba................

Yoo Hoo Bubba ... You have a PM. Just lettin' ya know ...

Hugs!!!

Your Pal,
Dottie xoxoxox

Hey there Dottie----------Well I read your PM and It totally makes sense to me what you have stated.I'll call them (in the order of the PM)#1 #2 #3
#1-immaturity,short attention span,always getting what you want and trying to get back something that cannot be returned no matter how much is in your wallet.
#2-reading only the'good parts' and skimming over the rest.not 'getting' the big picture and a series of but,but,but etc...mine is worse vibe.one upsmanship as it were.Perhaps lack of gratitude for the help that was given by you to #2.
#3-He gets it I think.Knows it can't be reversed,grieved,continues to grieve(like us) but 'knows' it is not over but put on hold till the next life.Making adjustments.In other words being 'adult' about it while still not being happy about it.
I hope I made sense here.Maybe my attention span is questionable as well.Sometimes, I think,some folks come to LS,at least initially,(I think I did) to somehow magically get their fur and feather babies back in this earthly existence.Eventually,we realize though that what we can accomplish here is to perhaps find a new way to view our babies death and if one is even a little bit prudent,can see that this is NOT all there is to the program and we somehow in our no-words-can descibe-our-pain predicament will find a way to alter our view and since their is no turning back,find a way,painful as it is to propel in a forward-motion posture to envision a positive future for us and our babies realizing that the situation is not static but rather one that is in constant flux and transition.Now,having regurgitated all that lofty stuff it still sucks!!!!!!!!!You and I know this all to well.Time passes and we still have un-godly moments of anguish followed by respites of calm and clarity.Why? Well, I think that while we have these moments of insanity we also realize and pray(read:faith) that the show is really just beginning and this life is just a overture(albeit seemingly long with too many modulations,come on already let's get past the opening!!!) to something alot,really alot longer(eternity).People like us know this while we still feel the same pain the rest have.Your hard work on this forum has not gone unnoticed by the vast majority here.Hold you ground and continue your style.Great minds have always suffered and always will.Those of us who have awakend in this life cannot ever return to slumber.........we can only doze.........

I hope this made sense Dottie--------Your forum pal,gassin up the bus, Bubba.................

Bubba!!! OMG!!! It only just now struck me that other people might not read the same meaning into that song that I always have. For example: "There's a love that's Divine. and it's yours and its mine. Like the Sun." OMG!!! I am laughing so hard because most of the time I take for granted that people can read my mind, know what I'm thinking and what different images and lyrics mean to me. I'll bet that's some kind of a love song? Until just this moment, I have never, ever thought of it as a love song. To me, it's a giving thanks, showing gratitude, appreciation, love, and blessing song. Oh My Gosh! I feel sooooo embarrassed and am sitting here blushing beet red. Laughing, too. Oh dear. Let me try to explain ...

Okay, here goes. "There's a Love that's Divine." That means to me God's love, feeling it, knowing it, being bless with having that kind of Divine love in our hearts, souls and our spirit. The next sentence follows that you and I both are blessed in that way and can share that gift with others. It's a love and peace that surpasses understanding ... But we get it. We are so lucky!

Errr ... I think that's the only verse that sounds different from what I've always thought. I ain't sure so will have to ask someone dumb as a bag of rocks like my brother. Oh, I mean he's dumber than a bag of rocks when it comes to this kind of thing. Otherwise he's a very brilliant, wonderful brother and a great pal. I'll call him later tonight when he's free so he can make me feel stoopid cuz he always loves doing that. It's fun for him. Kidding! Sort of. LOL!

Catcha later, Dood ....

Always,
Dottie xoxoxox

Hey Dottie---------Dumb as a bag of rocks----------I've always liked 'About as sharp as a bag of donuts"----------No worrys on the lyrics(you can now return to your original color)-------I get it.No need to be embarrassed..........Bubba Moon Dude vibrates in all realms of thought (yuk yuk)
Pass the bread,here comes the baloney................So my reply made sense?...........Hope so........C U a little later
Bubba Baba Patchouli dust.........Saalam Bada Bing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, "So, why the long face?" BarrrrrrrrrUMp Bump!!!!!!!!!!!!!..................

Bubba ... I'm askeerd! Why am I so askeerd? Cuz all you said makes perfect sense to me so I must be as loony tunes as you!

HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Still true all the same.

You're O-TEY!

Thank you for being my Friend!!! Hey, that's the theme song to the TV series Golden Girls IIRC?

Big Hug!!!

Your Pal,
Dottie xoxoxox

Welcome to saturday morning cartoons!!!!!!!! Talk to ya a little lata..........Bubba...........

Hey Dottie--------What a great picture. Reminds me of another time.Used to 'see' similar images frequently back then.Thanx for the little update, I needed that!!!!!!! ...C U later..........Bubba........

You're welcome, Bubba. Glad to have brought you some pleasant flashbacks ...
Errr ... I mean memories. *Smiling at You!*

Take care my Friend and I'll catcha later.

Hugs, Love and Peace to You, Your Wife, Willy, Lily and all the Gang!!!

Your Pal Always,
Dottie xoxoxox

Smiling at U 2---------Catchya on the rebound..........Bubba........

Hello everybody here at LS--------Haven't been here in awhile and thought I would drop by.Tomorrow Dec-3 marks the 3 month point of my boy Willy's passing.And while the constant gut-flaming-wretching grief has calmed down a bit,every so often it comes back full force and I think I am truely losing my mind.The crying,screaming,thinking my eyes will be pushed from their sockets kind of pain we all can relate to.I look at his pictures and.....well.........it's all over for the next 15 minutes.To see him one more time before the road winds.I really need to take my own advice as I so freely gave out to others here on the forum when I was posting frequently.Easier said than done to be sure.While my faith and my own death are solidly things I have complete acceptance in,and the obvious truth that my own passing is the only way I can be with my boy,doubt intermittently rears it's ugly head and at those times of weakness,puts me in to a temporary state of psychosis.It is not a pretty place to be.Dark,cold,alone,without hope and vacant.These moments are juxtaposed with times of complete clarity and a 'knowing' that all will work out and I will be with Willy when I have completed my program here on earth.Not a second sooner or later.At the exact spot where it is written. Like the ONE LOUD cymbal crash in a 90 minute symphony at the precise beat in the score.If I lose my place in the music(spiritual dozing after reaching a labor- begotten God awareness through prayer for a lifetime and finally becoming 'awakend') I'll never know that the cymbals have crashed until it is too late.I must stay in a vigil posture and be alert.All of you here at LS are very special,loving people to have loved your pets with so much vigor and sincerity.I truely am grateful for all the posts that have been branded on my LS thread by Y'all.May the good Lord bless you all and I yearn for the day we can all board that Magic Bus to the Rainbow Bridge to reunite with our babies forever.Oh what a great party it will BE!!!!!!!! I'll bring the sandwiches........Peace and Love........Bubba....................

Hi Bubba, These pesky anniversarys are tough. But you said it so well. I still feel the same emotions as you. It will be 6mo on the 8th and yet still not one day has passed that I haven't shed tears over my loss. It truely is a dark and lonely place at times. I have to keep telling myself over and over the Rainbow bridge IS real and I'm on that yellow brick road towards it. With each passing anniversary a little snack goes into that party bag that I will be carrying with me.. Well, what's left of me anyways, for a hugh part of me died that day too. Hoping you find comfort and peace this holiday season..Take care.. Ann

Hi Ann----Yea, those fluxuations of emotions are as painful as they can be.I'll be thinking of you on the 8th.Wouldn't it be great if God gave us a free day,say Christmas, for a real visit with our babies just to let us know that they are really with Him/Her and then take them back to His/Her house till next Christmas? After all it's God I'm talkin bout here.Couldn't be that difficult.Most of us seem to be very caring people and I don't think it would be asking too much.Not to be disrespectful, but it seems at times that our pain doesn't matter much to the Boss.If God is really coming back to make everything new and alive again one would think enough time has passed since the creation and it would be time to get off the throne and get this party started.I probably just made a reservation in the hot spot but I am hoping God understands my frustrations and such.I have believed and trusted in Him/Her for most of my life.Sure wouldn't mind just a little break.Ann,may you find some well deserved peace and comfort during this annual end-o-the year holiday.We can get back to the grind soon enough come January.Bless ALL of our sweet beautiful babies in Heaven.
Your Forum Pal, Bubba..............

Hi, Bubba

Anniversaries are very rough. But whether it is 3 month, as you said, or 6 month, as Ann said, it is just the same....as I believe....we will miss them forever and love them forever. Even mine being a little over a year still hurts and the tears can still come. And...it is okay to cry.

Sometimes we just need to do that to help relieve some of the intense pain we feel because we miss them so very much.

We just have to remember how glad we are they came into our lives and became a part of our hearts. As one of my favorite sayings written by a Mom here says:
The pain of losing him will never ever be greater than the joy of knowing him.

Amen to that. It helps to remember that and let that "joy" replace the "pain" as best we can.

I remember last year when I lost my Little Guy in the ER in September...so I had the Holiday season with an empty home...no furbaby at all. It was so hard to go through that I wound up adopting a shelter cat the day after Christmas and said..no more Holidays without a furbaby to hug.

We get through the Holidays because there is no other recourse..it is simply we have to learn to do and do whatever it takes to help us do it. This year...my adopted one is my help. I could not do it alone.

Yes, I agree it would be nice if we all could get the best Christmas present of all.....a way of connecting and knowing they are waiting for us. It is hard to believe that beautiful particular unique spirit each one of these sweethearts have...would not be surrounding us at all times..since that soul is also part of ours now.

Remember the joy and use it to help lighten the darkness that can and will come at anytime because that pain is also part of us as we miss those special ones that truly became our very best friends...each unique and like no other and each so very very special to us now and forever.

I wish you peace and healing. Peace takes practice. Healing takes time.

Always remember...here..you are never alone.
Judy

Hi Judy ----------I am not sure if you intended it,but your words somehow made me think that I could be thinking selfishly.By that I mean that if I practice what I preach,that is,that Willy is here in spirit and can sense what I feel, then,following that logic,I am keeping him from truely resting in peace and having a new life free of pain,being young again,and the big one:that he is waiting for me patiently at the Bridge and all I really have to do is live my life to my appointed time just as he lived his till his time and as Dottie used to say "It is just a breath away" and my time will be finished here and His and my time will start again never to be seperated again.I really have to hold that thought.Hopefully he won't mind a few tears now and then.Naw, he wouldn't as when I would cry when he was alive he would come running to me IMMEDIATLY to comfort me.I have to grow up and finish this program.Maybe your words had a hidden or lateral depth to them or maybe I am just crazy.Whatever it is I dig the insight and I thank you soooo much.I hope you are doing ok and maybe I can return the favor someday when you are deep in the sorrow.I hope I can.Thanks Judy for being a good forum pal...........From a PetParent just like you..........Bubba

I am not sure if you intended it,but your words somehow made me think that I could be thinking selfishly.By that I mean that if I practice what I preach,that is,that Willy is here in spirit and can sense what I feel, then,following that logic,I am keeping him from truly resting in peace and having a new life free of pain,being young again,and the big one:that he is waiting for me patiently at the Bridge and all I really have to do is live my life to my appointed time just as he lived his till his time and as Dottie used to say "It is just a breath away" and my time will be finished here and His and my time will start again never to be separated again.I really have to hold that thought.

Hi, Bubba: When we released our babies from their suffering...that was the most unselfish thing we can do. You are not thinking selfishly at all. Willy is here in spirit because his spirit is now truly a part of your heart and can never leave you. He is at peace and without pain, being young again, and, yes, waiting for you at the Bridge and his "bridge" is wherever you are. At least, that would be my idea of Heaven. Everything should be possible in such a place. In other words, all these babies should have each other to keep them company as well as always being a part of our lives so they can watch over us..never wanting to undo that strong bond that they have with us.

Yes, all we really have to do IS live our life to its appointed time.the best we can. I know it can seem to be hard to believe but I do believe we are not separated from them now. Only physically, which since we are still here physically...it is important to be able to hug them physically and our pain comes from not being able to do that. One day we will all be on the same spirit plane and there will be plenty of hugs and doggie kisses (people hug...doggies kiss with a doggie kiss). (And, kitties have their own way of kissing too).

Not only our special best friends but also we should be at our best age, no pain or suffering of any kind. And when we join them on the special plane they are on now....there truly can never ever be any separation again. They can be there and in our hearts also because all things are possible in the Heaven we picture.

I guess it boils down to Heaven is what we want it to be and we are free to picture it in our minds what make it truly heaven-like to us.

Hope I didn't get too confusing here. And you are right about Woody not minding your crying...he know why the tears come and you know he would lick each one away if he was here physically. You are right about him running to comfort you. These best friends cannot be any other way. That is part of the many things that make them all so very special.

We can never understand why their time comes so quickly...or even at all..but we must accept what we cannot control and just love them each day we have them physically with us and then when their bodies fail them...we still love them..only now we add the pain of missing them, of holding them. That is where life gets cruel..when it takes them away.

But we treasure the fact that they were and always will be a part of us. Nothing can ever separate that bond.

Take care,
Judy

Judy----I agree 100% with all you have stated.I am so glad this forum is here for people like us.Where else can we talk about the intracacies about our babies except here.As most of us have discovered,long gone is the time we can talk about these feelings with our friends or even family members as they can't really understand the bond we shared and more important continue to share with our kids.Maybe we are eccentrics.Then so be it.I also think we are blessed to have the type of makeup that enables us to connect so intimately with these beautiful creatures.Your post has made complete sense.Thank you so much Judy........May the good Lord Bless ALL our babies...........Bubba.............