Dugan-gone One Week Today Options

[Krissyo]

I can't believe that it has been a week. I can hard believe that I have even gotten thru it. I feel so spent. I have tried walking our remaining pet Jake, journaling, talking with my daughter and husband, pet loss chatroom and reading pet loss books. I just feel so empty without my beloved Dugan, like things will never be right again.

I try and get up every morning and thank God for the the blessings I still have and am very grateful for. I put some of Dugan's hair in a locket that I wear to keep him close to me. I am grateful that he is with his sister, Darby and brother, Dobbsie and I am sure that they a playing together like they used to but it sure is lonely down here and I can't stop crying.

I just want him back so bad. I want to feel his soft fur next to me. I want to listen to the way he always talked to me. I want to listen to the sound of his loud purring. He even purred for me in the car on the way to the vet the last time. I want him to come in at 2:00AM and wake me up because he is hungry. I want to see they way his face used to puff out when he got excited and wanted to play. I want the hear the gentle beating of his heart as he lay next to me. I don't want all of this to be gone.

Kristine

[Furry's mum]

Dear Kristine,
I am so sorry, & know just how you feel. If only I could have had more time with Furry, 11 years was never enough. I felt like I wanted to die with her, but believe me, the pain does ease very slowly.
The greatest source of comfort to me has been adopting Bella, who is even older than Furry was when she died. But I sense that she is grieving too, perhaps her previous owner died & she was abandoned? Or perhaps she was just thrown out when she became old.
I have to say that when Bella is lying on my tummy asleep at night I pretend that she is Furry, as like you with Dugan, I want her back so much. I still have all the fur that we brushed out of her, so I can smell her individual Furry smell.
Things will never be the same for either of us, but I am sure we are both so glad to have known, loved & been loved by our darlings.
Judith