I'm So Sad Options

[pipsqueak]

I lost one of my cats yesterday. She was hit by a car and died soon afterwards from massive internal injuries. It was the loveliest day of the year so far and minutes earlier she had been rolling around in a patch of sunshine on my kitchen floor. I feel so sad that she's no longer under my feet, scratching my stair carpet, in the corner of my eye. She was so gentle and lovely and I feel so sad that she suffered and I could do nothing to help. Waves of grief come over me and I keep crying.

[Gretta's Mom]

Hello pipsqueak and Etchart

My heart goes out ot both of you for the oh-so-recent passing of your beloved ferret and cat. Animals related so much differently than people do (thank goodness). They don't have an agenda - you love them, they love you. Every once in a great while a very special spirit-animal finds you - his or her soul-mate. You get to experience the best loving connection there is in this world. And then they're gone. But they're not gone. people and animals are made of the same soul stuff. They came to us from the Perfect World, so vastly enriched our lives and our hearts, and then went back. But, like us, they live on in that Perfect World, watching over us, protecting us, loving us and being loved by us.

I lost my Gretta almost a year ago. She's the kindest Chocolate lab who ever lived. The first few weeks were like being constantly shot in the heart with a high powered rifle. After that it's the Robot-walk. You're on the verge of tears all the time and are just mechanically walking through the "stuff" of life.

Please know that you have come to exactly the right place. Everybody here is going through or has gone through the pain and grief that you're going through now. Most of us would take it on ourselves again rather than have someone else - like you two - have to do now. We're a band of brothers and sisters who hold each other up and are just trying to live lives worthy of the spirit-animal who loved us.

Peace and blessings to both of you.

Gretta's mom