I didn’t find LS until about 1 ½ months after Shiloh died. During those first weeks after Shiloh’s passing I thought I’d go crazy. I thought I was the only person to feel such deep remorse over losing a pet. Then one night I did a search for pet loss support and stumbled on to LS. It was a life saver for me. I met kind and wonderful people who not only shared my love for animals, but were hurting just like I hurt. I was touched by all the stories…as I read these stories and posts, I cried, I laughed, and mostly, I healed.

I want to welcome all the new members to LS. It really is a wonderful place for healing. I hope that you will find as much comfort here as I have.

Thank you, MD, Denise, and Sue for keeping it a healing place.
Kathleen

I agree Kathleen...This is a wonderful place to grieve. For me, it is a time when I remember Lucy, and all of the wonderful things she brought to my life. I am at that point now (although I still miss her terribly), but this sight has been a very special place for me. Thank you again to all of the kind souls who have helped me and continue to help me through this time.

Thanks, Caroline

I am so appreciative of this site. At this moment in time when I cannot sleep because of my grief, it is a wonderful outlet. Knowing I am not alone. Knowing other people care is priceless.

Kathleen, Thanks for making this post. I would like to share my thankfulness for this wonderful place too, and to welcome the new members. I doubt I would have made it this far if not for all the wonderful people here. I lost both my girls Snookie and Chili Bean over a short period of 6 weeks and 3 days.

I came here seeking help because my Snookie had cancer and I was having a hard time dealing with her coming death. Little did I know that I would lose my Chili Bean with cancer before I lost my Snookie. There is help and healing on this wonderful site.
Love, Ann

I too, would like to give grateful thanks to this site and to all the wonderful people who gave me such love, compassion and support during those first few dreadful weeks when I didn't know how to survive the level of grief that was encompassing me.

In those first few weeks, months, all I could think of was my loss of Ellie. I didn't seem to be able to, (or want to) focus on anything else at all. So I would come here for hours every day and read and write and realise that everyone here was going through the same experience and understood every tiny part of my grief, and understood my pain. Somehow that knowledge was healing and gave me a more peaceful feeling.

It is 5 months tomorrow since my little Ellie was struck by a car and died, and although there will always be a vast empty hole in my heart whenever I think of her, I am slowly learning to get on with life again. Yes, there are still moments when I would give anything to see her running up the path to greet me in the way she used to do, but for the most part my feelings are now of acceptance and gentleness and love for the time that we had together.

This is a quote which I found at around the 3 month mark, it made me realise what I had to do:-

It is very important to incorporate loss into life.
Do not fight your loss.
People lose their beauty when they get stuck in loss.
Move on in dignity.
Take your loss with you,
Remember it,
Revere it
Then let it die.
Climb the mountain
and scatter your loss to the winds,
And feel the breeze cleansing you.

Na’hani

with love
jilly

I agree completely. Without the wonderful people and their support on LS......It would have been so much more difficult for me to deal with the loss of my precious pal. I found LS two days after Rusty died and am eternally grateful for that. To all of the new members - You have come to the best place possible to help you in your grieving. It's heartwarming knowing there are so many other people, all over the world, who feel such love for their pets.

I'd also like to thank MD, Denise and Sue, as Kathleen did, for keeping LS a "healing" place.

Jilly - That's a beautiful quote.

Lynn