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Bill N said:Scott, we posted to your thread once already but since then we have lost our 17 year old Heidi. As you well know, grief for a lost pet is hard to endure and we are only now starting to recover but in the days since we have come across many meaningful poems that touch our hearts and remind us of our loving pet. May I post one that I came across somewhere and do not know the author but it describes our (and probably many others) situation so well as told from the pet's point of view:
Bill, so sorry for your loss, and thank you. It's been 7 weeks since we lost our Sheltie, and it's still tough. Walking through an art show yesterday we passed a couple with a Sheltie and my SO burst into tears.
But... there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We started discussing possibly fostering some dogs until we 'got back on our feet' and to that end two days ago went to the Humane Society and took a two hour fostering orientation. Following the orientation there is a tour of the facility. We are now known as "foster failures", a term used kiddingly and warmly for those that intend to foster, but keep the animal(s) for themselves. We never even got to the foster part, we ran across these girls (attached) - they recently lost their owner (deceased). The Humane Society was going to adopt them out separately and we couldn't let that happen.
So even though we are still terribly sad, and part of us always will be, there is this which I gently said to my SO just last night: we gave Goldie a wonderful, loving home to the last second of her life. Now, these two need a loving home, and we can give it to them.
We still ache, but can now feel the healing. We weren't sure when the 'right time' would be, but I now know this is the right time. Having these two formerly homeless puppers allows us to direct the loving feelings toward them, instead of just feeling empty.
The final hurdle will be getting the coach back out. It's going to be tough, but having "The Girls" with us will help. I have lots of little maintenance items I need to do so going to leave the rig in our driveway for awhile (we have to store it nearby) so that my SO gets used to the idea of seeing it. Then a weekend to Catalina the end of March. Then, hopefully, a loop of the NW in June.
Meet Taffy and Teddy. Life goes on.