I'm having a hard time finding an outlet to talk to about my girl. People are understanding around me but they don't want to keep hearing about Magic all time. (And I'm not talking about GRF.) But what I really want and need is to just talk to her, and put into words whenever I need to, how I felt, how I feel, how I miss her. I want to share what is going on in our life now as I would if she were standing by my side. I know there are countless others out there who are grieving the loss of their babies and are afraid that they will be forgotten in the hustle and bustle of life.
So with this thread please feel free to talk directly to your babies, tell them what you need to tell them as many times and as often as you need to. And know that so many of us feel this with you. I hope this provides many of us with some healing and a place to be heard whenever we need it.
It was 3 months ago today that I had to let you go sweet girl. My heart and arms still ache for you. I hope you are having fun and watching over us. I love you Magic and miss you terribly.
I tried to type, and got barely past the first sentence. I am typing this through tears... I am not ready to talk about Nina yet.
I will be back later as I just need more time at this point.
We Love you my darling Nina. We miss youi....
I'm so very sorry that you lost your Nina. We are definitely here, when you want to talk. I recently lost Di 3 weeks ago this Saturday. It does help to be able to get support from members of the forum that love their furkids as much as we loved our Di. Hugs to you.
Hey sweet girl. Did you hear that Jazz is getting her baby brother in August? I bet you knew that. Thank you for sending him to us. I will be looking for you to send me a sign when we pick him out. Let us know who will be able to put up with silly Jazzy and is willing to share the balls with her.
I still miss you every minute of every day. You will always own that special place in my heart. Forever my angel......
Hi Buddy boy,
lodila lelinka, I hope you did not forget Bosnian.
I miss you so much.
I gave away your beds today and some yours not favourite toys, those doggies at rescue shelter needed them.
We have a lots of rainy days lately, so I don't have to water the plants when I do that I miss you messing around, leaving pawprints in my garden.
I can't see the letters any more, talk to you tomorrow.
One more thing, these people on GRF, who mention your name and send you prayers, are my new friends. Some old ones forget both of us.
Yov u.
Hi Buddy boy,
lodila lelinka, I hope you did not forget Bosnian.
I miss you so much. I gave away your beds today and some yours not favourite toys, those doggies at rescue shelter needed them.
We have a lots of rainy days lately, so I don't have to water the plants when I do that I miss you messing around, leaving pawprints in my garden.
I can't see the letters any more, talk to you tomorrow.
One more thing, these people on GRF, who mention your name and send you prayers, are my new friends. Some old ones forget both of us.
Yov u.
Buddy,
I didn't know you, but hope you are having a glorious time at the bridge with all our friends who are there.
I know your heart was/is big enough to be glad your Mom let other doggies enjoy your beds and toys.
Please send her a sign to help her with her grief and one day help her find a new one to love.
:smooch:
Sweet Sonora, I miss you with all of my heart. I wouldn't trade one single day of our ten wonderful years with you for anything. It still seems like just yesterday that we saw you at the puppy store that one fateful day and Daddy said, oh, let's think about it overnight (I still give him grief over this to this day - ha! ha!) What a joy it was to see you there when the store opened the next morning and there you were waiting for us to take you home. It was the longest night of my life! Flash forward ten wonderful years, we said good-bye to you about a year after we relocated to Los Angeles, CA, the "City of Angels." You are my angel, sweet Sonora, and every day that I look outside here, I see you flying around, fluttering about up in the Southern California sky. You didn't die. You were reborn here, and the day we said good-bye was simply the day you got your wings. Now you can fly over all the crazy stupid traffic and be at the beach in just seconds. On cloudy days you can rise above the June Gloom and see the blue skies above the yucky "marine layer." You are my beautiful angel and I feel your presence every second. Whenever i see a bird or a butterfly, I know there's part of you inside. Soar high above the City, sweet Sonora! Daddy, Wags, and I miss you so much but know you are always with us!
I've avoided this thread 'cause I know it will make me cry. I only read the 4 posts before mine and I'm ready to bawl. I must be missing Sam something terrible because I've been calling Ike 'Sam' almost every day and my hubby keeps correcting me. I made a point to never call Ike 'Sam' when we first brought him home and I was very good at not slipping. It's been 4.5 years and now I'm slipping up regularly. ?
I still make a point to visit Sam on our mantle and have a few words each day. For me, it keeps him a part of our daily goings on...maybe why I'm calling Ike 'Sam' now?
This is a difficult thread to read but it is uplifting at the same time. Many people do not truly understand how hard it is to lose such a treasured companion. I find it comforting and a real privilege to see the sweet and raw sentiments people share here about their Bridge babies. It helps me know that I am not alone in my grief and as you have pointed out by having Sam on your mind, it doesn't really have an end point.
I love that you still talk to him each day. I have been doing that as well, stroking her box and talking to her. My kids think I'm a bit weird.
Eh Bayche, You know what's today? "Paws in motion" day (fundraiser for Humane society in our city). We were there every year, only skipped 2009 when you had knee surgery. You loved to be there and mama was proud showing you there. Last year we couldn't make 3km and mama said "we gonna make it next year I promise". And mom is so sad today, mom broke the promise. Hope you enjoyed your day today. Sorry, mama had to carry a towel around, a kleenex was not good enough. Love you boy. Your mama
I think about you all the time and have for years. I never wrote anything down but thanks to the good folks on the Golden Retriever message board inspired me to put my thoughts into words. I'm actually ashamed I've never done this before, but if anyone ever understood me and they way I work, it's you.
Mom & Dad took the pool out a few years back and the yard now looks like it did when you were a puppy. I took Heather and Miss Izzy around and showed them our hangouts, you would really like them. I wouldn't let Dad take out the lilac bush, the hole we dug under there for our fort is still there. Can you believe that?
You should see Dad play with Isabel and if I look just right, I can almost believe it's you all those years ago. While Izzy is a beautiful pup, she doesn't have your gorgeous red coat. She's really got your spark for life and mischief.
Well, I've got to go boy, work is calling and I have to get some stuff done so I can keep spoiling Isabel. Thank for being my best friend, I miss you something fierce. Run fast and play hard.
You know how much mom, dad and Reno miss you and love you.......I tell you all of the time.
The doggy doctor told us that Reno has cancer and only has a couple of months to live. Of course, we're hoping that Reno will suprise us and stay here with us much longer. I know how much you would love to have your brother with you again but I'm hoping you are enjoying all of your new friends at Rainbow Bridge so that you're not missing Reno so much. We need him here with us for a little while longer.
When it is Reno's time to join you, I know you'll be there to greet him with open paws, tail wagging and a great big doggy smooch (just like you always greeted us)!!!
Reno is doing okay and sends the biggest hug ever to his little (but bigger) brother!!
Although the void you left has been filled by Austin and Lincoln.....no dog could ever replace you.....you were one of a kind. We miss you so much!!!!
I've steered clear of this thread... It's so hard for me still. I cry every single day still. I miss you, Sophie. I miss your sweet face and your gentle persistence at getting petted and attention. Sawyer misses you so. He looks for you still. Daddy, oh Daddy misses you so much. I still see so much hurt in his eyes. I have taken Sawyer back to the vet's office a few times and we walk around the big yard and trees. I see the tree that you chased that last squirrel up. It was the last place you were with me. When I close my eyes, I see your eyes. We took out the swingset last month. All I could think about was the day that you discovered mud under the swing, where the worn spot was in the grass. And then you would dash under the slide as your "base." Thinking of you brings me some of the happiest, and saddest, moments of the day. I will never understand what happened to make you go so soon. I try not to be angry, because I know you wouldn't want me to be. I love you, I always will. Sleep well, sweetheart.
Mommy & Daddy miss you more than you will ever know. Have a very Happy Fourth of July and we are pretty sure you won't have to put up with the scary fireworks at the Rainbow Bridge.
I dreamed about you the other night...you were running around playing and smiling your biggest smile. You came running up to me and you were so close to me. You looked up and I saw your beautiful face so clear. When I reached out for you to give you that hug I have missed so much, I woke up. I think that when I finally get that hug, I'll be with you forever.
I think about you every day, Naners. Some days like today, the tears come. It hurts like it was yesterday. Some days the memories bring smiles...and all the others, a mixture of the two.
Chance says hi. He's still a goof and doesn't like the car, but I'm working on it. You never met Lucy and maybe that's a good thing...she kind of an "in your face" type and you didn't tolerate those very well. But, she keeps Chance company and I know that pleases you.
Come back to me in my dreams again, okay? I need that connection so badly and I hope you do, too.
I love you so much, Savanah. You will be in my heart forever...
Hi Buddy, my big boy, I miss you so, so much. The house is so empty without you, is not home any more. I miss to see you rolling your treat ball, staying next to fridge to get your special treat, picking crumbs under a dining table. Every time I see ice cream, I remember how much you loved it and I cry, not thinking I go to the aisle with pet food to check out new treats, and then run away from there. I go to the office in basement to work on papers, they are laying on the desk, I sit on the carpet, a lots of your hair is still there, can't vacuum it, close my eyes and think about you. I read somewhere every person has shadow, if there is no shadow the person is not real, but you were my shadow, how then I can exist without my shadow. I love you, I miss you, run softly big boy.
Rusty, my big boo boo....I miss you every single day. My life has been so empty without you by my side......
We are getting a puppy in a few weeks and I changed my avatar here.... I cried.....
I can still smell your head, feel your ears, feel your fur on my feet.....
I hope you are as happy at the Bridge as you were here with us...
I surely hope to be reunited with you one day.. Big kisses and hugs to you my baby... <3
Bailey Boy~
I'd thought I'd written last night however it doesn't seem to have posted, and so I will write again. I miss you buddy, so very much. Your sweetness, your goofy ways and your subtle intelligence that often was missed by those who didn't really see. I asked you to stay after mom died for a little while. you were 9 then, and were starting to have some health issues. My friend you stayed with me three more years. I talked to you everyday. I cried and you were always next to me with that lovely head in my lap-bailey hugs~ God what I would give for that right now. I didn't realize that this summer would be so unsettling - both you and mom are gone now - for some reason I didn't anticipate so much to come flooding back. It's one of those times as well at home where your heart was so needed. It's like you and mom, and dad, who never met you are so close and so far away. Recently a friend of a family member asked of you and said you looked really good last summer. The response was that you started to go down hill after that. I wanted to scream at that person. You did no such thing. We had a lovely, lovely summer. After 11 years you'd realized that you actually wanted to go for car rides! There is something wonderful happening, and I wish you were here for it. I decided to get a puppy! You'd have a fluffy golden baby brother. What a grand brother you'd have been, Bailey. You watch over him, as I know you watch over me. Love you boy~
Sophie-dophie-doo, some days, it hits me like a ton of bricks that you are gone. Today is one of those days. I was putting laundry away, and I looked towards your ashes and I just started to cry.... I miss you so so much. I'm so sorry I couldn't make you better. I hope you know that I tried. We would have done anything to have been able to make you better. I hope you know what we did that morning, when you went to the bridge, I hope you know that was for you. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. You are such a good, good girl. Mommy loves you every day. I hope you can still feel that. Please come visit me, I desperately need to feel connected to you.
Hi sweet girl, I still miss you soooo much. Just typing these words makes my eyes fill with tears. You will always be my precious girl and hold such a big piece of my heart.
Maverick is home now but I think you know that. When he came up to me and crawled on my lap I just knew he was the one. He kissed me so much that I think he was telling me to take him home. I did hold and play with the other puppies but none of them felt right. You would laugh so hard right now because Jazz is acting like you did when we brought her home. She tries to stay out of his way but he follows her everywhere and wants to play with all of her toys. She looks at us like what have you just brought home! Sounds familiar doesn't it. It didn't take long for you to love Jazz and I am sure she will love Maverick as well. Keep watch over us sweetheart and know that I think about you every day.
Chris: I am sure that Magic is smiling at all of you!!
Welcome home little Maverick!! I'm sure that Magic had her paws in this!!
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