RE: Pets and Bricks

True, true - no amount of pain can overshadow so much love.

Lynda
Zone 7 - West TN

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Zemuly Sanders
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:48 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Pets and Bricks


Daryl, you are so right.  Most people never get to experience the kind
of 
unconditional love offered by a pet.  I would not trade places with
anybody. zem
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Pets and Bricks


> Kitty,
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> For Cathy and Lynda and all who have loved and lost a special friend, 
> big hugs. We've lost a number of guys recently, 4 oldsters in the 
> space of 6 years, including the love of our lives, Annie. But we were 
> blessed to have her for 16 years, and though we still grieve after all

> of this time, we wouldn't have missed having her for all the money in 
> the world.
>
> More grief is inevitable. We've got two more old pups in our lives -
> Buddy,
> who's 14, and Dreyfuss, who's 13. We adopted Dreyfuss last year to
keep
> Buddy company after his "brother" died. Dreyfuss was given up to the 
> shelter
> because his owners went into a nursing home, and the children wouldn't

> keep
> him. I alternate between cursing the folks that sent an old dog to the

> pound
> and blessing them for the opportunity to have him in our lives.
>
> Anyway, my heart goes out to those of you who have lost beloved pets. 
> Keep them in your heart, and know that you were privileged to enjoy a 
> relationship that most people never have. Cherish it!
>
> d
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On

>> Behalf Of Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
>> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:10 AM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] hum...now sad...
>>
>>
>> I'm so sorry for your loss, too, Lynda.
>> I want to share this with all of you; it is from Roger Caras', "The 
>> Cats of Thistle Hill".
>>
>> "I have cried, too; I have felt a brick placed on my heart and 
>> threaten to strangle me.  But now, I realize, in a quiet and I guess 
>> resigned way, that every pet we ever hold is a tragedy waiting to 
>> happen to us. It is inevitable.  Besides, from long experience I know

>> that the fact that a pet dies is far less important than that it 
>> lived.  I can look back on some lifetime favorites like Rufus and 
>> Daisy, on Yankee the Bloodhound and Grigitte the Toy Poodle, and I 
>> smile inside, not cry.  I remember the wonderful things they used to 
>> do, not when they stopped doing them.....I guess the only question we

>> have to ask is, did we do as well by him as we could have?  I hope 
>> the answer is yes.  I think it is."
>>
>> Kitty
>
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