To those of you who gave me advise yesterday abt my dog,Terry......?

Question

I just wanted to inform you that Terry, my best friend of 18 years passed away in the early hours of this morning.I cannot begin to describe what i am going through rite nw.Im glad that she is no longer suffering,se is in a better place..yet my life is very empty without her. I never got a chance to say goodbye..yet i know that she knew how much i loved her and i just want to take this oppertunity to thank her for 18 wonderful years.I will always cherish the memories..May you rest in peace my one and only true friend...

Answer 1

I am so sorry to hear about your loss. I happened to see your message here after looking at new answers to one of my questions. I hadn't known about your situation prior to this.

I lost two of my dogs, I had them for 15 and 16 years, within a few months time. It's been more than 2 years now and I still have not been able to heal completely. I know it sounds crazy to some that you could have such feelings for a dog, but they become like family can even be there more than family a lot of the times.

Just reading your message made me feel sick to my stomach because I know exactly what you are going through and reading this has made me tear up because I can still remember how I felt with both of my dogs.

I'm relieved to here, for both you and her, that she passed away on her own. There is nothing worse than having to make that decision and what it will do to you.



Just remember that Terry had 18 wonderful years. Without such a wonderful and caring owner, like you, there is no telling what her life would have been like.



I wish you the best of luck. I know that these next few weeks will be very hard for you. Just take your time healing, it will come, slowly, but it will happen.


I'm sure Terry is having a great time right now having a good time just like she did when she was a puppy. No more pain or suffering, everything is perfect for her. She is in a much better place right now.


You will be in my thoughts!

Answer 2

So very sorry to hear that you lost your darling Terry. We lost our beloved Toby in August and it is the most heart-breaking experience. I still think about him every day. Although you will be sad and grieve (it is essential) you must also remember all the wonderful times that you spent together. Terry knew that you adored her, animals are very attuned to these things. You can cherish all those wonderful memories, knowing that she couldn't have been more loved. You were both blessed to have found each other. There will always be a little part of Terry somewhere close by.

Answer 3

Don't know if you have ever heard this or not but here is a poem for you
THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

Just this side of Heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies; they go to the Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill or old are restored to health and vigor, those who were hurt or maimed are made strong and whole again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing, they each miss someone very special, someone who was left behind. They all run and play together, then the day comes when one of them suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His britght eyes are intent, his eager body begins to quiver. Suddenly, he breaks from the group, flying over the green grass, faster and faster. You have just been spotted, and when your special friend finally meets you, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again carress the beloved head and you look once more into those trusting eyes so long gone from your life, but never absent from your heart. Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge. Together.
Author unknown
I cant imagine how you feel right now , I am crying just typing this. Hope it helps. God Bless You and Terry.

Answer 4

I lost my beautiful Leah 4 weeks ago to cancer. Leah was 18 months old.
In memory of Leah we have created a piece of garden in our yard. We planted a white iceberg rosebush (Leah was pure white - her pic is next to my name) and around the rose bush we have planted pink and white flower. I love going out there every day and tending to her garden, we talk to her, tell her about our day and tell her all about the silly stuff her sister is getting up to (our new pound puppy, 7 month old Storm).. My husband has made a plaque which reads
Leah,
Finally an outside dog. (She always stayed in doors)
Playing over rainbow Bridge
01/09/2005-05/02/2007

Maybe you can do soemthing like this for Terry? If your thinking about getting Terry's ashes back you can also place them in the garden too...

Leahs white iceberg rosebush has just blossomed it's first 2 buds... I spend time there and feel she is always and always will be with me

Sleep well Terry and Leah, we will see you at Rainbow Bridge when our times come xxxxx

Answer 5

I'm so sorry to hear about your dog. I found this article and thought it might help...

Where Should I Bury My Dog?
(Response to letter written to an Ontario paper at the turn of the century)

We would say to the Ontario man that there are various places in which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple; or any flowering shrub is an excellent place to bury a dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavoursome bone, or lifted his head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, for if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, laughing, begging it matters not at all where that dog sleeps. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked, and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture lane where some exhilarating cattle grazed, is all one to the dog, and all one to you – and nothing is gained, nothing is lost – if memory lives.

But there is one place to bury a dog. If you bury him in this spot, he will come to you when you call – come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death and down the well-remembered path and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they shall not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he belongs there. People may scoff at you who see no slightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper, people who never really had a dog. Smile at them, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth knowing. The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

Answer 6

I READ YOUR STORY AND WANT TO CRY...sorry I'm no help at all , i know what it is to loose a pet its not just a pet its a member of your family so you are in mourning and it will take time just like if someone close to you died i lost 2 cats that i loved so much at two different times in my life and it literely brooke my heart and i still miss them both and i cry just thinking of it i hope for your sake your not as sentimentale as me its to painful right now remembering the fun times is hard there will come a time wen it won't hurt as much just know there are people out there just like you that understand take care lorie ps i gave my animals a funeral and it seemed to help

Answer 7

My condolences for your friend and love. Hell, 18 years is very good for any dog. It may be too soon but don't wait too long, go find a new friend, not to replace or take over, just someone to share new adventures with.

Answer 8

I am so sorry for you loss. The number one problems with having pets is they just do not live as long as we do, or as long as we would like for them. As devastating as the loss of a pet is, many of us continue to have them because the love we receive from them while they are with us far out weights the crushing loss when they are gone. Even though I do not know you or knew your pet, the passing of any animal leaves a hole in my heart.

Answer 9

I am sorry for your loss of your dog.
Terry has had 18 happy years
RIP

Answer 10

Wow 18 human years. What a true companion she really must have been well LOVED