Missing pets who have passed away.

LitleMermaid · 15-06-2010, 21:16

I've been a bit weepy today-been thinking about Ginger and Jeremy, both my ginger cats that I lost last year, and all the other pets that I have loved and lost. I know it's pathetic but sometimes I miss them so much it actually hurts!

I know people on here know how it feels and I'm not looking for sympathy, I just wanted to vent a little bit, because a lot of people in the "real" world who aren't into animals simply don't understand that even years after a pet has gone, you still miss them like it was yesterday! I'd give my right arm to hear Ginger's ridiculous meow, or see Jeremy in one of his hilarious sleeping positions one more time. Tell me I'm not alone!

ami_j · 15-06-2010, 21:18

your not alone. it was five of my rats 1st birthday on sunday , and i spent the day mostly miserable thinking about the two that had to be pts and werent there to see their birthday

Adz · 15-06-2010, 21:26

So not alone xxx

We would have had our beautiful old Tilly girl 3 years yesterday, i still think about her spirit and what a brave little dog she was.
I still can't believe we don't have Albert my big shaggy hairy lad, he would have been with us 4 years this summer, he was fine one day and gone the next. He was my first dog as a grown up and we got Tilly to keep him company. I like to think that they wanted to be back together as they went to sleep 10 days apart just before Xmas and it was completely unrelated.

Never forgotten xx

Jessica23 · 15-06-2010, 21:55

Since I've had Cassie I've thought a LOT about Max, the family dog we had when I was growing up. He died in 2006 and he was a fabulous dog - a border collie who cost 25 quid from a farm in deepest Wales in 1990. What scares me now - and this really is neurotic - is how awful it'd be if anything happened to Cass. I'm stupidly attached already and the thought of anything happening to her just destroys me!

Hope you're feeling ok LM, you're definitely not alone x

Moonbird · 15-06-2010, 22:25

I know just how you all feel, I still think of Meg and Little Lucy every day and cry a lot about Meg, losing them is so traumatic and hurtful isn't it? I still look at the place where Meg should sleep every morning as I got used to doing to make sure that she was ok and it still hits me hard.
(((BIG HUGS))) for all of you x

Innocence · 15-06-2010, 22:42

*BIG HUGS* You know how much I understand after my Beansey boy.

Lots of cuddles to lovely Catcat xxx

medusa · 15-06-2010, 22:46

Just starting to think about losing animals starts me off about losing Merlin, Tico, Arthur, Tizzy, Sophie and Tetley so I know just how you feel.

Every time I read a thread about losing animals I can feel my tear ducts starting to prickle, even if I'm not particularly sad before I start reading it.

Snagglepuss · 15-06-2010, 23:24

I very often have days where I have a little sad moment remembering all my babies I have lost over the many years of being a pet owner.

Binga · 15-06-2010, 23:49

Definately not alone and I have far too many days when I cant see for tears. xxx

LitleMermaid · 16-06-2010, 07:17

Thank you everyone! I'm ok, and I feel much better this morning, but I'd just love to see them again. And Medusa and Jess I'm so, so glad it's not just me who thinks depressing thoughts. Last night I was sobbing on sofa 'cos I'd just written this thread and then got thinking horrible things and couldn't bear the thought of losing Jet.

I've only had him 5 weeks but already I love him so, so much!

I'm usually more fun then this

badrobot · 16-06-2010, 20:05

Can empathise-I know it is isnt the same but I lost my Willow (female piggie) last last year and I was so upset. So sorry to hear about your loss

people really underestimate how devastating it is to lose a pet.

Adz · 16-06-2010, 20:46

I was crying while typing my post, I was so emotional when i first got ALbert i couldn't stop crying about having him and worrying about him. It's all perfectly normal don't worry xx

FallenAngel6 · 16-06-2010, 21:04

About five years ago we agreed to take a beautiful black cat off my friend who was moving to spain. I had always loved him when i had gone round to visit my friend so it was so easy to get attached to him. He was with us for around 4 long happy years before he passed away ... georgy was our little panther, much loved family pet and we were all devastated when he was put to sleep.
Now i have George and he is spitting image and it brings back alot of memories but i have a lot of love for him, he is just a younger version of Georgy just not so laid back but then again george is only young.

I will also have a little bit of a sad moment when i think of the four cats i remember strongly out of the ton that i grew up with. My dad called them Captiain Kirk, Spoc, Mcoy and i think the other was Sulu...but i remember Captain Kirk was like a guardian over me. Its been over twenty years now so i very much doubt they are still alive and that makes me a little sad.

The other cat i remember wasnt mind but my best friend a couple of doors on, absolutely beautiful cat. Heard my friends crying one afternoon after school to find that the cat had ventured into the next doors neighbours garden and the dog had had it, i remember crying like a baby when i heard

I think every animal can work its way into your heart and you just have to remember the good memories and not the bad ones. I could remember the last days of georgys like but i chose not too cause i'd rather remember the good days and the funny days when he had my mums dog running scared or when they'd team up to scare unwanted guests off the garden...

LitleMermaid · 17-06-2010, 10:07

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Originally Posted by badrobot

Can empathise-I know it is isnt the same but I lost my Willow (female piggie) last last year and I was so upset. So sorry to hear about your loss

people really underestimate how devastating it is to lose a pet.

Bless you, it is the same, they are still furry babies

I have piggies too and they have a way of working their furry little backsides right into your heart don't they? THey are small but each have very individual personalities. No-one who doesn't have pigs believes me when I say that, but they do!

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Originally Posted by Adz

I was crying while typing my post, I was so emotional when i first got ALbert i couldn't stop crying about having him and worrying about him. It's all perfectly normal don't worry xx

I bloody cried when Albert went, I know I only met him once but he was so gorgeous and so amusing howling hip hip hooray in the pub, and I knew how devastated you'd be

I can identify with the whole over-emotional aspect of getting a new dog, I was a wreck for the first week we had Jet, the commitment, and whether he was right for us/us for him was just overwhelming. I love him a huge amount but it's a big thing isn't it? I'll still have him when I'm 35 probably! Thats a huge chunk of my life, I'm only 22 now, and I don't begrudge it at all but it's a massive, massive thing

Weird 'cos I'm HAPPY but emotional at the same time.

I pity haddock having to live with me, I wouldn't if I didn't have to

medusa · 17-06-2010, 10:13

Do you not think that he may love you partly BECAUSE you're such a caring and considerate person?

Overemotional is a two edged sword and one of them's definitely good

Jessica23 · 17-06-2010, 10:19

LM - I went through the very same thought with Cassie (except in my case it'll be 45, touch wood!). I almost certainly wouldn't make that commitment to a person...

Saffy · 17-06-2010, 15:56

Believe me, you are so not alone. We lost Mookie our Mini Lop last Tuesday morning and I can't even think about her without crying .. and I mean proper, snotty crying .. red eyes, swollen nose, the lot.

Tess · 17-06-2010, 16:35

I lost Barney over a year ago, I did put a post up so some of you may remember, he was only eight and it was really unexpected. Even though we have Benji now who I love dearly, when I have a quiet moment to myself I often think about him and I miss him so much sometimes. His collar is still downstairs by the fireplace, because nobody wants to be the one to put it away.

CatznRatz · 17-06-2010, 18:46

We lost our cavalier king charles nearly nine years ago.We had him for nine years he came to us when he was six. He was a most infuriating dog,but much loved. We were in bits when he died in the morning but only four hours later we watched the twin towers collapse and suddenly,we couldn't equate his death with that of three thousand humans.

We did have him cremated however and his little wooden casket carries this inscription "Mummy's Little Pain In The A****". even the vet was laughing!

Moonbird · 17-06-2010, 19:18

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Originally Posted by CatznRatz

We lost our cavalier king charles nearly nine years ago.We had him for nine years he came to us when he was six. He was a most infuriating dog,but much loved. We were in bits when he died in the morning but only four hours later we watched the twin towers collapse and suddenly,we couldn't equate his death with that of three thousand humans.

We did have him cremated however and his little wooden casket carries this inscription "Mummy's Little Pain In The A****". even the vet was laughing!

And yes he was, but he was sooo funny and happy.

I think about him from time to time and all of the funny things he did, like when I had to go fish him out of that massive marquee full of people because he went looking for sandwiches, and the nights he spent sleeping on my bed when you went away and him trying to protect me from the bin men...Aww I loved Sandy, I have a tear in my eye now.

Can't believe he's been gone 9 years x.