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Barnyard Buddies:  Puppy Prayers Needed Please  |
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gregs_lil_farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
219 Posts
birdi
hartford
me
USA
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 Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 03:45:31 AM
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Kathy, my dearest sympathy to you and your beloved little fur babies. You did all that you could and he knew it as well. He did wait up for you to tend to him this morning and passed in your arms. He must have needed to say goodbye to you and to let you return that. No more suffering for him now. I send my prayers to Holly and wish her a speedy recovery. And to you as well in your greiving. Hugs to you Birdi
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FarmGirl~K
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Kelly
TX
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 05:50:25 AM
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I'm so sorry Kathy!! Boy, I am at work & trying not to start boo hooing. If I was home I sure would be in a puddle of tears. Petey was a lucky puppy to have someone like you to take care of him. Our hearts are with you & you know we are here if you need us! 
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." ~Benjamin Franklin~ |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 07:30:44 AM
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Well. There it is. I'm so very sorry for you and his mother, but that baby sure was loved, and Petey was a fighter!
When my Lil passed at age 14, a friend said, "Lily will always be with you, she has just changed form"....
It didn't help at first, but did a little later.
Thank you, Kathty for your kind thoughts on my gran's kitty.
Sad day for all, indeed.
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 07:47:27 AM
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I am so very sorry, Kathy. I'm at work, too. So I'm going to the ladies room and cry. I'll hold onto good thoughts for your poodle.
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?" - 'Brother Dave' Gardner |
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Luzy
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Luanne
Pueblo
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 08:01:52 AM
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I'm so sorry Kathy. I have tears streaming down my cheeks as I write this. You did everything possible for the little guy, and hopefully you can find comfort in knowing that. I will pray for your Holly. I'm hoping you'll find out how to help her soon. Bless your heart! Love, Lu
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 12:07:33 PM
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As I read each and every post you girls have sent me, I am in a puddle of tears. It warms my heart to know so many others have shared this with me. After a little sleep I got up and for a brief moment looked to see Petey in the whelping box breathing - he was in the corner on the heating pad and his mom had not moved him. He was warm when I picked him up and it gave me a funny feeling in my heart.
I wrapped him in his pink baby blanket and kissed his little sweet head. My husband buried him in the yard in a cardboard box - my lord, if anyone ever digs up my yard it is like the movie pet cemetery. Petey just missed his eyes opening as the big puppy - Tilly as in Two Ton Tilly - hehehe she is huge, her eyes are just opening now.
Holly Bush has not vomited today and she ate some table food with us for lunch and some ground chicken for breakfast. She took her pepcid and her Flagyl and the vets office had a me pick up another pill I mix with water and give her 1cc three times a day, it is supposed to coat her stomach. She is still lying very still and that has me concerned. I will bring her in my bed a little later today.
My new puppy that I bought, Charlee - well, I AkC named her Kathy's My Funny Valentine and I found a CD with the Frank Sinatra version on it. I took little Charlee in my arms in the kitchen today and just hugged her and listened to the words to the song and cried and cried. If it were not for my fur children, I would be a very lonely person and my life would not be as rich as it is today with things that are not material. I am truly blessed.
I love you all - Thanks for being there for me.
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
1891 Posts
Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 12:19:38 PM
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Kathy,
I read all the posts, but each time I tried to respond, the lump in my throat got bigger and I had to walk away until the tears stopped. Been down that road way too many times, losing our furry and feathered friends. Only thing that bothered about leaving the house in SoCalif, which was the first one I'd owned, was all the graves in the backyard around the big tree. As we finished one circle, the second one started a few feet out. Anyone digging up that yard would find cats, dogs and birds who's lives ended there, some after many many years and others way before their time. My heart goes out to you and anyone losing beloved little buddies. As I look at my two rescued dogs, both getting up in years, I tear up just thinking about losing them someday. My daughter just lost one of her old cats and the ground is too frozen to bury him, so she's in a quandry. He's in a box and I suggested putting him in the shed away from the dogs until she can dig him a grave.
Hugs to you,
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 1:53:57 PM
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Dear Kathy,
I feel so for you. It's such a hard, hard thing to lose a baby--whether young and new or an old friend. I've held some of ours when they were dying, and always felt grateful to be able to be touching them at the end and give comfort. I pray Holly will get straightened out. Our 14 year old had somewhat similar problems not long ago and gets the pepcid... kidneys and liver aren't in very good shape. It doesn't really matter how much you know ahead of time, though, does it! Still hurts like crazy.... but the joy they give is so much greater.
XO,
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 2:08:49 PM
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Kathy,
I'm so sorry to hear about Petey. You were a comfort to him and he knew he was loved by both you and his mama. I hope that Holly Bush is starting to feel better. My thoughts are with you.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 4:38:12 PM
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I have lost many pets here and leaving here would be hard. Without markers, I sometimes forget who is where. I have had a few of them cremated and have their remains - When I used to do wildlife rehab and did squirrels, if they died and it was too frozen to dig to bury them I had a second freezer I put them in till it was unfrozen. I am sure if you contacted a local vet they would let your daughter put her pet on hold there till ground defrosted.
I know the great loss for me will be my German Shepherd, June - she was the one having trouble with her back legs. Luckily, she is on prednisone and it is helping, she can walk without assistance - I was having to help her by cradling her back end with a beach towel to lift her. She is getting up there in years and that will be the most difficult for me.
I lost one of my first corgi a day before her 7th birthday a few years back to a third degree heart block - it was awful to have to put her down but I had no credit at the time and the specialist would not take weekly payments from my checking account. He was cold and callus and I remember him telling me that as long as I continued to take animals in, I would never have anything. I was so upset - I told him in front of a waiting room full of patients that I would have more in my life then he ever would. When we brought Emma Jean home to bury her, my husband literally had to pull me off of her - that is one moment I will never forget.
I can tell you this, our pets go on after this life, I have had some experiences that are totally uncanny that have happened to me and I have never doubted them. One was the vet I used to work for had a dog named Cappy that used to come to work with him everyday - she got sick on the day I was out sick and he brought her to work and did emergency surgery on her, she had something wrong with her pancreas and he put her to sleep on the surgery table. I had gone in that night when the clinic was closed to pick up my pay check and I heard a dog crying in the back of the office. I went and looked for a dog in the kennel cages in the surgery room and there was not one dog in the entire building. When this vet used to go on vacation, I used to take Cappy to my house to stay. After this incident, I would hear her in the clinic after hours, her nails clicking on the floor as she would come down the hall at the end of the night. I tell you - it gave me goose bumps.
When my favorite cat Twiggers went in to have surgery I was devastated. She had a small hair blockage in her intestines that the dr called me about and said she came out of surgery fine and she moved the hair blockage along with her fingers. I went to night school that night and felt relieved. When I came home, my husband was just standing in the middle of the living room - I knew something was wrong - Twiggers died after surgery. Well, I only had one other cat at that time and he was a marmalade cat- I was awake the next morning in bed and Beaver jumped on the bed, only it wasn't Beaver, it was Twiggers - it was as if she came back to comfort me -I swear on my soul that it was my cat and I was not dreaming. After that I had gotten another cat that was black and he had jumped up on the post of the stairway when I snapped his picture - funny thing was, in the picture you could see tabby stripes on him and he was totally jet black - it was once again my cat visiting.
Have any of you had similar experiences?
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 7:49:50 PM
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I have only had one experience, with a cat from my childhood, Smith-Ann (yes, I named her :)....She was a gorgeous black cat with green eyes, and it took her absolutely forever to trust our family. When she finally did, I was her choice. She slept on my bed everynight, she laid on my lap when I watched tv, she waited until I finished my cereal to get the last lap of milk. She followed me everywhere, and when I was gone, my mother said she would meow loudly until I returned...one day, she was exploring the yard, and our annoying teenage neighbor decided it would be funny to run at her and holler, and, being the skittish kitty she was, she got terrified and ran away, and she never came home. I searched for her for months--photos everywhere, called the shelter everyday, went out after school--but what was the most odd, was that, during the night, when I was just about to fall asleep, I became aware of a "weight" on the blanket, right where Smith used to sleep by my thigh. And, I would often see a black cat wherever I went--probably coincidence, but I would make my mom stop anywhere and everywhere a black cat caught my eye--almost literally everyday. But, there was no cat when I would get out of the car. My mother believed that I wanted her back so badly that my imagination played tricks on me....I still don't know.
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Jan 25 2007 : 09:38:23 AM
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Kathy & Jonni,
I know that these things are real from other experiences I've had. None with pets, yet, but they love us and want to comfort us when they leave. We just have to be open.
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Jan 25 2007 : 10:44:36 AM
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am so sorry to hear about Petey.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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peapodjane
True Blue Farmgirl
127 Posts
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Posted - Jan 25 2007 : 2:41:38 PM
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Sending sympathy in your recent sorrow. You gave that little one everything possible, and if his Mama didn't move him then she has let go I would think, he will be in your heart always. Also, sending positive thoughts for Holly Bush, yes, I have had experiences such as the ones you describe. Take Care and know that you gave comfort to that furchild.
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abbasgurl
True Blue Farmgirl
1262 Posts
Rhonda
USA
1262 Posts |
Posted - Jan 26 2007 : 11:28:47 PM
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Oh Kathy,
I have been away and just read this thread. I'm so sorry your little guy didn't make it. Take comfort in knowing you did all you could for him. He must have felt very loved with all the special care you gave him. I have a dear little corgi who is my constant companion. She was very ill just before Christmas, but thankfully recovered. So many here prayed for her (and me) it was such a comfort. Don't know what I would do without that silly pup!
Blessins,
Rhonda
I'm a one girl revolution. |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Jan 27 2007 : 07:33:57 AM
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I am pet sitting a corgi named Bagel - he is cute, I have had two corgis, Elly Mae who is now living on a horse farm and Emma Jean who I lost the day before her 7th birthday to a third degree heart block - they are such comical dogs! My friend Linda in Iowa breeds them and gets such little cute ones, the one I am sitting is one of hers and the owner boards him every winter, he is here with me until July!
Where did you get your corgi?
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Jan 28 2007 : 03:51:24 AM
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So sorry about little Petey. You did what you could. Take heart and know he might have lived a more troubled life as he got older.
The momma dog sounds like a real good girl. Extra hugs to her!
Hang in there. I'm happy you did what you could rather than give up in all together.
Anna
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