We love them with all our heart, they with theirs, there is no words to ease this pain, there is courage in the power to let them go, oh but how our hearts shatter over and over, till one day you with think of him and know you are still broken but mending. There isn’t anything like the love and loyalty of a friend,child in fur.
Oh, this was so beautiful and terrible, and it hits me so close to home. It always feels strange to say that my rats and someone's dog feel so much alike, but they're both family, aren't they? They're both beautiful creatures with intelligent eyes who want to love and trust and eat french fries (the rats were NOT ALLOWED FRENCH FRIES) and who cancer will take like anyone else.
Your writing is beautiful, and I'm so, so sorry for your loss.
I've been through so much of this recently. Watched a dog that desperately needed love get it in spades from my own special lover. And in the end, watched my lovers heart break when she accepted that Princess would not survive the tumors in her lungs, and the horrid mass growing from her vagina. That her suffering could only end by drawing a last breath.
Thank you for sharing Roland's story, and yours.
The pain we live with shapes how we view the suffering of others. I knew the whole time that Princess was suffering. Suffering silently, but suffering from her cancer. I wanted her to be released from it. I know why I continue to live every day with my pain. But Princess had no such obligations to suffer. Her chances of living joyfully like our canine partners should were vanishingly small. Ugh. I'm so glad now that her suffering has ended, even though it has left my own partner grieving for the loss of a beautiful friend that she never expected to come along, and never expected to fall so hard in love with, and believed right 'til the end that veterinary medicine might save her.
We love them with all our heart, they with theirs, there is no words to ease this pain, there is courage in the power to let them go, oh but how our hearts shatter over and over, till one day you with think of him and know you are still broken but mending. There isn’t anything like the love and loyalty of a friend,child in fur.
A beautiful tribute to your "heartdog". Sending virtual hugs & my condolences 💌
Oh, this was so beautiful and terrible, and it hits me so close to home. It always feels strange to say that my rats and someone's dog feel so much alike, but they're both family, aren't they? They're both beautiful creatures with intelligent eyes who want to love and trust and eat french fries (the rats were NOT ALLOWED FRENCH FRIES) and who cancer will take like anyone else.
Your writing is beautiful, and I'm so, so sorry for your loss.
I've been through so much of this recently. Watched a dog that desperately needed love get it in spades from my own special lover. And in the end, watched my lovers heart break when she accepted that Princess would not survive the tumors in her lungs, and the horrid mass growing from her vagina. That her suffering could only end by drawing a last breath.
Thank you for sharing Roland's story, and yours.
The pain we live with shapes how we view the suffering of others. I knew the whole time that Princess was suffering. Suffering silently, but suffering from her cancer. I wanted her to be released from it. I know why I continue to live every day with my pain. But Princess had no such obligations to suffer. Her chances of living joyfully like our canine partners should were vanishingly small. Ugh. I'm so glad now that her suffering has ended, even though it has left my own partner grieving for the loss of a beautiful friend that she never expected to come along, and never expected to fall so hard in love with, and believed right 'til the end that veterinary medicine might save her.