Cricket crossed

[bustersmom]

My dear friend Cricket crossed the rainbow bridge. She wasn't eating as much and was lethargic, sleeping a lot so I took her to vet. They did blood work and it came back normal on everything, so he prescribed Mirataz as appetite stimulant and gave her a steroid shot. The Mirataz made her act strange, pacing and dilated pupils. It helped a bit, then lost effectiveness. One day she ate one and a half cans of food, but later threw it up. I tried chicken, turkey, tuna, eggs, salmon, beef, everything I could think of and she just refused. Food repulsed her, but she did eat treats. On Monday, I decided to end her misery, she was losing weight, weakening and getting less mobile. Acted like she was in pain. She was the sweetest cat and I dearly miss her. It is hard having a house empty of cats after 30 years of having them. Hurts my heart.

 

[bustersmom]

She was the smartest kitty, knew how to roll over, knew certain words. Loved watching the birds who would come right up to the outer windowsill frame to visit her. She was pretty vocal, so when she got sick and was quiet, I knew something was up. She had lots of toys, but really didn't like to play. I spend 3.5 years working from home and sometimes I think the back to office six months ago led to her demise. I'm glad I got to spend the time with her...it was quality time, but I think the change in routine back to no one being around was not good for her. Miss her.

 

[vampiric_conure]

It's hard losing a beloved companion, especially after so many years with one. **Hugs** RIP Cricket. I bet she knows how much she was loved.

 

[DeesCats]

I am so sorry for your loss of Cricket, please accept my condolences.

She was so pretty, I love her markings.

 

[Margot Lane]

30 years of having cats! I know exactly what you mean— I’ve been catless for a year now and still keep expecting to see the lil bugger! The good news is that the absence of a physical presence doesn’t mean complete disappearance. Their essence stays, their personality permeates the heart. THAT is something you can hang onto and be comforted by. Right now, it‘s one day at a time, but the grief will ebb and be replaced with just love. Hang in there.

 

[di and bob]

You had years to build a strong and lasting bond between your hearts. Love is spiritual, so eternal. She will always be nearby, always paralleling your own life's journey. You couldn't let her suffer, and when life becomes full of quiet and pain, you took on her pain as your own broken heart. She thanks you for that.
She would like nothing better than for you to go forward into the future and find happiness and peace once more. As you would want for her if you were the first to go. That is love, only wanting our loved ones to be happy in life. You gave her everything she wanted in this life, a home, care and most importantly your love. She is at peace because she holds that love in her heart.
I hold a saying close to my heart when I lose a loved one, "Do not cry because it is over, smile because it happened." Yes, never meeting them at all would spare us so much pain, but what they brought to our world and to our very soul very much so overshadows any pain. One day your grief will morh into gratitude for her sharing your life, but right now it is one day at a time.
Please know we very much empathize with your loss. We know the pain of losing one of these special members of our familiy. The world is a little darker but the heavens gain a shining star. My heart and prayers go out to you......RIP precious Cricket. You will always be remembered, you will forever have a secure place in a loving heart. May the good Lord bless and keep you, until you meet again!

 

[rubysmama]

I'm so sorry for your loss of Cricket. She was a beautiful girl. RIP sweetie.

Thirty years is a long time to have always had a cat, and then not have one. Not as long, however, I know the feeling of an empty house, as I lost my Ruby girl in May after having her for 10 1/2 years. Despite still grieving her, I adopted again in August, as I just couldn't stand living in an empty house. Perhaps you'll eventually find another cat to share your life and home with.

 

[betsygee]

I'm so very sorry for your loss of Cricket. It sounds like she was an amazing little character.

Rest in peace, sweet girl.

 

[Mamanyt1953]

Rest you gentle, Cricket, dream you deep. Your purr echos in someone's heart forever.

What a lovely girl she was, is, and always will be! You have done the hardest thing we ever do as guardians to our pets...You put Cricket's well-being ahead of your own heartbreak, and set her sweet spirit free. I will tell you the Deepest Truth I know, that love never dies. It is translated and purified into Love, and continues on. Now, from her new home in That Place Where All Things Are Known, Cricket blesses you for a lifetime of love and care, and she sends her Love back to you, to walk with you down through all your days. Because Love abides. Always, forever, Love abides.

 

[bustersmom]

Rest you gentle, Cricket, dream you deep. Your purr echos in someone's heart forever.

What a lovely girl she was, is, and always will be! You have done the hardest thing we ever do as guardians to our pets...You put Cricket's well-being ahead of your own heartbreak, and set her sweet spirit free. I will tell you the Deepest Truth I know, that love never dies. It is translated and purified into Love, and continues on. Now, from her new home in That Place Where All Things Are Known, Cricket blesses you for a lifetime of love and care, and she sends her Love back to you, to walk with you down through all your days. Because Love abides. Always, forever, Love abides.

Thank you...this helps me so much.

 

[Meowmee]

I am so sorry for your loss of Cricket.

What a beautiful cat I can tell that she had a great life with you and she was very loved and she loved you so much. I know that the pain is fresh and it doesn’t seem like a comfort right now probably. As time passes I hope that the pain will not be so sharp, and you will always have those memories of your love with her and your other cats. Maybe in time you can open your home to another cat.

I keep my cats with me with their photos by my bed and elsewhere. With jewelry for remembering them, ornaments and photo books, and their ashes. I believe that we can still talk to them and in some of my terrible times of grief I have journaled to write to the cat who left tell to them what is going on in my life and it made me feel like they weren’t really gone, and that they would always be a part of my life in some way.

Since last March, I have also been struggling with a terrible grief of losing my Merlin to negligence. The only help is to try to keep it mostly out of my mind because this pain never gets any better. I have my three others who need me so I have to carry on as best I can for them.

Run free sweet Cricket, free from pain, and watch over your mom with your brothers and sisters until you all meet again at the bridge.

The Rainbow Bridge Poem

A loving poem of the journey a pet and their guradian takes to Rainbow Bridge after this life Petloss grief support

www.rainbowsbridge.com

 

[bustersmom]

Thank you…it is devastating. I write to her as well. I don’t have her ashes back yet, but am working on a photo book.

 

[Stormy accepts you]

I know she gets the letters. I also know nothing you did or didn’t do caused this. All she knew was love. When you went back to work, she knew you’d come back home. They always know. It will always hurt, honey. But, she’s watching over you. There are absolutely holes in the floors of Heaven, she always sees you. Your beautiful Cricket just went to sing among the angels. But you gave her her song. You did good, hooman.

 

[epona]

I am so sorry for your loss

I sometimes dream about my departed cats, Radar and Sonic, and in my dreams they can talk to me.
I don't have any religious or spiritual beliefs, but even so, knowing that the memory of them is in my head and my dreaming brain brings them back to me so that I can see them again and we have a conversation, is just such an incredible comfort, and they'll never truly be gone while I remember them.

I think writing letters is a fine idea

 

[zed xyzed]

such a pretty girl, I am sorry

 

[solomonar]

I am bowing my head to the great path of Life
Cats teach us what is Love. When we learn Love, cats go back on their home clouds.
Tears here. But smile and hope!