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  • 29 March, 2016 at 7:07 pm #845477
    Leeny
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    I just came from the Home Again microchip website, where I marked Kit as deceased and provided the date of her death. That will be the last time I go there, because Pat and Kit were microchipped at the municipal pound and my current vet uses another service.

    My Baptist-preacher brother came over on Easter Sunday (that’s not the same as a Baptist pastor; he’s licensed by the denomination but not ordained). It was supposed to be both him and my sister-in-law, but their son, daughter-in-law, and The Grandchildren dropped by (unannounced), so I got just him. (I would have settled for a later visit from both of them after their impromptu company had left.) He was telling me about his church’s activities that morning, which were an Easter breakfast and a short devotional from him about the Exodus, which I thought was an odd topic for Easter Sunday. In the ensuing (heated) conversation, it occurred to me that kittens were among the slaughtered firstborn of Egyptian humans and animals.

    Now, I’m not given to putting God in the dock (to borrow a phrase from C. S. Lewis), and I know that death is not the same from the divine viewpoint as it is in human perception. Ever since that conversation, though, the thought of those kittens has nagged at me and altered my perception of that which happens to my own departed cats. Did I lie to them when I told them where they were going, and that we would see each other again?

    Please, can someone tell me again there’s a Rainbow?

    29 March, 2016 at 7:35 pm #845479
    Buttons
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    ((Lenny))

    with absolute 100% certainty with every fibre of my being and every bone in my body I KNOW for a fact there is a rainbow bridge.. our Furry babies will always wait for us and greet us when it’s our time..

    I’ve been having an extremely hard week thinking of my Buttons and it’s been hitting me very hard and I asked him to send me some more of the signs he regularly sends me and within and hour or so he sent me two very obvious signs he is always with me so that is why I am so adament he is waiting for me he is pain free and happy and is always watching over me <3

    The day I close my eyes for the last time ironically will be one of the happiest days of my life because I’ll be going home to my babies and my very special soul kitty Buttons.. but until that day I will in his name help and love as many as I can until then I’ll do it all in Buttons Name <3

    30 March, 2016 at 2:10 am #845492
    Kittyzee
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    No Leeny, you did not lie to your beloved cats and kittens. They are where they have no more pain, or hunger, and you will see them again. The sad thoughts that you are having are only creating anguish and doubt and causing you pain.
    The same breath of God that created us, created them. He made them to shine with his love in their own unique way. And love, whether it be between humans or between animals and humans, lasts forever. Love doesn’t die. Because it cannot.

    31 March, 2016 at 3:18 am #845545
    JerseyJoan
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    Hi Leeny – There most certainly is a rainbow/rainbow bridge/meadow, as sure as my father walks with the Lord. There is a view from there that has a view of everything, and our pets who have passed on can watch us whenever they want. They don’t feel pain or sadness. Opposing species are united. The sky is bluer than any blue sky you and I have ever seen. The grass is an indescribable shade of green and feels as soft as a cloud. There is no hunger. They hear your voice, always. Cats can play with fish in the brook, but they don’t get wet and the fish never get caught. Butterflies flutter just over the heads of our cats and though they sometimes catch them, they are never hurt. They know only the good of their time on Earth and only the good of the human(s) they left behind. The human(s) must wait a lifetime to see their beloved pets again, but to the animal at the meadow, the time passes in the blink of an eye.
    Sometimes, if you open your mind, you can hear their collective purrs.

    @Leeny

    31 March, 2016 at 5:39 pm #845565
    Leeny
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    A professional storyteller in my church once told a story that ended with a remark about loud thunder. We shouldn’t be afraid of it, the story went, because it’s just God laughing at the devil because He won another soul away from him.

    I had a thought the other day that, maybe, soft thunder is the sound of all the kitties at the Bridge purring together….

    1 April, 2016 at 6:52 am #845583
    CheetahBoysmommy
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    Heaven is suppose to be a happy place; a place that you want to go to; a place where you have no more sorrow. In order to meet those criteria our beloved pets must be there. Besides, even if there isn’t an actual place where they wait for you, they are always in your heart and those feelings go where ever you go. Ergo – you will be reunited in the next life with all those you have loved in this life.

    4 April, 2016 at 8:51 pm #845689
    Leeny
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    But there’s so much in my heart I don’t want, CB. Having little 5-month-old Solange euthanized only 10 days after adopting her because of a fatal illness that she probably caught from her mother that was too far advanced for the treatment to work; I couldn’t afford even to have her cremated, the vet had to “dispose of” her. Remembering how much Pat suffered the last week of her life, particularly that last morning. Finding Tigeranne dead in the corner of my kitchen the morning after Christmas. Watching Buttercup fight the euthanasia needle and thinking she was fighting for her life, even though I knew she was just fighting against one more needle after all the sub-Q fluid treatments that didn’t help. I do carry those things in my heart, and I wish I didn’t have to. Knowing that Solange, and Pat, and Tigeranne, and Buttercup, and even sweet little Kit who left so peacefully, are now someplace where sickness, pain, and fear are not the last things they knew is so important. It’s all I had that made those memories tolerable.

    4 April, 2016 at 9:20 pm #845691
    CheetahBoysmommy
    Participant

    Your heart holds all the happy memories, too. And their hearts hold the knowledge that you loved each of them with everything you had in you, and that you did your very best for each of them. They remember and they are waiting for you.

    4 April, 2016 at 10:55 pm #845696
    Leeny
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    Just found this:

    The Truth The Rainbow Bridge

    Owlwatcher wrote it.

    5 April, 2016 at 9:14 am #845707
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    Owlwatcher has spoken straight to you Leeny, you asked and she answered your query eight years ago and again now. Make that thread a favourite(just under the page number) so you can find it in times of doubt.
    Thanks for finding that post Leeny it was so lovely reading Owlwatcher’s(Mary) words.
    May she RIP. She is missed.

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