Tributes: Rainbow Bridge Pets

My Dear Tulip (5/08-7/19/08)

feeds@yuku.com (big cats) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:58:51 GMT

Tulip was a tiny Daisy St kitten I picked up at the end of June. Itsy bitsy for her age, and Daisy St kittens have a history of failure-to-thrive and coccidia. So I took her into the vet and found out that she had a heart arhythmia - possibly caused by nutritional status at therefore reversible,or else congenital and probably permanent. I took her home and fed her and loved her and she grew veeeeery slowly. A month later she'd gained a whopping 4 ounces and reached her first...

Kuma-3/9/08-6/26/08

feeds@yuku.com (dolphingirlE) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:06:09 GMT

My baby Kuma was 15 weeks and four days old when he dided. I don't know if he died in pian or not but I'm hopeing with all of my heart that he just went to sleep. I only had him for 9 weeks and 3 days but I will miss him forever. Please God let him be waiting for me right next to Penny when I get to heaven.

Jamaica, November 2005 - May 26, 2008

feeds@yuku.com (big cats) — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:15:36 GMT

Jamaica, originally posted about here: http://fabulousfelinesandfidos.yuku.com/topic/2443 , died suddenly early this morning.

I spent most of her kittenhood trying to tame Jammy, but by the time she was a year old it was fairly clear she was going to be a difficult sell. When we got the opportunity to have her live in someone's very nice, protected colony, we agreed. She lived there for...

MY TRIBUTE TO SUZI, MY SHIH TZU

feeds@yuku.com (ANNCAMMM918) — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:24:01 GMT

I was lucky enough to have Suzi for 16 years.
She was blind for many of those years.
She suffered three strokes.
She stayed by my side during treatment for breast cancer.
She licked my hand.
She never left me alone.
I lost her in Oct of 2006.
I felt as if I wanted to go with her.
After a year of mourning, I got Princess, and I feel Suzi sent this dog to me.
I had a dream about Suzi jumping and playing and giving me doggie kisses and there was a...

A Tribute to Prince of AZ Apricot

feeds@yuku.com (tlspiegel) — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:01:51 GMT

In memory of Dear Prince who passed away in January. I rescued you from a puppy mill and everyone told me you'd only live a few years. You beat the odds, having not one sick day in your life, until the end. You were the best companion I ever had.

Everyday of your 10 years on Earth, I was blessed. I know you're in doggy heaven jumping and twirling around like no other dog I've ever seen. You amazed everyone with how high you could jump. I knew you were jumping...

Penny

feeds@yuku.com (dolphingirlE) — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:15:09 GMT

You realy where my little sushine and my best freind. Even though I only had you for three years you have made an imprestion on me that will last a lifetime. You where and forever will be my Penny Girl.

I love you.

Rest Peacefully, Dear Leo

feeds@yuku.com (lioness4doxies) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:37:48 GMT

On February 14, 2008 our feline family member, Leo, passed on to the Rainbow Bridge. Leo was 18 years old, had arthritis and cataracts and his thyroid and kidneys were shutting down. We went together to the vet, and he passed peacefully in my arms.
Leo came to us at the tender age of 1 month old. He lived through at least 20 other cats coming through our doors. Many of those moved on to their forever homes. Many also met him at the Rainbow Bridge. Leo was our first kitty when we...

Boris - passed away February 15, 2008

feeds@yuku.com (big cats) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:13:30 GMT

"Our Bobo" - a long story for an incredible cat

Bobo feeling icky last December - he spent a lot of time wrapped in his pinky blanket on my couch

Bobo playing with a Christmas catnip cigar - he regrouped from his icky slump and I knew he was feeling pretty sporty when I found him...

Fluke

feeds@yuku.com (joanne r) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:54:39 GMT

Ten days ago our Fluke was helped over to the Bridge,after having stomach cancer for 14 months,losing 7 kg and then suffering a mild stroke that morning we knew it was time. Fluke came into Glenn's life as he was sitting on a train station and having a talk with a old school mate Jeff,when Jeff said look a that poor dog Glenn did not take him seriously as Jeff has a mental problem and at the time...

We said "goodbye" to Orangey today...

feeds@yuku.com (catlover59) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:36:47 GMT

I found this great forum a few weeks ago when I was concerned about a lump my kitty Orangey had. I received many kind words and lots of great advice. It turned out the lump was not cancer, but a cyst. However, in the last couple weeks, Orangey began to suffer from other things, and today, after his long 18 year journey, I decided it was time to let him go.

I only had Orangey in my home for about a year and a half. He was my parents' cat, my mom's best buddy, and probably the...

Goodbye, Our Sweet Princess

feeds@yuku.com (sniksnak) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:22:39 GMT

Craig and I weren't able to adopt a dog until we had come back to Louisiana in 1999 due to the animal zoning laws in Pennsylvania. We had maxed out the animal limit with cats and kittens, plus our yard was just too tiny for a dog there in Catasauqua.

The first couple of years, once we were back home, was to TNR over 250 feral kittens and cats in our immediate neighborhood. We tamed many kittens and found caring homes for them. However, Craig was getting antsy to share his life...

Punkin

feeds@yuku.com (critter slave) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:12:44 GMT

Punkin

Our Feral momma Punkin passed over the Rainbow Bridge this morning. Exactly 3 years to the day from when this picture was taken of her. We trapped her on Oct 18th, 2004 from a junkyard...

Not a pet but...

feeds@yuku.com (Mau Evig the Queen of cats) — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:43:50 GMT

One of the college horses was Euthanized. It was a sad day for many of the students...some of which cried. I cannot believe they even wanted us to see a necropsy on this poor horse...it was bad enough they had to watch her be euthanized...I myself and many of the other students left because we didn't want to watch the necropsy. I thought it was sick. I thought she deserved a proper burial. Her name was Cloudy...and by gosh she had to be the most gentle horse I've ever worked with aside from...

My beloved cat passed away.

feeds@yuku.com (catrix) — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:33:08 GMT

Hello :

Last thursday my beloved baby Mousey passed away after so many years of struggling with different things. She is now in peace and without pain. But it is so hard for me cause she was my best friend and companion. I even looked at her as my baby . I raised her since she was a 10 days kitten because her mother died. So I guess she considered me a mother too or maybe this is what I wished she thought of me. She was born in 1995 so she lived to be 11 years and amost 5...

Sweet Lizzie

feeds@yuku.com (lawjunkie) — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:09:46 GMT

Lizzie went to the Rainbow Bridge sometime Friday, January 19, 2007 between the time I left for work and when I got home.

So I'm sure Lizzie is NOT chasing my pet as a teenager Tweetie, the parakeet, but instead is enjoying Tweetie's company along with my cats Kitty-Kitty, Tiger, Snowball and Cali.

I got Lizzie from the Humane Society in Birmingham, Alabama around Oct, 1992. The people who had taken her there said her name was Lizzie and that she was about 1 and 1/2 years...

Mia 1/21/07

feeds@yuku.com (big cats) — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:08:03 GMT

Mia passed away in my arms at the vet's today. She was about 8 years old, had been left at the shelter at the beginning of January, and suffered severe medical problems, of which we only understand small pieces.

At the shelter they rated her "D" on their dumb little scale of A through F. Little did they know that she was really an A+ in dearness. Her owners dumped her in nightdrop saying she peed and pooped on the carpet, but at my house she made her best effort to get...

Cider (10/06-12/6/06)

feeds@yuku.com (big cats) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:41:20 GMT

Cider was one of a litter of 5 kittens a volunteer trapped out in an industrial area the day after Thanksgiving, bad eye infections but otherwise ok. I was taking care of them until we could find a foster home. I found one on Sunday and transfered the kittens there. On Tuesday night the foster parent called me, concerned about one of the kittens. I went out and picked...

Wookie has left us.

feeds@yuku.com (HeavenlyKittens) — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:59:05 GMT

Today at 5 p.m. Wookie crossed the bridge to run, play, see and be free with the rest of our Bridge Babies, she wasn't yet 7 months old. She went peacefully with the help of her vet. She snuggled me, sighed and passed on. She is missed greatly.

Mommas Wookie-Cookie. I held you when you came into this world and it was my honor to hold you when you left this world. Be good, doll face. Now that you can see, play and run and be a kitten, something you didn't have the chance at. I miss...

A Poem For All Our Furbabies

feeds@yuku.com (HeavenlyKittens) — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:11:38 GMT

Found this one day and thought it'd be perfect.

God saw you getting tired, And a cure was not to be.
So he put his arms around you, And whispered, "Come to me."

With tearful eyes we watched you drift. We watched you fall away.
We couldn't bear to lose you. We couldn't ask you to stay.

A golden heart stopped beating. Shining eyes at rest.
God broke our hearts to prove us that he only...

Hope 9/06 - 11/3/06

feeds@yuku.com (big cats) — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:00:24 GMT

My little Hope died at 8:14 this morning.

She was one of a litter of 5 newborns and their mother who were turned into the local animal shelter. They spent several weeks there as I tried to figure out from the poor info available where the cat had come from and whether TNR was an option for mom. Then it turned out that mom was not feral at all, and I made...