Blessings and many thanks Jeanne. Oh how we so love our fur babies!! That loss takes a while to heal though its true they sure do try to ease our loss in their own very different way. I felt her looking down at me and her physical body from above. First i felt an animal do that. It felt right and good but helped me to know she saw me crying and missing her. She truly knew she was loved. Oh the sweet sweet purring the evening before. All swaddle wrapped against my chest.
I sat outside with her so she could catch the feel of the evening breeze. Rocking my body and hers tight against my face and chest and stroking her ears and tiny little face.
She felt like a tiny kitten again. Happy, happy fully open to me and my love sweet baby again. It was our best and lasting connection forever time. So precious. I am blessed and so truly grateful.
So sad and so beautiful was your writing about your Kermit. You helped her to die well and is there anything harder to do than that? I'm so glad she was yours. She must have been so glad too.
Bless you dearest ghandhi girl. You who so truly know the breadth and depths and complexities of loving an animal. Their lives can be challenging, their passing difficult, but the love and loving are so worth it.
Moonbeam,
I am working on a little write-up about neons for you. Will post as soon as I can.
@michele-b So poignant and well written. I have walked this path many a time and helped others do it as well. I have always thought.. the reason they don't stay as long as we do is they came to teach us of unconditional love and their reward is to spend more time in Heaven than here teaching.
Knowing that their love opens our hearts and enriches our love and enables us to learn care and compassion and empathy and courage and strength and most of all... that unconditional love...we are more able to extend it to others in our world because we learned from masters.
I look forward to the day.. when I cross over.. to see the many many fur friends and loved ones I have been blessed to know in my time here. I know you do as well.
Holding space for you as you grieve. Much Love and Light.
@polarberry, that is so kind of you, thank you! I do not have the tank yet. It is going to sit on her new desk which I will build this week. After that we're going to get the fish and tank. Seeing your comment, you'd say get the tank first and the water running for a few days before I get the fish?
A WAPO columnist wrote about how her dog who just passed had saved her family. And then I saw the story she wrote when they first got the dog 12 years before against her husbands will. These are wonderful heart bursting stories.
Glad to help! Yes, that's correct, you definitely don't want to put fish into an uncycled tank as they will quickly die. Neons in particular are susceptible to new tank syndrome.
A good rule to remember is that fish like a clean dirty tank! What that means is that fish waste creates ammonia, which will kill them very quickly. So in order to prevent this, the tank and filtration system needs to be full of good bacteria which eats the ammonia. The process of creating the good bacteria in the tank before adding fish is called cycling, and it takes about 6-8 weeks. How big is the tank?
Parrots incredibly talk to each other. Cuteness overwhelm. Okay, I am assuming they are just uttering what humans taught them. But the nuzzling would be heartfelt. I heard one of them say the other's name, Gabriel, as he nuzzled him. Gabriel has been having mental health problems. https://www.flixxy.com/parrots-incredibly-talk-to-each-other-like-humans.htm