> JP>    I sure wish I would have found this number when "Baby"
 > JP>passed away.  I'm over the 'immediate' devastation but I
 > JP>still get teary eyed thinking about her now.
 > I still get teary eyed over the pets I've lost.  Sam
 > Spade, the cat, was the
 > most recent and he passed away three years ago. When I
 > think of him, I get
 > very sad.  I'm not sure you ever totally get over a
 > loss like that.  I
 > know we can accept it, and go on, but there will
 > always be that empty spot
 > in our hearts where there once was the love of a dear
 > friend.
    I'm getting better about it ....... still feels empty though (and 
probalby will for a long time to come).  Part of me is missing ......
 > Thank goodness we have the capacity to love animals!
 > I just can't fathom
 > those folks who hate/fear animals.  It's like they are
 > a foreign species!
    Ain't that the truth!!!!
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