Quotes on Pet Loss

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

We who choose to surround ourselves_x000D_ with lives even more temporary than our_x000D_ own, live within a fragile circle;_x000D_ easily and often breached._x000D_ Unable to accept its awful gaps,_x000D_ we would still live no other way._x000D_ We cherish memory as the only_x000D_ certain immortality, never fully_x000D_ understanding the necessary plan.