okay, so i spent about an hour sobbing over the "scenario" post with the
ferret whose "best friend" didn't want him anymore.  since i am always
able to imagine my own beloved pets in these situations (some of them who
were before coming to live in my forever home), i can usually manage to
work myself into a totally hysterical lather at the thought of it
happening to another animal.  when i was done with melting into a weeping
puddle on my computer keyboard i finished reading the fml and went on to
other things.  of course the next website i went to had a poem that
reminded me of all the sad stories we've had on the fml lately...ferrets
passsing to the rainbow bridge, sick ferrets, abused ferrets, the morrison
crisis, etc.
 
back i went into histrionics...i imagined my late ferret zeus, or my late
kitty nanu as the subject of this & i felt better...maybe this will help
a person who is heartbroken over the loss of an animal through natural
causes, mistreatment, etc.  no matter how much they might suffer from any
number of circumstances beyond their & our control during their brief
little lives, they will find relief at the rainbow bridge.  just
substitute the word "paw" for hand in the last sentence...if this helps
one person as much as it helped me, i will be happy.
 
 
"High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
 
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.  Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
 
sorry for the sentimental sap moment...this just reminded me too much of
the stories sandee brings from the rainbow bridge.
 
blessed be, people & ferrets of the fml !
 
jessica l. manson
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[Posted in FML issue 3780]