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Rosemary I'm So VERY VERY Sorry (it's all my fault)
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Rosemary I'm So VERY VERY Sorry (it's all my fault) |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho 
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my shadow cast into the woodlands of an unknown world he looked around about attempting to create a vision he found that purring in subtle rhythms out from under incongruous murmurs and streams and tired timbers of faint delusions and the blatant phrases floating through the barnyard mazes of space which had no sense of ever quiet came grace and love on blond braided hope held on to with firm yet gentle grasp to the song of a soft white velvet snow followed by hard blizzard blast that left him near point of wonder where finally to find what he had come to love somehow left him in a hovel in the same white doorway where he found me ~ |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
I'm sorry I didn't take time to get this out as I normally would have. Forgive the loose poetry... I just felt so bad her cat died most likely due to my inability to see... I love you Rosemary... dale |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
oh.... how do I hug you both?  sighing |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
I feel for the both of you~~  M |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
oh Dale, I am so sorry! Please give Rosemary a healing Pips poet-hug. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
sending hugs too |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Lucky...give her a hug for me. to you, too. |
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Rosemary J. Gwaltney Senior Member
since 1999-08-26
Posts 997northern mountains, Idaho |
Oh, honey, it wasn't your fault for buying it! I just saw this, and I'm so sorry you think this! It was windshield washer fluid - who would think it was poison? I didn't think of that either, when I was trying to melt ice. Neither of us knew he would get it on his paws. Oh. Our sweet shadow. Thank you for writing of him. Thank YOU, passion friends, for caring! |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
This is so heartwrenching, I can imagine how painful it is for you both. ((((Dale and Rosemary)))) He will come to you in dreams and you will feel his closeness and cherish the memories. Don't feel guilty, he KNOWS your love. love Margherita |
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Roniece Dawson-Bruce Member Ascendant
since 2000-01-29
Posts 5689Sydney, Australia |
 oh I'm sorry to hear this.. love RDB Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight......... |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
PIP Friends, You know..? What's really bad is how city people bring their unwanted pets out here and drop them off near someone's ranch thinking the people will take it in. Many times they do to. (Rosemary always does) But I've got to tell you whether these people know it or not they're condemning these animals to an almost certain death. Farm cats are so much wiser and needless to say far more feral than any city cat. They know how to survive in the country and for one of them to love you is very rare. There's just to many wild critters in the forest that a domesticated city cat would not know about, just the same as taking a farm cat into the city. It would not know about city streets and cars and would probably end up getting hit by one. I've seen neighbors bring they're cats out here. They get fat on mice and fall pray to: coyotes, mountain lyons, bob cats and raccoons. Most disappear within a year. I felt so bad about Shadow. He found his way to our barn shortly after our dog died, sometime around December '06. Some of you know that Rosey was feeding him through the snowy times in the barn. It was his place of safety and they became good friends. When he finally got the courage to come into the house, he took over Rosemary's office space. It became their space. I couldn't even get a piece of paper from her desk without getting pawed at, scratched or bitten. What really hurt so - was that evidently shortly after Shadow had walked through the windshield cleaner and licked it from his feet he knew something was wrong and though he hadn't been in the barn for quite some time somehow his little kitty brain told him it was time to get back to the safety of the barn. He made it to the barns front door where Rosemary found him frozen in the snow. I was so hurt that he had come so far. He knew what to look out for in the forest unfortunately he never thought it necessary to look out for people. My eyes are getting worse every year. I depend on RJ to read the small print. We buy the non-poisonous antifreeze but I never thought to look at the window cleaner or ask her to. He died only a few feet from where she had found him a year before. dale gwaltney jan 8/2008 |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Brave little shadow! More hugs. Margherita |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
goodness! I can't believe that stuff is so potent and deadly! wow! they shouldn't make it and sell it if it does that! You'd think with all the technology they have these days they could make things a little safer for our animals and kids I have been attached to several cats in my day and I know how it feels to lose one...I'm sorry for both of you |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Dear Dale and Rosemary I'm so sorry! |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Nice writing...sorry for your loss...James |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
It is always more difficult to accept what happens to our pets when we feel we are to blame. Not many know the impact of these commonplace 'toxic' fluids on wild as well as domestic animals. You both gave her a year beyond what the previous 'owner' offered when they dumped her. She died knowing where home was where your hearts were. |
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