[Gpdd] Re: Announcement: Goodbye Sweet Nutmegger

[Off1Knight at aol.com]

I write this morning to offer my most sincere and deepest regrets on your 
loss of NUTMEGGERS. In reading your account, it appears that she was a true 
explorer at heart. Something, I'm sure she is sharing at this moment with all of 
our little ones that have made that trip across the bridge. As I have written 
before, offering my thoughts on the passing of a single one of out little guys 
breaks my heart. Some more so than others, most especially those that God in 
his wisdom allows to suffer in pain and then finally allow him or her to rest. 
>From what has been offered by NUTMEGGER'S mother, it did not appear that was 
the case and I pray not. Bu in reading of her crossing over, I reached that 
magic age that we all fear, that age when they become senior piggies and the 
bridge even if not in them, looms like a dark specter casting longer and longer 
shadows in all our hearts. It's then we look back at our little guys/girls lives 
with us and smile and remember some of the cute and funny things they did and 
do. We TRY to give them just a little MORE than they had before and make them 
feel even more loved (if that is at all possible). NUTMEG, I am sure, had a 
very wonderful life with her parents and her family. One where her moods and 
needs were ever so respected and for them she received things the way SHE enjoyed 
them. Her virtual and actual adventures have to make one smile and certainly 
the fodder for so many hours sharing them with all those on the other side of 
the bridge. One day they, and all of us will meet there and share the happiest 
times any heart could ever ever imagine. But until then there are the tears 
of sadness for the loss of a very very special guinea pig...a very special 
explorer...NUTMEGGER.

Sincerely,

Joseph C. Petrillo, George the guinea pigs daddy