[Gpdd] [RAINBOW BRIDGE] Condolences for Ben

Debbie Jones pals4pets at cheerful.com
Fri Feb 13 14:22:12 EST 2009


 Patti and the 10 Pattipigs You are right, the days our guinea pigs die
are the worst days ever. We still say the worst day of our life was the
day 5 of our precious piggies were massacred in our garden by 2 dogs
owned by a farmer ploughing locally. But we remember every other piggie
departure with just as much sadness, although for us it is not quite so
bad if they just slip away quietly during the night without having shown
any sign at all of illness. We were very sorry to hear that your darling
Benny Ben Ben Bens has gone to The Rainbow Bridge. He sounds a very
handsome pig, and he will have known from the way you spoiled him how
very much he was loved. Respiratory problems are very difficult to treat
in piggies, especially as they are so good at hiding the fact they are
ill until they get pretty poorly. Our Cannelletto was treated several
times for what we now think must have been pneumonia, and just when we
thought he was on the mend, he slipped away to The Bridge. Of course,
sometimes antibiotics don't completely kill all the germs, and when we
stop them, only the most resistent germs are left, which then go on to
reproduce and make the little guys poorly again with a more resistent
strain. At least Ben is now free from discomfort and popcorning at the
Rainbow Bridge. We understand how sad you must be feeling, but as you
say, there are still 10 piggies that need you, so we hope you will all be
able to comfort one another, and find some solace in the fact that piggie
people all over the globe, including over here in chilly Northwest
France, are thinking of you at this sad time, and wishing you well.
Debbie and the 8 Dolly Mixtures
"We patronize them for their incompleteness,
for their tragic fate of having taken a form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err.
For the animal shall not be measured by man.
In a world older and more complete than ours
they move finished and complete, gifted
with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained,
living by voices we shall never hear.
They are not brethren, they are not underlings;
they are other nations, caught with ourselves
in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners
of the splendour and travail of the earth".
Henry Beston

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