Advantages: Adoreable,cute ,affectionate,truly man's best friend,loyal etc etc Disadvantages: sooner or later they will break your heart,can be expensive and troublesome
I have written this letter once this afternoon and it took absolutely ages. It felt as if it was torn out of me and had me weeping buckets. When I pressed the publish hey presto it vanished. So here we go again. I don't know if it will be as good but I shall keep saving so that I don't lose this one.
Since we got married nearly 34 years ago we have had five dogs all of which have been very special in such different ways. This is dedicated to them ... ...never again!
** LETTER TO SABIE BABIE AND TO LEO THE STAR ***********
Five or six years later I was only working part-time and Trev nights and out of the blue he said I think we should get another little dog.With him working nights it seemed a good idea .We discussed the inevitable which always comes with a pet and decided we would keep this in our minds and be prepared. Yeah , right.
So off we went to the RSPCA in search of a puppy. As soon as ...
grafter123 02.12.2006 (25.12.2006)
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Advantages: May help others to understand someone who has lost a pet Disadvantages: I cried buckets
You were barely 8 weeks old. Full of mischief and vitality, a little scrap of fluff. I looked at my eldest sister, and she smiled and nodded. My other sister and I were allowed to pick just one squirming little puppy each and I just knew that you belonged with me.
I scooped you up. You were so tiny, wriggling and snuffling as I placed you securely against my chest. You looked up at me with those gorgeous dark chocolate brown eyes and for a few seconds ... ...licked my face, making it wet and sloppy, but I just giggled. I was still a child myself, but I knew that I would look after you and care for you and that we would be inseparable. And inseparable we were. I borrowed dog-training books from the library and watched Barbara Woodhouse every week. Remember her? “Sit” she would bark at some poor misfortunate creature and I often wondered how many of the film crew instinctively obeyed when she shouted her ...
suereaney 06.10.2004
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Advantages: "Forgive us for we know not what we do" Disadvantages: That's unforgivable
...their right mind writes a letter to any animal and expects it to be read? Zero prospect of readership by the addressee hasn’t stopped others and it won’t stop me.
You’ve been missed. Mauritius hasn’t been the same since we humans wiped you out. Our own stupid fault, you might say. Okay, I know you’d probably say something stronger than that, and whole lot angrier. Can’t blame you for that. We were a disaster for ... ...be a misuse of the word tragedy, unless the tragedy is ours, the classic tragedy in which the traits that make us mighty also carry the seeds of our own nemesis.
Seed-carrying is one of the themes of this letter, but we’ll come to that later. First, I feel I owe you an apology. Not personally; I was never there, honest. But would I have acted any differently from my fellow-humans if I had been? Or, even if I had acted differently, made any ...
torr 18.04.2004 (23.04.2004)
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Advantages: Remembering the good times makes you happy Disadvantages: There are sad memories, too
...the station, complete with a letter I’d ghost-written for you, thanking them for being so kind and asking whether they had any vacancies for police dogs. You got a reply, too, addressed to Bryn, The Doghouse, 71 Etc Road, Etctown:
‘Dear Bryn,
I am writing to thank you for taking the time and effort in dictating to your master your letter of thanks to one of my officers, EDO Nicky Xetc.
It is always pleasing to read such letters of appreciation. ... ...to EDO Xetc, and your letter will be placed on her personal file. Please find enclosed a treat, for being such a clever dog.
Yours sincerely,
Inspector J. XXXcte.’
They’d enclosed a biscuit, do you remember? You enjoyed it tremendously.
You gave us so much joy, and I try not to think of the sad end to your life. You had stopped eating, and were obviously very unhappy. We knew you were ill, but the vet looked at your ‘dustbin’ record and thought ...
battiest 03.08.2004
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Advantages: I think it's sensible to write to a pet Disadvantages: I could be as mad as a hatter
Dear Bob ...
It’s nearly mid-day and you’re still fast asleep. Stretched out across my bed where you’ve been since the previous evening, taking up more space than is reasonable. Your mouth is slightly open … exposing crooked, discoloured lower teeth and issuing a tiny regular draught of tuna breath into our sunny room. Your chest rises and falls … silently and rhythmically. Occasionally a small pulse flickers somewhere along your lithe body, and ... ...the unseen terrain of your dream-world. Your head is angled in such a way that I can see the tattoo in your left ear ... “QXP” incised in crude blue graffiti letters. And although I can’t see it now, I know the soft skin of your right ear has been similarly disfigured with the letters “ TH”. That’s how I know you’re Irish ... Because only Irish Greyhounds carry a tattoo in both ears. I know you’re Irish, and I know that you were born in 1997. Just ...
mr-zeeman 03.05.2004 (04.05.2004)
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Advantages: Each one was special Disadvantages: Some died
...Rather than write just one letter I have decided to write a letter to two of them although all my pets were and are very special animals. ♥Tania - The softest dog in the world.
Dear Tania, after our cat Smokey died I always swore I would never get any more pets. One day I walked into my local bingo hall and saw you tied to a chair. At first glance you looked like a jack Russell but when I got nearer I saw you had the biggest eyes like dark ... ...of your forehead. You were in fact a Staffordshire Bull Terrier crossed with an English Bull Terrier. I thought you were beautiful and enjoyed a quick cuddle and went and found a seat ready for the ticket sales to open for the afternoon game. As I was sat there I overheard the cleaner talking to her friend, she was finishing work early as she was on her way to the vets. She had a dog she didn't want anymore and was going to have it put down. It was ...
COOOEEE 08.03.2004 (21.07.2005)
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Dear Rosie,
I'm sorry, but it has to be said. You are eating us out of house and home. I know that Rhodesian Ridgebacks are big, hungry girls, but I think you've taken matters too far this time.
It's my fault, I know. I used to think it was funny. I laughed that first time you nipped the button off the back pocket of my chinos whilst I sat in front of the computer. It had taken me a while to realise that it was you, but when I did, I laughed. I ... ...a shirt I'd just made. I'd hung it on a hook just below ceiling height, but you'd managed to get it down without me hearing what you were doing.
Apparently some plastics contain lactose and this is what makes them appealing to you. After I started to hide anything that had plastic buttons your taste turned to curtain hooks. I refused to buy you a packet and leave them as a snack so you took to pulling curtains down to get at them. When you achieved ...
SueMagee 01.02.2004
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Advantages: Cats are affectionate, relaxing and fun to be aruond Disadvantages: None really!
Dear Cleo,
I wonder sometimes what you're thinking, when you sit by the fire with your ears alert, your eyes only half-closed. You never seem to be fully relaxed, somehow. While our other cats curl up, fast asleep, without a care in the world, you're always watching, always worried (or so it seems to us) that some enemy is going to appear.
I wonder if you remember your earliest days. Perhaps something awful happened to you then; we shall never ... ...a friend found you, huddled up in a box outside an Undertaker's, with some siblings who were already dead, or almost dead. Some kindly child had poured some chocolate milk into the box, perhaps hoping to nourish you, but it hadn't done any good. Even though it was in Cyprus, in the middle of summer, you were cold and very thin. Our friend rescued you, as the healthiest in the box, knowing we'd just lost our previous cat. She said you should be called ...
Kukana 01.02.2004
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To my dearest Freeway,
As you lay by my feet staring up at me, with the five stitches in your neck and sore wound, I think back to when we first got you. You were our first dog and we fell in love with you the moment we met you. We took you in when your old owners couldn’t have you anymore. You truly are part of the family. We have so many memories together Freeway. Holidays, which you always came on and loved so much. The nights where the thunder ... ...with me so I could hold you, the Christmases where you have been so excited about opening your presents. You have always been there, when I have felt alone, scared, unhappy, you have been there to make me feel a million times better. You know my deepest secrets, and you always keep them. We could not have asked for a more perfect dog. You sit on command, you give paw when you want some food, you move off the chair when we want to sit down. You have ...
ilusvm 29.12.2004
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Advantages: They give their love unconditionally Disadvantages: minor ones - like poop scooping!!
This poem I wrote in 1994 and was delighted to have it accepted and published in a book. I submitted it along with the photo of the two dogs sitting together on a garden chair. Snowie was a golden Labrador but was actually cream/white - hence the name! Mandy was a little Bichon Frise and so cute! I wrote this as a tribute to Snowie:
They sit there close together
Two white dogs upon a chair
A Labrador named Snowie
And Mandy, a Bichon with a 'French ... ...joined the clan
Snowie treated her like her own pup
And they quickly settled down.
They loved to go for long walks
And on our holidays came too
They'd run together in woods and fields
And find a branch to chew.
Then as Snowie grew much older
And arthritis in her legs set in
Mandy would snuggle up to her
And lick her eyes and chin.
Old Snowie still tried her best
To still get the newspaper from the door
But found it very difficult
To ...
Sal4Mike 11.07.2006
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Advantages: loyal, loving and a comfort Disadvantages: I wish I had you longer.
I've allways loved cats and normally have at least two. This is about Isca, a Red Burmese cat.
The only time I was without a cat, was when I lived in a council flat on the second storey of a tower block, a single parent, with my daughter, then two.
I worked two jobs for two years, to give my daughter a home and a garden.
As soon as we moved in, I promised my daughter a cat. Money was tight, so I was looking for a cat from the RSPA, but someone ... ...I really could not afford one, but had to see them, of course I fell in love straight away.
Isca was a male cat, named for the Roman town where he was born, an old garrison for centurions.
We had to have him, at three months he was all long legs, big eyes and pointed ears, in short appealing and exotic.
Isca, you were so affectionate, you hated being left alone. From the first, I did my housework, with you wrapped tightly around my neck- a live ...
Elffriend 22.04.2004 (19.08.2004)
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Advantages: Caring for animals Disadvantages: Wicked people
As my very own black cat jumped out at me tonight, punched me with her paw, miaowed her greeting and purred when I picked her up. I thought about a cat I cared for many years ago.
I have very vivid recollections of many events in my childhood. For some reason I am able to kind of go back into the feelings of some of the times I had. This could be because I did and do have some very painful memories, some that I have dealt with and some I admit I ... ...be brave enough to or perhaps they are best hidden in the depths.
I find Ciao a great healing ground as some memories like this one are very poignant. I remember I was consumed with guilt at being so deceitful.
It is nice to be able to share and to know or feel that people actually enjoy reading snippets from one’s own life.
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Dear Cat,
You amazed me, as you would sit outside my house for hours and then follow me across the street and sit ...
teacherofhooch 08.05.2004
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Advantages: We loved her Disadvantages: We miss her
To my dear rat Kitten,
I hope you realise what a special pet you were. Even though we only had you living with us for two years and three months, you touched all our hearts. Even people who didn't like rats much seemed to love you; you had such an amazing personality.
We got you when you were a baby - hence your name. People sometimes asked why you were called Kitten and I had to explain that was what baby rats are called, just like baby cats. ... ...if we called you. Most rats are sociable but you were particularly so, you were a people rat and seemed to love nothing more than running round the sofa, jumping up on us in turn and snuggling into our clothes for cuddles.
When we first got you, all our rats lived in a converted chest of drawers, which had several shelves for the ratties to climb and play in. It also had a storage drawer at the bottom, where we kept the bedding and food. One morning, ...
KarenUK 14.03.2006
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Advantages: Love and Trust Disadvantages: All things pass
I had a cat (Minha) who had three kittens - I kept them all. Although I loved them all equally (I think) I had a special relationship with one of them. Sadly they are no longer with us.
My Dearest Jamie,
We had a very special relationship from the very start of your life. Perhaps not quite from birth, although I WAS there, but certainly from a few weeks later.
As a kitten you were your mother's favourite until you were six weeks old when suddenly ... ...her. You turned to me for comfort until one day while you were exploring a neighbouring garden with your sister Jasmin, your mother spotted danger in the form of a large tom cat and, although she was only half his size, rushed to your defence.
For the next six months you were hardly out of her sight again and then, out of the blue, she rejected you for a second time. Poor Jamie, you didn't know what had happened when she spat at you for even looking ...
Minha 17.04.2004
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