Your Pet Loss Stories

by Lynne and Gary
(UK)

Twelve months ago our beautiful boy Lewis passed away peacefully at home. It has been a heartbreaking year for us. We miss him so much. He was our baby, so loving and gentle he was perfect. God sent him to us, for us to love and cherish which we did for fourteen wonderful years.

Today the memories of that terrible night have been at the forefront of our minds. The thing that hurts the most is when we saw the life go out of his beautiful eyes and wrapping him up in his blanket to keep him warm, and the final kiss before we had to walk away and leave, it was the hardest thing we have ever had to do in our lives walk out of that door without him.

We remember the loneliness and emptiness we felt as we returned home and for the first time in all those years our boy wasn't there to greet us. Then the days and weeks after when we didn't want to be in the house but when we went out we wanted to come back home, the pacing from one room to another in and out of the back yard up and down the stairs. The yearning, the longing to hold him to see him to tell him once again how much Mummy and Daddy love him.

It was awful but as time went by we found we were able to mention his name without bursting into floods of tears, to talk about the things he did, the way he made us laugh, the unconditional love he gave us. The pain of losing him is still with us everyday and I guess it always will be.

We had our boy cremated and every day we tell him how much we love and miss him we have kept everything belonging to Lewis it's all in his memory box.

This evening on the first anniversary of his passing we wrote our boy a message and attached it to a balloon, we watched as it soared up into the sky on its way to Rainbow Bridge. Lewis you will never know how much we love you if we could have one wish it would be to hold you in our arms again. We miss you every second of every day you broke our hearts when you left, our lives will never be the same again you were one in a million.

Thankyou to everyone who reads this we hope the pain of your loss eases with time and those with fur babies living cherish every moment for their lives are so short.

Heartbroken Lynne and Gary