Jan, I share your heartache at the passing of a beloved four legged. I feel your pain as acutely as if I were standing next to you. I have no spiritual advice to give you because grief, loss, mourning is so personal. But what I can give you is a big etherial embrace, and the knowledge that the soul of your four legged has another journey ahead.

Michael Raven Horse used to say that when a four legged passes over he/she is simply making space for another four legged to come and teach...when my beloved Spirit Dog passed away last september from a brain tumor, it felt like my heart broke into a million pieces. I rescued him from a shelter, but in truth he rescued me from walking amnesia. Then this January a feisty ball of australian shepherd fluff looked up at me and said, "I've got lots to teach YOU." And so Rocket Crockett came into my life. He doesn't replace Spirit, but I really understand that Spirit had concluded what he came here to do. It was time for me to have another teacher. I've gone from a zen-monk dog (Spirit) to a full blown revolutionary named Crockett. Crockett is all about breaking through :-)

Sharing the tears with you,

Tigger