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He was gorgeous! I'm so sorry for your double loss. >:D< >:D<

I cried, sometimes without knowing it, for more than a year after my husband died. I lost my best cat ever a few years ago, and it took a year before I quit hurting. I didn't cry so much for her, but I did feel like part of me was missing. And it took 3 years before I was ready for a new fur friend in the house. They didn't replace her, (I got a couple of tuxedo cats) but they are entertaining and fun at least.

At first, it was all the time. And then as time went by, I cried less and less. You never really get over it but you learn to think of all the good memories and sometimes the tears are good ones. It's been a year and a 1/2 and I still miss my Sam.

There, that's put a smile on my face over the tears. You're right, it helped.

Sam was a wirehaired Vizlsa, he would always just run around so happy. I would bring him to the barn, he would hunt chipmunks while I tacked up. Then we would head out on the trail together. Sam swimming, exploring, Dancer watching Sam run around.

I am so sorry for your losses. 4 years ago in April we had to put down my horse I had for over 18 years. I was heartbroken. It was many months before I could say his name without tearing up, probably over a year before I could even walk by his grave. It gets easier to cope as time goes, but sometimes it still hits me just right and I cry or tear up, especially seeing a picture of him or when I met his half brothers a couple of months ago. It definitely helped me to be able to talk about him, even through the tears. It helps to have a hug sometimes too.

Oh, Winnie. How I still miss her. She was my shadow. She was an orange tabby with white on her. She was literally my shadow. She would follow me from room to room and keep me company. She wasn't a lap cat, but she always was around me in one way or another. Sleeping on the corner of my desk or the corner of my bed and so forth. She had to be put down due to tumors I didn't have the money to treat at that time. That was 12 years ago. It took several years for me to have another cat, and only because Inky showed up at our door and walked in. Now I have a cat who bonded to me, Aislinn, and I'm the only one she allows to pick up and hold. Both Aislinn and Inky are TNR.

I had a betta fish a while ago, I euthanized him because he was suffering from cancer and it wasn't pretty. I am still sad about it. I think it was just from old age and he was 2+ years old. I am also heartbroken about my trainer's old pony, Casper. He made me smile so much but I wish he was put down earlier because a year before he was getting skinny. I don't cry a lot but a lot of times I feel heartbroken about sad things.

I really want another snake but I am trying to keep my love for snakes at a pace I can manage. A virus in snakes called Nidovirus is going around like mad in the US and Canada (and I live in Canada). What is Nidovirus you may ask? It is a harsh respitory infection that all snakes can carry but it is super bad in boas and pythons. Hopefully I can get a male corn snake but it will probably have to sit in another room to quartine for 3 months just to be safe for mites, infections and diseases.

Clover oil I think