Some animals are your heart. Not your love or your baby or a friend, but Your Heart.
You know it from the moment you meet them. It doesn't matter if they are 2 days or 10 years old when you do.
It's not that you can't imagine life without them, it's that they are your life, and you theirs.
This phenomenon occurs more often and more obviously with dogs, I think. But in my case, it was a cat.
When he left me, my Heart left me. I will be recovering from the loss for the rest of my life.
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On top of that, when I was fostering him for that first 6 months, my entire group of friends became part of the process. Those friends and my husband and I all spent so much time together that when Bliss died, they actually held a funeral for him. One of my friends told me later that he cried like a baby when he found outabout his passing.
I feel so fortunate to have had those 13 years with him, before the cancer took him.
It was just one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences, with Bliss, that I find hard to imagine ever occurring again.
I lost the last of my childhood pets about three years back. We had Zoey for 16 years, before she finally past away. I loved that dog. She was what made going home feel like home, and it's still hard to believe she's gone. It's always amazing the connection you can feel to your animal, and how much they feel end up being family members, not just pets. No matter how long you have them.
I love animals. They allow you to be their hero, their world. As such, they can bring out the best in people, and invoke or enhance the most treasured experiences.
Have you ever started a project where you fell in a trance-like state the entire time, and when you came out of it you had created something that you almost couldn't believe was yours? That's kind of how this was for me. Also very cathartic at the time, since he had just passed.