Nikita4ever Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 It is with a heavy heart and endless tears that I have to say I lost my best friend Nikita. I had her put down on June 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM. Nikita had a very rough night Monday and early Tuesday morning. I knew by her actions and eyes that it was time for me to say good bye and let her rest. She fought very hard and I know she fought so hard for me and stayed around as long as she did for me. But I knew to be fair to the little girl who loved me so much I needed to say good bye and it was tough. Our vet agreed that it was Nikita's time and she needed to rest. I was with her when she passed and it was so difficult seeing her go. Today I buried my Princess at a pet cemetery by the beach with her favorite toys. She finally looked comfortable and I knew she was no longer in pain. However that does not take away the empty feeling, heartache and void I feel in my heart and soul. Nikita was a vital part of our family and she will be deeply missed but forever in our hearts. I love you Nikita! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue R Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 I am so sorry to hear that Nikita has passed on, but she is (I am sure) grateful that you eased her out of her discomforts with love, kindness, and caring. She will live on in your heart and in happy memories, and she is no longer in pain or fear. We grieve because they are gone on and we are left without them for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSmitty Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 I'm so very sorry. It's never enough time with them...You're in my thoughts and prayers. Run free, Nikita. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody & Duchess Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 As I read your post, my heart breaks. I know how hard both of you struggled. You were both very best friends. Know that she knows you loved her. Some say dogs cannot think- I believe they can..... try to continue to think about all the good times together. I am so sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoresDog Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 You were Nikita's best friend, for sure. Please accept my sympathy. Run free, Nikita! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth77 Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 So sad to read and my heart goes out to you. Nikita is at rest and you gave her both the gift of living a great life with you and going to her rest when the time was right for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
learning_to_love_BCs Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 A friend sent this to me when I lost my dear girl. It made me smile and cry. I hope it does the same for you. _______________________ Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Her bright eyes are intent; Her eager body quivers. Suddenly she begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, her legs carrying her faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliepoudrier Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I'm so sorry that you've lost your beloved Nikita. Rest assured that she was so surrounded by your love at the end that she was able to pass peacefully. She knew how much you loved her and she knw that she would live on in your heart forever. They have such a short time with us and in that short time they wrap themselves around our hearts so thoroughly. My prayers are with you and Nikita--may she rest in peace and may you find peace and healing with time. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura (Cady and Koda's mom) Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I'm so sorry for your loss. It's never easy, even when it's right. Hold those memories close. God speed Nikita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicheleS. Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 May your Princess live furever in your heart. So sorry for your loss. Michele & Hughie & Gypsy & Chase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ooky Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 Very sorry for your loss. You did the right thing for her, you helped her and loved her, as I'm sure she totally trusted you would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urge to herd Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I can only echo what everyone else has so eloquently said. It is the hardest thing we do for these dear, dear companions, to let them go gently. Nikita lives in your heart. Ruth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcnewe2 Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I'm so sorry for your loss. Grieve as you need and know that the empty feeling will slowly be filled with her wonderful memories and her spirit will live forever in your heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegy Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 The House Dog’s Grave (for Haig, an English Bulldog) by Robinson Jeffers I’ve changed my ways a little; I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream; and you, If you dream a moment, You see me there. So leave awhile the paw-marks on the front door Where I used to scratch to go out or in, And you’d soon open; leave on the kitchen floor The marks of my drinking-pan. I cannot lie by your fire as I used to do On the warm stone, Nor at the foot of your bed; no, All the nights through I lie alone. But your kind thought has laid me less than six feet Outside your window where firelight so often plays, And where you sit to read‚ And I fear often grieving for me‚ Every night your lamplight lies on my place. You, man and woman, live so long, it is hard To think of you ever dying. A little dog would get tired, living so long. I hope that when you are lying Under the ground like me your lives will appear As good and joyful as mine. No, dears, that’s too much hope: You are not so well cared for as I have been. And never have known the passionate undivided Fidelities that I knew. Your minds are perhaps too active, too many-sided… But to me you were true. You were never masters, but friends. I was your friend. I loved you well, and was loved. Deep love endures To the end and far past the end. If this is my end, I am not lonely. I am not afraid. I am still yours. Rest easy, Nikita. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweet_ceana Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I am so sorry for your loss. <<HUGS>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journey Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 Condolences and prayers go out to you and your family. She will forever be in your heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedismom Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I'm so very sorry for your loss. Run free little Princess. No pain now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisK Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 My heart goes out to you at this time. We never have our beloved friends and companions long enough. Nikita was able to move on because you loved her. For you We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree or an apple or any flowering shrub of the garden is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer or gnawed at a flavorful bone or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter. For if the dog be well-remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where the dog sleeps. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppy hood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pastureland, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog and all one to you, and nothing is gained and nothing is lost .... if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. If you bury him in this spot, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they shall not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he belongs there. People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing. The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master. From the Portland Oregonian, Sept. 11, 1925. By Ben Hur Lamp Nikita will live on forever in your heart. RIP Nikita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdarling Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I'm so sorry for your loss. Thoughts and prayers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.DaisyDuke Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 Terribly sorry for your loss. You did the right thing and you will meet again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancy in AZ Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 You've given her the most unselfish gift possible-an end to her suffering. I'm so sorry for your loss. RIP Nikita-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie S. Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I've been dreading seeing this post appear. I am so sorry. Just know that you did the right thing for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertranger Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I have no words and I am very saddened. All I can do is open a window and wish upon a star and leave a place in the garden for puppies to dance. Ranger and Jin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixie_Girl Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I'm so sorry for your loss. It is a hard decision but one of caring. She is happy and well now. You will have her memories with you always. And remember that memories are hugs the departed leave for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BustopherJones Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 I know that Nikita was your "heart dog", and my heart breaks for you. When my "heart dog", Missy, passed on last year, I posted this tribute to her. I only use it when someone loses his/hrer "heart dog"; I hope this "Ode To A Heart Dog" brings some solace. So this is where we part, my friend, And you'll run on, around the bend, Gone from sight, but not from mind, New pleasures there you'll surely find. I will go on. I'll find the strength. Life measures quality, not its length. One long embrace before you leave, Share one last look, before I grieve. There were others, that much is true, But they be they, and they aren't you. And I, fair, impartial, or so I thought, Will remember well all you've taught. Your place I'll hold, you will be missed, The fur I stroked, the nose I kissed. And as you journey to your final rest, Take this with you....I loved you best. And this tribute, a beautiful eulogy originally posted on this board by Baby’s Dad when his beloved Zeke made the trip to the Bridge, is also appropriate: Go in peace, my valiant friend. Suffer no more; sweet sleep has come. Be welcomed by our friends; they have blazed a path for you to follow. Wait patiently, for I will join you again, your keen vision restored to lead our way, your strength renewed, for we shall journey on together forever. I learned from your courage in the waning of your days. You fought bravely through the pain, a whimper never passed, always by my side as I was by yours. Your battle is over, our grieving begins. Your place in my soul will always remain filled. So rest now in peace, my gallant companion, knowing how much I loved you and will miss you at my side. Via con Dios, Nikita. It would be so much easier to make these posts if my eyes weren't blurred by tears... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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