A dog's last day

[Catherine]

The Rainbow Bridge lets us share as much as we need to. I felt it was important that we keep this part of the old Forum. Some of our members came to us after  a loss.

I am private like you. I need a quiet day before I bury my pets. I sometimes like to wait and bury certain animals together. I waited until Pigbert could be buried with his piggie family. I have Rosebert to bury, but I am waiting until Norbert goes. They should be together. The two brothers were together all their lives. It won't be long now. Norbert is failing. He is almost 7 and that is very old for a guinea pig.

I can understand your friend hiding her grief. She didn't want to show it to people who wouldn't understand. She knew you would understand so she told you.

It is so different from those who make their grief public. They make all their feelings public. I think a lot of people want to be that way. I don't know that they feel things more or less than others. They just need to express them externally. For people like that the modern internet age is a wonderful thing. For those of us who are very private, it can be hard to find privacy, especially for quiet burials and quiet grieving.