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Published: 2014-10-24 08:30:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 933; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 0
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She came suddenly into that human's life, a cold night of october. One of those nights that the wind is so sharp you literally feel it tearing your skin apart.She was tiny, and cold, yet alive.Β
In a plastic bag. Next to the garbage.
The human knew. She was abandoned too, like him.
The world stopped for a moment, as he held her in his hands, two hearts beating like one, while the rest of the people walked past them without paying any attention.
He brought her home and held her for so many hours that he lost count. He fed her and watched her opening her eyes for the very first time.
She stayed just for a couple of days. Just for him to admire her beauty and strength.
Then, one day, after purring for the first time, she let out a soft sigh. Then she was gone.
She just came into his life to make him love her, and break his heart, that bittersweet feeling.
She came to teach him a lesson he already knew.
~Little Sahara lived only 9 days. I know that maybe there was nothing I could do, even though she seemed so healthy. I miss her. And once again I won't ever understand the cruelty of some people. Time will heal every little scar eventually. I hope.
I'm sorry for posting sad stories too. They make me appreciate more tha happy endings. And I'd feel like lying if I posted only the happy stories.~
Goodnight Sahara.β₯
This photo was taken by me. It's from the last day she was alive.
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Thank you. I hope she knew I was there for her..
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she knew even if youΒ only had her for a couple of days, she was very grateful for you being there for her. YouΒ gave her aΒ true home that she may have never experienced. Trust me I know the pain of losing a pet suddenly, I had a ex-feeder rat who had aΒ critical respitory infection (the vet even said that medications would not help improve her health), she held onΒ for nearly a year and one day she was gagging for breath and she managed to climb out of her cage onto my lap and stayed there until she had no more breath to breath, I felt her give thatΒ final sigh and I knewΒ Stella was gone
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Thank you...and i'm sorry for your loss as well.
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I'm sorry for your loss. But she was loved even if for only a little bit.
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That's so sad to hear.
I'm glad you rescued her and gave her a chance to live.
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I wasn't able to save her ..
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Yeah sorry to hear that.
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I'm sorry too..but it's alright. Thank you~
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I was about to say the same things. Also, her fur makes it look kind of like she almost blended in with the blanket. She was also a really cute little one.
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Oh so true about her fur.
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I'm still sorry that she died though, even though I didn't know her.
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I saved this picture to my favorites, because of how cool that looks. Plus, the fact that I love cats added another reason.
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That little sigh you heard at the end was her heart telling yours 'thank you.'
She was thanking you for holding her, loving her, letting her know that even in this world, there is some love to be found.
She learned through your touch that in a world filled with too much sadness, hatefulness, and fear, even she was worth loving, and worth so much more than just being thrown away like common trash.
Little Sahara may have only lived 9 days, my dear sweet friend, Ri, but those 9 days were filled with more love, caring, compassion, and dignity than so many others like her go an entire lifetime without knowing.
It was you, my dear, you who gave these things to her.
Of all the people in the Universe, she could not have been found and rescued by a more caring, loving individual.
You did everything you could have possibly done to save her. She was just too small and weak. Had she been a little older when you found her, perhaps there might have been a greater chance for her survival. But, alas, this was not the case.
You need to know all this in your heart. In your soul. In your mind.
Circumstances are the only thing keeping you from saving 100% of the kitties you try to rescue.
It is due to each of their situations that keep them from thriving, growing, and living long healthy lives.
If there were more to be done to save all kitties within your reach, you would surely do it.
Never ever sell yourself short, and think there was more you could have done.
You have done more for the strays and abandoned, some motherless, babies than 100 other humans in 100 lifetimes would ever do.
Be proud.
Be sad when you lose a soul, but be proud that you've done all you could do to save them.
And, always, ALWAYS remember Bella...
She is the poster kitty for survival.
You can be the poster child for human compassion toward animals.Β
I love that about my friend, Ri...
His unyielding compassion, and his huge loving heart.
I am so very proud to call you my friend, Ri.
Thank you for being who you are and for doing what you do.
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no, please don't thank me.
Please.
I just can't say no when a creature needs me, I just cannot turn my back. That doesn't make me a better person. Just a person that can't turn his back when someone is in need.
That's all.
Of course, I could do more.
If I had more space, money, more patience, better health, a less agressive cat -though i wouldn't change Alaska for all the cats in the universe.
Of course, I remember Bella. how could I possibly forget her?
But along with Bella I remember all the unhappy endings too.
I just...really had hopes for Sahara. She seemed so strong.
I know i shouldn't have hopes, I know. But. I had.
I know I will feel better in a few days, but now I'm still heartbroken.
I know that she could have died earlier in the cold.
I know that at least she felt some warmth too.
But..I just cannot stop thinking that it's unfair she died.
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Of course it's unfair the way she had to die.
And it's unfair that your heart keeps being broken time after time.
But, in case you haven't noticed, from every heartbreak, you recover, and you continue to do what you do.
I don't care what you say!!Β
You will not change the way I see you, or the way I look at the things you do.
You can play the 'what if' game all day and all night long, and it will not change a thing.
You can hate me for this all you want, but you ARE a good person, and you DO do a lot more for these creatures than anyone else has.
EVER!!
So, like it or lump it...
I know you are a good person, so shut up!!
I Love you for who you are... (I won't thank you, but I am still thinking it!)
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You are right about that. I do continue.
Though every death, every loss..hurts more than the happiness adoption give me.
I know it's sad, yet true.
I don't hate you, my friend. Don't ever say that again.
But I don't love myself either. I'm really sorry about that.
I miss Sahara.
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I know you miss her sweetie. It would be totally impossible not to miss her, or any of the others you have lost. Hell, I am not even around them, and I miss them after they are gone.
You will always feel this way, I'm afraid. About the losses verses the happy times when some get adopted. You will always think in your head about the ones who didn't make it long enough to get adopted.
Try to focus on your wins, and not your losses. I know that seems impossible, but it's not.
You just hang in there, and I will always be here when you need to talk.
You are still a good person, and I know this, regardless of the way you feel about yourself.Β
Hug all your kitties for me right now. There is no better medicine than that. Β
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Hugs were given my friend.
Thank you.
I will be better, I promise.
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Good and good.
Time will see your heart through.Β Β
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It will, hunny.
Just keep hugging Alaska and Rudy, and Jasper, too.
It always helps me to hug Bitzi, and even the grand-kitties when they let me.
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Thank you, my friend. It helps a lot..β₯
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Β Β Β
Β I'm always here for ya, my Dear!
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Thank you, my friend.Β β₯ It really means a lot.
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Oh that sweet baby...
It sounds like you gave her a very happy ending though
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Thank you.
I feel like all endings are sad though..
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All endings are both sad and happy, it just depends on how you look at them.
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I think you are right. I just somehow always focus on the sad side..
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The sad side is just the easiest to look at, because even if you look at the happy side it makes you sad.
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I couldn't agree more.
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I'm sorry too. thank you.
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i'm sure everything is fine for her
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I'm sorry.. Didn't mean to make anyone cry.
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YOU don't need to apologize! not at all
It's how you've said: "I'm sorry for posting sad stories too. They make me appreciate more tha happy endings. And I'd feel like lying if I posted only the happy stories.~"
this is indeed important. If there wouldn't be all these bad things happening, we weren't even able to realise/understand that the good things are good (if these even makes sense haha)
So please don't have a bad/guilty conscience!
Do never ever forget that you are awesome! Please.. :/
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It does make sense.
But I also understand that there are people who don't wanna read sad stories.
I've received a lot of complains from time to time, that's why I wanted to make this clear in the description.
Thank you for your kind words.β₯
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She was so beautiful, wasn't she?
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