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Remembering Olive the hedgehog. Best hedgie I could have ever asked for. Thank you, Olive, for being in my life.

She had been very sick for the last two months. Then this Monday, my mother went in to check on her after playing with her the previous day, and she was peacefully spread out on the ground, unafraid of letting go of her life. I know it was probably just a natural thing, but it's as if she wasn't afraid to die, as hedgies are quite easily scared.
She was buried in the garden with a silk kata that was blessed by the Dalai Lama by a bleeding heart plant with love. I marked her spot with a cement hedgehog statue.

The salt + pepper hedgie in the last 3 pictures is my friend Erin's old hedgie, Rowsie, who died earlier this year. We both are picturing them running through grassy, picturesque fields, having tea parties, doing laundry, and eating mealworms together. I miss those little hufflepuffs...

I'm not a big person for religion, but I love this poem, and have read it many times during the loss of a pet. I guess I'll share it with all of you who have lost a friend...

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. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him 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.

You cross Rainbow Bridge together....

-Author Unknown

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Remembering Olive the hedgehog. Best hedgie I could have ever asked for. Thank you, Olive, for being in my life.

She had been very sick for the last two months. Then this Monday, my mother went in to check on her after playing with her the previous day, and she was peacefully spread out on the ground, unafraid of letting go of her life. I know it was probably just a natural thing, but it's as if she wasn't afraid to die, as hedgies are quite easily scared.
She was buried in the garden with a silk kata that was blessed by the Dalai Lama by a bleeding heart plant with love. I marked her spot with a cement hedgehog statue.

The salt + pepper hedgie in the last 3 pictures is my friend Erin's old hedgie, Rowsie, who died earlier this year. We both are picturing them running through grassy, picturesque fields, having tea parties, doing laundry, and eating mealworms together. I miss those little hufflepuffs...

I'm not a big person for religion, but I love this poem, and have read it many times during the loss of a pet. I guess I'll share it with all of you who have lost a friend...

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. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him 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.

You cross Rainbow Bridge together....

-Author Unknown

Please feel free to use this stamp