Yeah, I was scared to read this...
I'm sorry, Osso.
Oh dear.
To hear of the loss of such a noble companion always breaks my heart.
I'm so sorry, osso. Indulge your grief but enjoy your memories.
Thank you very much, Roger, edit to say, everybody.
Roger knows, knew (aaack), Pacco, as did Dys and Diane, and saw the paw thing when it was first starting.
Silence, the silence, the still.
The beagle next door is barking, and there is no answer from here.
Ah well! so it has come to this.
such is life.
Osso, I'm so sorry to hear about this. I don't know what else to say. I'd give you one of those parenthetical virtual hug things that they do around here, but I hate those f---ing things, so please just trust that I feel for you and wish you well.
ossobuco wrote:My Pacco is gone. My house is silent, he is everywhere in every room with his eyes and his ears and his nose and his paws, his sweet paws, and not here.
As much preparation time as I've had, I'm in disbelief.
Nobody really has to say anything, I know you all understand.
My sparky, my treasure, my dear.
Oh osso, I'm so sorry.
I know all to well how terribly sad this is for you. Words fail me.
Right now I'm sharing some tears with you.
Aw, your beautiful Pacco, your beloved and loving constant companion.
That's true, I thought about that in that room, dadpad. I had held him in the car, mr. heartbeat; hoisted his pounds into the vet's office. Watched his lively face in his calm upon the table. And, told I could stay as long as I wanted, touching his coat that I had so recently combed, felt his body lose warmth. None of the process news to me, but hard to keep relearning, for some of us, sometimes.
Kick, thank you. (Slaps you upside the head in fondness..)
Oh, Osso. I'm so sorry.
I never actually met Pacco, but I felt like I knew him anyway. I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach now.
I'm so glad Diane went with you. She is a true friend.
I think I need to take a walk.
(((HUGS)))
I feel a lot of people got to know him here, per force - I'm such a indefatigable poster. But some did, I think, get to know him vicariously, and I think of you as knowing him, Eva, whether or not you or Shewolf or Msolga ever made it to meet him. (Though I just know he would have liked going to Australia.)
I see I'm posting a lot.
I still don't really believe it.
Odd to say, but I was kind of looking forward to meeting the little guy in your avatar..
Osso
I'm so sad to see that Pacco has gone. I'm sitting here crying quietly at your grief.
<hugs> Osso
Osso, I'm also so sorry to hear about your loss. I know how it is to become so attached.
What a day. I've been out of my mind and in control, and conversing normally, and out of my mind. And that's just me. A tougher day for Pacco, and not so easy on some friends.
Shewolfnm, I was hoping against hope.
Margo, girl, hug back.
Oh Osso. I am crying as if I've lost a friend. You know I know. The roller coaster goes on and on.
Bye sweet Pacco.
osso querida, I, like the others, knew when I saw this thread, and like the others, I was afraid to open it. I weep with you.
I knew Pacco in a distant way. Knew him as long as I know you.
Words fail me. I'm with you, kid.
Dammit.
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Osso)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
I posted a reply to lilK and Roberta and lost it (or maybe it is hanging in some inappropriate thread); now Dlowan. So, I'll grab you as a bunch.
I have been so spoiled by him. Even with warning that time was shortening, crying off and on for weeks, I have been taken by surprise by the silence, the lack of his body and beating heart.
That sounds maudlin even to me, but it is very stark.
Oh,sh!t! I'm sorry to hear that, osso.
Pacco was really ...
Hoping, you get over it.
Thank you, Walter. You got a glimpse of his ways...
I don't know about getting over it, I'm older and he has been my glue, in a way, for my sense of self. But I will 'get a grip' one of these hours.
