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Heeling Project For Dog Loss | Pet Photographer Canada

 
This project has been on my mind for years in some form or another and I am really …really happy to see it come to life. As I mentioned in a previous blog and on the Heeling Project tab, the sole purpose of this project is to create a space for people to heal after pet loss. It is not uncommon for people to find writing cathartic and sharing snippets of these submitted letters is meant to inspire others to do the same. I am extremely grateful that people are allowing me to share these profoundly emotional and private moments with you.

“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”

 ~ Earl Grollman

 
Sweet boy, Billie.
June 1998 ~ August 2012.
 

I still have your pictures hanging in the house. Looking at them helps me through the sadness. It’s because you always smiled at the camera. You were such a happy boy.

I still talk to you everyday. “Good Morning Billie” and “Good Night Billie”. I also ask Chai to make sure she says it too. She thinks I’m crazy I’m sure, but I also think she gets it.

I still think of you. All of the time.

The 14 years of memories left me with a lifetime of cherished thoughts and stories. Sometimes when I think of you I cry, but it’s only because I miss you so much.

I still get angry. It wasn’t fair. The life you led was too short. I knew you weren’t going to be with me forever, but I just wish it was a little longer. One more year. One more month. Even just one more day. I would have taken one more hour if I could have.

I still talk about you.

Sometimes it’s hard to talk about you. But you taught me so much that I feel the need to share that wisdom on to others so that they too can appreciate what you brought to this life.

I still feel proud of you. Your strength and determination cannot be compared. You certainly didn’t have an easy go of life physically, but I think God picked you because he knew you could handle it. And he picked me because he knew there was a lesson in it for me and that I would hold on for you until the very end.

I still cry.

Sometimes I still get sad when I think about how quickly you were taken from me. I am crying as I write this letter to you. I want you to know that Chai is here to help comfort me and that she tries her best not to let me be sad for long. She runs over and licks my tears away just like you used to do. It makes me wonder if you let her know a few things before you left.

The love I hold for you in my heart will never go away. When you left I couldn’t imagine life without you in it. I take each day as it comes though, and I find peace knowing that you are in heaven where you can bark as loudly as you want to and run in the fields now without any pain.

I still love you. Always.

 
I will see you again one day my lovely baby boy, and until then, may you always walk beside me.
 
Love,
Mommie
 

 
 
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