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For many rat owners, losing one of their furry best friends is a very emotional and painful experience. Often friends and family may not understand the extent of your grievance over the loss of a ‘rat’.

What they don’t understand is that you had a deep connection with your friend on a soul level and that he was a close friend, like a human friend.

Take heart and know that many pet sitters share this same deep grief when they lose a beloved animal friend.

Many people have different ways of coping, so it’s important to give yourself time and space to grieve the way only you can. Sometimes it’s helpful to pay tribute to your friend by creating a pictorial record of their life or by sharing an obituary on a rat forum.

Do what feels right to help him come to terms with his loss. Give yourself time before you feel like yourself again. It may take me about 2-3 months before I feel recovered from the loss of a raggedy friend. Having other rats to care for also helps. They may also feel the loss of a close friend, so they also need your comfort and presence to help them with their grievance.

What helps me is knowing that these little beings had a wonderful life with me that they otherwise never would have had. And also, my own faith in a Conscious Loving Creator gives me the feeling that life has no end, but only the physical abandonment of a material form that is no longer able to sustain itself.

Furthermore, the passing of your current rat(s) also leaves room for more rats to come into your life and enjoy the love and wonderful lifestyle you have to give them.

Many people suffer so much that they say they don’t want another rat(s). Hopefully, after a little time, once they get over their grievance, they will realize that while it was painful to lose their friend, they also had many, many hours of joy and fun with them. And also the rats with them!

In the movie ‘Ghost’ Swayze’s character said at the end ‘You take love with you’. And I think that’s true. Love is invisible and yet there is no doubt that it exists. Just remember that each of your rats returns love to the Creator and returns it to the Universe. It’s a wonderful thought, isn’t it?

You are blessed to have met each of your wonderful furry friends and they were blessed to have met you and shared their lives with you.

If you are really struggling with the loss, share how you feel with rat keepers on a forum like http://www.fancyratsforum.co.uk, who will understand and empathize with your feelings.

Or contact a pet grief counselor online.

A book I recommend for the open minded is ‘Animals And The Afterlife’ by Kim Sheridan. It is a wonderful book with many true stories from pet owners who have experienced messages or contact with their lost pets. This book helped me a lot in coping with loss and the author has been caring for rats for many years which made it particularly meaningful to me.

I have also experienced ‘contact’ with my rats from the other side of life, and that has made me realize without a doubt, that life goes on.

“There is no death, only the abandonment of a form that temporarily embodied the spirit as part of the game of creation. The essence/spirit cannot die, it is all around us within everything that becomes or forms. It is the energy that animates our bodies and is the Source of creation. It is what gives life to form or being and simply lets go of form when matter cannot be sustained any longer due to disease or aging. Because all matter is subject to decomposition in this third dimensional existence, but life or spirit always Is. Forms will always come and go, but Spirit/Life always is, here and now, forever and ever. (open)

Healing wishes and love to you and your rats, wherever you are!

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