I got a package in the mail today from the vet where we took Arthur and Rabskuttle. It was a disk of clay with impressions of their paw prints, and of course it made me burst into tears.
They also included a card with this quote:
We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.
~Irving Townsend
It's true, though, that we won't live any other way. This last month I've asked myself a hundred times why I put myself through this grief...and in the last two days I've talked to two people who need to rehome rats, and I bet you can guess to where they'll be rehomed.
Posted by Abita at April 24, 2006 08:42 PMThat's such a good quote. I look forward to seeing the new additions.
Posted by: Eanna at April 24, 2006 10:23 PMRats are incomparable friends and I am constantly reminded how remarkable they are. I do wish they stayed with us longer, but could never give up sharing my life with them regardless. :) How sweet, footprints. ~Poi Mom Jane
Posted by: Georgie, Aeowen, Narnia, Josie, Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent at April 25, 2006 12:14 AMwhat a lovely thing for the Vet to do.... !!!!
That is a lovely way to remember them... Hugs colleen
Posted by: colleen at April 25, 2006 10:08 PM